[ecrea] Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship

>Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship
>
>Friday 31st October - Sunday 2nd November 2008
>Salzburg, Austria
>
>Call for Papers
>With this inter- and multi-disciplinary project we
>seek to explore the new developments and changes
>of the idea of pluralism and their implications
>for social and political processes of inclusion
>and citizenship in contemporary societies. The
>project will also assess the larger context of
>major world transformations, such as new forms of
>migration and the massive movements of people
>across the globe, as well as the impact of the
>multiple dynamics of globalisation on rootedness
>and membership (including their tensions and
>conflicts) and on a general sense of social
>acceptance and recognition. Looking to encourage
>innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly
>welcome papers from all disciplines, professions
>and vocations which struggle to understand
>what it means for people, the world over, to be
>citizens in rapidly changing national, social and
>political landscapes.
>
>In particular papers, workshops and presentations
>are invited on any of the following themes:
>
>1. Challenging Old Concepts of Citizen and Alien
>* Who is a citizen and who is an alien, a foreigner?
>* The new value of political pluralism and
>cultural multiplicity; breaking with homogeneity
>and sameness
>* What is the place of difference and alterity in
>defining membership and citizenship?
>* How to account for political membership and
>identity?
>* Making sense of transformations and their
>effects over citizenship identity and membership
>* Othering, marginalising, excluding, stygmatising
>
>2. Nations, Fluid Boundaries and Citizenship
>* What does it mean, today, to belong to a nation?
>* New migrants, new migratory flows and massive
>movements from peripheral to central countries
>* Resurgence of the local and the diminishing
>importance of the national
>* Are we living post-national realities?
>* What is the place of economic and cultural
>claims in today's forms of political membership?
>* Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other
>forms of placing the responsibility of change on
>migrants
>
>3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
>* Evaluating the promises and institutions of
>post-national governing
>* What happened to the rights of migrants and
>displaced peoples?
>* Political battles over globalization and the
>forging of global citizenship
>* Social movements, new rebellion and alternative
>global politics
>* Trans-national connections that escape
>institutional and political control
>* New forms of global exclusion
>
>4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
>* De-nationalising citizenship and the making of a
>global citizen
>* Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of
>citizenship formations and political membership
>* New sources and forms of political
>participation; new localism,
>parochialism and communitarianism
>* Bonds of care across boundaries of
>inequality and exclusion,
>ideologies and religions, politics and power,
>nations and geography
>* Thinking and acting with foreigners and
>migrants in mind
>* Citizens acknowledging the fundamental role
>of migrants; making migration personal and interpersonal
>
>5. Media and Artistic Representations
>* The role of new and old media in the
>construction of political membership, of nations
>and citizens
>* Production and reproduction of political and
>citizen typing and stereotyping
>* The contested space of representing politics,
>national identity and membership
>* Art, media and how to challenge the rigid and
>impenetrable constructions of political culture
>* Living, being and exercising membership through art
>* Political life imitating art and fiction
>
>6. Transnational Political Interlacing of
>Contemporary Life
>* What is shared from political cultures? How are
>political cultures shared? Who has access to the
>sharing of political cultures?
>* Human rights, migration and massive
>displacements of people
>* Living in a context with the political markers
>of a different context: Is that political
>trans-culturalism?
>* Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of
>wanting to bridge the 'invisible' divide between
>political cultures
>* Symbols and significations that connect people
>to places other than 'their own'
>* Politics, identity and belonging by choice
>
>7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion
>* Recognition and respect without marginality
>* An ethics for social and political relations in
>a new millennium
>* What to do with historically old concepts like
>tolerance, acceptance and hospitality?
>* Should not we all be strangers? Should not we
>all be foreigners?
>* Is there any use for cosmopolitanism these days?
>* Embracing the alien within the citizen; building
>fluid boundaries of membership and political
>participation
>
>Papers will be considered on any related theme.
>300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
>13th June 2008. If your paper is accepted
>for presentation at the conference, an 8 page
>draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th
>October 2008.
>
>300 word abstracts should be submitted
>simultaneously to both Organising Chairs;
>abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
>formats with the following information and in this
>order:
>
>a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
>title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
>
>Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
>from using footnotes and any special formatting,
>characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
>underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to
>all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
>receive a reply from us in a week you should
>assume we did not receive your proposal; it might
>be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look
>for an alternative electronic route or resend.
>
>Joint Organising Chairs
>
>Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
>Director of Research,
>Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
>Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
>E-Mail: (acc /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)
>
>Rob Fisher
>Network Founder and Network Leader
>Inter-Disciplinary.Net
>Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
>Email: (pic4 /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)
>
>The conference is part of the 'Diversity and
>Recognition' research projects, which in turn
>belong to the 'At the Interface' programmes of
>ID.Net. We aim to bring together people from
>different areas and interests to share ideas and
>explore innovative and challenging routes
>of intellectual and academic exploration. All
>papers accepted for and presented at this
>conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN
>eBook. Selected papers will be developed for
>publication in a themed hard copy volume.
>
>For further details about the project please visit:
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/pluralism/pluralism.htm
>
>For further details about the conference please visit:
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/pluralism/pl4/cfp.html

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