Dear all,
Please see the CFP sent in by Xu Xibai at Oxford regarding a
department-funded graduate conference.
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> *Call for Papers*
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> Graduate Conference:
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> *“Rethinking State-Society Relations in Contemporary China”*
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> *10-11 May 2013*
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> *St Antony’s College, University of Oxford*
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> Three decades of reforms in China have brought profound changes to the
> country’s socio-political structure. The phenomenal economic growth has
> given birth to new social groups receptive to a plurality of ideas and
> norms. The spread of the internet and the process of marketization allow
> them to better articulate their interests and organize themselves than
> ever before. The myriad of social issues, popular discontent and
> religious and ethnic tensions are also forcing the party-state to adapt
> new modes of governance and pursue new control strategies.
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> Making sense of this changing relationship is crucial to our
> understanding of China’s political and social development. Is the
> relatively empowered civil sector ready to push for more fundamental
> changes, or is the state simply reconfiguring power with new ways of
> exercising it? Or perhaps the very idea of state-society relations has
> become obsolete, ready to be replaced by new concepts that go beyond the
> dichotomy of state and society?
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> The conference examines the complex dynamics and transformations of
> state-society relations in China and aims to bring together students and
> researchers from diverse social science disciplines for an
> inter-disciplinary dialogue. Graduate students (both masters and
> doctoral levels) and early career researchers are invited to submit
> papers addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
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> * Theoretical perspectives on state-society relations in China
> * Social control, stability maintenance and governance
> * Social organizations and international NGOs
> * Social entrepreneurship and social innovation
> * Cultural governance
> * Media, Internet, propaganda and censorship
> * Grassroots political participation and activism
> * Religious development, ethnic issues and nationalism
> * Specific social groups such as migrant workers, the middle class
> and elites and their relationship to the state
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> The one-day conference will be held on Saturday, *11 May 2013* at St
> Antony’s College, Oxford. On the evening of Friday, 10 May 2013, there
> will be a roundtable discussion with Oxford faculty members on the
> theoretical and methodological issues of studying state-society
> relations in China. All conference participants are invited to the
> discussion and to the wine reception afterwards.
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> *_Submission Deadlines:_*
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> Please submit an abstract (no more than 1 page) of your research and
> your brief CV by *09 March 2013* to [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. If a travel grant is required,
> please give us an estimate of the travel expenses.
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> We will notify applicants whether their papers are accepted for the
> conference by *23 March 2013*. Successful applicants are required to
> submit their completed papers by *20 April 2013*.
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> *_Funding:_*
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> Free accommodation is provided for participants from outside Oxford.
> Limited funding is available to cover student travel cost to and from
> the conference within the UK.
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> The conference organizers acknowledge the generous financial support
> from the Department of Politics and International Relations, University
> of Oxford and the Annual Fund of St Antony’s College, Oxford.
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Dr Sarah Dauncey
Lecturer in Chinese Studies
Careers, Alumni and Marketing
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield (Times Higher Education University of the Year)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/seas/
Honorary Secretary, British Association for Chinese Studies
Commissioning Editor of JBACS
http://www.bacsuk.org.uk/
6-8 Shearwood Road
Sheffield, S10 2TD
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)114 22 28436
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