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Call for Papers
European Sociological Association
Critical Political Economy Research Network
‘Beyond the Crisis of the European Project? The Political Economy of EUrope
and the Political Economies in Europe in (post-)disciplinary perspectives’
31 August – 2 September 2006, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The workshop brings together critical scholarship on the political economy
of the European Union and European capitalist economies. It seeks to
contribute to an understanding of the crisis of the European project by
moving beyond disciplinary and theoretical boundaries.
It seems that the neo-liberal project goes on unabated in the actual
European policy-making. But at the same time this project generates less and
less support and indeed faces increasing outright opposition and resistance,
in part voiced by mainstream political parties, even sometimes when in
government.
Neo-liberal governance in Europe in particular seems to face its limits as
in the context of the post-referendum blues the legitimacy crisis of the
European project that had been looming for years has become visible for all.
This legitimacy crisis has in fact a multi-level nature as national states
find it equally hard to sustain popular consent and national governments
often blame Europe in the process.
Invited speakers:
Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College, NY, US)
Bob Jessop (Lancaster, UK)
Dorothee Bohle (CEU Budapest, Hungary)
Hans-Jürgen Bieling (Marburg, Germany)
Magnus Ryner (Birmingham, UK)
We invite papers dealing with the topic of the workshop from different
thematic and theoretical perspectives. The abstracts (circa 400 words)
should be sent to the network coordinator at [log in to unmask]
before 31 March 2006.
ESA Critical Political Economy RN website:
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/polecon.htm
Funding for PhD students:
There is an application for a contribution to cover some of the expenses for
PhD students and young scholars pending. Please indicate if you wish to
apply for this funding. Students from Eastern Europe will be preferred.
Jan Drahokoupil (network coordinator)
and
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn & Laura Horn (local organizing committee)
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