CALLS FOR PAPERS
Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and Political Subjectivities
Deadline for Submission: proposals by 30th September 2008; articles by 15th January 2009
Publication: December 2009
Editors: Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic and Dr. Bridget Anderson, University of Oxford
Authors are invited to address the importance of interrogating the modes of subjectivity engendered by the conditions of transnational mobility as well as discussing the ways in which migrants’ practices of mobility reconfigure political space for rethinking of citizenship and sovereignty and for advancing a more nuanced analysis of present configuration of power and its global contestations.
Send expressions of interest with a short proposal for possible contributions to Rutvica.Andrijasevic@compas.ox.ac.uk by 30th September 2008.
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Politics and the Unconscious
Deadline for submission: proposals by 16th March 2009; articles by 20 July 2009
Publication: April 2010
Editors:
Jason Glynos, University of Essex, UK
Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
This special issue aims to explore the unconscious dimension in politics, whether in the context of political practice or political theory. Of particular interest is the question of how to conceptualise the relationship between the unconscious and political subjectivity.
The issue will include an extended interview with Professor Ernesto Laclau, whose aim is to probe the role that Lacanian psychoanalysis plays in his recent work in political theory. But we strongly encourage the submission of papers which explore the unconscious dimension of politics from alternative psychoanalytic perspectives, as well as social-psychological and other perspectives.
Send expressions of interest with short proposal for possible contributions to yanstavr@yahoo.co.uk by 16 March 2009
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Neuroscience and Subjectivity
Deadline for submission: abstracts by 29th March 2009; articles by 8th January 2010
Publication: Summer 2011
Editors:
Dr. John Cromby, Loughborough UK: J.Cromby@lboro.ac.uk
Prof. Tim Newton, Exeter UK: t.j.newton@exeter.ac.uk
Prof. Simon Williams, Warwick UK: S.J.Williams@warwick.ac.uk
In this special issue, we invite contributors from both disciplines to explore the potentials of neuroscience with relation to the notion of subjectivity. Subjectivity is a term that potentially embraces the various phenomena indexed by terms such as consciousness, self and being. It refers to the way in which our being-in-the-world, our experience, our acquired ways of interpreting, feeling and acting, are already bound up with both the flux of social relations and the bodies that enact them.
Exploring the potentials of neuroscience with relation to subjectivity therefore means a joint emphasis on the body and the social, on the interpenetration and co-constitution of brain and culture. It is not that one can simply be the adjunct to the other, nor that one can always be subordinate or foundational to the other. Rather, what we seem to need is a nuanced exploration of the relative contribution of each in relation to the various moments, events and phenomena that constitute a life.
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