Αθήνα, Σεπτέμβριος 2009
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13.10.09
25.9.09
Φλώρινα, 24.9.2009
ΠΑΡΑΤΑΣΗ ΠΡΟΘΕΣΜΙΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΤΑΘΕΣΗ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΛΟΓΗΤΙΚΩΝ
ΓΙΑ ΤΟ Π.Μ.Σ. ΤΟΥ Τ.Β.Σ.
«ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΗ & ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΔΙΑΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΣΤΗ Ν.Α.ΕΥΡΩΠΗ»-
ΕΞΕΤΑΣΗ ΞΕΝΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ
Το Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών του Τμήματος Βαλκανικών Σπουδών «Οικονομική και Πολιτική Διακυβέρνηση στη Ν.Α.Ευρώπη», προκειμένου να ανταποκριθεί στο ενδιαφέρον των υποψηφίων μεταπτυχιακών φοιτητών, οι οποίοι
α) είτε κατέχουν δίπλωμα μικρότερου επιπέδου ως απόδειξη επάρκειας μιας εκ των τριών δυτικοευρωπαϊκών γλωσσών (αγγλικής, γαλλικής, γερμανικής) από εκείνα που ορίζονται στην προκήρυξη του Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών για το τρέχον ακαδημαϊκό έτος 2009-10,
β) είτε έχει παρέλθει δεκαετία από την απόκτηση του σχετικού διπλώματος μιας εκ των τριών δυτικοευρωπαϊκών γλωσσών (αγγλικής, γαλλικής, γερμανικής),
γ) είτε δεν κατέχουν κάποιο σχετικό δίπλωμα μιας εκ των τριών δυτικοευρωπαϊκών γλωσσών (αγγλικής, γαλλικής, γερμανικής),
παρατείνει την προθεσμία κατάθεσης των σχετικών δικαιολογητικών μέχρι τις 9.10.2009 για όλες τις παραπάνω περιπτώσεις υποψηφίων. Θα ακολουθήσει σχετική γραπτή εξέταση στην αιτούμενη δυτικοευρωπαϊκή γλώσσα και η επιτυχής της έκβαση θα δώσει τη δυνατότητα στους υποψηφίους μεταπτυχιακούς φοιτητές να συμμετάσχουν στη δεύτερη φάση εξετάσεων των δύο οριζομένων μαθημάτων από την προκήρυξη του Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών «Πολιτική Επιστήμη» και «Διεθνείς Οικονομικές Σχέσεις».
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ΠΑΡΑΤΑΣΗ ΠΡΟΘΕΣΜΙΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΤΑΘΕΣΗ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΛΟΓΗΤΙΚΩΝ
ΓΙΑ ΤΟ Π.Μ.Σ. ΤΟΥ Τ.Β.Σ.
«ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΗ & ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΔΙΑΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΣΤΗ Ν.Α.ΕΥΡΩΠΗ»-
ΕΞΕΤΑΣΗ ΞΕΝΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ
Το Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών του Τμήματος Βαλκανικών Σπουδών «Οικονομική και Πολιτική Διακυβέρνηση στη Ν.Α.Ευρώπη», προκειμένου να ανταποκριθεί στο ενδιαφέρον των υποψηφίων μεταπτυχιακών φοιτητών, οι οποίοι
α) είτε κατέχουν δίπλωμα μικρότερου επιπέδου ως απόδειξη επάρκειας μιας εκ των τριών δυτικοευρωπαϊκών γλωσσών (αγγλικής, γαλλικής, γερμανικής) από εκείνα που ορίζονται στην προκήρυξη του Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών για το τρέχον ακαδημαϊκό έτος 2009-10,
β) είτε έχει παρέλθει δεκαετία από την απόκτηση του σχετικού διπλώματος μιας εκ των τριών δυτικοευρωπαϊκών γλωσσών (αγγλικής, γαλλικής, γερμανικής),
γ) είτε δεν κατέχουν κάποιο σχετικό δίπλωμα μιας εκ των τριών δυτικοευρωπαϊκών γλωσσών (αγγλικής, γαλλικής, γερμανικής),
παρατείνει την προθεσμία κατάθεσης των σχετικών δικαιολογητικών μέχρι τις 9.10.2009 για όλες τις παραπάνω περιπτώσεις υποψηφίων. Θα ακολουθήσει σχετική γραπτή εξέταση στην αιτούμενη δυτικοευρωπαϊκή γλώσσα και η επιτυχής της έκβαση θα δώσει τη δυνατότητα στους υποψηφίους μεταπτυχιακούς φοιτητές να συμμετάσχουν στη δεύτερη φάση εξετάσεων των δύο οριζομένων μαθημάτων από την προκήρυξη του Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών «Πολιτική Επιστήμη» και «Διεθνείς Οικονομικές Σχέσεις».
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3.7.09
Lady Monica Cockfield PhD scholarship, University of Salford, UK
Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust Scholarship for a PhD in European Studies Every year the University of Salford offers a number of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) for suitably qualified candidates wishing to study for a PhD. The European Studies Research Institute is very happy to announce that it is in a position to also advertise for an extra Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust PhD scholarship in European studies (after we appointed our first Cockfield PhD student in April 2009) with the aim of providing a student from a low-income background the chance of studying for a PhD on the European Union. Applications are now invited for PhD study based in the European Studies Research Institute (ESRI). The PhD scholarship is worth £12,000 per annum over three years and is open to UK/EU students. The closing dates for applications is 10 August 09. The earliest registration date for the successful applicant is September 2009. Please apply for the Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust PhD scholarship in European studies using the normal application material. Those who are shortlisted for the scholarship will be asked to provide evidence of how they meet the criteria listed above. In addition, please also provide a letter to indicate to what extent your application fulfils the aims of the scholarship listed above. For details on how to apply for a PhD please visit: www.esri.salford.ac.uk <http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/> http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/esri/p/?s=5&pid=15 For any additional queries, please contact: Dr Christian Kaunert T +44 (0)161 295 4839 c.kaunert@salford.ac.uk Dr Christian Kaunert Lecturer in EU Politics & International Relations School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History Crescent House University of Salford Manchester M5 4WT European Studies Research Institute http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk E-mail: c.kaunert@salford.ac.uk Tel.: +44(0)161 295 4839
1.7.09
Cultural Translation Conference
Cultural Translation
11th December 2009, Cardiff University
Call for Papers
Etymologically, the word translation is linked, among other things, to “tradition” on the one hand and to “betrayal” on the other. ... And yet the word tradition itself, linked in its roots to translation and betrayal, has to do with handing over. Tradition itself is nothing if it is not a transmission. How is tradition to be transmitted, to be passed on, if not through translation? (Rey Chow)
The process of “cultural translation” is inevitably enmeshed in conditions of power – professional, national, international. ... Given that that is so, the interesting question for enquiry is ... how power enters into the process of “cultural translation” (Talal Asad)
For this free interdisciplinary conference, we invite proposals on problematics of:
Intercultural encounters
Translation between cultures
Postcolonialism and the politics of translation
Diaspora, migration, mobility and cultural practices
Ethnicity, language, representation and cultural identity
Theories and practices of cultural translation
Tradition, transmission, translation and problems of origins
Re-examining the assumptions of translation
Questions of technology, mediation and the voice
Ethical and political problems in academic methodologies
Proposals: 400-word proposals for 20-minute papers.
Deadline: 1st September 2009
Email: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk
NB: This conference is free. Places are strictly limited. Papers will be selected by committee.
Organisation: The conference is organised by:
The Cardiff Humanities Research Institute Project, ‘Representing Migration and Mobility in European Cultures’ (Cardiff School of European Studies);
The Race, Representation and Cultural Identity Research Group (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies).
11th December 2009, Cardiff University
Call for Papers
Etymologically, the word translation is linked, among other things, to “tradition” on the one hand and to “betrayal” on the other. ... And yet the word tradition itself, linked in its roots to translation and betrayal, has to do with handing over. Tradition itself is nothing if it is not a transmission. How is tradition to be transmitted, to be passed on, if not through translation? (Rey Chow)
The process of “cultural translation” is inevitably enmeshed in conditions of power – professional, national, international. ... Given that that is so, the interesting question for enquiry is ... how power enters into the process of “cultural translation” (Talal Asad)
For this free interdisciplinary conference, we invite proposals on problematics of:
Intercultural encounters
Translation between cultures
Postcolonialism and the politics of translation
Diaspora, migration, mobility and cultural practices
Ethnicity, language, representation and cultural identity
Theories and practices of cultural translation
Tradition, transmission, translation and problems of origins
Re-examining the assumptions of translation
Questions of technology, mediation and the voice
Ethical and political problems in academic methodologies
Proposals: 400-word proposals for 20-minute papers.
Deadline: 1st September 2009
Email: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk
NB: This conference is free. Places are strictly limited. Papers will be selected by committee.
Organisation: The conference is organised by:
The Cardiff Humanities Research Institute Project, ‘Representing Migration and Mobility in European Cultures’ (Cardiff School of European Studies);
The Race, Representation and Cultural Identity Research Group (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies).
