Abstract submission now open
"(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities"
13th European Sociological Conference
European Sociological Assocation
Athens, Greece, 29 August to 1 September 2017
http://www.europeansociology.org./conferences/13th-conference-2017/
Abstract submission via
https://www.conftool.pro/esa2017/
Abstract submission deadline: February 1, 2017
Invited speakers include David Harvey, Yanis Varoufakis, Donatella
della Porta, Eva Illouz, Hartmut Rosa, Silvia Federici, Ruth Wodak,
Gerard Delanty, Margaret Abraham, Maria Kousis, Markus Schulz,
Michel Wieviorka, and others.
The conference will feature keynote talks, invited semi-plenaries,
sessions by ESA's 37 thematic networks, 17 research streams, midday
specials, and a pre-conference PhD workshop. In addition, the ESA
conference provides for the first time the opportunity for submission of
abstracts to selected semi-plenary session topics. Such Semi-plenary
topics now open for submission include for example the themes
"(Un)Making Europe", "Un)Making Capitalism", "(Un)Making Solidarities",
"(Un)Making Subjectivities", and other topics.
Call details:
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before you start submission.
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Conference theme
"(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities"
Europe can be made or unmade, and this is especially true since the
‘Great Recession’ of 2008. European society, and even the very idea of
Europe, is under threat.
First, the inherent contradictions of capitalism are obviously
stronger than we thought: Greece, where the emphatic idea of
“Europe” originated, has experienced severe austerity measures; Europe
has seen a deepening of neo-liberal politics, threats to what remains of
the welfare state and increasing inequality.
Second, solidarities are fragmented in and between societies across
Europe. The new world economic crisis formed a context for both the
constitution and the undermining of solidarities. On the one hand, from
the Arab Uprisings to the various Occupy and Indignados movements and
their manifestations at the level of political parties we have
seen rebellions by citizens demanding political change. On the other
hand, refugees fleeing wars have been denied human rights and
their lives have been threatened by the closure of borders and the
lack of a coordinated European strategy.
Third, subjectivities are formed that do not only result in resistance
and protest, but also in apathy, despair, depression, and anxiety.
Authoritarianism, nationalism, racism, xenophobia, right-wing extremism,
spirals of violence, and ideological fundamentalisms have proliferated
throughout the world, including in Europe.
As a result, the promise of Europe and the geographical,
political, and social borders of Europe have been unmade and this
‘unmaking’ poses a profound challenge for sociology and the social
sciences more generally.
It is in this context that the European Sociological Association’s 2017
Conference takes place in Athens at the epicentre of the European
crisis. The underlying question for the conference is:
How and where to should a sociology that matters evolve? How can
sociology’s analyses, theories and methods, across the whole spectrum of
ESA’s 37 research networks and various countries, be advanced in
order to explain and understand capitalism, solidarities and
subjectivities in the processes of the making, unmaking and remaking of
Europe?
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