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Liebe KollegInnen,<br>
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ich möchte Sie auf untenstehenden Call aufmerksam machen.<br>
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Mit herzlichen Grüßen,<br>
Joscha Wullweber<br>
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Dr Joscha Wullweber
University of Kassel
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of "Globalization & Politics"
Nora-Platiel-Str. 1
D-34127 Kassel, Germany
Phone + 49 (0) 561 804-7367
Fax + 49 (0) 561 804-3464
Mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joscha.wullweber@uni-kassel.de">joscha.wullweber@uni-kassel.de</a></pre>
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</b><b>Re-thinking critique - recent economic crises and new paths
in critical IPE?!</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ipa2013.univie.ac.at/home/">https://ipa2013.univie.ac.at/home/</a><br>
<b>Panel at 8th International Interpretive Policy Analysis
Conference (IPA) 2013: Societies in Conflict: Experts, Publics and
Democracy, Vienna, 3-5 July 2013Panel chairs: Antonia Graf, Joscha
Wullweber</b><br>
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Discussant: Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna), Bob Jessop
(University of Lancaster, tbc)<br>
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A critical and interpretative perspective in IPE is marked by the
assumption of the economic sphere being socially and politically
produced. Since there is an ongoing negotiation on how to define
economic reality, some critical perspectives conceptualize the
economy as a specific social relation separated from other social
spheres by contradictory and conflictual social practices. The
omnipresent vocabulary of crises constitutes a language of conflict,
failure and threat and seems to enclose not only parts of the
economy, but more and more the democratic system itself.<br>
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The critical in IPE faces an ambivalent situation of transformation
and rigor. On the one hand the current economic crisis does not lead
to a politico-economic and/or theoretical change, despite of the
fact that orthodox economic theories failed in explaining the
reasons of the crisis. On the other hand current social and
political developments strongly interrogate the adequacy of (parts
of) the economic system. With (new) forms of protest forming up
across Europe, traditional alliances and processes of policy-making
appear to erode, generating a need for alternative belief systems.<br>
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Critical, constructivist and post-structuralist scholars have always
worked on pointing out alternatives to mainstream economic theory.
But, how do current discourses and practices of crisis reformulate
contexts in which the critical occurs? Is it necessary to
reformulate the form and content of critique?<br>
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The panel wants to inspire the discussion on how to re-think the
critical in times of crisis. It invites theoretical and empirical
contributions tackling questions like: For what reasons are orthodox
economic narratives still almost unquestionable, despite the fact,
that neo-liberal forms of economic governance proved to produce an
increasing number of crises with devasting social consequences? If
mainstream economic theory has shown its weakness with alternatives
still not being established in discourse – do we have to think about
the addressee for critique anew? Which mechanisms stabilize and/or
destabilize daily practices, belief systems, and established
knowledge? Is the economic crisis also a crisis of democracy? Where
do alternative forms of governance techniques come from and how do
they work?<br>
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<b>Deadline for paper submission: 28. Februar 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ipa2013.univie.ac.at/home/">https://ipa2013.univie.ac.at/home/</a></b><br>
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Dr. Joscha Wullweber, Kassel University, Nora-Platiel-Str. 1, 34127
Kassel, +49-561 804-7367, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joscha.wullweber@uni-kassel.de">joscha.wullweber@uni-kassel.de</a><br>
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Antonia Graf, M.A., Münster University, Scharnhorststr. 100, 48151
Münster, +49-251 83-29355, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:antoniag@uni-muenster.de">antoniag@uni-muenster.de</a><br>
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