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Call for Papers Theme: Citizenship in an Era of Global Crisis Type: International Conference Institution: Postcolonial Studies Research Network, University of Otago Location: Dunedin (New Zealand) Date: 28.–30.11.2011 Deadline: 16.9.2011 __________________________________________________ We are today witnessing the biopolitical re-ordering of the world and various aspects of life in and through the notion of citizenship. This re-ordering is evident in such processes and instances as the ‘war on terror,’ the protests and violence in the Middle East, the outsourcing of labour, the movement of refugees and migrants, the construction of camps within nation-states, the increased policing of borders, and the imposition of techniques of governmentality. At the same time, we are also witnessing various challenges, predicated on specific notions of citizenship, which seek to rethink established, dominant conceptions of belonging: the struggles of indigenous communities, protest communities, and other marginalised and exploited peoples testify to the project of reconstituting how we might think of citizenship in the era of unprecedented crisis — financial, food, water, political, social, cultural, territorial, environmental and so on. Citizenship further invokes concerns about the forms of violence enacted through, because of, and by the idea of citizenship, and the protests, as well as resistances and struggles that have emerged out of discontent with articulations of citizenship, impelled by a desire to redefine what we mean by citizenship. ‘Citizenship in the Era of Global Crisis’ is, in other words, a call to explore the ways in which citizenship is used and abused variously from disciplining quotidian cultural practices to fostering the grounds for social protests and legitimating killing. In short, the role, conception, articulation and dissemination of citizenship has fundamental consequences in the globalised world today. In order to explore the multiple social, cultural, political and economic contexts within which these concerns are articulated, the conference is open to a range of disciplinary perspectives and approaches. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: • National(ist) Culture • Multiculturalism/ Biculturalism • The International Division of Labour • Borders • Law • Indigenous Struggles • The State • Activism • Environment • Resources • Gender • Open Media The conference conveners invite abstracts of no more than 250 words and a short bio to be sent to Brett Nicholls at <[email protected]> and copied to Vijay Devadas at <[email protected]> with ‘CONFERENCE’ in the subject-line by 16 September 2011. Keynote Speakers: Joseph Pugliese Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University Tracey McIntosh Department of Sociology, University of Auckland Greg Noble Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney Further information on the Postcolonial Studies Research Network is available at: http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/networks/postcolonial/ Contact: Vijay Devadas University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand Phone: +64 3 479 4374 Fax: +64 3 479 3932 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/networks/postcolonial/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
