6th CEU Conference in Social Sciences
“Social Science Perspectives on Global Transformations and Social Change”
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
16-18 April, 2010
Panel: Changing boundaries of political membership
Before tackling specific problems related to democratic politics, we need to address fundamental questions about the substance of the demos (who is the demos?). It is intriguing that at the very (historical) roots of democracy- classical Greece, a fine democratic model went hand in hand with gross inequalities and forthright exclusions (e.g. women, metecs). Far from being a malady of the beginning, comparable exclusionary practices continue to characterize democracies to this day.
The panel aims at tackling problems related to internal and external boundaries of (democratic) political membership. Unlike more traditional approaches, it proposes to take into account both dimensions of ill-defined boundaries: under-inclusion (foreigners inside), and over-inclusion (members outside).
We welcome papers that maintain focus on political membership while addressing various issues, such as: immigration and (non)political incorporation, emigration and external membership, diasporas and co-ethnic citizenship, new geographies of membership (global, post-, trans-, etc.) We encourage approaches that combine theoretical and empirical ‘material’, while employing various methodologies (case
studies, comparative studies, historical method, empirically-informative normative analyses, etc.).
If you are interested in contributing to this panel, please send an abstract (max. 300 words), along with a short cv at costica.dumbrava@eui.eu by February 1st 2010.
You can read the general conference announcement at:
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/PolSciJournal/
Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!
