Dear colleagues, The deadline for EWIS 2019 is fast approaching. Please consider submitting an abstract (of no more than 200 words) to the following workshop by 13 January:
Anticipatory Global Governance: International Organisations and Political Futures Call for Papers for the 6th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Kraków, 26–29 June 2019 See a short workshop description below, or access the long version of ‘WS N’ at http://www.eisa-net.org/EWIS19/EWIS2019%20WS%20N.pdf. For general information, including the link to the online abstract submission system, see http://www.eisa-net.org/eisa-net.org/sitecore/content/be-bruga/eisa/events/ewis.html. If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact the two workshop convenors: John A. Berten (Bielefeld University/ BIGSSS, University of Bremen; [email protected]) & Dr Matthias Kranke (University of Warwick; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>). --- The workshop addresses the lack of forward-looking research in studies of international organisations (IOs, understood as inter-governmental organisations) by developing and empirically exploring the concept of ‘anticipatory global governance’. As a starting point, we draw on constructivist and performative perspectives that see political futures as created and continuously enacted through the activities of IO staff and their governance technologies. IOs directly partake in negotiations over political futures by crafting a range of instruments to make the future knowable and amenable to purposive interventions. To clarify how anticipatory global governance works and what roles IOs assume in it, we wish to engage three broader sets of questions: 1) What are the institutional functions of anticipatory global governance by IOs? ◦ Why do IOs develop certain anticipatory practices and utilise certain instruments (agenda-setting, problematisation, justification, legitimation, etc.)? ◦ To what extent are these practices and instruments responses to internal imperatives or external pressures? 2) What are the organisational dynamics of anticipatory global governance by IOs? ◦ How do IOs make the future (or futures) knowable and governable? Which futures are deemed unknowable and ungovernable, and why? ◦ How do specific practices and instruments create empirical evidence about or imaginations of potential futures? 3) What are the political effects of anticipatory global governance by IOs? ◦ How does anticipatory global governance shift political discourses, as well as affect domestic and transnational policymaking? ◦ To what extent does anticipatory governance entail shifts in power relations and authority? Papers should address one or several of these questions, and can examine various IOs, diverse transnational issue areas and various types of instruments, including estimates, simulations, scenarios (‘war games’), big data and algorithms. We are especially interested in contributions that investigate lesser-known IOs. The workshop is intended to yield a special issue in a suitable peer-reviewed journal. -- Dr Matthias Kranke Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (#ECF-2018-506) Department of Politics and International Studies University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, UK [email protected]<https://outlook.office.com/owa/[email protected]> http://warwick.ac.uk/mkranke New publications Kranke, Matthias, and David Yarrow (2018) ‘The Global Governance of Systemic Risk: How Measurement Practices Tame Macroprudential Politics’, New Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2018.1545754 (open access<https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2018.1545754>). André Broome, Alexandra Homolar, and Matthias Kranke (2018) ‘Bad science: International organizations and the indirect power of global benchmarking’, European Journal of International Relations 24(3): 514–539 (open access<http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1354066117719320>). See also Global Benchmarking Project: www.warwick.ac.uk/globalbenchmarking<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/globalbenchmarking> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
