Citizenship and Democracy, France

Citizenship and Democracy: Membership, forms of participation, within and across European territories.

Call for:
papers
Deadline:
15/06/2010

The European Sociological Association’s Research Network on Political Sociology announces its first mid-term conference, to be held at the University of Lille 2 in France, 4-5 November 2010.

The aim of this mid-term conference will be to establish the evolutions of the links between members of political communities, the territories of authority, the evolving forms of democracy, and the ways in which the political is embedded in social, economic, and cultural contexts.

In particular, applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts on the following themes:
1) Territories and practiced citizenship from the local level to the transnational Euro-context:
local democracy, urban segregation and citizenship; citizenship and the nation-state; supranational and transnational forms of citizenship, etc.

2) New forms of participative democracy and transformations of representative democracy:
associations, interest groups, political networks, participation in the digital public sphere; political parties and the transformation of political cleavages in a European/global context, protest parties, electoral volatility and voting behavior, etc.

3) Migrants and citizenship in Europe:
urban segregation and different spheres of citizenship for migrants; representation of migrants in national party systems; (dissociation of) citizenship and nationality, citizenship and the crisis of national integration models; transnational mobilization and citizenship.

4) Populism in Europe:
populism, nationalism, euroscepticism, radical right parties in the new cleavage structure of national party systems, the electorate of radical right parties, etc.

Conference venue and organization
* The conference will be hosted by the CERAPS – Lille Center for Politics.
* To encourage participation by a broad range of early career researchers and experienced academics, there is no registration fee.
* Participants are asked to make their own travel arrangements and book accommodation.

Submission procedure
All interested participants should register by providing following information and document:
– name, position, affiliation with postal address, country, email address and dietary preferences;
– an abstract of 250 words.
All of the documents need to by submitted by 15th June 2010 to: rn32mtc2010@gmail.com

With any further queries contact Contact Virginie Guiraudon and Dietmar Loch at rn32mtc2010@gmail.com

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