Borrowed Language: Remixes, Mash ups and Rip offs The new editorial team of the Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie invites submissions for its inaugural special issue on representations of others' talk and text. Specifically, this issue will focus on those shifting practices and perspectives that impinge on or challenge public and institutional discussions of borrowed language. The inter-animated workings of online discourse, renewed debates about copyright law and new sites of collaborative writing, alongside perennial concerns about student writing, suggest that conceptions of linguistic borrowing need further consideration. CJSDW/Rédactologie invites manuscripts of approximately 6,500 words that make a contribution to current theoretical frameworks about represented talk and text. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: . historical or cross-cultural studies of attitudes toward citation . computer mediated communication and its influences on represented speech practices . genre ventriloquism . represented speech/self and social media . co-optation/adaptation of community discourses . perspectives on originality in writing . reported speech and the stylistics of institutional identity . teaching reported speech and citation Papers should be submitted electronically, in msword .docx or .rtf format, to Jaclyn Rea, Editor-in-Chief, at jackrea@mail.ubc.ca. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2013. CJSDW/Rédactologie is a bilingual journal; we welcome manuscripts written in both French and English. Manuscripts should be free of indications of the author's identity. Please refer to the APA Handbook for style guidelines. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Publication is subject to editorial decision.
Day: January 7, 2013
Section “Democratic Innovations” – Call for Papers, deadline 1 February 2013
We would like to cordially invite you to submit a paper proposal to one of the ten panels of the section “Democratic Innovations” at the ECPR General Conference Bordeaux 4-7 September 2013.
You can find the panel list below and at the following URL, where you can also propose a paper: http://ecprnet.eu/Events/PanelList.aspx?EventID=5&SectionID=89
We and the panel chairs look forward to your proposals,
Peter H. Feindt (Cardiff University) and Carsten Herzberg (University of Potsdam)
(section chairs)
Panel list:
1 Historicizing deliberative democracy (chair: Paula Cossart, co-chair: Sandra M. Gustafson, discussant: Julien Talpin)
2 What explains (the absence of) participatory reforms? (chair: Joan Font, co-chair: Brigitte Geissel, discussant: Graham Smith)
3 The quality of deliberation – Theory and empirical evidence (chair: Irena Fiket, co-chair: Stefania Ravazzi)
4 Learning from Each Other: Democratic Innovation Research and Quality of Democracy Measurements (chair: Brigitte Geissel, Goethe University Frankfurt, co-chair: Quinton Mayne)
5 Discussing the Relation between Social Movements and Deliberative Democracy: Is there Countervailing Power in Europe? (chair: Carsten Herzberg, co-chair: Graham Smith, discussant: Giovanni Allegretti)
6 Mapping and measuring deliberative processes: Macro-micro interfaces (chair: André Bächtiger, co-chair: John Parkinson, University of Warwick)
7 Democratic Innovations through Direct Democracy: What is the Relation between Direct Democracy and Representative Democracy? (chair: Zoltán Tibor Pállinger, co-chair: Theo Schiller)
8 Roundtable on Democratic Innovation Research: The theoretical, methodological and practical challenges of the past, present and future (chair: Peter H. Feindt, co-chair: Mark Bevir)
9 Direct and Deliberative Democracy (chair: Norbert Kersting)
10 Democratic Innovation and Theories of Political Representation (chair: Samuel Hayat, co-chair: Charles Girard, discussant: Yves Sintomer)
Call for papers RC 21 Conference Berlin, 29-31 August 2013
Session organizer: Enrico Gualini, TU Berlin – Berlin University of Technology
The session addresses the issue of contestation and conflict in urban and metropolitan development in a twofold perspective: as a key to regaining the meaning of ‘the political’ in urban policy contexts, and as a potential resource for transformation and innovation of public policy.
Understanding antagonism and conflict as constitutive elements of social relations and as sources of its strength and ability to innovate has a long tradition in policy analysis and urban. The issue gains a new meaning, however, in relation to ‘post-democratic’ and ‘post-political’ practices that tend to fence-off pluralistic forms of political contestation from the domain of urban politics and urban development. In this sense, the issue requires to critically re-assess the relationships between ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ in urban contexts (e.g. Mouffe 2000; Rancière 2004, 2007).
A fundamental tension characterizes urban politics in this respect. On the one hand, its practices, discourses and institutions define a repertory of instruments and techniques, of dispositifs for defusing, domesticating and disciplining potentials for agonism. On the other hand, antagonism may develop and emerge at the margins of its practices, discourses and institutions, through the constitution of subject positions and collective forms of identification framed by and through its contestation. Urban politics hence co-defines the conditions for (ant-)agonism and the political opportunity structures for contentious actions and collective mobilization to emerge. Urban politics, far from possibly encompassing societal pluralism as far as to suppress the ‘the political’ and its antagonistic potential, stands in a mutual relationship with the latter, which requires to be analyzed in relational and co-evolutive terms.
The session attempts at critically combining these perspectives. Building on research on the dynamics of contentious politics and social mobilization (e.g. Melucci 1988; Tarrow 1998; McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly 2001; Tilly and Tarrow 2006), it proposes to explore insurgent contention and conflict in concrete urban policy situations along the following dimensions:
- the relationship between ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ as it is articulates at the micro-level of social interactions and political performativity;
- the different forms and trajectories this relationship takes according to the reflexivity of actors and groups involved and their strategies of mobilization and influence;
- the outcomes of this relationship, intended as emergent, relational and co-evolutive constructs, possibly with material and normative consequences.
We look forward to analyses of differentials trajectories of contention and, in particular, of their potential for shifting outcomes from polarized antagonism into agonistic pluralism, with consistent effects on redistribution of resources and powers and possibly of policy innovation.
The session encourages contributions inquiring into contention and conflict in urban development, highlighting aspects such as:
– the nature and mode of emergence of antagonistic movements in relationship to specific urban development policies and to the ‘policy regimes’ in which they are embedded;
– the trajectories taken by cycles of contention around urban developments in terms of their co-evolutive patterns in relationships to responses from the policy environment;
– the dynamics, mechanisms and conditions by which modes of contestation and conflict may develop from forms of antagonistic polarization into forms of local policy transformation and innovation.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January 2013. Please send your abstracts (300-500 words) to abstracts@rc21.organd to the session organizer Enrico Gualini, e.gualini@isr.tu-berlin.de
Please contact me for any questions. More information on the conference and the submission of abstracts can be found onhttp://www.rc21.org/conferences/berlin2013/