[ecrea] cfp Governance of Deliberative Environments section- ECPR General Conference 2016

/CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS /

*Governance of Deliberative Environments section- ECPR General
Conference **2016*

*07-10 September 2016, *

*Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic *

The tenth anniversary of the ECPR General Conference will be held at
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, from 7-10 September 2016.

We are accepting proposals for Panels and individual Papers for the
/Governance of Deliberative Environments/ section that would address one
of the four named panels or propose new ones or address the section’s
theme. *Deadline: 15 February 2016.*

*Governance of Deliberative Environments (Section 26)*

Crises are historical moments of breaking up and re-organising social
and political relations, but also govern the conditions for control, as
a core component in the de/legitimisation of political decisions.
European societies are finding themselves under a multiplicity of
pressures, from economic to political, from social to civic, while
giving rise to expressions of discontent and rift in trust of citizens
in institutions. Media and communicative spaces play a central role in
the connection between civil society and established political
institutions. As democracies come under pressure, the relation of the
citizens and the State strained: forms and formats of control over
public deliberation emerge through the implementation of restrictive
laws and policies, but also through a targeted use of technologies of
control and monitoring. This Section aims to explore the dynamics of the
governance of deliberative environments within the context and – by now-
historical legacy of multiple European crises. In particular, it aims to
discuss in a multi-perspectival way fundamental elements in the process
of public deliberation, from seeking and imparting information to the
formation of moments and movements of dissent and resistance; from the
implications of bypassing Human Rights to assembly, privacy, speech to
crude violations in the name of State defined crises, predominantly
security.

The Section adopts a broadly defined approach to the definition of
deliberation and focuses on the procedural and contextual dimensions of
communication as a core element of imparting and seeking information,
exchanging political viewpoints and life experiences and bringing those
to the centre of the democratic political process: the latter may or may
not be one identifiable, specific system but a constellation of
characteristics that form a normative framework thereof. The Section has
identified the following four axes of investigation with the aim to
explore their interconnections and to provide an advanced, future
oriented re/thinking of current global governance structures.

*section panels:*

- Global governance of free speech

- Institutional disconnect, social movements and democracy

- Inhibitors of public deliberation: privacy

- Inhibitors of public deliberation: surveillance

For details regarding the Section and the Panels please see the relevant
section of the conference website
http://ecpr.eu/Events/SectionDetails.aspx?SectionID=579&EventID=95

Individuals are able to propose to the Section either a Panel including
4 – 5 Papers or individual Papers. Further information explaining the
stages in detail, as well as information on the duties of a Panel Chair
and Discussant can be found on the conference website
http://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=95

When proposing a Panel/Paper please note all prospective participants
much have a /MyECPR/ account as submission is from the website only.

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