Power: Forms, Dynamics and Consequences
An International conference
Tampere, Finland.
September 22-24, 2008
Call for papers
What is power and who has power today? Has power escaped from nation-
states to international organizations and the global market? Does power
reside in big institutions or is it rooted in micro level interaction? How
does power hide from view and therefore become most effective? For social
scientists power is in many ways like what St. Augustine said about time:
it is central to our investigations and we think we know what it is, but
it is hard to explain. By bringing together scholars who approach power
from different angles this conference will advance our understanding about
power relations in social reality.
Keynote speakers will include:
Mitchell Dean
Robert Dingwall
Mark Haugaard
Tuula Juvonen
Randy Lippert
Lois McNay
Leslie Pal
Pekka Sulkunen
Sessions:
ANTing the Analytics of Power - powering ANT
Arbitrary Power
Care, Agency and Power
Child Policy Meets Children as Political Agents
Children and Power
Ecologies of Power and Resistance in Cognitive Capitalism
Envisioning Technology: Power and Practice
Gender, Ethnicity and Everyday Citizenship Practices
Globalization and New Forms of Control and the Mobilization of Powerless
Governmentality and Global Governance
Images & Power: Visual Communication and the Public Sphere in Late Modern
Societies
Immigration and Governmentality
Pension Power and Pension Fund Governance
Political Power
Power and Signification
Power and Space
Power Asymmetries
Queer Powers
Representations of Capitalism and Identity
Rethinking the State
Social and Vital Norms – Canguilhem Revisited
The Power of Male Dominance
If you would like to present a paper, please send an abstract by May 31,
2008. To get more information about the conference and session details,
please visit our web pages at http://www.uta.fi/Power2008/ or contact the
organisers by email: [log in to unmask]
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