Dear all,
I invite people interested in going to BISA 2013 in Birmingham to have a look at this. If your current research matches with the theme, or you have a paper that would fit, please send me an abstract by November 19. I will come back to you rather quickly as Phoebe will submit IPEG proposed panels by the final deadline.
http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=203&Itemid=144
Best regards,
Ben Jacoby
2013 BISA Annual Conference (20 and 21 June 2013; Birmingham)
Call for Papers for Panel Submission, under the IPEG Working Group.
Title of Suggested Panel:
The Study of Ideas in Contemporary Themes of IPE
Convenor Details:
Ben Jacoby
Copenhagen Business School
Department of Business and Politics
Panel Description:
The study of ideas in IPE has a long history, but has also been redefined in the last years through the attention given to the notions of ‘meaning’ and ‘identity’. Ideas can be seen as resources to be used as strategic devices, but also as taken-for-granted background upon which actors refer to justify their action. As such, the ideational nature of socio-economic phenomena needs to be supplemented with a discussion about what ideas are supposed to mean and when they matter. Some scholars have tried to integrate the study of ideas within institutional analyses, other prefer the notion of ‘identity’ to capture the ways in which ideas constitute interconnect with topics that current scholars are interested in. This panel invites theoretical as well as empirical confrontations with the study of ideas in IPE and attempts to offer further insights into a field of research that is broad, hence potentially extremely useful for making sense of economic phenomena.
The panel would potentially include contributions to the following themes without being exhaustive:
- The Link between Ideas and Identity
- Ideas and (Old or New) Institutionalisms
- Performativity and Governmentality in IPE
- The recent financial events and the role of ideas within them
- The importance of ideas in the management of the Euro crisis
- The Ideas of Austerity
- Comparative Studies of when Ideas matter, how they matter, and what outcomes they produce
- Critical Approaches to the Study of Ideas, or how a focus on ideas lends itself to critical theory
- Theoretical reflections upon the study of Ideas
- The definition of the ideational sphere against the material one
- Ideas as part of the structure-agency problematique
Please send an email with the following details to: [log in to unmask] by 19 November 2012: title of suggested paper, abstract (max. 200 words), and your contact details.
You will be informed about your paper within a week.
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