Dear all,
We would like to bring your attention to the following workhshop, in
which we welcome contributions from both PhD students and postdoctoral
scholars.
Best wishes,
Maria and Matteo
*Workshop – Call for Papers:*
*Carbon* *Democracy and Revolution:*
*Critical perspectives from the Middle East and the Mediterranean*
*With keynote lecture by Professor Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University*
*Durham University, 13-14 February 2015*
Social revolutions, civil war and crippling economic crises: what is going
on in the Middle East and South Eastern Mediterranean? Are the revolutions
and wars in Egypt, Syria or Libya connected to the economic crises in
Greece, Italy or Cyprus? How do carbon resources and energy competition
affect these tense social, economic and environmental inter-relations? What
is the future of 'carbon democracy' and what are its geographic and
political ramifications?
Inspired by Timothy Mitchell's work *Carbon Democracy: Political Power in
the Age of Oil*, we would like to invite abstract submissions for papers
that explore themes related to energy, political power, history and
ideology in the broad area of the Middle East and South-Eastern
Mediterranean. Starting with a keynote lecture by Timothy Mitchell entitled
'Carbon Democracy and the Corporate Future,' the two-day workshop aims to
combine exploration of regional case-studies with critical analyses of
power relationships, resources and the frailty or persistence of democratic
practices. Specifically, the workshop - consisting of paper presentation
and discussion - will interrogate how discourses of democracy are
constructed on the basis of conditions that inevitably undermine its
emancipatory premises, producing and reproducing, instead, economic
inequality, environmental crisis, and tacit acceptance of systemic violence.
In this direction, we welcome disciplinary engagements from, among others,
anthropology, history, politics, and geography. Particularly we encourage
contributions from PhD students and early career researchers, and we invite
abstract submissions on themes including:
- War, religious identities and energy
- Ideology, national security and energy
- Political economy of energy in North Africa
- A place of no 'energy': Gaza
- Competing and compliant: state, political power and corporations
- Labour movement(s) and its relation to energy business
- Transient lives: histories of work in the energy sector
Abstract deadline *December 1st*: please e-mail your abstracts to both
Maria Kastrinou ([log in to unmask]) and Matteo Capasso (
[log in to unmask]). We will let you know the outcome of our
decision by December 12th.
Maria Kastrinou, Anthropology, Brunel University
Matteo Capasso, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham
University
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