Call for papers
SPACE AND POWER IN CONTEMPORARY ITALY
The contribution of geography and political science
Siena, Scuola Superiore di Santa Chiara, October 19th 2010
The political situation in Italy has recently attracted the attention
of the international political community. The Italian situation is a
peculiar one, but it nevertheless provides evidence of some general
trends in contemporary politics: the crisis of representative parties,
the spectacularisation of politics, the resurgence of regionalism, the
rescaling of statehood, the evolution of antagonism and social
conflicts, the changing relationship between space and power in a
postmodern, postnational, postwestern and postdemocratic world. The
aim of the workshop is to reflect upon these issues from the
theoretical and methodological perspective of political geography,
comparative politics and policy studies.
Call for papers: PhD students and early career researchers are invited
to propose an abstract of their research by filling in the attached
form and sending it to [log in to unmask], by July 31st, 2010.
A maximum of ten presentations will be selected according to their
originality and to the author’s (or authors’) ability to apply the
most advanced political and geographical research methods to the
empirical analysis of relevant issues.
The presenters of the selected papers will be hosted in Siena by the
Scuola Superiore Santa Chiara (full board).
Presentations given in English should have a Powerpoint in Italian.
Presentations may refer, inter alia, to the following lines of enquiry:
• The electoral geography of the Italian second republic
• Populism, show-politics and postdemocracy
• Citizenship, identity, cultures
• The question of the North and the South (of Italy)
• Administrative geographies
• The Europeanization of public policy
• Regionalism and multilevel governance
• Social movements, antagonism and political conflicts
Key note speakers: John Agnew (University of California Los Angeles),
Ilvo Diamanti (Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”), Claudio Minca
(Wageningen University, Royal Hollaway).
Discussant: Elena dell’Agnese (Università di Milano la Bicocca),
Cristiano Vezzoni (Università di Trento), Luca Verzichelli (Università
di Siena).
Scientific Committee: Paolo Bellucci, Cristina Capineri, Filippo
Celata, Antonella Rondinone, Fabio Serricchio.
Download the call for paper:
cfp: http://geostasto.eco.uniroma1.it/dotgeoeco/file/Cfp_Siena19oct10.pdfform:
Download the abstract submission form:
http://geostasto.eco.uniroma1.it/dotgeoeco/file/Cfp_Siena19oct10_form.doc
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Dr Antonella Rondinone
Dipartimento Gips
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche
Università di Siena
Via Mattioli 10 - Siena
tel +39 0577 235435
fax + 39 0577 235292
http://www.gips.unisi.it
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