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Authority & Political Technologies 2014: Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment – A Conference at the University of Warwick June 2-3, UPDATED.
We are delighted to announce four travel and accommodation bursaries to support the attendance of PhD students or financially insecure post-docs. Apply for a bursary by Monday March 10th. Also a reminder to everyone that the deadline for abstract submissions is one week today! Submit your abstract by Monday March 10th.
The exciting line up of confirmed speakers now include:
Louise Amoore (Durham); William Connolly (Johns Hopkins); Christian Borch (CBS, Copenhagen); Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck); Amade M'charek (Amsterdam); Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths); & AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths).
Call For Papers:
Recently, there have been various calls for a move beyond ‘post-structuralism’ (i.e. Foucault, Deleuze, cultural/critical theory), which had long been seen as the radical edge of the critical social sciences. Such calls are motivated in part by the sense that post-structuralist philosophies - which were forged against a backdrop of totalitarian rule and burgeoning welfare states in Europe - fail to offer moral or political purchase in the contemporary governmental landscape. Moreover, there is a sense that various concepts and theories have become reified and constraining – closing down the possibilities of critical thought. However, the issues that post-structuralist theory placed on the critical social science agenda have become more vital than ever - be that the concern for the complex and dispersed nature of power and agency; the imbrication of power and economics with knowledge and science; rethinking the relation between equality and difference; the political/contested/changing nature of embodiment, biology and ecology; or the efforts of states and others to establish and exercise power over life itself. We maintain that now is the time, not to reject post-structuralist perspectives, but to reinvigorate and transform those traditions through empirical and political work that is creatively engaged with current problems. The Authority & Political Technologies group at Warwick will host a series of annual events that bring together world leading, emerging and postgraduate scholars from across the social sciences whose work promises to renew post-structuralist critical thought through empirical scholarship. This year we invite papers on the theme 'Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment’. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
· Biopolitics and Political Spirituality/Religion
· Materialism and the Political Meaning of Entanglement
· Authority, Sovereignty and Becoming in the (Post) Colony
· Process and New Forms of Society(ism), Association and Being in Common
· Necropolitics and Human Rights
Deadline for abstract submission March 10th 2014. For abstract submission, further info and updates see our website. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/rsw/authorityandpoliticaltechnologies/apt2014
Conference Organisers:
Claire Blencowe & Illan rua Wall – The Authority and Political Technologies IAS Network, Warwick
Sponsored by Warwick IAS, ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, Sociology, Law & the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
APT Warwick:
Claire Blencowe; Miguel Beistegui; Will Davies; Stuart Elden; Nick Gane; Olga Goriunova; Amy Hinterberger; Hannah Jones; Cath Lambert; Nick Lee; Celia Lury; Alice Mah; Goldie Osuri; Maria Do Mar Pereira; Lynne Pettinger; Shirin Rai; John Solomos; Vicky Squire; Nathanial Tkacz; Emma Uprichard; Nick Vaughan-Williams; Illan rua Wall; Chiara Livia Bernardi; Sam Burgum; Rogan Collins; Esteban Damiani; Kathryn Medien; Marijn Nieuwenhuis; Hidefumi Nishiyama; Maurice Stierl; Lauren Tooker; Lorenzo Vianelli
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