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SCOPE 2015
2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference of
Political Research
DEMOCRACY, GOVERNANCE AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY
POLITICS
University of Bucharest, 8-9 May 2015
If one skimms through any recent issue of a major scientific
journal relevant for contemporary political research,
it is very probable to find at least one contribution
with a title and/or abstract containing one or more of
these three words: democracy, governance, and identity.
Each of these three
concepts has a strong legacy of its own and each
triggered the development of specific areas of studies,
often bridging various disciplinary traditions.
Sometimes they are also treated together but a common
cannon involving all three of them seems to be still
very weak.
Nonetheless, these three concepts have many things in
common, particularly similar difficulties in defining
them and distiguishing between their process, output and
ideological dimensions, hence the emergence and wide use
of larger conceptual fields such as the
democracy/democratization, government/governance,
identity/alterity.
Furthermore, there are numerous and significant recent
contemporary political and social phenomena that require
rethinking these three concepts in relation to one
another and build a stronger common scientific
reflection around them, both for practical and
theoretical purposes.
Among such phenomena, one may quote, for instance, the
last decade's uprisings in the name of democracy and
better governance in Europe, Africa, the Middle East,
and South East Asia; the backclash of democracy and the
burgeoning of the identity discourses throughout the
world particularly in the aftermath of the 2008 economic
crisis; or the transformation of the traditional
political space brought by the new technologies and
access to information through social media.
Within this context and aiming to explore such puzzles
from various conceptual, empirical and methodological
perspectives, while addressing timely case-studies,
SCOPE 2015 proposes the following sections as clusters
for more focused debates on the complex nexus
democracy-governance-identity (click on each title for
more details):
In addition to these, a special
pre-conference worskhop on Social Movements is
organized on the 7th of May to honour the work of
Professor Donatella DELLA PORTA (European
University Institute Florence, Italy), who will be
present for the occasion.
The conference also includes a special
workshop on the State of the Discipline in
relation to the topic of the general call, section
co-sponsored by the International
Political Science Association (IPSA/AISP) - Research
Committee 33 (The Study of Political Science as a
Discipline) and the European Confederation of Political
Science Associations (ECPSA).
The abstracts and the papers can be written in English
or French, except for the special pre-conference and
special workshops for which the working language will be
English.
The best papers may be considered for publication within
special journal issues or collective volumes with
partner publishers.
Registration:
Early bird registration (until 31 March)
Standard: 50 Euro | Junior scholar (i.e. doctoral
students): 30 Euro
Regular rates (after 31 March)
Standard: 75 Euro | Junior scholar (i.e. doctoral
students): 45 Euro
Submission deadline: 31.01.2015
Further details:
www.scienceofpolitics.eu
Contact:
scope@fspub.unibuc.ro
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