[ecrea] Power, Institutions & Authority – 5th International Power Conference

Power, Institutions & Authority – 5th International Power Conference
University of Tampere, Finland, 29–31 August 2016

Call for Papers

Relations between power, institutions, and authority have formed a
mainstay of sociological accounts and theorizing since the time of
Weber. However, new institutionalisms have begun to challenge
traditional rational-choice and functionalist assumptions of society,
and are reformulating theories of how power operates. Historical,
discursive, economic and sociological neoinstitutionalisms stress
different patterns of behavior that shape and limit the understanding of
options open to actors. This spurt of theoretical development is part of
a now-widespread popular sense that institutions guide and direct many
aspects of social life, from micro choices of lifestyles to
organizational fashions to macro economies and geopolitics.

In this backdrop the 5th international, biennial Power Conference will
concentrate on how institutions and authority are related to power in
the modern world. Special sessions will explore this inter-relationship
around the themes of six keynotes, while a number of parallel sessions
on related themes are also being organized. In keeping with the
tradition of the Power Conferences, papers can be theoretically or
empirically focused, and represent a broad geographic spectrum of
participants and topics.

For more information, please see the conference website at
www.uta.fi/power2016

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Dr. Evan Schofer – University of California–Irvine, USA
Dr. Merle Jacob – Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Selina Gallo-Cruz – College of the Holy Cross, USA
Dr. Francisco O. Ramirez – Stanford University, USA
Dr. Kerstin Sahlin – Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr. Pertti Alasuutari – Tampere University, Finland

Each keynote speaker has organized and is chairing a special session on
the same theme. We are delighted to invite you to submit abstracts for
one of the special sessions, a parallel session, or as a general
submission (list of accepted sessions at www.uta.fi/power2016).

To submit a paper, please send the title and abstract (100–200 words)
through the conference management system
https://www.lyyti.in/power2016cfp by 1 May 2016 at the latest. Please
select whether you want your paper to be included in one of the special
sessions, one of the other accepted parallel sessions, or as a general
submission. Contributors will be notified by 1 June 2016.

Welcome to Tampere!

Ali Qadir

Chair of the Organizing Committee
School of Social Sciences & Humanities
University of Tampere

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Organizing Committee
Power, Institutions & Authority 2016

(power.conference /at/ uta.fi)

www.uta.fi/power2016

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