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Call for Papers
Theme: International Dissidence
Subtitle: Rule and Resistance in a Globalized World
Type: International Conference
Institution: Research Group "International Dissidence",
Goethe University Frankfurt
Location: Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
Date: 2.–4.3.2017
Deadline: 1.6.2016
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From Occupy Wall Street and radical jihadism to protests against UN
peacekeeping, right-wing mobilization in Europe and India’s exit from
the Non-Proliferation Treaty – resistance remains a ubiquitous but
ambiguous aspect of global social and political life. It takes many
courses, purposes and guises. In parallel, rule has been re-fashioned
for both academic and political purposes. It is present in the power
of the international banking system, ‘Western’ imperialism, the
legitimation of violence, in a homogenizing globalism and
asymmetrical global rules. But how can we make sense of the dynamic
relationship between resistance and rule in today’s globalized world?
How has resistance changed across time and social spaces? And how is
it affected by or does it affect transnationalization?
Resistance challenges and sometimes produces or reproduces systems of
rule. This constitutive relationship between rule and resistance,
however, seldom attracts scholarly attention. This negligence is
partly due to the fragmentation of academic discourses. Some scholars
focus on specific types of resistance (e.g. populist movements, cyber
activism, terrorist groups or the extreme right) or specific
processes (e.g. radicalization, deradicalization, or
transnationalization). Still others study the variety of forms and
practices of rule in reaction to various forms of resistance. While
such specialization has yielded deeper insights into the significance
and operation of rule and resistance in particular instances, it has
also occluded the bigger picture. Scholarly understanding of the
relationship between resistance and systems of rule has suffered as a
result. The conference will attend to this bigger picture.
We invite scholars from various disciplines, including sociology,
history, political science, political theory, international
relations, anthropology, and area studies, whose work contributes to
one of the conference sections. Section 1 focuses on resistance to
specific systems of rule, ranging from international norms,
regulations and bureaucracies to rule by elites. Section 2 zooms into
the dynamic interactions between authorities and resistance
movements, including how international organizations cope with
protest, reactions to digital dissidence, and various forms of
international disciplining of protest within the state. Section 3
finally traces how resistance movements change from “opposition”,
referring to resistance according to established rules, to
“dissidence”, referring to revolutionary resistance availing itself
of unconventional means.
Section 1: Dissidence as Challenge
- Panel 1: State Resistance as International Dissidence
- Panel 2: Resisting the Rule of Nobody: Transnational Administration
and its Dissidence
- Panel 3: Resistance against Political Elites? (Faux) Populist
Movements and Parties
Section 2: Disciplining Dissidence
- Panel 1: Repertoires of reaction – coping with international
dissidence
- Panel 2: Digital (Civil) Dissidence and Repressive Rule
- Panel 3: Empowering or suppressing? International reactions to
national dissidence
Section 3: Radicalizing Resistance
- Panel 1: Radicalizing aims, radicalizing means? Comparing
radicalization processes
- Panel 2: Dissidence Across and Beyond Borders: Transnational
Influences on Radicalization
- Panel 3: Resistance by denial. Exit and withdrawal as dissident
politics
For a more detailed description of the sections and panels see:
http://dissidenz.net/en/conference-2017/
To encourage in-depth discussion, presentations will span 20 minutes
and will be held in plenary sessions.
Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words to
[email protected] by 1 June 2016. Please indicate your panel
of interest. Travel and lodging expenses will be covered for those
accepted.
Contact:
Research group "International Dissidence"
c/o Beate Stein
Goethe University Frankfurt
Grüneburgweg 1
D-60323 Frankfurt/Main
Germany
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://dissidenz.net/en/
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