Call for papers
Contemporary Citizenship:
The
Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion II
(Is there a chance for a post-national citizenship?)
The Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and
Political Studies will hold an international conference in Ljubljana,
Slovenia, 5-6 December 2003 to discuss the main questions/problems of
the limitations of the citizenship concept/s and practices and to try
to develop the path for thinking not only about the incentives for inclusiveness
in terms of membership, but also in terms of active involvement and political
responsibility of the citizenry.
Within this framework the focus would be on the
following topics and questions:
- How can we think about political citizenship in times
of globalization and the disappearance of the state? Within this scope,
what are the relationships/conflicts among citizenship, sovereignty
and human rights?
- What are the prospects of post-national citizenship
in the face of EU integration? Does the EU frame represent a prospectuous
ground for the active citizenship course of events?
- What are the incentives for the possibilities of active
citizenship? What changes should the citizenship models/concepts/practices
be subjected to in order to remain a viable concept (not including everything?)
and to achieve inclusive and active citizenship? What mechanisms/practices
are to be introduced?
Especially welcomed are case studies of particular public
policies that are aiming at inclusions/exclusions to the (active) citizenship:
papers that show how the legislative, executive and judicial authorities
actively create and sustain policies that include or exclude certain populations
(either legally or through social statuses) from the full membership in
the polity. Contents might relate to the situation of the excluded, with
respect to the possibility of enjoying and exercising their citizenship
rights. Papers might discuss exclusion policies, of different ethnic,
racial, gender, social and marginalized groups, with special emphasis
on women, non-members of dominant ethnicity, the poor and the homosexual
groups, as well as the social situation of non-citizens. Very much welcomed
are papers analysing the issue of active citizenship and the EU integration
processes from the perspective of the accession countries (problems and
prospects). A comparison among the selected CEE countries is welcomed.
The conference will include three main sessions: the one
dealing with conceptual problems, the session on the EU and post-national
citizenship, and the session on diverse case studies of inclusion/exclusion
policies, analysis of explicit and hidden mechanisms and strategies of
political exclusion in their country. Workshop proposals are welcomed
too.
Eligibility: Although we would especially like to encourage
participants from Czech republic, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro
and Slovenia, applicants from EU and other CEE countries are welcomed
too.
The conference language is English.
Background: In November 2002 the Peace Institute organized
an international seminar in citizenship and the politics of exclusion
and inclusion with the intention to rethink and reconsider contemporary
concept of citizenship, the relations of citizenship and discrimination
models and practices from Western and Central and Eastern European perspective.
Post-national citizenship, active and multicultural citizenship were debated;
case studies on inclusion/exclusion policies of marginalized and minority
groups reflected practical implications.
Both the last year’s seminar and the conference we are organizing
in December this year are part of the long- term project "Contemporary
Citizenship: The Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion" carried out
by the Peace Institute. The aim of the project is to situate the contemporary
concept of citizenship in the context of transition societies of Central
and Eastern Europe and define its significance for political equality,
participation and social cohesion. By connecting the concept of citizenship
with the topics of exclusion/inclusion, we aim at the critical political
analysis of specific policies and ideologies behind them, and structural
and invisible mechanisms of exclusion. To achieve this we analyze political
debates, documents, strategies, legislation and actions taken by governmental
institutions and other political actors.
The question of how the existing concepts and practices
of citizenship, along with their legal and political basis and activities
derived therefrom, influence the politics of exclusion/inclusion of marginalized
individuals and groups, is at the heart of our research endavour.
Follow-up: In 2004 we intend to publish the selected papers
from both the seminar and the conference as one of the outcomes of the
project. The conference also aims at preparing a follow up network of
researchers to deal with the topic of citizenship and different policies
of inclusion/exclusion within the EU framework.
Abstracts/Papers & Further Information:
Abstract submission (up to 500 words) deadline: 15 August
2003
Papers submission (up to 30.000 characters) deadline: 20 October 2003
Abstracts and papers in English to be sent to:
Ms. Mojca Susnik
Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies
Metelkova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Phone: + 386 1 234 77 20
Fax: + 386 1 234 77 22
E-mail: mojca.susnik@mirovni-institut.si
Project website: http://www.mirovni-institut.si
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