Call for applications for Research Assistant and PhD Studentship - The Challenges to Trust-Building in Nuclear Worlds
ESRC/AHRC Fellowship under the 'Global Uncertainties: Security for all in a Changing World' Programme of Research Councils UK on The Challenges to Trust Building in Nuclear Worlds. The Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University is pleased to invite applications for two positions arising from the award of the above Fellowship to Professor Nicholas Wheeler. RESEARCH ASSISTANTThis position will entail identification and acquisition of research materials and general organisational support (including dissemination) for this multidisciplinary project. The successful candidate must have a PhD in a discipline relevant to the project, be familiar with a wide range of research methodologies, and have excellent IT skills. Experience in organising workshops/conferences would be an advantage. This position is available from 1 September 2009 and is a fixed term post for 3 years. For more information, please seehttp://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/IP.09.05%20Ext.pdf PHD STUDENTSHIPThe central research question to be addressed by the linked studentship is: what role has trust played and can play in the nuclear relationshipbetween the United States and USSR (1983-1991) and the United States and Russia (1991-2010)? For more information please see http://www.aber.ac.uk/pga/web/IntPol_GU_PhD_Schol_2009.htm For further details of the proposed area of research, please see the'Statement Summary' athttp://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/Statement_Summary.pdfFor more information on both positions and the project, please see the website of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies athttp://www.aber.ac.auk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/DavidDavies.htm Professor Nicholas J WheelerDirectorDavid Davies Memorial Institute of International StudiesDepartment of International PoliticsAberystwyth UniversitySY23 3FETel +44 (0) 1970 622852Fax + 44 (0) 1970 622708
Νέες κυκλοφορίες (Ernest Mandel)
NEW TITLE - Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream DeferredJan Willem StutjeWith a foreword by Tariq AliTranslated by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker Published 18th May 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist andeconomist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second WorldWar as an underground political activist in Occupied Belgium andduring his subsequent internment in a Nazi prison camp. Mandel'sfaith in human nature and in the working classes survived Nazioppression and the murder of much of his family in the concentrationcamps. He retained his connection to his Jewish roots throughout hislife, but believed that security and liberation for the Jewish peoplewas best achieved through world revolution and universal emancipationrather than nationalism. A brilliant orator in several languages,Mandel was an indefatigable revolutionary militant and a key leader inthe Fourth International, He had an enormous impact on the thoughtand practice of the 1968 generation. His writings range frominnovative economic and political theory to a study of the SecondWorld War and have been published in over forty languages. His lastmajor work, Late Capitalism, had an influence that reached from thesocial sciences into the humanities. Biographer Jan Willem Stutje,the first writer with access to Mandel's archives, has interviewedmany of the leading figures in the story and unearthed a wealth of newmaterial, detailing Mandel's arrest by the Nazis and his role in LatinAmerican guerrilla warfare. He recounts Mandel's interactions withboth scholars - Sartre, Ernst Bloch, Perry Anderson - and comrades-in-arms such as Che Guevara, Rudi Dutschke and Tariq Ali. The book alsoyields fascinating details of the man's sometimes tragic private life. JAN WILLEM STUTJE is a historian affiliated with the Institute ofBiography at the University of Groningen. He has published a life ofDutch Communist Party leader Paul de Groot and studies of the Dutchand international labour movement in scholarly publications in theNetherlandsand abroad. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Praise for Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred: "An extraordinary accomplishment. This book deserves a place ofhonour in the library of anyone who is interested in the history oftwentieth-century revolutionary socialism." Walter Lotens, Kritischlezen "A masterful and critical biography that reads like a thriller." FredBraeckman, De Morgen "Stutje does a good job of avoiding the temptations of hagiography,and paints a fascinating portrait of Mandel, a Marxist thinker andradical political figure who is undeservedly almost forgotten." PietPiryns and Hubert van Humbeek, Knack "This impressive scholarly biography deals not only with ErnestMandel, but equally with the success and tribulations of theTrotskyist movement that he helped lead for decades and with societyas a whole. This smoothly written book inadvertently evokes the imageof a biblical prophet, whose personal life and happiness, loves,friendships and career were sacrificed time and again to the greatstruggle against exploitation and injustice - a man who knew that hehad to give up everything except hope." Ludo Abicht, AKTIEF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISBN 9781844673162 £19.99 / $34.95 / Hardback / 424 pages Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred is available from all goodbookshops and: http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/stutje_jw_ernest_mandel.shtml UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ernest-Mandel-Jan-Willem-Stutje/dp/1844673162/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1243505552&sr=1-2 http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844673162/Ernest-Mandel US: http://www.amazon.com/Ernest-Mandel-Jan-Willem-Stutje/dp/1844673162/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243508020&sr=8-2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Verso's new blog for information on our upcoming events, newreviews and publications and special offers.http://versouk.wordpress.com/ And get updates on Twitter too!http://twitter.com/VersoBooksUK
BISA: Conference 2009 Draft Programme
Dear Colleagues, The BISA Conference Committee has now finalised the draft programme for the 2009 Conference at the University of Leicester. The full details of the draft programme are now available on the BISA website at: http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139-conference-provisional-programme-2009&catid=35-conferences Some of you will understandably be disappointed to find that your proposal is not included in the final programme. We had a large number of panel and paper submissions this year and the Conference Committee had to reject a number of paper submissions for various reasons. We added papers to several existing panels in order to include as many paper proposals as possible and constructed a number of panels out of the many orphan paper proposals we received. In addition to the guidelines already issued at the time of the call for papers, the decisions of the Conference Committee were also informed by the following considerations (in no particular order): 1. The relevance and timeliness of the subject of the panel/paper;2. The configuration of the panel - mix of lecturers/Profs, PhDs; mix of institutional affiliation, participation of activists/NGO reps/ officials etc.;3. Papers/ panels representing new work not previously published; 4. Equitable inclusion of the work of the BISA Working Groups. In the end the Committee believes that we have put in place an interesting and varied programme that is as inclusive as possible and certainly representative of the academic interests and expertise of the current membership. We will shortly be sending you an email about registration for the conference. If you have any queries or questions about the draft programme, please do not hesitate to contact us at bisa-conference@aber.ac.uk. With all best wishes, Richard Jackson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dr Richard JacksonSecretary, British International Studies Association (BISA)Editor, Critical Studies on TerrorismReader, Department of International PoliticsAberystwyth University,Penglais, Aberystwyth,Ceredigion, Wales SY23 3FE, United KingdomTel: +44 (0)1970-621955New Book: Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agendahttp://www.routledge.com/books/Critical-Terrorism-Studies-isbn97804154 Secretary, British International Studies Association (BISA) http://www.bisa.ac.uk/Critical Studies on Terrorism (Routledge journals)www.informaworld.com/criticalterrorism Deputy Director,Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV)http://users.aber.ac.uk/mys/csrv/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bio/Geo Politics of Religion Seminar (NYC)
2009-10 Seminar at Macaulay Honors College at CUNYNew York, NY Bio/Geo Politics of ReligionCo-Directors: Lee Quinby and Sylvia Tomasch Macaulay Honors College at CUNY invites applications from New York area faculty and doctoral students for the second annual Macaulay Seminar to be held during the 2009-10 academic year. The Macaulay Seminar seeks to generate lively discussion on a topic vital to our time, to enrich teaching, and to help facilitate research toward publication. The seminar will meet once per month on Monday evenings throughout the year. Each member of the seminar will be expected to participate fully in the Seminar and present a paper at the conference on the same topic to be held April 16-18, 2010 at Macaulay. Participants will be selected from departments across academic divisions to encourage wide-ranging discussion. All full-time faculty members and graduate students are eligible. (Other interested parties are welcome to apply.) A stipend of $750 will be awarded to participants. This seminar will explore what Michel Foucault called “biopolitics,” the relations of power that focus on the management of life, with specific regard to organized religions and practices of religious conduct. Although recently religion has been widely recognized as a leading force in contemporary life, with movements of both faith-based solidarity and conflict being played out on the world stage, the present context has a long history through which these movements may be understood. Relevant topics might include themes of apocalypticism and millennialism, the economics of evangelicalism, fundamentalist movements over time and space, the policing of bodies and souls, textual literalism and interpretation, bio- and geo-political conjunctions, manuals of guidance and techniques of surveillance, utopian religious communities in life and literature, and connections between ecos, bios, power, and justice. Readings will be selected to accommodate the specific interests and expertise of the participants. Co-Directors: Lee Quinby is the inaugural Visiting Professor at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York City. The author of three books, Millennial Seduction (1999), Anti-Apocalypse (1994), and Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991), she is also editor of Genealogy and Literature (1995) and co-editor of Feminism and Foucault (1988) and Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (2006). Sylvia Tomasch is Associate University Dean of Academic Affairs at Macaulay HonorsCollege and Professor of English at Hunter College, both in the City University of New York. Recent publications include articles on the history of medieval studies, Chaucer, medieval antisemitism, historical cartography, and medieval postcoloniality. Application deadline: July 30, 2009. To request an application or for further information, email lee.quinby@mhc.cuny.edu or sylvia.tomasch@mhc.cuny.edu Macaulay Honors College35 W. 67th StreetNew York, NY 10016t: (212) 729-2919f: (212) 530-8130
Νέες κυκλοφορίες (Fredric Jameson)
NEW TITLES: TWO NEW EDITIONS OF FREDRIC JAMESON CLASSICS
THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY
FREDRIC JAMESON
Published 13 April 2009
A definitive collection of the renowned cultural critic’s early essays
“One of the great writers of our time, not just one of the most formidably gifted critics and cultural theorists.”
Terry Eagleton—London Review of Books
“Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today … It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.”
Colin MacCabe
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THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist literary tradition. Jameson’s work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from the ideological allies.The essays in this volume track a shift from ideological analysis to the phenomenology of everyday life, and constitute a rigorous and passionate argument for the necessity of theory as the simultaneous critique of empiricism and idealist philosophy.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-276-9 / £70 / $120 / Hardback / 448 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-277-6 / £24.99 / $44.95 / Paperback / 448 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/ij-titles/jameson_f_ideologies_of_theory.shtml
To buy the book:
UK:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672776/Ideologies-of-Theory
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ideologies-Theory-Fredric-Jameson/dp/1844672778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244561464&sr=8-1
US:
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ALSO AVAILABLE BY FREDRIC JAMESON FROM VERSO:
FABLES OF AGGRESSION: WYNDHAM LEWIS, THE MODERNIST AS FASCIST
“Jameson’s little book on Wyndham Lewis is an important and in many ways brilliant work, as much for its treatment of Lewis himself as for its two other important contributions: to an understanding of the ideology of modernism, and to an understanding of a socio-political-psychoanalytic theory of criticism… Jameson is sensitive both to detail and to the larger intellectual and political issues raised by a writer like Lewis… He provides a serious, challenging, and extremely intelligent alternative to the reigning ahistorical formalist criticism.”
Edward Said
“A highly original study of the novels of Wyndham Lewis… The book is supremely important as a contribution to Marxist criticism especially. It is ironic that it took a critic whose ideological position was so opposed to his subject to offer the best assessment of the ideological and literary bases of Lewis’ creativity… This is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of postmodernism.”
Hayden White
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The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists—Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats—who were his sometime friends and collaborators.
Lewis’s originality, however, can only fully be grasped when it is understood that, unlike these writers, he was in essence a political novelist.
In this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis’ explosive language practice—utterly unlike any other English and American modernism—can be grasped as can be grasped as a symbolic and political act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of Lewis’ style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis’ works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his time.
FABLE OF AGGRESSION draws on the methods of narrative analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis’ incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers so many varying symbolic resolutions.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-278-3 / £60 / $110 / Hardback / 200 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-279-0 / £19.99 / $34.95 / Paperback / 200 pages
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US:
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Fredric Jameson is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, and The Ideologies of Theory.
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THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY
FREDRIC JAMESON
Published 13 April 2009
A definitive collection of the renowned cultural critic’s early essays
“One of the great writers of our time, not just one of the most formidably gifted critics and cultural theorists.”
Terry Eagleton—London Review of Books
“Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today … It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.”
Colin MacCabe
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THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist literary tradition. Jameson’s work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from the ideological allies.The essays in this volume track a shift from ideological analysis to the phenomenology of everyday life, and constitute a rigorous and passionate argument for the necessity of theory as the simultaneous critique of empiricism and idealist philosophy.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-276-9 / £70 / $120 / Hardback / 448 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-277-6 / £24.99 / $44.95 / Paperback / 448 pages
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ALSO AVAILABLE BY FREDRIC JAMESON FROM VERSO:
FABLES OF AGGRESSION: WYNDHAM LEWIS, THE MODERNIST AS FASCIST
“Jameson’s little book on Wyndham Lewis is an important and in many ways brilliant work, as much for its treatment of Lewis himself as for its two other important contributions: to an understanding of the ideology of modernism, and to an understanding of a socio-political-psychoanalytic theory of criticism… Jameson is sensitive both to detail and to the larger intellectual and political issues raised by a writer like Lewis… He provides a serious, challenging, and extremely intelligent alternative to the reigning ahistorical formalist criticism.”
Edward Said
“A highly original study of the novels of Wyndham Lewis… The book is supremely important as a contribution to Marxist criticism especially. It is ironic that it took a critic whose ideological position was so opposed to his subject to offer the best assessment of the ideological and literary bases of Lewis’ creativity… This is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of postmodernism.”
Hayden White
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The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists—Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats—who were his sometime friends and collaborators.
Lewis’s originality, however, can only fully be grasped when it is understood that, unlike these writers, he was in essence a political novelist.
In this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis’ explosive language practice—utterly unlike any other English and American modernism—can be grasped as can be grasped as a symbolic and political act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of Lewis’ style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis’ works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his time.
FABLE OF AGGRESSION draws on the methods of narrative analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis’ incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers so many varying symbolic resolutions.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-278-3 / £60 / $110 / Hardback / 200 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-279-0 / £19.99 / $34.95 / Paperback / 200 pages
For more information visit
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Available for sale at the forthcoming FUTURISM EXHIBITION at the TATE MODERN
Also:
UK:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672790/Fables-of-Aggression
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fables-Aggression-Wyndham-Modernist-Fascist/dp/1844672786/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244654318&sr=1-2
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Fables-Aggression-Wyndham-Modernist-Fascist/dp/1844672794
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Fredric Jameson is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, and The Ideologies of Theory.
