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4th Global Conference
Pluralis
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4th Global Conference
Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship
Friday 31st October - Sunday 2nd November 2008
Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers
With this inter- and multi-disciplinary project we
seek to explore the new developments and changes
of the idea of pluralism and their implications
for social and political processes of inclusion
and citizenship in contemporary societies. The
project will also assess the larger context of
major world transformations, such as new forms of
migration and the massive movements of people
across the globe, as well as the impact of the
multiple dynamics of globalisation on rootedness
and membership (including their tensions and
conflicts) and on a general sense of social
acceptance and recognition. Looking to encourage
innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly
welcome papers from all disciplines, professions
and vocations which struggle to understand
what it means for people, the world over, to be
citizens in rapidly changing national, social and
political landscapes.
In particular papers, workshops and presentations
are invited on any of the following themes:
1. Challenging Old Concepts of Citizen and Alien
* Who is a citizen and who is an alien, a foreigner?
* The new value of political pluralism and
cultural multiplicity; breaking with homogeneity
and sameness
* What is the place of difference and alterity in
defining membership and citizenship?
* How to account for political membership and
identity?
* Making sense of transformations and their
effects over citizenship identity and membership
* Othering, marginalising, excluding, stygmatising
2. Nations, Fluid Boundaries and Citizenship
* What does it mean, today, to belong to a nation?
* New migrants, new migratory flows and massive
movements from peripheral to central countries
* Resurgence of the local and the diminishing
importance of the national
* Are we living post-national realities?
* What is the place of economic and cultural
claims in today's forms of political membership?
* Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other
forms of placing the responsibility of change on
migrants
3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
* Evaluating the promises and institutions of
post-national governing
* What happened to the rights of migrants and
displaced peoples?
* Political battles over globalization and the
forging of global citizenship
* Social movements, new rebellion and alternative
global politics
* Trans-national connections that escape
institutional and political control
* New forms of global exclusion
4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
* De-nationalising citizenship and the making of a
global citizen
* Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of
citizenship formations and political membership
* New sources and forms of political
participation; new localism,
parochialism and communitarianism
* Bonds of care across boundaries of
inequality and exclusion,
ideologies and religions, politics and power,
nations and geography
* Thinking and acting with foreigners and
migrants in mind
* Citizens acknowledging the fundamental role
of migrants; making migration personal and interpersonal
5. Media and Artistic Representations
* The role of new and old media in the
construction of political membership, of nations
and citizens
* Production and reproduction of political and
citizen typing and stereotyping
* The contested space of representing politics,
national identity and membership
* Art, media and how to challenge the rigid and
impenetrable constructions of political culture
* Living, being and exercising membership through art
* Political life imitating art and fiction
6. Transnational Political Interlacing of
Contemporary Life
* What is shared from political cultures? How are
political cultures shared? Who has access to the
sharing of political cultures?
* Human rights, migration and massive
displacements of people
* Living in a context with the political markers
of a different context: Is that political
trans-culturalism?
* Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of
wanting to bridge the 'invisible' divide between
political cultures
* Symbols and significations that connect people
to places other than 'their own'
* Politics, identity and belonging by choice
7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion
* Recognition and respect without marginality
* An ethics for social and political relations in
a new millennium
* What to do with historically old concepts like
tolerance, acceptance and hospitality?
* Should not we all be strangers? Should not we
all be foreigners?
* Is there any use for cosmopolitanism these days?
* Embracing the alien within the citizen; building
fluid boundaries of membership and political
participation
Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
13th June 2008. If your paper is accepted
for presentation at the conference, an 8 page
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th
October 2008. -- 300 word abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs (see below);
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats with the following information and in this
order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to
all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might
be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look
for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Joint Organising Chairs
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Director of Research,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
Email: [log in to unmask]
The conference is part of the 'Diversity and
Recognition' research projects, which in turn
belong to the 'At the Interface' programmes of
ID.Net. We aim to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore innovative and challenging routes
of intellectual and academic exploration. All
papers accepted for and presented at this
conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN
eBook. Selected papers will be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume.
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/pluralism/pluralism.htm
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/pluralism/pl4/cfp.html
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