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Call for Papers -
(Dis)orders of Credit
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Oslo, Norway
27-28, January 2011
Deadline for abstracts: 27 May 2010
Call for Papers - 2011 Association of American Geographers
Climate change and security
Seattle, WA
April 12-16, 2011
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2010
Call for Papers- 2011 ISA Annual Convention
Panel on Global governmentality, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction
Montreal, Canada
16-19 March 2011
Deadline for abstracts: 27 May 2010
Call for Papers- SGIR 7th Pan‐European Conference on IR
Section on Biopolitics, Governmentality, Circulation
Stockholm, Sweden
9-11 September 2010
Deadline for abstracts (revised): 28 Feb. 2010
Book Launch- After the Globe, Before the World
R.B.J. Walker click here
(September 2009)
This book explores the implications of claims that the most challenging political problems of our time express an urgent need to reimagine where and therefore what we take politics to be. It does so by examining the relationship between modern forms of politics (centred simultaneously within individual subjects, sovereign states and an international system of states) and the (natural, God-given or premodern) world that has been excluded in order to construct modern forms of political subjectivity and sovereign authority.
It argues that the ever-present possibility of a world outside the international both sustains the structuring of relations between inclusion and exclusion within the modern internationalized political order and generates desires for escape from this order to a politics encompassing a singular humanity, cosmopolis, globe or planet that are doomed to disappointment. On this basis, the book develops a critique of prevailing traditions of both political theory and theories of international relations. It especially examines what it might now mean to think about sovereignties, subjectivities, boundaries, borders and limits without automatically reproducing forms of inclusion and exclusion, or universality and particularity, expressed in the converging but ultimately contradictory relationship between international relations and world politics.
Call for articles: Diecisiete Journal of 17 Instituto de Estudios Criticos
Special Edition on Biopolitics
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2010
Publication Date: March 2011
Invited Editor: Vanessa Lemm (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile).
Since Foucault’s initial work on “biopolitics”, the relation between life and politics has become of increasing significance in the contemporary debate in philosophy and in the social sciences. As an area of research and as a concept, biopolitics has received diverse and at times opposed applications in the works of Antonio Negri, Roberto Esposito, Giorgio Agamben, Nikolas Rose, among others. This year the journal /Diecisiete teoría crítica, cultura, psicoanálisis/ intends to dedicate a dossier on biopolitics with the aim of analyzing both the exploitation and administration of biological life as a form of power, and of proposing alternative conceptions of politics that allow biological life to escape or resist its domination. We are interested in receiving contributions that address both modalities of biopolitics from a variety of disciplinary points of view.
Please send article manuscripts (max. 10.500 words) to vanessa.lemm@udp.cl
All articles will be reviewed. Articles can also be submitted in English, French and German (selected articles will be translated for publication in Spanish).
For more information and to download the format of the bibliography/citation, see www.biopolitica.cl, www.17.edu.mx
Book Launch- Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty
Stuart Elden click here
(November 2009)
Today’s global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the relationship between territory and sovereignty is under siege. Unfolding an updated understanding of the concept of territory, Stuart Elden shows how the contemporary “war on terror” is part of a widespread challenge to the connection between the state and its territory.
Although the importance of territory has been disputed under globalization, territorial relations have not come to an abrupt end. Rather, Elden argues, the territory/sovereignty relation is being reconfigured. Traditional geopolitical analysis is transformed into a critical device for interrogating hegemonic geopolitics after the Cold War, and is employed in the service of reconsidering discourses of danger that include “failed states,” disconnection, and terrorist networks.
Looking anew at the “war on terror”; the development and application of U.S. policy; the construction and demonization of rogue states; events in Lebanon, Somalia, and Pakistan; and the wars continuing in Afghanistan and Iraq, Terror and Territory demonstrates how a critical geographical analysis, informed by political theory and history, can offer an urgently needed perspective on world events
Book Launch- The Biopolitics of the War on Terror
Julian Reid click here
Manchester University Press is delighted to announce that Julian Reid's acclaimed book, The biopolitics of the war on terror, is now available in paperback.
