CALL FOR PAPERS
The Centre for International Studies at LSE is organising a one-day international workshop aiming to bring together researchers and senior academics that study the role and importance of everyday life in social change.
The workshop aims to examine the role, function and significance of everyday life in world politics and economics. Most theoretical and empirical studies in mainstream social science focus on powerful social actors, official institutions and mechanisms, important policy decisions, milestone meetings/conferences/negotiations/treaties, and critical junctures. In this way, they tend to ignore everyday repetitions, patterns, practices, decisions or non-decisions. Yet, while these matters make no headline news, they define and determine these ‘big politics’ in a most profound way.
We invite theoretical or applied papers that attempt to:
- move the spotlight of political analysis from ‘big actors’ to ‘everyday people’ and from ‘milestone meetings and critical junctures’ to small everyday politics and practices that make possible the continuity and change of the nature of world politics and economics;
- break into the repetitive pattern of everyday life and explore its subjugating/emancipatory potentials, and its implications for political action and intervention at a national, international or global level.
- articulate an ontology of social repetition and everyday life, and examine what difference it makes for politico-economic action.
The workshop will take place: at LSE on Friday, May 11 2007
To submit a paper proposal:
please send an abstract (including your current position/affiliation and contact details) to
Dr Andreas Antoniades at A.Antoniades@lse.ac.uk.
The deadline for paper proposals:
is on Friday, February 9 (applicants will be notified by February 26). For any questions regarding the workshop please contact CIS at CIS@lse.ac.uk.
Some funds will be available to cover paper givers’ expenses.
Click here for Programme of the Conference and Paper Givers
The Workshop is Sponsored by:
International Political Sociology Section (IPS), ISA
International Political Economy Group (IPEG)
and
Contemporary Research in International Political Theory (CRIPT)
working groups of the
British International Studies Association (BISA)
The Director’s Fund, LSE
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
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