[AK.IPO] CfP EISA conference 2016 | S51: Tipping the Boundaries: World Society and the Politics of Differentiation

[Benjamin Wilhelm]

CALL FOR PAPERS


10th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Izmir, Turkey, 7-10
Sept 2016


S51: TIPPING THE BOUNDARIES: WORLD SOCIETY AND THE POLITICS OF
DIFFERENTIATION


This section explores the ways in which social differentiation unfolds in
world society by inquiring into the politics involved when boundaries are
drawn. To this end, the section focuses on the processes and logics of
Œco-production¹ of social order(s) and disciplinary forms of knowledge by
(re)tracing how boundaries are narrated, enacted and contested through the
politics of differentiation.


Narration thus constructs and potentially contests boundaries by carving up
the world into different objects, spaces, and subject positions. This
primary meaning-construction by narrative, however, regularly condenses into
more stable forms of classification, categorizations, or entire
technological and epistemic infrastructures that enact social spheres by
representing and intervening in them. Disciplines, such as History, Law,
Economics, Sociology, and International Relations, incorporate distinct
capacities to Œsee¹ the social fabric on a global scale. For this reason,
claims about the truth of their observations, their ability to (re)define or
their capacity for interconnecting are rooted in the politics of
differentiation within and between the respective disciplines. Mainstream
IR, for instance, has for long evoked ideas of anarchy and sovereign
equality resting on seemingly naturalized notions of inclusion and exclusion
within the discipline.


This section, in turn, sets out to Œtip the boundaries¹ in questioning how
such logics of differentiation have emerged as well as constitutively
impacted on (inter)disciplinarity and hence the production of knowledge in a
world society. Modes and patterns of differentiation in world society thus
do not simply follow spatial or functional lines, but depend on the ways in
which different knowledges are constructed and enacted. To understand such
practices and epistemes in and through which logics of differentiation are
established, normalized, sustained and potentially contested, this section
calls for contributions that are situated at the boundaries of disciplines
with the perspective of analyzing processes of connectivity and separation
which in their aggregate constitute the social epistemology of a world
society. 


The section is organized around four main themes. Each theme addresses a
privileged logic or process in relation to the constitutive effects of
politics of differentiation on the (re)production of disciplinary boundaries
within and beyond IR in the context of a world society: that is, narrating,
calculating, ruling and networking.

* Narrating IR: Histories and Emerging Identities in a World Society
* Calculating IR: Devices of Governmentality and Its Epistemic Practices
* 
* Ruling IR: Constituting Legality, Differentiating Legitimacy
* 
* Networking IR: The Politics of (Dis)Connectivity in a World Society



Deadline for submission of abstracts consisting of max. 200 words: *08
January 2016*
For submission please register here:
https://www.conftool.pro/paneuropean2016/
For more information visit: http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2016/
For any questions regarding this section please contact:
Zeynep Gulsah Capan (zgulsah at gmail.com) or Benjamin Wilhelm
(benjamin.wilhelm at uni-erfurt.de)



-- 
Benjamin Wilhelm, M.A.
Junior Research and Teaching Fellow
Chair of International Relations
Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
University of Erfurt
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt (Germany)

E: Benjamin.Wilhelm at uni-erfurt.de
H: www.uni-erfurt.de/en/ib/team/wilhelm



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