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The last two ISA Canada/CPSA conferences have seen an increased interest and production of critical security scholarship. Building on the success of last year’s workshop in Canadian Critical Security Studies, this call for papers is intended to consolidate some of this scholarship along a number of issue clusters identified as being part of a Canadian critical security sensibility. In order to further institutionalize and foster Canadian Critical Security Studies we are looking for panels or papers along the following issue clusters:

• a concern with the post-colonial, including First Nations
• environmental and ecological security,
• issues surrounding the border, refugees, immigration, and multiculturalism
• questions of governance, risk, and organization
• human security and development

or fully formed panels that address security critically that go beyond the presented themes.

Paper abstracts of 250 words along with ISA-C/CPSA required information regarding institutional affiliation should be submitted by October 29^th with the aim of meeting the deadline of November 3rd^.. Please send abstracts for panels or papers to the Canadian Critical Security Studies Network at info@criticalsecurity.ca

Call for Papers

SGIR 7^th Pan-European Conference on IR, Stockholm, Sweden, 9-11 September 2010

Section on Biopolitics, Governmentality, Circulation

There have been recent important critical and policy discussions on borders, migration and circulation within international political sociology and critical security studies. The newly released publication and translation of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, have inspired a burgeoning production of studies on governmental rationalities and political technologies that take security as a form of management of contingency. An assessment of this new scholarship indicates both a tension between biopolitical and governmental studies and between migration and mobility with respect to the relations between politics, space, knowledge, and power. This set of panels seeks to address how the rationalities of government involved in these relations and practices all advocate a reorientation towards the idea of circulation. In particular, this section investigates the management of borders and population through the frame of circulation. We are especially interested in: mapping mobilities and the assemblages of their control; the interface between technology, identity, citizenship and populations; the international dynamics of the management of bodies through surveillance; the field of public-private and corporate actors in the management of circulation. We encourage contributions on methodological, theoretical and empirical questions: what are the challenges of field research in these areas? Are ethnological/sociological methods appropriate? What are the tensions between foucauldian, deleuzian and bourdieusian approaches to this? What are the issues of scales and space using these approaches? How do racial, gender, class and colonial structures influence these processes?

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International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies

University of Sussex

25-26 February 2010

This is the opening workshop for an International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies-a joint initiative between The Open University, University of Edinburgh and University of Sussex. The Collaboratory aims to organize an international laboratory for critical methods for security studies and to stimulate collaborative research and writing as a method of critical security studies. Planned activities between October 2009 and 2011 include two workshops and a training school as well as ongoing debate and knowledge exchange via a collaborative research website.

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