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[ecrea] CFP - citizenship in an era of global crisis

Tue Jul 26 09:26:16 GMT 2011




POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE

University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND

28-30 Nov 2011

Citizenship in an Era of Global Crisis

Keynote Speakers:

Joseph Pugliese (Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University)

Tracey McIntosh (Department of Sociology, University of Auckland)

Greg Noble (Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney)

We are today witnessing the biopolitical re-ordering of the world and various aspects of life in and through the notion of citizenship. This reordering is evident in such processes and instances as the ‘war on terror,’ the protests and violence in the Middle East, the outsourcing of labour, the movement of refugees and migrants, the construction of camps within nation-states, the increased policing of borders, and the imposition of techniques of governmentality. At the same time, we are also witnessing various challenges, predicated on specific notions of citizenship, which seek to rethink established, dominant conceptions of belonging: the struggles of indigenous communities, protest communities, and other marginalized and exploited peoples testify to the project of reconstituting how we might think of citizenship in the era of unprecedented crisis — financial, food, water, political, social, cultural, territorial, environmental and so on. Citizenship further invokes concerns about the forms of violence enacted through, because of, and by the idea of citizenship, and the protests, as well as resistances and struggles that have emerged out of discontent with articulations of citizenship, impelled by a desire to redefine what we mean by citizenship. ‘Citizenship in the Era of Global Crisis’ is, in other words, a call to explore the ways in which citizenship is used and abused variously from disciplining quotidian cultural practices to fostering the grounds for social protests and legitimating killing. In short, the role, conception, articulation and dissemination of citizenship has fundamental consequences in the globalised world today. In order to explore the multiple social, cultural, political and economic contexts within which these concerns are articulated, the conference is open to a range of disciplinary perspectives and approaches.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Multiculturalism/ Biculturalism

National(ist) Culture

The International Division of Labour

 Borders

 Law

 Indigenous Struggles

The State

 Activism

 Environment

 Resources

 Gender

 Open Media

The conference conveners invite abstracts of no more than 250 words and a short bio to be sent to Brett Nicholls at (brett.nicholls /at/ otago.ac.nz) <mailto:(brett.nicholls /at/ otago.ac.nz)> and copied to Vijay Devadas at (vijay.devadas /at/ otago.ac.nz) <mailto:(vijay.devadas /at/ otago.ac.nz)> with ‘CONFERENCE’ in the subject-line by 16 September 2011. Further information on the Postcolonial Studies Research Network is available at http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/networks/postcolonial/



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Dr Brett Nicholls
Senior Lecturer
Department of Media, Film, and Communication
University of Otago
Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo
PO Box 56
Dunedin, 9054
New Zealand

Phone: 64 3 479 8819
Fax: 64 3 479 3932
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