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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** Call for Papers - funding available Workshop POLITICAL COMMUNITY: AUTHORITY IN THE NAME OF COMMUNITY hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland on Tuesday 24-Wednesday 25 June 2014 (followed by PhD summer school on 26-27 June) Academic coordinator: Trevor Stack ([log in to unmask]) Website: http://wp.me/PASsb-45 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 February 2014 Following our successful Political Community workshop in June 2013, CISRUL is inviting abstracts for a workshop that will allow us to develop our understanding of political community, prior to publishing a volume. We confirmed in the June 2013 workshop that the term "political community" was appropriate for identifying a core set of issues that interest us at CISRUL (even though it was evident that no term will ever carry all the right connotations and none of the wrong ones). Though we each have our own preferred approach, reflecting the wide range of perspectives in CISRUL, several of us are using the term "political community" for one whose members feel somehow represented within its structures of authority, and thus somehow obliged to their fellow-members to follow its norms and accept its decisions. A political community could also be termed a democracy but we prefer to use the term "democracy" for a form of government; our focus is more on the link between authority and community than on the precise structure of government. In a political community, authority is exercised in the name of some kind of community of members - this is the point on which for the most part we converge. That said, we understand both "authority" and "community" in a variety of ways. We are interested in established political institutions but also less formal and/or emergent structures of authority. Similarly, we are interested in nations as the (arguably) paramount political communities of the contemporary world, but also in other forms of political community in past and present. Pre-modern cities are obvious examples, but we are open to the possibility that there are political communities other than nations in the present day, even if these may be linked to or embedded within nations. As in all CISRUL activities, our approach is fully inter-disciplinary and our interests include but go beyond contemporary Europe and North America. To give an idea of our range of interest, speakers at our June 2013 Political Community workshop presented on 18th-century Ireland and on contemporary Argentina, Mexico, Israel-Palestine and Canada, as well as on political community in theology, philosophy, post-colonial studies, and constitutional and international law. The workshop will be held at the beautiful Old Aberdeen campus of the University of Aberdeen on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th June. Please find the full CfP at http://wp.me/PASsb-45. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 28 February 2014. Funding is available for speakers. CISRUL is also offering PhD studentships to start in 2014-15, and we will be inviting applications for a post-doctoral visiting fellowship in June 2014 (prior to the workshop). See www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul for further information. ________________________________ Trevor Stack Director, Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies University of Aberdeen. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/spanish/staff/details.php?id=t.stack http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul Recent book Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowing-History-Mexico-Ethnography-Citizenship/dp/0826352537/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377766848&sr=8-1&keywords=knowing+history+in+mexico The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************