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ΕΠΕΙΓΟΝ 1-day Graduate Student Methodology Workshop
“Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies”
A One-Day Graduate Student Workshop
Sponsored by the
International Studies Association-Northeast
3 October, 2009 • Baltimore, MD
The field of International Studies has always been interdisciplinary, with scholars drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and data analysis as they seek to produce knowledge about global politics. Recent debates about epistemology and ontology have advanced the methodological openness of the field, albeit mainly at a meta-theoretical level. And while interest in techniques falling outside of well-established comparative and statistical modes of inference has been sparked, opportunities for scholars to discuss and flesh out the operational requirements of these alternative routes to knowledge have been relatively infrequent.
This fifth annual workshop aims to address this lacuna by bringing together faculty and graduate students in a pedagogical environment. The workshop will focus on two broad research approaches that differ in various ways from statistical and comparative methodologies: interpretive methodologies, which highlight the grounding of analysis in actors’ lived experiences and thus produce knowledge phenomenologically and hermeneutically; and relational methodologies, which concentrate on how social networks and intersubjective discursive processes concatenate to generate outcomes.
In the two morning sessions, five established scholars, whose work utilizes such approaches as ethnography, discourse analysis, historical criticism, and linguistic analysis, will talk about precisely how they do their empirical work. These tutorial sessions will be followed by an extended afternoon session in which graduate student participants will have an opportunity to receive feedback from the established scholars and from their fellow workshop participants.
This year’s faculty participants include:
Brent Steele, University of Kansas
Margarent Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Himadeep Muppidi, Vassar College
Aida Hozic, University of Florida
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Studies Association-Northeast’s annual conference, which will take place from 2-3 October in Baltimore, MD. Although all attendees of the conference may come to the workshop sessions, the 6-8 graduate students officially participating in the workshop will have the opportunity to receive detailed feedback and specialized instruction in the methodologies under discussion.
Graduate students interested in participating in the workshop should send their c.v. and a letter describing their current research project to Patrick Thaddeus Jackson by e-mail: ptjack@american.edu. Applications must be received by 1 July 2009.
A One-Day Graduate Student Workshop
Sponsored by the
International Studies Association-Northeast
3 October, 2009 • Baltimore, MD
The field of International Studies has always been interdisciplinary, with scholars drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and data analysis as they seek to produce knowledge about global politics. Recent debates about epistemology and ontology have advanced the methodological openness of the field, albeit mainly at a meta-theoretical level. And while interest in techniques falling outside of well-established comparative and statistical modes of inference has been sparked, opportunities for scholars to discuss and flesh out the operational requirements of these alternative routes to knowledge have been relatively infrequent.
This fifth annual workshop aims to address this lacuna by bringing together faculty and graduate students in a pedagogical environment. The workshop will focus on two broad research approaches that differ in various ways from statistical and comparative methodologies: interpretive methodologies, which highlight the grounding of analysis in actors’ lived experiences and thus produce knowledge phenomenologically and hermeneutically; and relational methodologies, which concentrate on how social networks and intersubjective discursive processes concatenate to generate outcomes.
In the two morning sessions, five established scholars, whose work utilizes such approaches as ethnography, discourse analysis, historical criticism, and linguistic analysis, will talk about precisely how they do their empirical work. These tutorial sessions will be followed by an extended afternoon session in which graduate student participants will have an opportunity to receive feedback from the established scholars and from their fellow workshop participants.
This year’s faculty participants include:
Brent Steele, University of Kansas
Margarent Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Himadeep Muppidi, Vassar College
Aida Hozic, University of Florida
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Studies Association-Northeast’s annual conference, which will take place from 2-3 October in Baltimore, MD. Although all attendees of the conference may come to the workshop sessions, the 6-8 graduate students officially participating in the workshop will have the opportunity to receive detailed feedback and specialized instruction in the methodologies under discussion.
Graduate students interested in participating in the workshop should send their c.v. and a letter describing their current research project to Patrick Thaddeus Jackson by e-mail: ptjack@american.edu. Applications must be received by 1 July 2009.
FAO Postgraduate Members BISA - CfP BISA-JAIR Collaborative Panels
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (BISA) IN COOPERATION WITH JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (JAIR)BISA-JAIR COLLABORATIVE POSTGRADUATE PANELSBISA ANNUAL CONFERENCEUNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, OADBY STUDENT VILLAGE, 14TH – 16TH DECEMBER 2009CALL FOR PAPERSPostgraduates make a valuable contribution to both the British International Studies Association (BISA) and the Japan Association of International Relations (JAIR). As part of a drive by both associations towards developing international research networks and providing presentation opportunities for postgraduate members, we are pleased to announce the inauguration of the BISA-JAIR collaborative postgraduate panels. Each panel will be made up of 4 postgraduate researchers; 2 members from each association. The panels will focus on the theoretical and empirical implications of the current global economic crisis and security environment.In the postwar period, Britain and Japan have both been heavily influenced by the United States, and academia is no exception. As a field of study, ‘American’ International Relations has been considered the mainstream, with research in the two countries attentive to what their American counterparts were doing. However, the last decade has seen a flourishing of ‘critical’ perspectives (e.g. Critical IPE or Critical Security Studies) more sceptical of both US hegemony and the intellectual mainstream that help sustain it. This has been evident in the growing critique of ‘neoliberalism’ or ‘unilateralism’ in the leading British and Japanese academic journals, both of which have been attached to the actions and ideology of the world’s superpower. Yet, implicitly or explicitly, these perspectives seem to take for granted the very existence of that hegemony, focusing its attention on the limitations of US foreign policy and/or of the American intellectual ‘mainstream’. With political-economic and intellectual power of the United States suffering a blow in the face of the global economic crisis and the ‘failure’ in Iraq, it seems appropriate for a critical self re-examination of the state of the field. The BISA-JAIR collaborative panels offer a unique opportunity to take stock of the intellectual development in Britain and Japan, and to explore new research agendas in a rapidly changing world.Panel 1: Post-America?: Rethinking Critical Perspectives Beyond US HegemonyWithin the context of the current global economic crisis and the ‘failure’ in Iraq, the first panel will examine how ‘critical’ perspectives in general and IPE and Security Studies in particular address emerging instability/insecurity. How would these ‘critical’ perspectives explain the current crises? What insights do they provide? What impacts do these ‘crises’ have on ‘critical’ perspectives? What do they tell us and what do they miss? Are we witnessing a post-American era or is it a false dawn? What role will ‘critical’ perspectives have in the future?Possible Themes:• Characteristics of a ‘post-American’ order• The role of IR theory in the making and unmaking of US hegemony• A re-assessment of critical perspectives• The demise of empires and historical lessons• Implications of US decline for Britain and JapanPanel 2: Exploring New Sites of Instability/Insecurity in the ‘Post-American’ WorldIn parallel to the theoretical examination, the second panel will take a more empirical turn seeking to locate new or renewed sites of instability/insecurity and their remedies in the possibly emerging ‘post-American’ world. What sources of instability/ insecurity are increasingly becoming apparent in the world today? Are these challenges a result of the ‘crisis’ in US economic and foreign policy? Or does it have a more structural origin? What are the roles of Britain and Japan in this newly emerging order? What are the avenues of cooperation between the two countries in the fight against instability/insecurity?Possible Themes:• Future of the dollar• Political economy of energy/stability of energy supplies• International monetary system and regulations• Politics of border management• Nuclear proliferation in the post-Iraq eraPlease send an abstract of no more than one page and a research profile/academic CV outlining your academic interests by 17 July 2009 to bisa-jair09@warwick.ac.uk. Please state which panel you are applying for.Conference waiver (Package G, worth £175) plus a travel grant of £150 will also be available for JAIR participants. To apply, send a brief statement of rationale along with a rough estimate of your travel costs with your abstract and research profile/ academic CV.For additional information, please visit http://www.bisa.ac.uk/ (Post Grad Section) or http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jair/index_en.html.
Rethinking Marxism (Vol. 21 No. 3)
RETHINKING MARXISM
a journal of economics, culture and society
Vol 21 No 3
JULY 2009
IN THIS ISSUE:
Editors’ Introduction
BOOK SYMPOSIUM:Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School by Peter IvesGramsci as Theorist of PoliticsJacinda SWANSON
This paper briefly discusses some of Antonio Gramsci's contributions to the theorization of politics that Peter Ives elucidates in Gramsci's Politics of Language. I also highlight a few of the many illuminating aspects of Ives's in-depth but accessible exploration of Gramsci's approach to language and politics, such as Gramsci's distinction between regressive and progressive forms of hegemony and his antiessentialist and antipositivist theorization of social and linguistic practices. I end with a few questions about Gramsci's positions on faith and political unity as well as the similarities of his approach to poststructuralism.
Ives and Gramsci in Dialogue: Vernacular Subalternity, Cultural Interferences, the Word-thing InterdependenceStefano SELENU
Peter Ives's Gramsci's Politics of Language (2004) constitutes one of the most relevant and stimulating recent contributions on Gramsci. In this paper I will review the book, showing the relevance of placing Gramsci in dialogue with a constellation of numerous thinkers and ideas. Then, I will focus on three of Ives's ideas in order to problematize them. First, considering Ives's use of Gramsci's statements on Sardinian, I will deal with the political significance of Gramsci's claim that Sardinian is a language. Second, I will discuss the connection made by Ives between the nonparthenogenetic origins of languages and the idea that languages develop through cultural and linguistic conflicts. Finally, I will deal with Ives's notion of vernacular materialism in Gramsci, and I will discuss his interpretation of Gramsci's ideas on meaning production and metaphor.
Ethical Hegemony
P. Kerim FRIEDMANDrawing upon Peter Ives's book Gramsci's Politics of Language, this article examines the linguistic origins of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. This is then compared with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the habitus, with a particular focus on how the two theories conceptualize social change. Ives shows that Gramsci understood language standardization as either democratic or repressive, depending on the nature of the standardization process. Ives uses this to argue that the opposite of repressive hegemony is not the absence of hegemony but a progressive hegemony grounded in democratic processes. While Bourdieu's emphasis on social reproduction over social change makes his work less useful for conceptualizing such a progressive hegemony, this paper argues that his theory of symbolic capital (including linguistic capital) offers us a unique insight into the obstacles faced by agents of progressive social change and, in so doing, sheds light on the limitations of Gramsci's approach.
Prestige, Faith and Dialect: Expanding Gramsci's Engagement
Peter IVESThis essay attempts to respond to and advance the dialogue initiated by contributions to this symposium by Jacinda Swanson, Kerim Friedman, and Stefano Selenu concerning my book, Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School. It emphasizes the importance of all three authors in creating further space for interaction between Gramscian scholarship and other areas of Marxism and social theory, specifically the work of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA), political theory generally, Pierre Bourdieu, sociolinguistics, and philosophy. I discuss the concepts of prestige, labor, faith, conflict, interference, and dialect, as presented by the other contributions. One of the links that ties together these discussions is my emphasis on Gramsci's insistence that language is not approached as a topic or type of activity that can be divorced or sharply distinguished from other human activity: it does not constitute a separate or separable realm.
