Sent on behalf of Mark B. Salter, Miguel De Larrinaga, and David Grondin:
Call for Papers SGIR 7th Pan-European Conference on IR Stockholm, Sweden, 9-11 September 2010
Section on Biopolitics, Governmentality, Circulation
There have been recent important critical and policy discussions on borders ,migration and circulation within international political sociology and critical security studies. The newly released publication and translation of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, have inspired a burgeoning production of studies on governmental rationalities and political technologies that take security as a formof management of contingency. An assessment of this new scholarship indicates both a tension between biopolitical and governmental studies and between migration and mobility with respect to the relationsbetween politics, space, knowledge, and power. This set of panels seeks to address how the rationalities of government involved in these relations and practices all advocate a reorientation towards the idea of circulation. In particular, this section investigates the management of borders and population through the frame of circulation. We are especially interested in: mapping mobilities and the assemblages oftheir control; the interface between technology, identity, citizenship and populations; the international dynamics of the management of bodiesthrough surveillance; the field of public-private and corporate actors in the management of circulation. We encourage contributions on methodological, theoretical and empirical questions: what are the challenges of field research in these areas? Are ethnological/sociological methods appropriate? What are the tensions between foucauldian, deleuzian and bourdieusian approaches to this? What are the issues of scales and space using these approaches? How do racial, gender, class and colonial structures influence these processes?
Convenors: Mark B. Salter, Miguel DeLarrinaga, and David Grondin
Key Panels:
- Borders, populations, territories
- Biopolitics, Biometrics, and Borders
- Critical border studies and mobilities studies: interoperability of IR and human geography?
- Question of scale and space and methods of biopolitics + governmental analysis
- American, Asian, European, African, Latin American biopolitical regimes – what is the appropriate object of study?
- What are the norms that structure the global mobility regime?
- Mobile citizenship
- Questions of Methodology
- Mobile Sociology and IR
Please submit your 250 word abstract both online http://www.sgir.eu/conference/ and by email to [log in to unmask] before February 1st 2010.
Dr David Murakami Wood
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Surveillance Studies | Associate Professor
Surveillance Studies Centre | Department of Sociology | Queen's University, Ontario
e-mail: [log in to unmask] | blog: http://ubisurv.wordpress.com
Managing Editor | Surveillance & Society | http://www.surveillance-and-society.org
Trustee | Surveillance Studies Network | http://www.surveillance-studies.net
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