[ecrea] Fwd: [ACS] 2nd Call for Papers - Creating Publics; Creating Democracies

*Please note the deadline for abstracts is this Friday, 16 March 2012.



Call for Papers: Creating Publics, Creating Democracies

That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often
been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability,
political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly
being called upon to act, it is sometimes in the name of democracy, but
not always. By exploring how ideas and practices of publicness and
democracy are being constituted, enacted, related and reconfigured in
different settings, this workshop aims to investigate the modes of
public action and democracy being invoked, imagined and struggled over
around the world. We welcome paper proposals from a diversity of
approaches, particularly research and works in progress that help us to
collectively consider:

- How issues become matters of public concern and how, where and when
public practices intersect with forms of democracy, or other forms of
politics?
- How actors (individuals, groups, institutions, networks, materials,
devices) become public and whether forms of democratic politics emerge
as a result?
- How public spaces are assembled and how they become spaces of
democratic or other forms of politics?
- How relations between modes of public action and forms of democratic
politics are being mediated and how methodologically such relations can
be traced, mapped, analysed, theorised and better understood?

Building on the success of the July 2011 interdisciplinary workshop,
Creating Publics, we seek working papers from fields including (but not
limited to): anthropology, politics and public policy, cultural studies,
environmental studies, sociology, science and technology studies,
information studies, geography, planning and media studies. We hope that
through engaging with empirical and/or conceptual works together, this
workshop will serve as an opening for conversations about the creation
of publics and democracies.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words to be submitted to Sarah Batt
((a.s.c.batt /at/ open.ac.uk)<mailto:(a.s.c.batt /at/ open.ac.uk)>) by 16 March 2012.
For further information or if you have questions, please contact Sue Pell
((exs02sp /at/ gold.ac.uk)<mailto:(exs02sp /at/ gold.ac.uk)>). The workshop programme
will be announced in May.

http://www8.open.ac.uk/ccig/events/creating-publics-creating-democracies-call-for-papers


The two-day workshop event will be held in central London on 18&  19
June 2012.  This initiative is a collaboration organised by: The Publics
Research Programme at The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and
Governance at the Open University; The Centre for Global Media and
Democracy at Goldsmiths College, University of London; and, The Centre
for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster.

Creating Publics, July 2010: see
http://www8.open.ac.uk/ccig/events/creating-publics-workshop

Publics Research Programme:
http://www8.open.ac.uk/ccig/programmes/publics

Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/global-media-democracy/

Centre for the Study of Democracy:
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/centre-for-the-study-of-democracy




Susan Pell, PhD
Visiting Fellow
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths College, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW

(exs02sp /at/ gold.ac.uk)

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