ART/ICULATIONSIdeology, Iconoclasm, and the Wunderkammer of Berlin
José María DURAN
The aim of this paper is to make a critical reading of the dismantling process of the Palast der Republik in Berlin. The demolition of the Palast, the prestige building of the former German Democratic Republic, can be seen as the final step in the process of reassessing the East German past. It shows how the space in the center of Berlin has been (re)appropriated from above (i.e., by state power and its ruling class) and redefined according to the new social and cultural undertakings of the German Republic. The International Commission of Experts (Internationale Expertenkommission) appointed to validate through “scientific” arguments the demolition of the building produced in its final report an appropriate, site-specific cultural value that has colluded with both the purely economic valorization of the place and the construction of national symbols. I suggest that these three aspects—cultural value, economic valorization, and national identity—jointly contribute in this concrete case to shape an entrepreneurial quality that the city of Berlin has embraced as a showcase of the reunified Germany. Through this critical reading, I demonstrate that the demolition of the Palast der Republik should be examined as a symbolic construction of state power that requires a form of iconoclasm.ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy of the Transnational Informational CapitalismChristian FUCHS
Concepts like knowledge society, information society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, Internet society, and network society fail to grasp the dialectic of the continuity and discontinuity of society. These concepts take the changes associated with new media as radical novelties and ignore the continuing dominance of capitalist structures. Contemporary capitalism is highly antagonistic and requires a dialectical analysis. Transnational network capitalism and transnational informational capitalism are used as key concepts for grasping the importance of information technologies and knowledge and their role in a transnational and flexible regime of accumulation. One important principle for gaining profit from information commodities is that goods are sold at prices that are much higher than their value.ART"The Illegal Lives": Art Within a Community of OthersYoung Min MOON and MIXRICESince 2002, Mixrice, the artist collective, has pursued social interventionist activities and collaborative projects with a group of undocumented Asian migrant workers in South Korea. Utilizing photographic and media recordings, comics, murals, and texts in the form of exhibitions, publications, and the Web, they engage the question of the Other within the context of an ostensibly monoethnic South Korean culture. Through their critical practice of working with members of a transnational community, Mixrice probes the issues of human rights and the ethics and roles of the artist in a volatile sociopolitical environment.A Marxian Theory of the Subject: Commodity Fetishism, Autonomy, and Psychological DeprivationJohn LUTZThe theme of misrecognition is a common element in the work of Marx, Freud, and Lacan, and it takes as its implicit focus the relationship between autonomy, fetishism, and alienation. Marx's theory of commodity fetishism exposes the mystification of social relations in the commodity as a concealed form of domination that contributes to the creation of alienated subjects. Lacan's ahistorical account of the formation of alienated subjects through their insertion in the symbolic order, while antithetical to Marx's materialist stance, provides a useful framework for exploring the formation of capitalist subjects whose consciousness is shaped by the fetishism of commodities. Lacan's theory of empty speech provides a vehicle for envisioning the full speech that might characterize the consciousness of the socialist subject. POETRYThe Rom ArcaneJack HIRSCHMANArcane is the name for my longer, more structured poems. The Rom Arcane came out of the experience in March 2008 of the pileup of trash in the streets of Naples. This ultimately was connected with attacks on the immigrant and native gypsy camps in Naples and other cities. My poem records the rise in fascism vis--vis the destruction of the Left in many places.Too Little, Too Late: Reflections on Fredric Jameson's Pedagogy of FormTyson E. LEWISThis essay situates Fredric Jameson's theory of pedagogy within his larger project of the aesthetics of cognitive mapping in order to demonstrate the importance of teaching and learning for defining Marxist theory and practice. The article excavates Jameson's pedagogical unconscious, which forms the backdrop for many of his most compelling insights into aesthetic representation. Through a dialectical analysis, the relation between aesthetics and pedagogy is seen as both an advance over certain modes of Marxist pedagogy and also as a retreat from the full examination of pedagogy as a general problem for Marxist theory as such. Thus, the author argues for a renewed emphasis on pedagogy as the most important terrain for rethinking Marxism.REMARX The New Avant-gardePaul MAGEEThis text is a reflection on the ousting of the eleven-year-old neoliberal government in Australia in November 2007. It considers the role that public awareness of climate change might have played in that defeat. This leads to a comment on the new humanities' received attitude toward science and the desirability of revising it. The Amateur Class, or the Reserve Army of the WebVasilis KOSTAKISThis article deals with the transformation of the computer industry that has been inaugurated by the new version of the Web. The advent of the social web—or Web 2.0, according to Tim O'Reilly (2006)—gives rise to the formation of the amateur class and to new modes of exploitation, as the amateur starts to have control over the means of Web production. The function of Web 2.0 within capitalist production is to exploit and valorize the volunteer contributions of amateurs. The argument on which this paper is based is that Web 2.0 exhibits both emancipatory and exploitative aspects, and the role of amateurs should be to foster one over the other.www.rethinkingmarxism.org
yahya m. madra
associate editor / rethinking marxism
http://rethinkingmarxism.org
a journal of economics, culture and society
Vol 21 No 3
JULY 2009
IN THIS ISSUE:
Editors’ Introduction
BOOK SYMPOSIUM:Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School by Peter IvesGramsci as Theorist of PoliticsJacinda SWANSON
This paper briefly discusses some of Antonio Gramsci's contributions to the theorization of politics that Peter Ives elucidates in Gramsci's Politics of Language. I also highlight a few of the many illuminating aspects of Ives's in-depth but accessible exploration of Gramsci's approach to language and politics, such as Gramsci's distinction between regressive and progressive forms of hegemony and his antiessentialist and antipositivist theorization of social and linguistic practices. I end with a few questions about Gramsci's positions on faith and political unity as well as the similarities of his approach to poststructuralism.
Ives and Gramsci in Dialogue: Vernacular Subalternity, Cultural Interferences, the Word-thing InterdependenceStefano SELENU
Peter Ives's Gramsci's Politics of Language (2004) constitutes one of the most relevant and stimulating recent contributions on Gramsci. In this paper I will review the book, showing the relevance of placing Gramsci in dialogue with a constellation of numerous thinkers and ideas. Then, I will focus on three of Ives's ideas in order to problematize them. First, considering Ives's use of Gramsci's statements on Sardinian, I will deal with the political significance of Gramsci's claim that Sardinian is a language. Second, I will discuss the connection made by Ives between the nonparthenogenetic origins of languages and the idea that languages develop through cultural and linguistic conflicts. Finally, I will deal with Ives's notion of vernacular materialism in Gramsci, and I will discuss his interpretation of Gramsci's ideas on meaning production and metaphor.
Ethical Hegemony
P. Kerim FRIEDMANDrawing upon Peter Ives's book Gramsci's Politics of Language, this article examines the linguistic origins of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. This is then compared with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the habitus, with a particular focus on how the two theories conceptualize social change. Ives shows that Gramsci understood language standardization as either democratic or repressive, depending on the nature of the standardization process. Ives uses this to argue that the opposite of repressive hegemony is not the absence of hegemony but a progressive hegemony grounded in democratic processes. While Bourdieu's emphasis on social reproduction over social change makes his work less useful for conceptualizing such a progressive hegemony, this paper argues that his theory of symbolic capital (including linguistic capital) offers us a unique insight into the obstacles faced by agents of progressive social change and, in so doing, sheds light on the limitations of Gramsci's approach.
Prestige, Faith and Dialect: Expanding Gramsci's Engagement
Peter IVESThis essay attempts to respond to and advance the dialogue initiated by contributions to this symposium by Jacinda Swanson, Kerim Friedman, and Stefano Selenu concerning my book, Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School. It emphasizes the importance of all three authors in creating further space for interaction between Gramscian scholarship and other areas of Marxism and social theory, specifically the work of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA), political theory generally, Pierre Bourdieu, sociolinguistics, and philosophy. I discuss the concepts of prestige, labor, faith, conflict, interference, and dialect, as presented by the other contributions. One of the links that ties together these discussions is my emphasis on Gramsci's insistence that language is not approached as a topic or type of activity that can be divorced or sharply distinguished from other human activity: it does not constitute a separate or separable realm.
ART/ICULATIONSIdeology, Iconoclasm, and the Wunderkammer of Berlin
José María DURAN
The aim of this paper is to make a critical reading of the dismantling process of the Palast der Republik in Berlin. The demolition of the Palast, the prestige building of the former German Democratic Republic, can be seen as the final step in the process of reassessing the East German past. It shows how the space in the center of Berlin has been (re)appropriated from above (i.e., by state power and its ruling class) and redefined according to the new social and cultural undertakings of the German Republic. The International Commission of Experts (Internationale Expertenkommission) appointed to validate through “scientific” arguments the demolition of the building produced in its final report an appropriate, site-specific cultural value that has colluded with both the purely economic valorization of the place and the construction of national symbols. I suggest that these three aspects—cultural value, economic valorization, and national identity—jointly contribute in this concrete case to shape an entrepreneurial quality that the city of Berlin has embraced as a showcase of the reunified Germany. Through this critical reading, I demonstrate that the demolition of the Palast der Republik should be examined as a symbolic construction of state power that requires a form of iconoclasm.ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy of the Transnational Informational CapitalismChristian FUCHS
Concepts like knowledge society, information society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, Internet society, and network society fail to grasp the dialectic of the continuity and discontinuity of society. These concepts take the changes associated with new media as radical novelties and ignore the continuing dominance of capitalist structures. Contemporary capitalism is highly antagonistic and requires a dialectical analysis. Transnational network capitalism and transnational informational capitalism are used as key concepts for grasping the importance of information technologies and knowledge and their role in a transnational and flexible regime of accumulation. One important principle for gaining profit from information commodities is that goods are sold at prices that are much higher than their value.ART"The Illegal Lives": Art Within a Community of OthersYoung Min MOON and MIXRICESince 2002, Mixrice, the artist collective, has pursued social interventionist activities and collaborative projects with a group of undocumented Asian migrant workers in South Korea. Utilizing photographic and media recordings, comics, murals, and texts in the form of exhibitions, publications, and the Web, they engage the question of the Other within the context of an ostensibly monoethnic South Korean culture. Through their critical practice of working with members of a transnational community, Mixrice probes the issues of human rights and the ethics and roles of the artist in a volatile sociopolitical environment.A Marxian Theory of the Subject: Commodity Fetishism, Autonomy, and Psychological DeprivationJohn LUTZThe theme of misrecognition is a common element in the work of Marx, Freud, and Lacan, and it takes as its implicit focus the relationship between autonomy, fetishism, and alienation. Marx's theory of commodity fetishism exposes the mystification of social relations in the commodity as a concealed form of domination that contributes to the creation of alienated subjects. Lacan's ahistorical account of the formation of alienated subjects through their insertion in the symbolic order, while antithetical to Marx's materialist stance, provides a useful framework for exploring the formation of capitalist subjects whose consciousness is shaped by the fetishism of commodities. Lacan's theory of empty speech provides a vehicle for envisioning the full speech that might characterize the consciousness of the socialist subject. POETRYThe Rom ArcaneJack HIRSCHMANArcane is the name for my longer, more structured poems. The Rom Arcane came out of the experience in March 2008 of the pileup of trash in the streets of Naples. This ultimately was connected with attacks on the immigrant and native gypsy camps in Naples and other cities. My poem records the rise in fascism vis--vis the destruction of the Left in many places.Too Little, Too Late: Reflections on Fredric Jameson's Pedagogy of FormTyson E. LEWISThis essay situates Fredric Jameson's theory of pedagogy within his larger project of the aesthetics of cognitive mapping in order to demonstrate the importance of teaching and learning for defining Marxist theory and practice. The article excavates Jameson's pedagogical unconscious, which forms the backdrop for many of his most compelling insights into aesthetic representation. Through a dialectical analysis, the relation between aesthetics and pedagogy is seen as both an advance over certain modes of Marxist pedagogy and also as a retreat from the full examination of pedagogy as a general problem for Marxist theory as such. Thus, the author argues for a renewed emphasis on pedagogy as the most important terrain for rethinking Marxism.REMARX The New Avant-gardePaul MAGEEThis text is a reflection on the ousting of the eleven-year-old neoliberal government in Australia in November 2007. It considers the role that public awareness of climate change might have played in that defeat. This leads to a comment on the new humanities' received attitude toward science and the desirability of revising it. The Amateur Class, or the Reserve Army of the WebVasilis KOSTAKISThis article deals with the transformation of the computer industry that has been inaugurated by the new version of the Web. The advent of the social web—or Web 2.0, according to Tim O'Reilly (2006)—gives rise to the formation of the amateur class and to new modes of exploitation, as the amateur starts to have control over the means of Web production. The function of Web 2.0 within capitalist production is to exploit and valorize the volunteer contributions of amateurs. The argument on which this paper is based is that Web 2.0 exhibits both emancipatory and exploitative aspects, and the role of amateurs should be to foster one over the other.www.rethinkingmarxism.org
yahya m. madra
associate editor / rethinking marxism
http://rethinkingmarxism.org
Chatham House Climate Change 2009 6/7 July 2009
The Politics of Climate Change AgreementMonday 6 - Tuesday 7 July 2009Chatham House, London A major two-day international conference High-level representatives from key players in December's UN negotiations will debate terms of agreement at Chatham House. New speakers at this conference include: Jos Delbeke, Deputy Director-General, Directorate General for Environment and Chief Negotiator, EU ; Li Ting, Director of Climate Change Office, Department of Treaty and Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China ; Sergey Tulinov*, Special Assistant to the Head, Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. Register now at this high-level event to find out first hand what the prospects are for reaching ambitious climate agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009. Registration & informationhttp://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/climate_change09/ Representatives from key countries, experts and commentators will discuss: * The science: which elements of the deal are essential to avoid dangerous climate change? * The UN discussions: what is the state of play, politically?* How will 'common but differentiated responsibilities' be interpreted?* How 'green' are governments' stimulus packages?* If agreement is not reached, what will business do?Visit our website for the full agenda. Join these and other high-level experts to gain an understanding of the outlook for reaching agreement, and what the alternatives might be. Register by the 6th of May to benefit from the early booking rate and ensure your place at this essential forum. Sponsors Media partner * in principle www.chathamhouse.org.uk conferences@chathamhouse.org.uk+44 (0)20 7957 5754 Keynote speakers Yvo de BoerExecutive Secretary United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Kevin ConradPrime Minister's Special Envoy & Ambassador for Environment and Climate ChangeDepartment of the Prime Minister and National Executive Council, Papua New Guinea Marthinus Van SchalkwykMinister of Environmental Affairs and TourismSouth Africa Speaker highlights Elliot DiringerVice President, International StrategiesPew Center on Global Climate Change Martin KhorExecutive DirectorThe South Centre Daniel Schrag Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences andDirector, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Funded Workshop Places - Political Economy of Energy
Dear All,The ESRC has kindly agreed to fund a new energy network called the Political Economy of Energy in Europe and Russia (PEEER).� Energy as a subject has tended to be approached academically, particularly in the UK, from either economic or technical disciplines.� PEEER is hoping to promote and support more research and publication on the subject of energy from IR and/or specifically IPE perspectives.The funding covers two workshops, one in Moscow at the Higher School of Economics in September 2009 and one at the University of Warwick in September 2010.� We are offering some funded places to early career researchers (PhD and to within 4/5 years of PhD submission) who are interested in attending these workshops.� Sessions will, broadly speaking, cover the following topics: the political economy of energy; energy governance; resource and transit issues; public/private interaction in energy and renewable alternatives.� These workshops are organised with a view to publication at the end of next year.If you are interested in joining the network and/or one of the funded places please contact Caroline Kuzemko: c.kuzemko@yahoo.co.uk for more information.Thanks,CK
working group on Russian/post-Soviet foreign and security policy
Dear all
I am writing to you to gauge the level of potential interest in a BISA working group on Russian and post-Soviet foreign and security policy. Given the current levels of interest in Russian and post-Soviet affairs of late, and given that the last few BISA conferences have had at least one panel on this theme, it seemed a good idea to see whether this could get off the ground.
