Reminder: Call for Papers: Recognition, Migration, and Critical Theory

University of Salzburg, 3-4 March 2020

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of
Salzburg is organising a workshop on "Recognition, Migration, and
Critical Theory" on 3-4 March 2020. The aim of this workshop is to
discuss to what extent the concept of recognition is suitable for the
analysis and critique of current migration issues. David Ingram
(Loyola University Chicago) will give the keynote talk at this
workshop.

In recent years, the concept of recognition has found an astonishing
resonance in social and political philosophy and ethics, but also in
the social sciences. The claim is made that social relations and
processes can be better understood through the reference to
recognition and misrecognition, which opens up potentials for
criticism and overcoming injustices and distortions in modern,
capitalist societies. Critics, on the other hand, often argue that the
focus on recognition is misguided and obscures the view of the actual
social problems and their causes and is therefore not suited to
pointing the way out. Central to many discussions is always the
application of a critical theory of recognition and the extent to
which it is able to understand and analyse emerging social phenomena
and developments. Migration movements and the associated tensions are
phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and
public debate in recent years. Migration in all its forms and its
causes is by no means a new phenomenon, but it has become more intense
in some parts of the world and, especially in Europe, its perception
by politics and the population has changed. So what contribution can a
critical theory of recognition make here? Is the concept of
recognition appropriate to answer the political, social, ethical and
socio-theoretical questions posed by migration, flight and
integration? To what extent can global migration movements and their
causation through displacement, war, poverty, hunger or climate change
be analyzed in terms of recognition theory, or is there a need for
other conceptual approaches and theories? And finally, the question
what distinguishes the perspective of recognition from the many other
theories and normative concepts in social and political philosophy
that deal with migration, and what additional insights or critique it
has to offer.

If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of
300-500 words (ready for blind review, in WORD format) to Gottfried
Schweiger at [log in to unmask] by 22 November 2019.

The Centre is able to subsidise travel and accommodation expenses for
speakers up to 250€. It is planned to publish the contributions in a
peer reviewed volume with Springer and the speakers are asked to agree
to a publication. The submitted contributions should therefore be
unpublished. All presenters are asked to provide a Précis of 1500-2000
words two weeks before the workshop to be shared among all
participants.

Website of the Centre: www.povertyresearch.org

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