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CALL FOR PAPERS
European Sociological Association Critical Political Economy Research Network
'Beyond the Crisis of the European Project? The Political Economy of EUrope
and the Political Economies in Europe in (post-)disciplinary perspectives'
31 August - 2 September 2006, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The workshop brings together critical scholarship on the political economy
of the European Union and European capitalist economies. It seeks to
contribute to an understanding of the crisis of the European project by
moving beyond disciplinary and theoretical boundaries.
It seems that the neo-liberal project goes on unabated in the actual
European policy-making. But at the same time this project generates less and
less support and indeed faces increasing outright opposition and resistance,
in part voiced by mainstream political parties, even sometimes when in
government.
Neo-liberal governance in Europe in particular seems to be facing its limits
as with the post-referendum blues the legitimacy crisis of the European
project that has been looming for years has become visible for all. This
legitimacy crisis has in fact a multi-level nature as national states find
it equally hard to sustain popular consent and national governments often
blame Europe in the process.
Invited speakers:
Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College, NY, US)
Bob Jessop (Lancaster, UK)
Dorothee Bohle (CEU Budapest, Hungary)
Hans-Jürgen Bieling (Marburg, Germany)
Magnus Ryner (Birmingham, UK)
We invite papers dealing with the topic of the workshop from different
thematic, disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Abstracts (circa 400
words) should be sent to the network coordinator at
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ESA Critical Political Economy RN website:
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/polecon.htm
Funding for PhD students:
There is an application for a contribution to cover some of the expenses for
PhD students and young scholars pending. Please indicate if you wish to
apply for this funding. Students from Central and Eastern Europe will be
preferred.
Jan Drahokoupil (network coordinator)and Bastiaan van Apeldoorn & Laura Horn
(local organizing committee)
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Dr Stuart Shields
Centre for International Politics
School of Social Sciences
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
tel: 0161 275 7824
fax: 0161 275 4925
email: [log in to unmask]
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