Please email me to let me know if you would be interested in joining such a group.
Many Thanks,
Best wishes
Natasha Kuhrt.
Dr Natasha Kuhrt
Lecturer
Dept of War Studies/School of Law
King's College, London
Tel.:+44 (0)7848 7275
Mob.:+44 (0)7743 281 279
Email: natasha.kuhrt@kcl.ac.uk
I am writing to you to gauge the level of potential interest in a BISA working group on Russian and post-Soviet foreign and security policy. Given the current levels of interest in Russian and post-Soviet affairs of late, and given that the last few BISA conferences have had at least one panel on this theme, it seemed a good idea to see whether this could get off the ground.
Please email me to let me know if you would be interested in joining such a group.
Many Thanks,
Best wishes
Natasha Kuhrt.
Dr Natasha Kuhrt
Lecturer
Dept of War Studies/School of Law
King's College, London
Tel.:+44 (0)7848 7275
Mob.:+44 (0)7743 281 279
Email: natasha.kuhrt@kcl.ac.uk
The Second Warwick RIPE Debate in International Political Economy
The Second Warwick RIPE Debate in IPE was held in May and proved to be a great success. This year the Debate - organised by the Department of Politics and International Studies and run in conjunction with the Review of International Political Economy - revolved around a discussion of the Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy edited by Mark Blyth. A full open-access recording of the Debate can be found on the following webpage and it can be downloaded for free: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/ipe/ripedebates/2009/.
Matthew Watson, University of Warwick
Matthew Watson, University of Warwick
New McGill Journal of Education issue on Learning in Social Action: Knowledge Production in Social Movements
Dear colleagues This journal issue is now online at mje.mcgill.ca. Table of contents is listed below. Journal is open access so articles may be downloaded as pdf files Aziz Choudry Vol 44, No 1 (2009) Table of Contents Editorial / ÉditorialLEARNING IN SOCIAL ACTION: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS / APPRENDRE VIA L'ACTION SOCIALE : LA PRODUCTION DE CONNAISSANCES AU SEIN DES MOUVEMENTS SOCIAUX Aziz Choudry Articles / Les articlesTHE PRISON HOUSES OF KNOWLEDGE: ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP AND REVOLUTION IN THE ERA OF "GLOBALIZATION" Radha D'Souza GLOBAL JUSTICE PROTEST EVENTS AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DIFFERENCES Vinci E. F. Daro ADIVASIS (ORIGINAL DWELLERS) "IN THE WAY OF" STATE-CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT: DEVELOPMENT DISPOSSESSION AND LEARNING IN SOCIAL ACTION FOR LAND AND FORESTS IN INDIA Dip Kapoor LEARNING TO SLEEP WITHOUT PERCHING: REFLECTIONS BY ACTIVIST-EDUCATORS ON LEARNING IN SOCIAL ACTION IN GHANAIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Jonathan Langdon EDUCATION AND LIBERATION David Austin THE TEACH-IN ON GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS AND VYGOTSKY: FOSTERING ECOLOGICAL ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP Mishka Lysack
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1) Call for ProposalsThe ECPR Standing Group on International Relations is announcing its 7th Pan-European Conference to be held in Stockholm Sweden from 9-11 September 2010. The Steering Committee of the SGIR hereby issues a call for section convenors for the 2010 Pan-European Conference. Deadline September 15, 2009.The academic programme for the conference will be organised in the usual format of sections and panels. A section is a number of panels linked by a common theme. The conference can host up to 30 parallel sections. Section convenors organise the panels, select papers and panels (via the conference internet platform), identify panel chairs and discussants, and take responsibility for the actual execution of their section's contribution to the conference programme. This includes the selection of best paper by a research student in their section and the provision of advice regarding the appropriate size of panel rooms. A section may consist of either five or ten 105 minute panel sessions during the programme. Each 105-minute panel should comprise four to five papers plus discussant and chair.Proposals should be made online on: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/Details are available in the Word document downloadable here.With best wishes,Andreas Noelke and Antje Wiener(Programme Chairs)
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2) Call for proposals for two Young Researchers Workshops.With 'Young Researchers Workshops (YRW)' the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of the ECPR offers an opportunity for young scholars (advanced doctoral students and recent post-docs) to familiarize themselves with academic conferencing. The workshop scheme seeks to advance networking, publication and academic discussion among young researchers. Towards that end, the SGIR offers an award of up to 7.500 EURO per workshop (approx. 10-12 participants) which should cover travel of all the participants and accommodation for some. The workshops either precede or follow the seventh Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Stockholm on 9-11 September 2010. Besides substantial criteria, preference will be given to applications which seek a relatively balanced participation from all parts of Europe.SGIR welcomes workshop proposals on any topic of relevance to current research in International Relations. A workshop proposal includes:1. a 800 word summary which outlines the scientific relevance of the topic; and 2. a list of some potential participants and paper titles (up to 8 ) beyond the workshop convener(s). The YRW committee consisting of Élise Féron, Stefano Guzzini, Helena Rytövuori-Apunen, Antje Wiener, and Bernhard Zangl will accept full proposals until 15 September 2009. Successful workshop convenor(s) will be notified so that they can prepare a call for papers with a deadline of 31 January 2010.All proposal should be submitted on: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/
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Prof Antje Wiener, PhD Chair in Political Science (International Relations Theory), Institute for Political ScienceDirector, Centre for Globalisation & Governance (CGG) University of HamburgAllende Platz 120146 HamburgGermanyTel: +49 40 42838-3232 (please note, that messages cannot yet be retrieved from this machine)Fax: +49 40 42838-7784Email: antje.wiener@wiso.uni-hamburg.deURL: http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?id=7355 Associate Editor, European Political Science Review (EPSR)Details: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EPR Editor, ConWEB Webpapers on Governance and Constitutionalism Beyond the Statehttp://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/conWEB/
1) Call for ProposalsThe ECPR Standing Group on International Relations is announcing its 7th Pan-European Conference to be held in Stockholm Sweden from 9-11 September 2010. The Steering Committee of the SGIR hereby issues a call for section convenors for the 2010 Pan-European Conference. Deadline September 15, 2009.The academic programme for the conference will be organised in the usual format of sections and panels. A section is a number of panels linked by a common theme. The conference can host up to 30 parallel sections. Section convenors organise the panels, select papers and panels (via the conference internet platform), identify panel chairs and discussants, and take responsibility for the actual execution of their section's contribution to the conference programme. This includes the selection of best paper by a research student in their section and the provision of advice regarding the appropriate size of panel rooms. A section may consist of either five or ten 105 minute panel sessions during the programme. Each 105-minute panel should comprise four to five papers plus discussant and chair.Proposals should be made online on: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/Details are available in the Word document downloadable here.With best wishes,Andreas Noelke and Antje Wiener(Programme Chairs)
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2) Call for proposals for two Young Researchers Workshops.With 'Young Researchers Workshops (YRW)' the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of the ECPR offers an opportunity for young scholars (advanced doctoral students and recent post-docs) to familiarize themselves with academic conferencing. The workshop scheme seeks to advance networking, publication and academic discussion among young researchers. Towards that end, the SGIR offers an award of up to 7.500 EURO per workshop (approx. 10-12 participants) which should cover travel of all the participants and accommodation for some. The workshops either precede or follow the seventh Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Stockholm on 9-11 September 2010. Besides substantial criteria, preference will be given to applications which seek a relatively balanced participation from all parts of Europe.SGIR welcomes workshop proposals on any topic of relevance to current research in International Relations. A workshop proposal includes:1. a 800 word summary which outlines the scientific relevance of the topic; and 2. a list of some potential participants and paper titles (up to 8 ) beyond the workshop convener(s). The YRW committee consisting of Élise Féron, Stefano Guzzini, Helena Rytövuori-Apunen, Antje Wiener, and Bernhard Zangl will accept full proposals until 15 September 2009. Successful workshop convenor(s) will be notified so that they can prepare a call for papers with a deadline of 31 January 2010.All proposal should be submitted on: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/
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Antje Wiener. - - -NEWS: ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR): CfP (1) Section Convenors Stockholm 2010, (2) Young Researchers Workshops: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/
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Prof Antje Wiener, PhD Chair in Political Science (International Relations Theory), Institute for Political ScienceDirector, Centre for Globalisation & Governance (CGG) University of HamburgAllende Platz 120146 HamburgGermanyTel: +49 40 42838-3232 (please note, that messages cannot yet be retrieved from this machine)Fax: +49 40 42838-7784Email: antje.wiener@wiso.uni-hamburg.deURL: http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?id=7355 Associate Editor, European Political Science Review (EPSR)Details: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EPR Editor, ConWEB Webpapers on Governance and Constitutionalism Beyond the Statehttp://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/conWEB/
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NEW TITLE:
ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY
Ernst Bloch
Introduced by Peter Thompson
Published 6th July 2009
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WIN:
To win a copy of ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY, visit Verso’s blog http://versouk.wordpress.com/
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“Ernst Bloch is the one mainly responsible for restoring honor to the word ‘utopia”’ – Theodor Adorno
“Bloch is not so much a Marxist philosopher… he is rather a ‘theologian of the revolution’” – Fredric Jameson.
