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Call for Papers Theme: Identity and Multicultural Politics Type: 7th International Symposium Institution: International Network for Alternative Academia Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales (CEDUA), El Colegio de México (COLMEX) Location: Mexico City (Mexico) Date: 28.–30.10.2013 Deadline: 9.9.2013 __________________________________________________ This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in identifying the conflicting social forces and political realities of multicultural experiences, of the processes of identity formation and of the dynamics of recognition in diverse societal, cultural and political contexts. Identity claims and social identity formations have become more prevalent, fluid and less fixed throughout societies. People in their local, regional, national and even international contexts are systematically making claims about group identities, which have consequences for politics, social relations and a cultural sense of belonging. In the past decades, important changes have been witnessed in legal procedures, constitutions and cultural normative frameworks that have produced formal legitimation for recognition claims based on identity, as well as political backlashes against these initiatives. What are the lessons to be learned from these complex processes and the considerations to be had for envisioning and contributing to a future politics of recognition? We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested in exploring and explaining these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment to send presentation proposals which address these general questions or the following themes: 1. New Challenges for a Contemporary Politics of Recognition => Policy and Normative Transformations Pushed by Identity Based Social Movements - How do we critically account for these normative experiences? - How might the history of these movements be written? - From a bottom-up perspective, what have we learned? => Social Realities Lived and Cultural Changes Enacted under Multicultural Policies - How has policy-making responded to the needs for social and cultural recognition? What are the virtues and problems with this route? - From a top-down perspective, what have we learned? - How have these conflicts and tensions, demands and needs, dreams and goals been normalized? - What do these processes mean for the construction of identity? => Multicultural Backlashes - Has the ‘multicultural project’ become defunct and/or inadequate? Is it any longer feasible? - What motives and reasoning inform such assertions? - How do these political claims affect the current debate on multiculturalism in specific national and regional contexts and internationally? 2. Talking Back: Contemporary Identity Formations => Exploring New Identity Formations - What are the new identities that are emerging? - Are these new identities more fluid or less fluid than other formations? - Are these new identities establishing different forms of relation to the nation state? => Context and Politics - How do these new identity formations relate to other more established identities or to state sanctioned identities? - Is there an inter-identity formation politics that needs to be accounted for? - How are these new identities talking back? In what ways are they unsettling and/or supporting the current system of state-centered sanctioned recognition? => Contestation and Conciliations - Are these new emerging identities questioning old formations; if so, how? - What means both social and political are being used to contest their non-recognition? - What avenues – state-centered or otherwise – are being sought to secure recognition? - Is there a new politics of recognition that is not based on identity claims? 3. Nationalism and Inclusion => Re-emerging Nationalisms and the Politics of Inclusion - What effects have massive migratory flows had on a politics of inclusion and on territorial forms of belonging? - How are belonging and inclusion being redefined both within and outside nationalistic discourses? - How are borders and frontiers being re-deployed today? Are they under a re-conceptualization? How are these impacting old and new identity formations? => Migration and Subject Positions - How are migrants accommodating to conditions of discrimination and marginality they face in host territories? - How are migrants organizing politically and claiming their rights and place within host nations? - What kind of battles over borders and frontiers are we witnessing? What are these conflicts and struggles doing to our notions of borders and frontiers? - How might inclusive categories of hospitality and cosmopolitanism have political and cultural transformative value? => Territory, Home and Rooted-ness - What new conceptions of belonging and its link to territory, home and roots can be developed to better accommodate diversity and otherness? - How do we generate concepts of belonging that are more fluid and in sync to the current conditions of mobility, migration and diversity? - How do we give collective credence and legitimacy to multiplicity and emphasize bonds rather than place as a more fluid yet stable sense of belonging? 4. Art, Contestation & Aesthetic Critique => Aesthetic Expressions of Identity Construction - In what ways is art being employed as a means for redefining and reconfiguring identity at both the personal and societal level? - How much do these aesthetic experiences seep into the fabric of social life? - How can we explore the productive effect of art on forms of identity construction? => New Voices and New Critiques - How is art and art expression responding to the need to redefine identity? - How might art serve as a model in the creation of new ways of experiencing self and otherness, of understanding identity formation processes? => Unsettling Stable Forms of Identity - How can we participate and foster processes of critical and creative aesthetic innovation for identity perception and agency? - Is their a space for playfulness and joy that can come our way by the exercise of art for the insertion of instability in identity formations? 5. Multicultural Interlacing and Contemporary Life => History and Multiplicity - How can we tell the long history of the experience of multiculturalism? - How have new patterns of massive migration and globalization contributed and changed the telling of this story? => Image and Representations - How can more fluid and less rigid perceptions of social and cultural forms of identity be constructed? - What conception of responsibility must be developed to accompany the creation of new models of political agency? => Horizons - How might we create new horizons in political, cultural and social relations between migrants and natives, host and guests, self and other, center and periphery, privilege and marginality? - How can we instill a sense of co-responsibility and accountability in societies and cultures alike? 6. New Bonds for Self and Other => Self and Other Intertwined - As identities are socially constructed, performatively enacted and re-made, how are societies and cultures acknowledging these processes? - What are the political consequences of recognizing the intertwining of self and other? => Bewildered Self - Can the self be defined outside its binds to the other? - How can we account for a selfhood that lives under the fantasy of being unlinked from other? - Must the self/other relationship be conceived in terms of hostility? What new models might allow for a redefinition of the bond as vital dependency and interlaced identity formations? => Self in the Other & Other in the Self - How are people, groups and organizations contributing to an ethics of social relations that embeds self in other and vice versa? - What can we learn from these experiences? If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium, submit a 400 to 500 word abstract as soon as possible and no later than Monday 9th of September, 2013. (For justifiable cases, we do uphold a tolerance period of a week.) Please use the following template for your submission: 1. Author(s); 2. Affiliation, if any; 3. Email Address; 4. Title of Abstract and Proposal; 5. The 400 to 500 Word Abstract. To submit an abstract online follow these steps: 1) Go to our webpage: www.alternative-academia.net 2) Select your Symposium of choice within the list of annual events (listed by period and city) 3) Go to LOG IN at the top of the page 4) Create a User Name and Password for our system and log in 5) Click on the Call for Papers for the Symposium 6) Go to the end of the Call for Papers page and click on the First Step of Submission Process button 7) Follow the instructions provided for completing the abstract submission process For every abstract proposal submitted, we acknowledge receipt. If you do not receive a reply from us within three days, you should assume the submission process was not completed successfully. Please try again or contact our technical support for clarifications. All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and issues will be fully considered and evaluated. Evaluation of abstract submissions will be ongoing, from the opening date of Monday 15th of July, 2013. All Prospective Delegates can expect a reply time to their submission of approximately three weeks. Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by Monday 30th of September, 2013. Papers are for a 20 minute presentation, 8 to 10 pages long, double spaced, Times New Roman 12. All papers presented at the symposium are eligible for publication as part of a digital or paperback book. Symposium Coordinator: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson General Coordinator International Network for Alternative Academia Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Email: [email protected] Symposium website: http://www.alternative-academia.net/ocs-2.3.5/index.php/NOV2013/IMP-7-1/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
