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Call for Papers
Theme: Fascism? Populism? Democracy?
Subtitle: Critical Theory in a Global Context
Type: International Conference
Institution: International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs
Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and Radical
Futures, University of Brighton
Department of Politics, Boğaziçi University
Location: Brighton (United Kingdom)
Date: 23.–25.1.2019
Deadline: 10.9.2018
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Context
This conference takes place at an unprecedented time. The early years
of the 21stcentury have seen the reemergence of fascisms; the
naturalization of nationalist, populist, sexist, xenophobic and
provocative hate speech and conduct; and the marginalization of local
and global progressive politics. Many events suggest a return to the
1920s and 1930s: “democratically” elected politicians in the United
States, Hungary, Turkey, and India have resorted to nationalist
tactics, undermining law and parliamentary sovereignty; resentment of
culturally or religiously distinctive “others” is nurtured to
reactionary ends; millions of immigrants, refugees, and stateless
people are refused recognition as rights-bearing human beings. Yet
the world today is also profoundly different than it was in the
1930s. Political discourses are mediatized in real time across the
globe and a single mode of networked and financialized production
structures all economic and political activity. Class structures,
resource distribution, and the forms that inequality takes have
changed in unprecedented ways.
Critical theory has never contented itself with describing surface
appearance — and there is no reason why it should today. Fascism,
capitalism, and inequality have assumed new forms, and taken on
different significance in novel social conditions. This conference
aims to reinvigorate critical and theoretical approaches to the
present, devoid of dogmatism, but committed to a politics of equality.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
1. Conceptualising the convergence and divergence of populist and/or
fascistic tendencies in different contexts across the globe;
2. Reframing critical theoretical work for emancipatory politics in
the 21st century;
3. Critiques of (neoliberal) capital including associated processes
of accumulation, precarization, flexible labour, xenophobia, and
prejudice;
4. Decolonial critiques of “Western” conceptualisations of
domination, violence, and critique;
5. Conceptualising new forms of domination and violence, and their
specificities, across the globe;
6. Analysis of the economic, social, and political dynamics which
limit emancipatory politics;
7. Theoretical reflections on movements and ideas which enact and
animate equality across the globe.
Conference attendance and participation is free. However, we will
limit the number of presentations in order to ensure that we can
structure the conference as a set of on-going conversations.
Full financial support for flights and accommodation in Brighton is
available to scholars from around the globe who cannot otherwise
attend.
Submissions
The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs invites
300-word abstracts for a conference, hosted jointly by the Centre for
Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and Radical Futures at the
University of Brighton, UK, and the Department of Politics at
Boğaziçi University, Turkey.
Please send abstracts to info.ictconsort...@berkeley.edu before
September 10, 2018.
The conference has three aims:
(a) to reanimate the analytical and critical tools of the past in
addressing the xenophobic, fascistic, racist, and sexist
tendencies of the present;
(b) to engage in debate with critical theoretical scholars from every
part of the globe;
(c) to address the inequalities intrinsic to the global political
order, while identifying the places, spaces and practices which
inspire democratic politics today.
Keynote Speakers
Lorenzo Bernini (University of Verona, Italy)
Luciana Cadahia (FLASCO, Ecuador)
Jean Comaroff (Harvard University)
Kelly Gillespie (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Saygun Gökarıksel (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Donna Jones (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Maurizio Lazzarato (Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France)
Christoph Menke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University, Australia)
Enzo Traverso (Cornell University, USA)
Organising Committee
Volkan Çıdam (Boğaziçi University)
Mark Devenney (University of Brighton)
Zeynep Gambetti (Boğaziçi University)
Clare Woodford (University of Brighton)
For information, contact:
info.ictconsort...@berkeley.edu
Conference website:
https://criticaltheoryconsortium.org/announcements/critical-theories-in-a-global-context-fascism-populism-democracy/
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