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Call for Papers "Interrogating Terror" 2nd Annual Conference Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University Of Brighton Brighton (UK) 12-14 September 2007 __________________________________________________ Where once it was the "Cold War" whose ideological demands and material determinations shaped the structures, priorities and directions of all our lives, today it is the "War on Terrorism". The "end of history", the death of ideology and the triumph of the liberal order heralded in the aftermath of 1989 have been replaced by the ideology of neo-liberal governance and its figleaf of human rights. That ideology and its material demands today constitute the reality of everyday life - and death of more and more people around the world. This conference interrogates the basic idea which makes that possible: the notion of terror. First, it will analyse this notion and those that surround it: ideas such as "terrorism", "fundamentalism", "democracy", "human rights" and "freedom". Second, it will investigate the material and historical realities concerned: the Middle East; economic inequality; oil; and the marketisation of life and death. Contributions are invited around the following and associated themes: Theorising terror Historicising terror Religion and terror The psychology of terror The language of the "war on terror" The terror of poverty Guerilla warfare and postcolonial politics Human rights, terror and the nation state Fundamentalisms Terror as ideological war Populism and the politics of terror The politics of life The economics of the "war on terror" The politics of oil Rethinking 9/11 Torture and the American Empire Iran, nuclear politics and "the west" Iraq and Afghanistan Palestine and Israel Rethinking protest Conference organizers: Bob Brecher and Mark Devenney Abstracts (300 words) by 31 January 2007 to Fern Elsdon-Baker, the Conference Administrator: [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
