CFP: Authority, Experience and Power session - Power and Knowledge Tampere, Finland, 6-8th September 2010.
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the session 'Authority, Experience and Power', for which we invite papers at the Power and Knowledge conference, Tampere. The deadline for abstracts is May 15th, 2010. Apologies for cross posting.
Conference website http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/isss/tamcess/sovako/power2010/index.php
The Authority Research Network (ARN) will be hosting a stream entitled Authority, Experience and Power at the conference, to be held in Tampere, Finland on the 6th, 7th and 8th of September, 2010.
The ARN are a group of research students based at Bristol, Exeter and Goldsmiths, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies, Bristol. The ARN is engaging with questions of positive power and authority. Based on the observation that 'positive power' is poorly defined at present, with much confusion between normative and empiricist uses of the term 'positive', the group proposes to explore the 'positive power problematic' by (re)turning to the concept of authority - a concept through which positive power has been addressed in classical sociological and political theory.
We are looking in this stream to reconsider the concept of authority such that it is adequate for the concerns and realities of the present. This means making sense of authority production in the context of radical contingency, creativity and finitude. Far from accepting that authority is dead in post-modernity, we suggest that authority is produced through present networks of capacities and potentialities, rather than the ancient past or some transcendent act of foundation. We are particularly interested in the role of experience and structures of experience in the formation of possibilities of authority production.
We hope to produce a journal special edition on the basis of papers from the session and have discussed this with the editor of Power.
We welcome empirical or theoretical papers on any of the following areas:
Authority and the production of knowledge
Techniques and technologies of authority
Deconstructing the authoritative relation
The authority of resistance movements
Biotechnologies, structures of experience and the politics of truth
Authority and affect or embodiment
Authority and space and/or time
Power and experience
Authority and life (in testimony or science)
Authority and modernity, or post-modernity
Biopolitics and authority or experience
Authority, community and sovereignty
Authority and creativity
Authority and the theories of Arendt, Benjamin, Deleuze, Foucault, Nancy, Simmel, Stiegler or Weber
If you have any queries, please get in touch with me at [log in to unmask]
Kind regards,
Leila Dawney,
Authority Research Network
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