From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl Mon Jan 12 10:10:08 2009 From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:10:08 +0100 Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] CFP Frames metaphors discourses stories panel at ECPR Conference Potsdam 10-12 Sept 2009 Message-ID: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01FBBD5F@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl> CALL FOR PAPERS Interpretation in Policy Analysis: Frames, Metaphors, Discourses and Stories 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam 10 - 12 September, 2009 A panel in the section: Critical Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, and Methods http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/panel_details.asp?panelID=265 Deadline: 1 February 2009 PANEL CHAIRS: Merlijn van Hulst Dvora Yanow Tilburg University Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam M.J.vanHulst at uvt.nl d.yanow at fsw.vu.nl Interpretive and other policy analysts have long used the concepts of frame, metaphor, discourse and story in understanding meaning-making in policy situations and settings. Nevertheless, the ways in which these concepts relate, both as empirical phenomena and as theoretical constructs, have not gotten the attention they deserve. Is a frame a sort of story with a metaphor at its core, which is part of larger construct called discourse (Sch?n and Rein)? Or is a frame a more abstract set of beliefs and meanings (Snow and Benford) and a metaphor, a mini-narrative (Mottier)? Is discourse a social constructivist concept while frames are more realist (Howarth)? Or is the key to their relationships to be found in what they do, as opposed to what they are, i.e., drawing attention to some aspects of reality and away from others? For this panel we invite proposals for papers that tease out and contemplate the relationships between or among these four concepts (or at least among a couple of them) by looking at their ontological and/or epistemological status, their actual application, and their potential uses. 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Conversely, the uncertainties created by globalisation processes have triggered new divisions and antagonisms, which in some cases produce desperate attempts to maintain old or create new differences. Some of the questions this conference will address are the following: * can the dissolution of institutional structures and of cognitive and symbolic markers of certainty be met by abstract formulas such as modernisation, secularisation, state centralisation, or globalisation? * Is the ambivalence of liminality to be overcome from 'outside' by models of development and the disciplining power of norms, or does the liminal experience produce new ideas, meanings, and values from within? * Are liminal situations anarchical, chaotic, and irrational because they do not fit the rationally constructed forms of social equilibrium? * Is it possible that liminality itself carries internal logics, where the intensified emotions, social magic, and the reversal of hierarchies leads to transformation of conciousness, develops new ideas, and creates new symbols? * What is the extent to which aspects of the contemporary, taken for granted social, political, economic or cultural institutions are themselves products of liminal situations? -- Dr Harald Wydra Official Fellow of St Catharine's College Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences Faculty of Social and Political Sciences University of Cambridge 12, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RL Tel: +44-1223-767265 (faculty) Tel: +44-1223-337856 (college) Fax: +44-1223-767278 e-mail: hbw23 at cam.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hierarchies. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), she analyzes the values and ideologies ensconced in the various images of black womanhood and their impact on policy formation. This book provides exceptional insight into the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women. Julia S. Jordan-Zachery Director of Black Studies Assistant Professor of Political Science Providence College 549 River Avenue Providence, RI 02918 Phone: 401-865-2083 E-mail: jjordanz at providence.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/interpretationandmethods/attachments/20090116/e7a33461/attachment.html From jhuns at vt.edu Thu Jan 22 13:43:56 2009 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:43:56 -0500 Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] cfp: ISTC conference, "Re-Visioning the Future: Modernity between Utopia and Dystopia, 5/21-23 Message-ID: <880E3FDF-F6BB-4F67-94F2-EB75AD8E7FAC@vt.edu> Distribute as appropriate -jh Call for Papers International Social Theory Consortium SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 20, 2009 Since the 1980s, social theorists have become increasingly reluctant to relate constructively to the future of western societies, modern democracy, and human civilization. Both in the social sciences and the humanities, postmodernist critics highlighted the affinity between utopianism and forms of totalitarianism. As a consequence, social theorists refrained from recognizing as part of their unique responsibility efforts to refine existing and to delineate new perspectives on the future. Social Theorists began to pay focused attention to problematic patterns of thought that need to be overcome, in order to reduce the odds