[ecrea] CFP: Discourse, Power, Subjectivation

CfP Call for Paper
Discourse, Power, Subjectivation
12.09.2018-14.09.2018
Giessen

Discourse Studies cover a growing field of interdisciplinary research on 
meaning making practices, communicative activities and symbolic 
representations. Cultural studies, linguistics, media analysis, 
geography, and history, among others, highlight the role of texts, 
pictures and language in the constitution of truth and reality. 
Actor-oriented disciplines such as political science, sociology, 
pedagogy, psychology or economics and management studies are interested 
in the formation of subjectivities, identities and agencies. Focussing 
on the nexus of discourse, power and subjectivation this conference aims 
to bring different strands from the interdisciplinary field of Discourse 
Studies into dialogue.

The study of discourse pertains to various levels of language and 
society, ranging from everyday face-to-face interaction to societal 
relations and global communication. In the analysis of, for instance, 
the media, politics, economy, academia or law, issues of subjectivation, 
discourse and power are at stake when asking: Who has the capacity to 
dominate others? What technologies of power and exclusion are at work 
when people are defined and categorised in a certain manner? Which forms 
of legitimation account for dominant kinds of knowledges, subjectivities 
and institutions?

Numerous areas of research have broached the nexus of discourse, power 
and subjectivation in both theoretical and empirical terms. Studies in 
geography and critical cultural studies, for instance, have investigated 
the role of statistics and multimodal discourses by asking how 
normalizations are produced by demographic discourses. Media studies 
have analysed how knowledge gains legitimacy in language and multimodal 
communication in fields such as banking and politics. Political science 
points to processes of subjectivation, i.e. in ‘post-democracy’ when 
exploring the role of political responsibilities. Sociologists have 
analysed hidden technologies of power through the formation of identity 
concepts in working relations, gender discourses and academic 
subjectivations. Discourse studies in economics and management show how 
certain hegemonic knowledges are naturalized and normalized. Educational 
studies use the subjectivation concept to study processes of learning, 
disciplining, and mechanisms of inclusion/exclusion in different 
contexts such as school, university and advanced training courses.
Today, many other research projects are currently investigating more and 
more fields using concepts of discourse, power and subjectivation.
The aim of DiscourseNet 22 conference is to deepen and developing these 
research activities by discussing the relationship between discourse, 
power and subjectivation from theoretical as well as empirical 
viewpoints. Contributions from all academic disciplines and research 
topics are welcome.
Submissions of contributions and panels: The languages of the conference 
are English and German. Abstracts for contributions of no more than 200 
words should be submitted by March 30, 2018 through 
www.dn22.discourseanalysis.net. Please contact us by e-mail if this link 
doesn't work. If you would like to propose a panel for the conference, 
please submit your panel proposal that includes the names, titles and a 
short abstract for each presentation until April 30, 2018.

Registration fees for the conference: Early-bird fee will apply until 
May 15, 2018 - 25 € for unfunded full time Ph.D. students and 
researchers without affiliation and 50 € for researchers with 
institutional affiliation. Late registration - 50 € for unfunded full 
time Ph.D. students and researchers without affiliation and 75 € 
researchers with institutional affiliation. We motivate all scholars 
from every region and affiliation to apply even in case of low or no 
institutional financial support. We will try (but cannot not guarantee 
yet) to provide (at least) gradual reimbursement of traveling costs for 
researcher without financial support from home university.
Contact:
(Jens.maesse /at/ sowi.uni-giessen.de)

Organization team and scientific committee:
Jens Maesse
Verena Fingerling
Julian Hamann
Saša Bosančić
Johannes Angermuller
Ronny Scholz
David Adler
Steffen Hamborg
Jeannine Wintzer
Yannik Porsché
Martin Nonhoff
Frieder Vogelmann
Nele Kuhlmann

Kontaktperson: Jens Maesse
Email: (jens.maesse /at/ sowi.uni-giessen.de)


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