Subject: ESA99-STREAM ON SOUTH EUROPE-CALL FOR PAPERS
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ESA Conference on WILL EUROPE WORK?
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 18 - 21 August 1999
Stream on EUROPEAN INTEGRATION & SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOUTH
EUROPE
CALL FOR PAPERS
AIM:
Promote discussion on how European Integration affects South European
societies, and how South European societies respond to, and what they
contribute to the process of European integration.
THEMES:
(a) European Integration and Social/Political Change in South Europe
· Globalization, European Integration and Social and Political
Transformation in South Europe
· EU Membership of South European Societies and Future Prospects:
Convergence or Polarisation?
· Regional Idiosyncrasy, Patterns of Socio-economic Inequalities and
Collective Identities in South Europe
· Women, Work and Family
· Unemployment, Social Exclusion and Marginalization
(b) European Integration and Policy-Making in South Europe
· Labour Market Potentials and Prospects in South European
Societies Radical Unemployment Policies
· The EU Employment Policy Guidelines and Policy Trends in South Europe
· The Peculiarities of South European Social Protection Systems - Crisis
Characteristics and Prospects for reform
· Citizenship, Social Change and the Individual
· State-citizenship Nexus and the European Supra-state
· Towards the "Europeanization" of Social Policy in the South?
(c) European Integration and the Cultural Space of South Europe
· Convergences and Divergences in Cultural Values and Patterns of Cultural
Change Across South European Societies - Cultural Boundaries
· Risk, Society and the Self
· Migration, Ethnicity, Issues of Identity and New Forms of Racism in
South Europe
· The Prospects for the Formation of a "European Identity": the view from
the South
STREAM CONVENORS:
Dr Gabriella Lazaridis, Department of Political Science and Social Policy,
University of Dundee, DUNDEE, DD1 4HN, UK,
Tel: +44 1382 344205
Fax: +44 1382 344675
Email: [log in to unmask]
T.N. Papadopoulos, Department of Social Sciences,
University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Tel: + 44 1225 826831
Fax: +44 1225 826381
Email: T. [log in to unmask]
ORGANISATION:
Details on accommodation and cost may be obtained from: Conference
Secretariat, SISWO, Plantage Muidergracht 4, 1018 TV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
Tel: + 31 20 5270600;
Fax: +31 20 6229430;
email: [log in to unmask]
PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS:
Proposals for papers, with one page abstract, should be sent by 15
February
to Dr. Lazaridis,and Dr. T.N.Papadopoulos
NOTE:
We plan to edit a volume of a selection of papers presented at this
Conference. You are therefore expected to submit papers which are not
at present under consideration for publication with another journal/book
and give us first choice over publication. If your proposal is accepted,
you will then be required to send us the full paper (3 copies)
by 15th May 1999. A selection of papers may appear in a special volume of
the European Journal of Regional and Urban Studies
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