In the twenty-first century, religion has come under determined attack from secular progressives in documentaries, opinion pieces and international bestsellers. Combative atheists have denounced faiths of every stripe, resulting in a crude intellectual polarization in which religious convictions and heritage must be rejected or accepted wholesale.
In the long unavailable ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY, Ernst Bloch provides a way out from this either/or debate. He examines the origins of Christianity in an attempt to find its social roots, pursuing a detailed study of the Bible and its fascination for “ordinary and unimportant” people. In the biblical promise of utopia and the scriptures’ antagonism to authority, Bloch locates Christianity’s appeal for the oppressed. Through a lyrical yet close and nuanced analysis, he explores the tensions within the Bible that promote atheism as a counter to the authoritarian metaphysical theism imposed by clerical exegesis. At the Bible’s heart he finds a heretical core and the concealed message that, paradoxically, a good Christian must necessarily by a good atheist.
This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Thompson, the Director of the Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies at the University of Sheffield.
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Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) was one of the most important German Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the great theorists of utopia. An associate of Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and Theodor Adorno, his works include The Principle of Hope, Spirit of Utopia and Traces.
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ISBN 9781844673940 £14.99 / $26.95 / Paperback / 288 pages
ISBN 9781844673711 £55 / $100 / Hardback / 288 pages
ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY is available from all good bookshops and:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/bloch_ernst_atheism_and_christianity.shtml
UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atheism-Christianity-Ernst-Bloch/dp/1844673944
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844673940/Atheism-in-Christianity
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Christianity-Ernst-Bloch/dp/1844673944/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245682410&sr=1-1
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ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY
Ernst Bloch
Introduced by Peter Thompson
Published 6th July 2009
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WIN:
To win a copy of ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY, visit Verso’s blog http://versouk.wordpress.com/
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“Ernst Bloch is the one mainly responsible for restoring honor to the word ‘utopia”’ – Theodor Adorno
“Bloch is not so much a Marxist philosopher… he is rather a ‘theologian of the revolution’” – Fredric Jameson.
In the twenty-first century, religion has come under determined attack from secular progressives in documentaries, opinion pieces and international bestsellers. Combative atheists have denounced faiths of every stripe, resulting in a crude intellectual polarization in which religious convictions and heritage must be rejected or accepted wholesale.
In the long unavailable ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY, Ernst Bloch provides a way out from this either/or debate. He examines the origins of Christianity in an attempt to find its social roots, pursuing a detailed study of the Bible and its fascination for “ordinary and unimportant” people. In the biblical promise of utopia and the scriptures’ antagonism to authority, Bloch locates Christianity’s appeal for the oppressed. Through a lyrical yet close and nuanced analysis, he explores the tensions within the Bible that promote atheism as a counter to the authoritarian metaphysical theism imposed by clerical exegesis. At the Bible’s heart he finds a heretical core and the concealed message that, paradoxically, a good Christian must necessarily by a good atheist.
This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Thompson, the Director of the Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies at the University of Sheffield.
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Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) was one of the most important German Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the great theorists of utopia. An associate of Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and Theodor Adorno, his works include The Principle of Hope, Spirit of Utopia and Traces.
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ISBN 9781844673940 £14.99 / $26.95 / Paperback / 288 pages
ISBN 9781844673711 £55 / $100 / Hardback / 288 pages
ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY is available from all good bookshops and:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/bloch_ernst_atheism_and_christianity.shtml
UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atheism-Christianity-Ernst-Bloch/dp/1844673944
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844673940/Atheism-in-Christianity
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Christianity-Ernst-Bloch/dp/1844673944/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245682410&sr=1-1
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PhD Studentship in European Citizenship Open University
PhD Studentship in European Citizenship Open University
Centre for Citizenship, Identities and GovernanceEnacting European Citizenship (FP7) DEADLINE 17 JULY 2009 Applications are invited for a Chartered PhD Research Studentship. The studentship is tenable from 1 October 2009 and will cover all fees for three years plus an annual stipend. It is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG). The studentship is associated with Enacting European Citizenship (FP7) project led by Professor Engin Isin and will involve research on an aspect of the ways in which European citizenship is enacted. For further details about the studentship visit here, for details about CCIG visit here and for details about ENACT visit here. Application for Chartered Studentshiphttp://www.open.ac.uk/cam/studentships/?OFFAD=ECQ1&MEDIA=inc_studentships CCIGhttp://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/ ENACThttp://enacting-citizenship.eu/ Dr Jef HuysmansPolitics and International StudiesCentre for Citizenship, Identities and GovernanceThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AAUnited Kingdom tel. +44 1908 652015fax. + 44 1908 654488e-mail: J.P.A.Huysmans@open.ac.uk
Centre for Citizenship, Identities and GovernanceEnacting European Citizenship (FP7) DEADLINE 17 JULY 2009 Applications are invited for a Chartered PhD Research Studentship. The studentship is tenable from 1 October 2009 and will cover all fees for three years plus an annual stipend. It is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG). The studentship is associated with Enacting European Citizenship (FP7) project led by Professor Engin Isin and will involve research on an aspect of the ways in which European citizenship is enacted. For further details about the studentship visit here, for details about CCIG visit here and for details about ENACT visit here. Application for Chartered Studentshiphttp://www.open.ac.uk/cam/studentships/?OFFAD=ECQ1&MEDIA=inc_studentships CCIGhttp://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/ ENACThttp://enacting-citizenship.eu/ Dr Jef HuysmansPolitics and International StudiesCentre for Citizenship, Identities and GovernanceThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AAUnited Kingdom tel. +44 1908 652015fax. + 44 1908 654488e-mail: J.P.A.Huysmans@open.ac.uk
Μήνυμα του Bary Busan για ES panel στο ε΄πόμενο Pan-European conference, Stockholm, 9-11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting. There is currently a call out for section convenors for the next Pan-European conference in Stockholm 9-11 September 2010. To have a section we would need at least 5 ES panels consisting of 4-5 papers plus discussant and chair. If anyone wants to propose panels or papers I will see if we can put together a section bid. I would need proposals by not later than 15 August in order to see whether a bid is feasible, to me at: b.g.buzan@lse.ac.uk Any takers?
Best, Barry
Apologies for cross-posting. There is currently a call out for section convenors for the next Pan-European conference in Stockholm 9-11 September 2010. To have a section we would need at least 5 ES panels consisting of 4-5 papers plus discussant and chair. If anyone wants to propose panels or papers I will see if we can put together a section bid. I would need proposals by not later than 15 August in order to see whether a bid is feasible, to me at: b.g.buzan@lse.ac.uk Any takers?
Best, Barry
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NEW TITLE:
ANTAGONISTICS: CAPITALISM AND POWER IN AN AGE OF WAR
GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN
Published June 2009
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Praise for ANTAGONISTICS:
“Hegel wrote that the moment of triumph of a social movement is simultaneously the moment of its disintegration … Gopal Balakrishnan shows how this holds for the worldwide triumph of liberal democracy in the 1990s … Antagonistics is a book for all those who want to orient themselves in the chaos of our historical moment …” – Slavoj Zizek
“This collection is an intellectual feast and a dazzling commentary on political thinking, contemporary and classical. Here an intelligence honed on Schmitt and Machiavelli reviews a range of theoretical texts with courteous sarcasm and radical interrogation; the results are witty, devastating and full of suggestive speculation …” – Fredric Jameson
“This collection of essays by New Left Review’s Balakrishnan expounds his prescient view that the debt-driven expansion that fuelled US hegemony was unsustainable.” – New Statesman, http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/short-amidon-largely
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To see some of Gopal’s pieces as they originally appeared in New Left Review see below:
On Hardt and Negri’s Empire: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2275
On multiculturalism: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2309
On Machiavelli: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2551
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ANTAGONISTICS addresses central political and theoretical questions: how should we conceive the relationship between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the major issues of the new international order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the modern state system and the capitalist mode of production, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Occupation of Iraq. Balakrishnan interrogates three key political perspectives—Tocqueville’s liberalism, Althusser’s Marxism and Schimtt on the radical right – for their insights into state power and civil society, democracy, and class. Antagonistics combines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historical sociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war.
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GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating Empire and (with Benedict Anderson) Mapping the Nation. He is a member of the New Left Review editorial board and a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
ISBN 978-1-84467-269-1/ £14.99/$26.95/ Paperback / 304 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-268-4/£60/$110 / Hardback / 304 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/balakrishnan_g_antagonistics.shtml
To buy the book in the UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Antagonistics-Capitalism-Power-Age-War/dp/1844672697/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244563813&sr=8-1
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672691/Antagonistics
To buy the book in the US:
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ANTAGONISTICS: CAPITALISM AND POWER IN AN AGE OF WAR
GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN
Published June 2009
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Praise for ANTAGONISTICS:
“Hegel wrote that the moment of triumph of a social movement is simultaneously the moment of its disintegration … Gopal Balakrishnan shows how this holds for the worldwide triumph of liberal democracy in the 1990s … Antagonistics is a book for all those who want to orient themselves in the chaos of our historical moment …” – Slavoj Zizek
“This collection is an intellectual feast and a dazzling commentary on political thinking, contemporary and classical. Here an intelligence honed on Schmitt and Machiavelli reviews a range of theoretical texts with courteous sarcasm and radical interrogation; the results are witty, devastating and full of suggestive speculation …” – Fredric Jameson
“This collection of essays by New Left Review’s Balakrishnan expounds his prescient view that the debt-driven expansion that fuelled US hegemony was unsustainable.” – New Statesman, http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/short-amidon-largely
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To see some of Gopal’s pieces as they originally appeared in New Left Review see below:
On Hardt and Negri’s Empire: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2275
On multiculturalism: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2309
On Machiavelli: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2551
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ANTAGONISTICS addresses central political and theoretical questions: how should we conceive the relationship between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the major issues of the new international order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the modern state system and the capitalist mode of production, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Occupation of Iraq. Balakrishnan interrogates three key political perspectives—Tocqueville’s liberalism, Althusser’s Marxism and Schimtt on the radical right – for their insights into state power and civil society, democracy, and class. Antagonistics combines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historical sociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war.
