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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Re-drawing the Boundaries: Multi-disciplinary Interrogations of State
and Society in China
The Haas Junior Scholars Program, in conjunction with the Institute of
East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is
organizing a conference on changing state-society boundaries to be held
on October 6th and 7th, 2012.
Recent developments in contemporary China-- the expansion of the
internet, new forms of sociality and collective action, the complexity
of post-WTO economic reforms, new modes of governance and state
adaptation, and so forth -- have changed the grounds upon which
state-society relations are constituted and played out. Such processes
of liberalization and marketization have also given scholars increased
access to institutions and social life in China, generating new
perspectives and methodologies from which to explore shifts in state
practices. Thirty years into China’s post-Mao reform and on the eve of
the transition to a post-Hu era, this conference thus presents an
opportunity to re-examine key underpinnings of the role and functioning
of the state in the Reform era. We aim to problematize the notion of
“state,” “society” and “market”; and to challenge, interrogate and
deconstruct these core concepts, which have long been the building
blocks of contemporary humanities and social sciences research in China.
The conference will bring together early-career China scholars from
diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore recent transformations of
state power and authority; varying definitional frameworks for
discussing the disaggregated Chinese state; and new interdisciplinary
lenses to analyze China’s multi-vocal society and state-encumbered
market. We encourage submissions that engage with the following themes:
(1) State & Participatory Culture: This theme situates the state within
fields of tension between individual agency and societal structures,
global flows and local dynamics, and macro-level politics and everyday
life experiences.
(2) State in Contentious Politics in the New Millennium: This theme
focuses on how the Chinese state deals with challenges from below,
particularly how new technologies affect the position, opportunity
structures, and strategies of protest groups.
(3) State in the Market: This theme explores how the Chinese state
adapts to global economic conditions, and how it adapts global market
conditions to local contexts.
(4) Problematizing the State: This theme explores how aspects of
collective life are eclipsed when we assume the existence of a “state,”
and how different disciplines utilize and critique the concept of the state.
Presentation proposals should be 250 words long. Please send your
submission to [log in to unmask] by August 17th, 2012.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in late-August, 2012.
Limited funding will be made available to presenters. For additional
information about the conference, please contact the organizers, or
visit the website:
http://ieas.berkeley.edu/redrawingboundaries
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Dr Sarah Dauncey
Chinese Language Programme Director & Chinese Degree Tutor
Careers Officer & Alumni Liaison
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield (Times Higher Education University of the Year)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/seas/
Honorary Secretary & Commissioning Editor of JBACS
British Association for Chinese Studies
http://www.bacsuk.org.uk/
6-8 Shearwood Road
Sheffield, S10 2TD
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)114 22 28436
Fax: +44 (0)114 22 28432
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