Dear Colleague,
I am organizing a panel on cosmopolitan ethics and climate change for
the September 2009 ECPR General Conference in Potsdam, Germany. I am
writing with the hope that you will propose a paper for the panel.
For information on the conference, please visit this website:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/default.asp
The panel, "Improving the Climate Regime: Cosmopolitan Solutions," has
been accepted by the conference organizers. Here's a description of the
panel's theme:
The latest science of climate change shows that massive cuts in
greenhouse gas emissions will be needed by mid-century to avert
extreme, possibly catastrophic, harm to Earth?s climate system. Yet,
despite ongoing and sometimes intense diplomatic efforts over two
decades, governments of the world have been unable to agree to anything
near the kind of regulation of pollution that would be required to
achieve these cuts. This failure can be attributed to the nature of the
climate change regime, which is premised on negotiations among states
seeking to protect or promote their relatively narrow national
interests. An alternative (or at least a supplement) to this interstate
approach can be found in cosmopolitan conceptions of world affairs.
Cosmopolitanism offers politically viable alternatives to the status
quo regime that are just, practical and efficacious. This panel aims to
highlight these alternatives, focusing especially on how cosmopolitan
ideas might be moved from the realm of philosophy to the practical
politics and policies of climate change.
My aim in proposing this panel is to bring together people who believe
that cosmopolitan philosophy and ethics can offer practical and
workable alternatives to the prevailing state-centric climate change
regime. I hope that we can gather a collection of papers, and have a
lively discussion, on how cosmopolitanism can inform the climate change
regime generally and policies and behaviors in particular. Put another
way, the objective is not to develop cosmopolitan philosophy related to
climate change as much as it is to enhance policies and practices
through (practical) cosmopolitan ethics.
We can have up to seven papers in the panel comprising up to five
presenters and two additional 'tabled' papers (the tabled papers can be
discussed during the panel but the authors would not actually do a
presentation; I'm assuming this limitation is simply to avoid having
too many speakers using the allotted time, which seems a reasonable
requirement). If we are fortunate enough to have seven quality papers,
it is my hope that we can collect them together in a book manuscript
for submission to a university press and/or as a special issue of a
scholarly journal. With this in mind, I hope the papers can be
well-developed, in the range of 9,000-12,000 words (and possibly a bit
longer if authors feel the need).
Please do consider proposing a paper for the panel. For guidelines on
how to submit a paper proposal, please go to this website:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/howtosubmit.asp
The SECTION is "Green Politics" (no. 13). The PANEL is "Improving the
Climate Regime: Cosmopolitan Solutions" (no. 210).
More information for paper givers can be found here:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/files/paper_proposals_guidelines_and_deadlines.pdf
Please note that the DEADLINE for paper proposals is 1 February 2009
(but I hope you will consider submitting a proposal much sooner).
If you have any questions, or indeed any thoughts on the panel, please
do get in touch with me.
Many thanks for considering this request.
Best wishes,
Paul
P.S. Please feel free to share this call for papers with anyone you
think might be interested in seeing it.
--
P.G. Harris
Director, Environmental Studies Programme
Director, Centre for Asian Pacific Studies
Professor, Department of Political Science
Lingnan University
Tuen Mun, HONG KONG
TEL: +852 2616-7199
FAX: +852 2616-5602
http://www.ln.edu.hk/polsci/staff-harris.php
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