Dear all,
Please note that the call for paper is now closed.
Successful applicants will be notified by March 5th 2012. Please note that we are unable to notify unsuccessful applicants.
More information on the final conference plan will be posted on this blog in the next few days.
The conference will be held on the 27th of April 2012 at the Boardroom, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street W1B 2UW.
Kind regards,
The organisers.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Thursday, 2 February 2012
POST-GRADUATE CONFERENCE:
“THE SOCIAL AND THE POLITICAL IN DISCOURSES OF STATE-BUILDING.”
The Department of Politics and International Relations,
University of Westminster, are hosting a Post-Graduate conference on
“The Social and the Political in Discourses of State-Building”
on the 27th of April 2012.
Guest Speakers:
Professor David Chandler, University of Westminster
Dr. James Ker-Lindsay, London School of Economics
Dr. Patricia Owens, University of Sussex
Professor Oliver Richmond, University of St Andrews (tbc)
Dr. Jonathan Joseph, University of Kent
Dr. Dominik Zaum, University of Reading
Dr. Vanessa Pupavac, University of Nottingham
Dr. Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik, Aston University
Conference Venue:
The Boardroom, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, University of Westminster.
The Organisers:
Elisa Randazzo, Pol Bargués, Jessica Schmidt,
Dr. Aidan Hehir and Professor David Chandler
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster
If you wish to present a paper, please email
a 300 word proposal and a short biographical note to
randazzoelisa @ gmail.com or polbargues @ gmail.com
by the 27th February 2012.
Successful applicants will be notified
by 5th of March 2012.
CALL FOR PAPERS
In particular we seek papers that broadly
address the following issues:
* “Beyond Liberal Peace-building”:
How have sociologically informed critiques shaped contemporary
practices of state-building in post-conflict territories?
* “Good Governance vs Self-Determination”:
Is sovereignty functional capacity or formal
right to self-government?
* “The Future of Democracy Promotion”:
How have framings of democracy as social empowerment shaped
policy approaches to security and development?
* “Intervention in the Post-institutionalisation Era”:
How have claims of prevention, empowerment and capacity-building
shifted discussion to the social rather than legal/political terrain?
* “Agency International and Local”:
How do concepts such as hybridity and resistance
engage social and political understandings?
* “The Future of State-building”:
Does the shift to sociological framings limit
or enable critical approaches to state-building?
In
addition to the issues raised the conference organisers are happy to
receive any original submission around the subject of the rise of the
social in discourses of state-building.
CONFERENCE THEME
This
conference, aimed specifically at post- graduate students, aims to
discuss and analyse the shift from the political/legal discussions of
humanitarian intervention, prevalent in the 1990s, to sociological
discussions of state-building intervention today. Some of the core
conceptual themes of state-building, which we wish to investigate,
appear to have a social or sociological framing. For example,
sovereignty is increasingly understood in terms of functional
capacity rather than formal rights to self-government. Through the
sociological shift, state-building interventions are seen to build
sovereignty rather than undermine it. Similarly, democracy and its
development are increasingly understood to be social processes of
empowering or capacity-building citizens through intervention in the
social realm of civil society. We want to discuss further the
problematic of social empowerment and the shift to societal forms of
intervention rather than interventions at the level of formal state
institutions, now increasingly discredited. Whereas discourses of
liberal internationalism forwarded understandings of a global
community with global norms, state-building discourses increasingly
focus on societal differences of culture, ideologies and social
institutional frameworks. The
emphasis on such conceptual and methodological themes might concern
the turn to biopolitical understandings, the shift from state-based
security to societal security under resilience, Arendtian framings of
the rise of the social, and emergence of constructivism and
sociological institutionalism, other new institutionalist and
agent-centred framings in cognitive disciplines such as economics and
history.
POST-GRADUATE CONFERENCE:
“THE SOCIAL AND THE POLITICAL IN DISCOURSES OF STATE-BUILDING.”
“THE SOCIAL AND THE POLITICAL IN DISCOURSES OF STATE-BUILDING.”
The Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, are hosting a Post-Graduate conference on “ The Social and the Political in Discourses of State- Building” on the 27th of April 2012.
The conference will be held at the Boardroom, Regent Campus, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW (nearest tube station: Oxford Circus).
The Call for Papers will be out tomorrow!
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