Call for Papers "Race and State" International Conference Department of Sociology, University of Dublin Race and Ethnicity Study Group, British Sociological Association (BSA) Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) Dublin (Ireland) 30-31 March 2005
The proposed conference intends to examine the connection between 'race' and state from political, sociological and historical perspectives with direct reference to the United Kingdom and Irish contexts. How do these two differing, yet historically interlinked, polities fit into both European and more globalised discussions of the linkages between 'race' and state? For example, does Britain's opposition to Nazism endow it with a different history from that characterising the racialisation of the nation-state in Western Europe? Or does Ireland's position as the one of the only European countries to have been colonised change the nature of the 'race'-state relationship in present-day politics of immigration in Ireland? What role is played by the legacy of Empire in shaping the specific construction of the relationship between 'race' and state in both contexts; the one coloniser, the other colonised? How does this legacy position these countries, at the westernmost frontier of Europe, vis-?-vis both the European mainland and the North American context by which they have often been more greatly influenced? In a time of increased repression of immigration across the North, what is the place of these histories and legacies within the contemporary global migration regime, from which, despite the racism it engenders, discussions of the link between 'race' and state have been all but banished? Papers may be theoretical and/or empirical but should engage with the proposition, central to the conference aims, that 'race' as a political idea and modern racism may not be fully conceptualised without consideration of the nature of the modern, Western state. In addition to the invited speakers, we are calling for a limited number of abstracts for: - Theoretical / empirical papers - 45 minutes - Empirical papers - 30 minutes All papers will all be presented in plenary and organised so as to enable ample debate. It is hoped that the conference will result in an edited collection. Please send 150 words abstracts by 1 November 2004, to the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, email: [email protected], or to Alana Lentin, email: [email protected] Contact: Dr Alana Lentin Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford Tel: +44 (0)1865 273610 Email: [email protected] _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
