[IPO] CfP EWIS 2016 | Living the "new normal": Post-crisis politics of money, debt and time

[Joscha Wullweber]

Liebe KollegInnen,

vielleicht stößt der CfP unten auf Ihr Interesse. Abstracts müssen bis 
zum 2. Oktober über die EWIS Homepage eingereicht werden.

Herzlich
Joscha Wullweber



Call for Papers
3rd European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS)
Tübingen, Germany, 6-8 April 2016

(WS R) Living the "new normal":
Post-crisis politics of money, debt and time

Workshop conveners:
Joscha Wullweber, Benjamin Wilhelm, Nina Boy & Timo Walter

More than five years after the global financial crisis, the European Union
finds itself in the conundrum of a 'post-crisis' state that is defined by
ongoing crisis dynamics. This is evident, among other things, in the
changing perception of sovereign risk, the clash between the power of
finance and democratic legitimacy, growing social tensions due to economic
inequality as well as the sluggish pace of progress toward economic
recovery. While some of these processes are unfolding centre stage
(possible exits from the EU are prominent examples) others tend to remain
hidden from view within the framework of recent fiscal and institutional
reformation of the EU. By virtue of measures undertaken in response to the
crisis, including the new banking supervisory role assigned to the
European Central Bank, enhanced capital requirements, and the
supranational coordination of public finances, a new kind of public sphere
is being created outside the purview of normal public debate. Rather than
restoring pre-crisis normality, these measures are themselves bringing
about a new normality with profound social, political and economic
implications. The objective of this workshop is to shed light on the
reality that is becoming the new normal both in the European Union and
beyond by examining the politics of three central aspects: money, debt and
time.

The politics of money concerns the new role of the common currency in the
eurozone and the euro as an impaired symbol for the imaginary of a unified
Europe. Current policy directions in this respect imply a new social,
political and cultural context in an era of ‘unconventional’ monetary
policy, excess liquidity and lopsided distribution. The nature of debt,
and, in particular, the nature of sovereign debt, is undergoing a profound
shift. Debt is no longer regarded as ‘safe’ and has come to require
increasing levels of collateral and far reaching guarantees. This new
condition of debt creates and enforces disciplinary mechanisms in order to
align policies and scenarios across societal and political borders. Both
money and debt crucially involve the notion of time. The moment when debt
turns into the obligation to pay is politically highly contested and
implies a particular formatting of possible futures in the present. The
notion of time arranges the difference between a good loan as (future)
profit and debt as a sovereign burden via the settling of political
hierarchies.

The workshop will explore the interrelation of money, debt and time in the
new normal by considering the following questions: How do these aspects
specifically produce or foreclose future opportunities? How do they
transcend disciplinary perspectives? And how do they intervene in the
discourses of everyday life? Accordingly, contributions will address one
or more of the following topics:

* Interdisciplinary perspectives on present configurations of money, 
debt and time
* New normalities of crisis, volatility, and reform in the European Union
* The old normal vs the new normal of (sovereign) debt
* New (financial) practices of constructing safety
* Political sovereignty, financial debt, and the modern exercise of power
* New epistemologies of risk and resilience
* Debt, freedom and financial security in the new normal
* Politics of failure, success and evidence in the new normal
* The monetary and fiscal governance of 'future presents' and 'present 
futures'
* Money, debt and the bonds of the European body politic
* Crisis and the politics of affect in everyday life
* Ethics and moralities of the new normal


*Deadline for Submission is the 2nd of October 2015*.

An abstract of about 250 words can be uploaded after registration
via following this link: https://www.conftool.pro/ewis2016/

If you have any further questions concerning this workshop please write to
Benjamin Wilhelm (benjamin.wilhelm at uni-erfurt.de 
<mailto:benjamin.wilhelm at uni-erfurt.de>) or
Joscha Wullweber (joscha.wullweber at uni-kassel.de 
<mailto:joscha.wullweber at uni-kassel.de>).

Information regarding EWIS can be found here:
http://www.eisa-net.org/sitecore/content/be-bruga/eisa/events/ewis.aspx.

-- 
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  joscha.wullweber at uni-kassel.de

New publications:
2015: Die Performativität des Finanzsystems und die Selektivität stratifizierter Finanzstrukturen, in: Leviathan, Vol. 43 (2), S.270-298.

2015: Global Politics and Empty Signifiers: The political construction of high-technology, in: Critical Policy Studies 9 (1), 78-96.

2014: 'The question is which is to be master - that's all!' Amerikanische Internationale Politische Ökonomie vs. britische Internationale Politische Ökonomie?, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 21 (2), 63-84.

2014: Heuristik statt politische Theorie: Eine postpositivistische Kritik des Rational-Choice-Ansatzes. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 34 (3), 241-257.

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