that the kind of socially, politically and economically induced catastrophes that influenced the direction of historical change during the twentieth century will recur?both directly and indirectly, positively and negatively. Yet whether we appreciate it or not, in the context of globalization, the imminence of change has pushed itself aggressively to the forefront of social-theoretical concerns. The inevitability of change is inescapable, and its centrality to modern civilization undeniable. Concordantly, the imperative to engage in informed and critically reflexive discourses about the kind of world we will, should, or might live in, continues to increase rapidly. The conference will serve to facilitate interdisciplinary exchange relating to the continuing challenge of capturing the warped nature of modernity at the intersection of the past and the future and of utopia and dystopia. Organizer: Harry F. Dahms (Sociology) Co-Organizers: Steven P. Dandaneau (Sociology) Allen R. Dunn (English and Religion) Papers accepted for inclusion in the program will be considered for publication in Current Perspectives in Social Theory (ed. Harry F. Dahms) or Soundings. An Interdisciplinary Journal (ed. Allen R. Dunn). The organizers welcome proposals on any topic in social theory, and request submission of abstracts (between 150-250 words), 5-page outlines, papers, or proposals for sessions. Papers will receive preferred consideration. For list of conference theme-related topics, submission deadline, and registration fee, see the full call below: > full call: http://web.utk.edu/~hdahms/ISTC2009/ISTC2009CallforPapers.pdf The conference will be hosted by the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, May 21-23 of 2009. It is the 8th annual conference of the International Social Theory Consortium. Recent meetings have taken place in Singapore, Dubrovnick, Lexington, KY, Toronto, Tampa and Sussex. The submission deadline for proposals is March 20, 2009. From jhuns at vt.edu Fri Jan 23 09:13:20 2009 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:13:20 -0500 Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities Message-ID: <66520B96-4ED3-4454-B305-129C82F22E08@vt.edu> apologies for x-posting, distribute as appropriate -jh CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities Special issue of the journal Learning Inquiry (http://www.springerlink.com/content/120592/ ) Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger Papers Due: May 15th 2009 Please contact the editor to discuss topics at jhuns.(@)vt.edu (remove brackets) In the last 20 years, the learning infrastructures of the social sciences and humanities have transformed dramatically toward a more plural set of practices, methods, systems, and tools. In this issue, we are looking for contributions from social informatics, humanistic informatics, cultural informatics, digital humanities, internet studies, design research, media studies, and related fields dealing with the learning infrastructures. I am seeking papers that deal empirically, analytically and/or critically with the learning infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities. Cyberinfrastructures, physical infrastructures and organizational infrastructures have been transformed through the politics, economics, and technologies surrounding our learning infrastructures. Learning infrastructures are part of professors and students scholarly experiences everyday. These infrastructures are part of how students begin their engagement with the social sciences and humanities and perhaps become part of how they maintain that engagement throughout their lives. Beyond our professors, departments, centers and institutes, our learning infrastructures are mediating our disciplinarity and interdisciplinarities to our students. In short, learning infrastructures are a part of how students learn to be scholars in various disciplines and citizens in the world-at-large. Part of the debate surrounding learning infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities is the over/under-definition and over/ underdetermination of terms such as learning and infrastructure in disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses. In this CFP, I want to encourage papers that help to define and critically engages those terms. Possible topics: ? Transformation of institutions in relation to learning infrastructures ? New methods, new understandings in the social sciences and humanities related to learning infrastructures ? New disciplines, interdisciplines and transdisciplines and learning infrastructures ? Political economics of learning infrastructures ? Ethics, norms, and politics surrounding learning infrastructures ? Openness and/or closedness in learning infrastructures ? Social/Cultural/Informatics informatics and learning infrastructures ? New directions for learning infrastructures based on social sciences and humanities ? Cultural environmentalism and learning infrastructures ? Knowledge/Design ecologies and learning infrastructures Review process will be double blind peer review following editorial selection. We expect to place fewer than 8 papers in this special issue. We would prefer papers between 4000-16000 words. Papers should be submitted tohttp://www.editorialmanager.com/linq/ Please contact the editor to discuss your paper and/or when you submit your paper. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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