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GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating Empire and (with Benedict Anderson) Mapping the Nation. He is a member of the New Left Review editorial board and a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
ISBN 978-1-84467-269-1/ £14.99/$26.95/ Paperback / 304 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-268-4/£60/$110 / Hardback / 304 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/balakrishnan_g_antagonistics.shtml
To buy the book in the UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Antagonistics-Capitalism-Power-Age-War/dp/1844672697/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244563813&sr=8-1
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672691/Antagonistics
To buy the book in the US:
http://www.amazon.com/Antagonistics-Capital-Power-Age-War/dp/1844672697/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244622963&sr=8-2
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20.4.09
BISA: Group On Diplomacy Call for Papers
Dear Colleague, This is a call for panels and papers on any and all aspects of diplomacy for two conventions. First, is BISA's own meeting at Leicester between December 14th and 16th. Details of how to submit proposals can be found at http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130-call-for-papers&catid=35-conferences You submit proposals online, but a heads up to me would be much appreciated. Please note the fast approaching deadline of May 1st. Second is the ISA meeting scheduled for February 17th to 20th in New Orleans.Details of that process can be found athttp://www.isanet.org/neworleans2010/call-for-papers.html Submissions go direct to ISA, although a copy (or heads up) to Donna Lee, the program chair for the Diplomatic Studies Section would be very welcome. Remember also that whole panels are always far easier to place than singlepapers. The deadline for submissions to ISA is June 1st. Many thanks Paul SharpProfessor and Head of Political Science302b Cina HallUniversity of Minnesota, DuluthDuluth MN 55812, USA Phone 218 726 6221e mail psharp@d.umn.edufax 218 726 6386 Visiting Senior Fellow, ClingendaelNetherlands Institute of International Relations Co-Editor, Palgrave's "Diplomacy and International Relations" serieshttp://www.palgrave.com/email/diplomacy.htm Co-Editor, Hague Journal of Diplomacywww.brill.nl/hjdHJD@clingendael.nl(online submissions at www.editorialmanager.com/hjd)
BISA Panels at ISA Convention, 2009 (Deadline 1 May)
Message forwarded on behalf of Professor Inderjeet Parmar: BISA CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR 'SET-ASIDE' PANELS AT THE ISA CONVENTION, NEW ORLEANS, 2010 THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN ON THE BISA WEBSITE FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS BUT PLEASE NOTE: We hope colleagues have seen the Call for Papers for ISA's 2010 annual meeting, "Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners," in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 17-20, 2010. To view the Call, please see http://www.isanet.org/neworleans2010/call-for-papers.html As BISA is designated an official Cooperating Organization, the International Studies Association SETS ASIDE for BISA 5 panels at the ISA convention, in addition to the panels individual BISA members may apply for. BISA is now requesting Working Groups to send in applications for the 5 panel slots set-aside by ISA. Normally, Only 1 (ONE) application from any Working Group is permitted in any one year; this must be accompanied by written endorsement from the WG Convenor. The deadline for sending in an application is Friday 1 May 2009 (see further details below). Successful applicants will be notified the following week and must register for the ISA Convention by 15 May 2009 citing "Cooperating Organization" in their application. Typically, an ISA panel includes 4-5 papers along with a panel chair and discussant.According to ISA's new participation rules, participants are allowed to present no more than two papers with a total of four maximum participations, including acting as discussant and chair. Note ISA Guidelines for Participants at the end of the call for papers. Colleagues should also note that all panellists will need to register through the MyISA registration system. This is a fairly easy process! Applicants Should Send the Following: 1. Panel title and rationale of no more than 200 words2. Full list of 4-5 panellists, plus chair and discussant (name, title, university affiliation, email address) 3. Provisional paper titles for each speaker (unless the application is for a Round Table)4. Written consent of the Working Group Convenor for the panel application (an email to that effect is acceptable) Applications should be emailed to: Inderjeet.Parmar@manchester.ac.ukDEADLINE: 1 MAY 2009 Professor Inderjeet ParmarHead of PoliticsVice Chair, British International Studies AssociationPolitics/School of Social SciencesUniversity of ManchesterOxford RoadManchester M13 9PL, UKTelephone 0161 275 3056
BISA: CFP - BI-LAW at BISA 2009 (International Law Working Group)
Message sent on behalf of Dr Stephanie Carvin. Call for Papers - BISA International Law Working Group (BI-LAW) BI-LAW welcomes papers or panels on or related to the area of international law for the British International Studies Association's annual conference in Leicester this year (14-16 December). If you have a panel proposal or a paper (which could be assembled into a theme panel), please submit it to the group by 29 April at the latest. For more about BI-LAW, please see www.bi-law.org For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.bisa.ac.uk. Please note that in accordance with BISA's rules, you must be a member to attend or present at the conference. All questions, comments and proposals should be sent to Stephanie.Carvin@rhul.ac.uk Sincerely Stephanie _____________________________________________________Dr. Stephanie CarvinRoyal Holloway, University of Londonhttp://www.rhul.ac.uk/Politics-and-IR/About-Us/Carvin/Index.html
BISA: Cfp Naspir BISA set-aside panel bid ISA New Orleans 2010
This year each BISA Working Group can submit a panel for one of 5guaranteed slots at the ISA annual convention in New Orleans. If youwouldlike your panel or roundtable to be considered for a BISA Naspir Working Group bid for such a slot, please let me know ASAP and certainly nolater than 30 April, as the deadline for getting the bid in to BISA is 1 May.If there is more than one bid I will rank, subject to confirmation by the list. The papers/panels/roundtables should relate to the working group's statement of purpose which is as follows:"to promote politics and international relations scholarship whichsupports non-violent action against oppression. We have members around the worldand across academic disciplinary boundaries. We are scholars, students, non-academic activists and interested citizens, with theoretical,empirical and/or campaigning interests." For more on Naspir, go to http://www.naspir.net. Here is a cut and paste of the details from the BISA websitehttp://www.bisa.ac.uk: ****************************************BISA CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR 'SET-ASIDE' PANELS AT THE ISA CONVENTION,NEWORLEANS, 2010 We hope colleagues have seen the Call for Papers for ISA's 2010 annualmeeting, "Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners," inNew Orleans, Louisiana, February 17-20, 2010. To view the Call, pleaseseehttp://www.isanet.org/neworleans2010/call-for-papers.html As BISA is designated an official Cooperating Organization, theInternational Studies Association SETS ASIDE for BISA 5 panels at theISAconvention, in addition to the panels individual BISA members may applyfor. BISA is now requesting Working Groups to send in applications for the 5panel slots set-aside by ISA. Normally, Only 1 (ONE) application fromanyWorking Group is permitted in any one year; this must be accompanied bywritten endorsement from the WG Convenor. The deadline for sending in an application is Friday 1 May 2009 (seefurther details below). Successful applicants will be notified the following week and mustregisterfor the ISA Convention by 15 May 2009 citing "Cooperating Organization"intheir application. Typically, an ISA panel includes 4-5 papers along with a panel chair anddiscussant.According to ISA's new participation rules, participants are allowed topresent no more than two papers with a total of four maximumparticipations, including acting as discussant and chair. Note ISAGuidelines for Participants at the end of the call for papers. Colleagues should also note that all panellists will need to registerthrough the MyISA registration system. This is a fairly easy process! Applicants Should Send the Following:1. Panel title and rationale of no more than 200 words2. Full list of 4-5 panellists, plus chair and discussant (name,title,university affiliation, email address)3. Provisional paper titles for each speaker (unless theapplication is fora Round Table)4. Written consent of the Working Group Convenor for the panelapplication(an email to that effect is acceptable) Applications should be emailed to: Inderjeet.Parmar@manchester.ac.ukDEADLINE: 1 MAY 2009************************************** bw Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dr. Eric HerringReader in International PoliticsDepartment of Politics, University of Bristol,10 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TU, United Kingdom.Tel. +44(0)117 9288582. Mobile +44(0)7771 966608.eric.herring@bristol.ac.ukhttp://www.bris.ac.uk/politics
BISA : cfp Naspir Working Group at BISA Dec 09
Dear all, The British International Studies Association annual conference istakingplace in Leicester this year 14-16 December. The deadline for submitting paper, panel or roundtable proposals to BISAisFriday 1 May. If you would like to offer a paper or panel under theauspices of the BISA Naspir Working Group, please let me know as soon aspossible and certainly no later than Thursday 30 April, with fullrequireddetails (see below). I will be happy to try to place individual papers. The papers/panels/roundtables should relate to the working group's statement of purpose which is as follows:"to promote politics and international relations scholarship whichsupports non-violent action against oppression. We have members around the worldand across academic disciplinary boundaries. We are scholars, students, non-academic activists and interested citizens, with theoretical,empirical and/or campaigning interests." For more on Naspir, go to http://www.naspir.net. For full details of the conference, go to the BISA websitehttp://www.bisa.ac.uk. BISA's guidelines include the following: For all proposals, I need each person's name, email, institution,address,BISA membership status (currently paid up or not) and BISA membernumber.You must be a BISA member to attend. For panels, you need to include convenor, chair, discussant (optional)anda title and abstract for the panel as a whole. Then you need titles andabstracts for the papers and contact details (as above) for all papergivers. For round tables, you need to include convenor, chair and a title andabstract for the round table as a whole. Then you personal details(asabove) for all participants. The use of discussants in panel proposals is optional. Convenors caninclude them at their discretion. Panels may have either 4 paper giversandno discussant OR 3 paper givers and a discussant. In planning your attendance this year, please also take note of thefollowing points taken from the BISA website: - No single delegate can be involved in more than THREE panels (in acapacity as either a paper-giver, chair or discussant). - Further to this, each delegate is limited to presenting no more thanONEpaper at the conference. - BISA will not accept graduate only panels. At least one paper-givermustbe full-time academic staff. BISA also encourages a range ofinstitutionsbeing represented on a panel. Each Working Group is guaranteed one panel and can propose up to seven,forwhich I would have to propose a ranking (subject to approval by listmembers) so that BISA knows which gets the guaranteed slot. bw Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dr. Eric HerringReader in International PoliticsDepartment of Politics, University of Bristol,10 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TU, United Kingdom.Tel. +44(0)117 9288582. Mobile +44(0)7771 966608.eric.herring@bristol.ac.ukhttp://www.bris.ac.uk/politics
BISA: CFP: Beyond Critique of Liberal Peace ISA New Orleans 2010
Call for Papers: ‘Beyond the Critique of Liberal Peace’ From Susanna Campbell (Tufts), Meera Sabaratnam (LSE), and David Chandler(Westminster) Panel/Roundtable proposal for International Studies Association 51st AnnualConvention, New Orleans, February 17-20, 2010: Theory vs. Policy? ConnectingScholars and Practitioners There may be no better illustration of the theory-policy disconnect than thedebate surrounding the pursuit of ‘liberal peace’ in countries emerging fromwar. Critical scholarly indictments of the pursuit of ‘liberal peace’abound, largely discounting external attempts to create states governed byfree markets, rule of law, and liberal democracy. Prescriptive scholarly andpolicy literature envision improved peacebuilding and statebuilding outcomesthrough alterations in the organization of external interventions (i.e.,through improved coordination, alignment, metrics, analysis, strategy, andadministration). Not only do these literatures largely fail to ‘talk’ to oneanother, but they leave in their wake insufficient empirical investigationof international peacebuilding efforts and a dearth of theories that couldsubstitute for ‘liberal peace’. We are seeking to organize one or two panels and/or roundtables at the ISAConvention in 2010 to discuss the theoretical and empirical validity of theliberal peace critique. Empirically, we seek papers and presentations whichproblematise the assumptions of the liberal peace in practice: does thiscritique fit the practices and concerns of interveners and 'subjects' on theground? Theoretically, we seek papers and presentations which engage withthe assumption that this ‘liberal’ framing of policy and practice is indeedwhat is at stake, and the direction in which critical research in this areashould be developed. Abstracts and full participant details should be sent to thepanel/roundtable conveners Susanna Campbell susanna.campbell@tufts.edu(Tufts), David Chandler (Westminster) D.Chandler@wmin.ac.uk, and MeeraSabaratnam (LSE) M.Sabaratnam@lse.ac.uk by Monday 11th May at the latest. David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, Department of Politicsand International Relations, University of Westminster, 32-38 Wells Street,London, W1T 3UW. Editor, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Tel:++44 (0)776 525 3073 Email: D.Chandler@Westminster.ac.uk Personal webpages:http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-63-smhp=1
BISA : Call for Papers Working Group on International Relations, Security and Religion
