CALL FOR PAPERS
JOINT ISA-C/ CPSA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (IR) SECTION
MONTREAL, JUNE 1-3, 2010, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Deadline for proposals: 3 November 2009
Online submission form:
ENGLISH: http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/webprop/index.asp?
FRANCAIS: http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/webprop/index.asp?
Please submit under the International Relations section of the CPSA’s online submission form. Panel proposals are strongly encouraged. Individual or panel proposals can also be submitted to one of the following workshops:
WORKSHOP 4
TITLE: Global Crisis, Global Response
There is arguably no more ubiquitous challenge confronting international studies today than understanding the origins, ramifications, and implications of the current global economic crisis. While the crisis is financial in origin, its repercussions have been wide-ranging, spilling over into questions of, for example, governance, development and inequality, environment and sustainability, and security. The workshop will begin by engaging the financial dimensions of the crisis, but will invite analyses of its multiple manifestations, thereby welcoming participants from various sub-fields of international studies. It will be explicitly concerned with both theoretical and policy-oriented questions, and with understanding the historical origins, contemporary consequences, and future possibilities (both creative and destructive) associated with the crisis.
The workshop will be organized around five panels reflecting key themes emerging from the paper proposals submitted for consideration for the workshop. These panels will bring together doctoral candidates, junior academics, and senior scholars.
WORKSHOP 5:
TITLE: Canadian Critical Security Studies: Present Productions and Future Directions
Critical security studies has become a growing area of interest that is bringing together a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches to bear on the ubiquitous deployment of security discourses and practices in the post-9-11 world. This workshop is designed to bring scholars working in Critical Security Studies in Canada together to assess the state of this area of research in the Canadian scholarly community, address the potential of collaborative spaces for this community, as well as the future networking possibilities of the community with work in other disciplines and other countries.
In part, this is an identification of a group of scholars (whether or not working in the actual territory of Canada) that do not completely fit with, for example, the c.a.s.e. collective, the Paris or Copenhagen School. Within Political Science/IR, there are a number of venues for the publication of CSS – International Political Sociology; Security Dialogue; Alternatives – further afield: Geopolitics, Security Studies, Surveillance and Society, Body and Society, Critical Studies on Terrorism, the Journal of Power etc. But, these venues do not speak to the set of concerns or concepts that seem to form the core of Canadian Critical Security Studies such a the body; refugees; migration and borders; risk; global governance, empire and international organizations; intervention and state building; human security; aboriginal, postcolonial and feminist readings of security. At the moment, there are a number of loose networks that are loosely inter-conscious and there is a nascent institutionalization in the form of the Canadian Critical Security Studies website (http://criticalsecurity.ca/).
A number of workshops have emerged in the past few years from different venues that highlight some of these different networks. The proposed workshop for the 2010 CPSA seeks to contribute to this by creating a series of panels that would enable the presentation of current research, as well as roundtables to assess the present state of critical security studies in Canada and possible future directions and collaborations.
ISA-C/ CPSA IR SECTION Co-chairs
Marc Doucet (Saint Mary’s University) marc.doucet@smu.ca
Miguel de Larrinaga (University of Ottawa) mlarrina@uottawa.ca
