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[ecrea] CFP - Governance/Resistance: A Workshop

Mon Jan 09 09:06:39 GMT 2012




CALL FOR PAPERS

Complexities of Governance/Resistance

A workshop

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24-25 May 2012
Hosted by the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Funded by the Finnish Academy and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Julian Reid

The question of governance/resistance lies at the heart of a broad spectrum of modern and contemporary accounts of political life. Critical approaches ranging from classical to post-Marxism, to post-structuralist, post-colonial and feminist approaches have addressed the complex intricacy of this relationship. That rationales for governance and resistance, and their internal dynamic, remain contested has recently become all-too evident through a resurgence of political opposition and struggle against, for instance, war, capitalism, bankers, neoliberal prescriptions for development and dictatorial regimes. Moreover, this problematique features in responses to global warming, financial crisis, natural disasters, global health scares, immigration and refugees, etc.

These manifestations indicate that the complexity of governance/resistance refers not merely to direct opposition to liberal governance but also to modes of resistance intrinsic to the project itself. Liberal governance is both built on and challenged by forms of crisis and resistance, which simultaneously undermine and reinforce its capacities to govern life.

In order to characterise this dynamic, Michel Foucault developed the notion of a mechanism of security, which refers to the management of an open series. “[S]ecurity will try to plan a milieu in terms of events or series of events or possible elements, of series that will have to be regulated within a multivalent and transformable framework.” The milieu is open, mobile and complex, marked by the simultaneity of movements of production, perturbation, order, resistance, reinforcement destruction and disorder; it simultaneously builds on, produces and reproduces movements of governance and resistance. Liberal governance operates on the basis of the integration of crisis and resistance, of making these perturbations work productively for the reproduction of order.

The question is whether contemporary manifestations of crisis and resistance challenge the liberal order in more fundamental ways, or whether liberal governance continues to thrive through the integration of (perturbing) forces? What is the relationship between governance and resistance in the contemporary world? If governance operates through resistance, then how to challenge the stifling effects of the ways in which the limits of liberal political life are framed through these mechanisms? How does governance/resistance function to create, integrate, maintain, undermine and challenge contemporary political life?

This workshop seeks to explore the complex intricacy of governance/resistance: forms of resistance to governance, governance through resistance and the governance of resistance. We invite papers that address this thematic from across the disciplines. Paper topics could include, but are not limited to:

·         Social movements and political activism
·         Global governance
·         The biopolitics of development/security
·         Poverty, forced migration, immigration, refugees and statelessness
·         War and conflict

Please send your abstract (250-300 words) to Dr. Leonie Ansems de Vries ((leonie.ansemsdevries /at/ nottingham.edu.my)) and Dr. Tiina Seppälä ((tiina.seppala /at/ ulapland.fi)) by 29 February 2012.



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Tiina Seppälä
Dr.Soc.Sci. (Ph.D.)
Post-Doctoral Researcher
International Relations
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Lapland
P.O. Box 122, 96101 Rovaniemi
FINLAND
work phone +358-40-484 4233
mobile +358-40-726 2687

(tiina.seppala /at/ ulapland.fi) <mailto:(tiina.seppala /at/ ulapland.fi)>

http://www.ulapland.fi/?deptid=18557

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