BISA 2009 - University of Leicester(Monday 14 December - Wednesday 16 December) International Relations, Security and Religion Working Grouphttp://relwar.wordpress.com/bisa-working-group/ On behalf of the IR, Security and Religion Working Group, we would like to invite 1. Paper submissions for a joint panel or roundtable sponsored by the IR, Security and Religion Working Group with the Gendering, IR and Security Working Group (deadline 25 April 2009)a. Religion, Gender and Security. This panel's focus will be security and how dimensions of gender and religion interact and impact consciously and unconsciously on human, national and international security. In that context, it will seek to explore responses to the dynamic that enhance security. It aims to bring together expertise in gender and in religion, linking the Working Groups on International Relations, Security and Religion with the Working Group on Gendering, IR and Security to generate theoretical and practical outcomes, to inform further research and feed into policy for NGOs, governments and the international community. Convenor: Rosemary Durward, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Submit papers to: durwardworkinggroup@hotmail.co.uk b. Gendered religious practices, women's human rights, and security: the European context Tensions between the claims of gender equality and religion are well-documented. This is most evident today in 'Muslim headscarf' debates at the nexus of immigration and security discourses, wherein gender equality is often invoked to discredit multicultural policies and apply instead a security lens to the 'challenge of Islam' in Europe and beyond. Equally, the instrumental use of religion to discredit gender equality norms as 'Western' is well documented. At the same time, other EU initiatives are cultivating 'inter-cultural dialogue' as part of a 'soft' approach to averting security threats. These developments raise many questions about the interplay of women's human rights and security concerns. Paper proposals are invited that explore these issues with a particular focus on evolving approaches to security at state and/or EU level. Convenor: Dr. Niamh Reilly, Global Women's Studies Programme, National University of Ireland, GalwaySubmit papers to: niamh.reilly@nuigalway.ie 2. Paper submissions for the following panel at the next BISA Conference in December 2009. (Deadline 20 April 2009) (a) Islam, Human Rights and Security. This panel welcomes papers dealing either theoretically or empirically with human rights and Islam. The recent submissions to the UN Human Rights Council concerning defamation of religion, the efforts of democratisation and reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the increasing debates concerning Sharia Law in Western states all highlight the importance of understanding opposing interpretations of human rights. The panel expects to explore contrasts and commonalties between differing interpretations of human rights and point to the security implications of these differences. Convenor: Dr Nicholas Kerton-Johnson, University of BristolSubmit papers to: Nicholas.kerton-johnson@bristol.ac.uk 3. Panel or roundtable proposals for the next BISA conference in December 2009 (4 slots). The IR, Security and Religion Working Group will consider sponsoring panels on any subject in the field of IR, Security and Religion, which might include substantive research and/or theoretical debates. (Deadline 25 April 2009) Panel submissions to Rosemary Durward, RMAS durwardworkinggroup@hotmail.co.uk Convenors 4. Panel or roundtable proposal: You need to include name of convenor, chair, discussant (optional) and a title and abstract for the panel as a whole; Then titles and abstracts for the papers and contact details (see below) for all paper givers. 5. Papers: Include name, e-mail, institution, status, BISA member number and address of all participants in your panel/roundtable. 6. The use of discussants is optional. Convenors can include them at theirdiscretion. We will accept panels with either 4 paper givers and nodiscussant OR 3 paper givers and a discussant. 7. In planning your attendance this year, please take note of the following points taken from the BISA website: - No single delegate can be involved in more than THREE panels (in acapacity as either a paper-giver, chair or discussant).- Further to this, each delegate is limited to presenting no more than ONEpaper at the conference.- BISA will not accept graduate only panels. At least one paper-giver mustbe full-time academic staff. BISA also encourages a range of institutionsbeing represented on a panel. NB If you are not a member of the Working Group we are happy to acceptyour proposal as long as you confirm your intention to join. Co-Convenors; Rosemary Durward, RMAS & Sara Silvestri, City Universitye-mail: durwardworkinggroup@hotmail.co.uk BRITISH INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION www.bisa.ac.ukThe BISA-list is for BISA members onlyTo unsubscribe, send message "unsubscribe bisa-list" to majordomo@bham.ac.uk.To post a message, send message to bisa-list@bham.ac.uk.
BISA: cfp ISA 2010 New Orleans 'Historical Materialism and Security'
CALL FOR PAPERSISA 2010 NEW ORLEANS'HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND SECURITY' This is a call for individual papers (which I will try to place on panels), standard panels, innovate panels (details below) and workshops (details below) for the next International Studies Association annual convention in New Orleans 17-20 February 2010. Seehttp://www.isanet.org/neworleans2010/call-for-papers.html which includes full guidelines for participants. Some of the ISA rules and procedures have changed since last year. An overview of the key points is below. DEADLINES The deadline for submission of panel and roundtable proposals to the ISA is 1 June 2009. However, it seems that the ISA has an early deadline of 15 May for innovative panel proposals (see below). It also seems that ISA has a later deadline of 15 June 2009 for working group proposals (see below) but if you are going to go down that route I suggest you check with ISA to confirm. In all cases, the more time I have to coordinate the better. THEME The proposed theme is historical materialism and security. I would be keen to have proposals from a variety of angles exploring the value (and limitations) of HM for understanding the theories and practices of security. Possible angles on the theme might include:- Expositions of how HM has already been applied to security by scholars and practitioners in languages other than English.- Application of particular HM concepts (e.g. dialectic, alienation, class, class struggle and so on) to debates or issues in security.- Showing how particular issues (arms production, the arms trade, state terrorism, energy security, etc.), cases (Latin American Left, the US role in Afghanistan, etc.) or debates (the development-security nexus etc.) can be better understood using an HM, possibly as opposed to a realist, liberal or post-structuralist perspective.- (Re)invigorating versions of Security Studies such as Critical Security Studies, Human Security Studies or Peace Studies with HM ideas.- The current global financial crisis and responses to it as a crisis of class security.- Consideration of the ontological, epistemological and methodological dimensions of the above, perhaps through the application of critical realism.- Application of neo-Marxist/neo-HM approaches to the above.- Post-Marxist/post-HM work which questions the value of HM for understanding the above.- Addressing the issue of the relationship between HM scholars and practitioners in line with the convention theme of 'Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners'. ONGOING PROJECT My intention is to have this as an ongoing project, including publication:- For ISA 2009 in New York I submitted a bid for four panels each with four papers and a discussant. One was accepted: this went well and afterwards some of us had a good discussion about continuing and I indicated that I was happy to coordinate these activities.- Since ISA, I have completed a chapter on HM, security and Security Studies for the second edition of Alan Collins (ed.) 'Contemporary Security Studies' (Oxford University Press) which will be published in late 2009/early 2010. If anyone would like a copy of this chapter, please let me know.- I have had expressions of interest in principle from 'Security Dialogue' and 'Global Society' for a possible special issue, from 'International Political Sociology' for a possible running theme across multiple issues. What will get submitted to each journal will (obviously) depend on its fit with the remit of the particular journal.- Looking further ahead, I intend to bid for a European Consortium for Political Research workshop at their joint sessions of workshops which will take place in St. Gallen, Switzerland in March or April 2011 (a long time away but the earliest available and the deadline for bidding for this is 1 February 2010). SPONSORSHIP BY ISA SECTIONS OR VIA BISA Likelihood of acceptance is increased by sponsorship by two and failing that one ISA sections. The most obvious for us are International Political Sociology, International Security and Foreign Policy Analysis, though others may be relevant. Please feel free to approach the relevant section personnel. I am also willing to try to encourage section sponsorship. Likelihood of acceptance is also increased if the panel is a panel on the convention theme of 'Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners'. This year each British International Studies Association Working Group can submit a panel for one of 5 guaranteed slots at ISA New Orleans. If you would like your panel or rountable to be considered for a BISA Network of Activist Scholars of Politics and International Relations (Naspir) Working Group bid for such a slot, please let me know ASAP (I'm the convenor) and certainly no later than 30 April, as the deadline for getting the bid in to BISA is 1 May. If there is more than one bid I will rank, subject to confirmation by the Naspir list. Full details are on the BISA website http://www.bisa.ac.uk. If you are not familiar with Naspir, you may wish to have a look at http://www.naspir.net. GOOD MIX OF PARTICIPANTS ISA advise: "Panel organizers should strive for a good mix of participants. The best panels often include scholars from different countries, a range of institutions, and different career stages." PARTICIPANTS FROM OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA ISA advise: "Panel and roundtable chairs are encouraged to invite the participation of relevant scholars outside of North America. Letters confirming the participation of scholars from outside North America should be sent by the program chair(s) at the earliest possible date and, whenever possible, in advance of the publication of the preliminary program. If participation of a scholar from outside North America is contingent on funding from ISA or other sources, that fact should be made clear when the proposal is submitted." PAPERS, PANELS AND ROUNDTABLES If you offer and individual paper, I will try to place it on a panel, etc. Panel proposals must have a chair, one or two discussants and four papers to maximize the probability of acceptance by the ISA. If you assemble part of a panel, let me know and I will see if I have other papers that can complete it. ISA advise "The best discussants are often scholars with significant experience in the field. In general, graduate students should not fill this role." Roundtables are less favoured by ISA than panels. Roundtable presentations should still have a title per participant. Roundtables must have a chair and five or six participants. PARTICIPATION LIMITS Only two paper presentations per person will be accepted by the ISA (if it is the same as last year - I can't find confirmation on the ISA website - this two presentation rule applies also applies roundtables). There is a maximum total of four participations of any kind (e.g. acting as a discussant or chair). If the same approach is taken as last year (I can't find confirmation on the ISA website), these rules apply to all participants, irrespective of their geographical origin and co-authorship of a paper counts as a half-participation. INNOVATIVE PANELS I would be keen for participants to consider using an innovative approach. The following was circulated by the ISA Foreign Policy section: "Innovative panels allow participants to engage in dialogue with colleagues who share a common interest. These panels can be set up as a "town hall" meeting, they could use a debate format, or they might include short presentations from participants followed by a moderated discussion with the audience. These panels might also involve the use of technology not ordinarily afforded to traditional panels as well. Essentially, ISA is offering us the potential to use a time slot at the convention in creative and experimental ways to move beyond the traditional panel experience. There were 19 innovative panels accepted for the 2008 meeting and 11 for the 2009 meeting. Final panel proposals are due to ISA by May 15, 2009. Proposals should include the panel title, abstract, participant names and email addresses along with your requested room set-up and technology requests. In addition to thequality of the panel proposal itself, ISA will consider diversity in section representation and costs associated with the panel. Andrea Gerlak, the Director of Academic Development at ISA, is the main contact for these opportunities. She is also willing to provide feedback as you develop proposals. Andrea's email address is agerlak@email.arizona.edu. " To view a listing of innovative panels from ISA's 2008 and 2009 meetings, please seehttp://isanet.ccit.arizona.edu/neworleans2010/Innovative_Panels_Info.pdf WORKING GROUPS I would also be keen for participants to consider using an innovative approach. The following was circulated by the ISA Foreign Policy section: "Working Groups are organized so that participants meet at three times during the conference: (1) for a full day on the Tuesday before traditional panels begin, (2) midway through the conference for a 1-2 hour meeting, and (3) a final 1-2 hour meeting toward the end of the conference. ISA assists with the room arrangements, technology needs, lunch for the Tuesday all-day meeting, and the facilitation of a blog for the WG in advance of the meeting. Final panel proposals are due to ISA by June 15, 2009. Proposals should include the Working Group title, project description, Group Coordinator details, and a rough schedule for group meetings. In addition to the quality of the proposal itself, ISA will consider the diversity of section representation, thematic integration across sections, and linkages to the program theme. Andrea Gerlak, the Director of Academic Development at ISA, is the main contact for these opportunities. She is also willing to provide feedback as you develop proposals. Andrea's email address is agerlak@email.arizona.edu." To view a description of the Working Group Initiative and descriptions of those accepted for the 2009 meeting, please see http://www.isanet.org/isa_working_groups/ ****************************************** I do hope that you will participate. Also, if you could forward this email to anyone who might be interested, that would be great. Best wishes Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dr. Eric HerringReader in International PoliticsDepartment of Politics, University of Bristol,10 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TU, United Kingdom.Tel. +44(0)117 9288582. Mobile +44(0)7771 966608.eric.herring@bristol.ac.ukhttp://www.bris.ac.uk/politics
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