Category: Interim Conferences

RC36 Interim conference, University of Helsinki Friday 23rd – Saturday 24th October 2015 For its 2015 Interim Meeting, RC36 met for two days at the University of Helsinki to explore ‘The Gestalts of Power’. Papers were organised into four thematic panels – ‘The language of power or the power of language’; ‘The history of power or the power of history’; The power of globalization or the globalization of power’; and ‘The power of governmentality or the governmentality of power’. Papers were presented by: Erkki Berndtson, Philip Cerny, Mark Haugaard, Anu Kantola, Valeri Ledyaev, Nanna Mik-Meyer, Louwrens Pretorius, Kevin Ryan, Alina…

Dear RC 36 members here is our on Legitimacy and Power panel at APSA this August/September 2017. If you are there, please check it out. Panel Details RC 36 Theme: All authority requires some legitimacy to rule without excessive force. This panel explores the power that legitimacy lends to authority in its many manifestations. The objective of this panel will be to try and look at the legitimacy of authority from a multidisciplinary perspective. Here is the APSA Conference Theme 2017 APSA AM Theme Statement

Dear RC 36 Members, We are planning an interim conference in Pavia Italy on the days of May 30,31 2017. Pamela Pansardi has generously offered to host the conference at the University of Pavia. We already have some proposals, and are looking forward to many more. Here is the theme below. THE DEADLINE for proposals is NOVEMBER 15, 2016. As usual, a title and short abstract will be sufficient. Please send your paper proposals to Mathilde Chatin and Pamela Pansardi at pamela.pansardi@unipv.it mathilde.chatin@gmail.com The Power of Narrative The study of power has traditionally been grounded in action and capabilities. However,…

RC36 Interim conference, National University of Ireland Galway Friday 27th – Saturday 28th September 2013 With a very full programme of papers, the 2013 interim meeting proved to be two full days of rich and sustained discussion on the theme of ‘Power with’, ‘power to’, and ‘power over’. Papers were presented by: Amy Allen, Philip Cerny, Colette Harris, Mark Haugaard, Jonathan Hearn, Barbara Kunz, Valeri Ledyaev, Peter Morriss, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Noel Parker, Lena Partzsch, Jenny Pearce, Pamela Pensardi, David Strecker, and Kevin Ryan We are grateful for the support of the School of Political Science & Sociology at NUIG…

Participants at the 2010 Interim Meeting, Soeterbeeck RC36 held its 2010 interim meeting from April 15th – 18th at Soeterbeeck in the Netherlands. Despite complications arising as a result of the volcanic event in Iceland at that time, most participants made it to Soeterbeeck and the group enjoyed intense and stimulating discussion during the meeting. Fourteen papers were presented and discussed during seven sessions, which were organised around the following themes: Theme 1: Power and Crisis: Structure and ConjunctureEmpirical researchers and theorists are invited to engage in critical reflection on the relationship between power and crisis – theories of crisis;…

Mark Haugaard (National University of Ireland, Galway) re-interprets the three-dimensional power debate through the lens of Arendt’s concept of concerted power (“Power over and democracy”). He argues that power (power over) constitutes a duality whereby the very same process which leads to domination, also constitutes conditions of possibility for democracy, thus normatively desirable. If power over is not purely coercive but based on structural constraints that support democratic practices (concerted power) it should not be explained in terms of violence, domination and zero-sum game. Structural content of concerted power entails that the subject of power is not a means to…