Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Fwd: A message from ECPR Standing Group on
Political Sociology
Tommaso Vitale
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> From: "www3.unil.ch" <philip.balsiger@???>
> Date: 12 décembre 2013 09:15:01 UTC+1
> To: philip.balsiger@???
> Subject: A message from ECPR Standing Group on Political Sociology
> Reply-To: Philip Balsiger <philip.balsiger@???>
>
> Dear fellow political sociologists,
>
> As you probably know, the ECPR has now shifted to an annual conference format,
> which means that the next general conference will already take place in 2014.
>
> Please find below and on the standing group's website (www.unil.ch/ecpr-polsoc)
> our section proposal which has been approved by ECPR for the 2014 Glasgow
> meeting. Begin thinking now if you would like to chair one of the panels and/or
> submit a paper to present in one of the panels. Also begin thinking of others
> who might be interested in submitting papers.
>
> You can send your ideas to David Swartz (Boston University) at dswartz@???,
> Goffredo Adinolfi (Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia – CIES,
> Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) (www.goffredoadinolfi.net), and Hans-Jorg
> Trenz, University of Copenhagen,
> h.j.trenz@???
>
>
> Section title: THE EURO CRISIS: NEW SOCIO-POLITICAL DIVISIONS, MOBILITY AND
> MOBILIZATION
>
> The current Euro crisis is receiving considerable attention – as it should –
> among EU scholars. Much of that attention, however, focuses on the origins and
> nature of this crisis, and its consequences for reshaping financial and
> political institutions. Yet the long term socio-political costs and
> consequences of crisis are becoming more apparent. From a political sociology
> perspective it is now time to appraise these long term developments that affect
> the political constellation of Europe, its structured diversity of political
> cultures, political instability, social unrest and new inequalities. In the
> fifth year of crisis we therefore invite contributions that assess the social
> and political consequences for future European integration or disintegration
> and outline the political and normative challenges ahead. Those consequences can
> be seen in cross-border migrations and mobilizations, diversity and
> multicultural considerations, social exclusion and stratification, loss of
> confidence (growing political skepticism) in mainstream institutions (parties,
> trade unions, parliaments) , and resurgent cultural and political localisms that
> challenge the principles underpinning representative democracy.
>
> Crisis induced social constraints and conflicts test the capacity of the
> political system (both nation state and EU) to respond to the needs and demands
> of society. Contemporary political sociology of Europe is concerned with the
> contestation of legitimacy across societies and political systems. From a
> political sociology perspective, the ‘European crisis’ has an
> extraordinarily high potential for generating deep and ongoing conflicts about
> European integration within and across national domestic politics. It has fueled
> debate over the authority of the state and of transnational regimes of
> governance. It has pit northern countries against southern ones, citizens
> against elites. It has also fundamentally put into question the efficiency and
> morality of the European free market and its capacity to guarantee welfare,
> sustainable growth, and equal distribution of goods and benefits. These
> contestations are carried by public intellectuals, political parties and a
> growing number of protest movements in different national arenas leading to
> various allegiances and frictions. Political conflicts are also channeled
> through different media outlets, amplifying and interconnecting perceptions of
> interests, identity and solidarity.
>
> This section will organize 6-8 panels around these topics. We invite
> contributions that consider various kinds of social consequences and /or
> investigate the restructuring of political order and legitimacy in the
> relationship between member states and the EU.
>
> Panel 1: Governance beyond the nation-state: What are the prospects and limits
> for the allocation of authority and decision-making capacities beyond the
> nation-state?
>
> Panel 2: Conflict and new cleavages: how are experiences of social deprivation
> translated into political conflict and cleavages? How does the
> (re)politicization of inequalities and the return of redistributive conflicts
> correlate with a ‘new politics of identity’, nationalism, regionalism and
> expressions of Euroscepticism?
>
> Panel 3: Democracy, rights and legitimacy: What are the roots of the current
> lack of legitimacy of Europe? How can the requirements of democratic
> participation and rights in today’s situation of globalized politics be met?
> Can the idea of popular sovereignty be valid in a transnational context of
> governance? What type of democratic responses do we observe in reaction to the
> crisis of welfare and governance?
>
> Panel 4: Intra EU-migration: a reappraisal of EU citizenship? How has the Euro
> crisis exposed the asymmetries of European citizenship and the differences that
> divide the peoples of Europe? How can mobile citizens make use of EU
> citizenship rights as a strategy of resilience against crisis induced negative
> consequences?
>
> Panel 5: New media and new patterns of mobilization: how are new (digital)
> media used as a resource of support, resistance and/or civic engagement of
> particular groups? How can we account of the new discursive and mediating
> practices of political legitimation that interrelate political elites with the
> citizens?
>
> Panel 6: Political skepticism (loss of trust) in European institutions: How has
> crisis affected public attitudes and perceptions of legitimacy and identity in a
> transnational, comparative perspective? How is Euroscepticism manifested in
> national and 2014 European Parliament elections?
>
> We are looking forward to hearing from you and organizing interesting panels and
> paper discussions in Glasgow,
>
> The section organizers
>