"The war against terror is widely represented as a conflict in which societies tasked with achieving security for human life are imperilled by an enemy dedicated to destroying the conditions for the flourishing of human life. The enemy is not simply one that is motivated against the interests of common humanity, but an enemy which, in being so driven, resorts to subhuman tactics, and which therefore requires, paradoxically, a less than human response in defence of the integrity of human life. Against such understandings, this book demonstrates why this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life, but a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are being outright rejected. The future of humanity is indeed at stake in this conflict, but only in the sense that its resolution depends now on our abilities to exceed the horizons of existing understandings of what defines human life and its political potentialities. Building on the works of Foucault, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Virilio and Negri, this book examines the possibilities for such a movement. What forms might life take, it asks, when liberal understandings of humanity are no longer understood as horizons to strive for, but impositions against which life must struggle in order to restore its integrity? What forms does life assume when war against liberal regimes becomes the determinate condition of its possibility? Answers to such questions are pressing, this book argues, if we earnestly desire an escape from the current impasses of a war on terror."
ISA 2010, Call for Papers:
"Foucault and Civil Society" click here
Contributions are invited for a proposed panel on Foucault and Global Civil Society to be convened during the International Studies Association Annual Convention in New Orelans, February 17-20, 2010.
Book Launch- The Liberal Way of War
Michael Dillon and Julian Reid click here
"The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of species being; what the book calls 'the biohuman'.
Tracking the advent of the age of life-as-information - complex, adaptive and emergent - while contrasting biopolitics with geopolitics, the book details how and why the liberal way of rule wages war on the human in the cause of instituting the biohuman. Contingent and emergent, the biohuman is however continuously also becoming-dangerous to itself. It therefore requires constant surveillance to anticipate the threats it presents to its own flourishing.
The book explains how, in making life live, liberal rule finds its expression, today, in making the biohuman live the emergency of its emergence. Thus does liberal peace become the continuation of war by other means. Just as the information and molecular revolutions have combined to transform liberal military-strategic thinking so also has it contributed to the discourse of global danger through which global liberal governance currently legitimates the liberal way of war."
The Regulation, Security and Justice Research Centre
launch September 2008
University of Manchester School of Law
For further details please contact the Centre Director Dr. Toby Seddon toby.seddon@manchester.ac.uk
Job Vacancies at PRIO
Senior Research Associate vacancies at International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) click here
Book Launch - Foucault on Politics, Security and War
Edited by Michael Dillon and Andrew W. Neil click here
February 2009
"This diverse collection of essays is the first to specifically engage Michel Foucault on questions of politics, security and war. It is also the first to take up the provocations found in Michel Foucault’s recently published Collège de France lectures, particularly Society Must Be Defended, Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of biopolitics. The contributors reassess the way Foucault worked experimentally and in collaboration and dialogue with others. In so doing, the essays pursue lines of enquiry that Foucault briefly extolled but did not exhaust, and take him in directions that he could not have foreseen, including the War on Terror, risk, biosecurity and biopolitics, AIDS, racial and ethnic conflict, and the critique of law. Foucault on Politics, Security and War is an essential contribution to Foucault scholarship and also poses wider challenges to political theory, international relations, security studies and legal theory."
ISA 2009, International Political Sociology call for papers:
"Global Governmentality and Sovereign Exceptionality" click hereNew sciences of protection: designing safe living
IAS Annual Research Programme 2007-2008
second call for paper click here
Doctoral fellowship in risk studies
Small Grant Award
Book Launch - Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror
Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror Living, Dying, Surviving Cristina Masters and Elizabeth Dauphinee http://www.palgrave.com/products/results.aspx?k=Cristina+Masters http://www.palgrave.com/products/results.aspx?k=Elizabeth+Dauphinee
Julian Reid's book 'The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies' has been launched
Manchester University Press, Reappraising the Political Series (Jon Simons and Simon Tormey eds.) December 2006, 0-7190-7405-3 The biopolitics of the war on terror 234x156mm 192pp.Call for papers
Submissions for issue no. 5 of Foucault Studies, to be published in September 2007 are now being accepted.Call for papers
Papers are being called for a "Biopolitics and the Philosophy of the Event" panel to take place during the ECPR Conference in Pisa, 6-8 Sept. 2007Site launch
The BPS Network website was launched on 30 November 2006 with the participation of 50 academics of varied disciplines and countries.
