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Dear Members of the list,
The deadline for submission of papers for the 7th Annual Conference in
Citizenship Studies is Friday, October 23. The theme this year is 'Networks.'
The conference is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne
State University (which is also the sponsor of this list) and is the leading
annual conference in citizenship studies. The CFP can be found below.
Sincerely,
Aaron Retish,
Wayne State University,
co-editor, H-Citizenship
Networks
The 7th Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies, Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI
April 8-10, 2010
Call for Papers
Citizenship requires networks and networks can confer citizenship. The theme of
the 2010 conference of the Center for the Study of Citizenship explores the
similarities and the tensions between networks and citizenship in the past,
present, and future. It also considers how networks have shaped citizenship and
how citizenship has influenced the development of networks. Noted scholar
Yochai
Benkler (Harvard University and author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social
Production Transforms Markets and Freedom) will give the keynote speech.
networks ⇒ citizenship
How do our interpersonal relationships affect our sense of belonging within our
societies and the ways we experience our rights and responsibilities? How do
networks enrich our lives and build our capacity to solve collective problems?
How do they limit our freedom of action and constrain our choices? In
particular, how do networks affect the place of immigrants, racial and ethnic
minorities, women’s, LGBT, and other groups? How do they shape our conduct of
electoral politics and our sense of civic engagement? In what ways do networks
serve as sites of alternative forms of citizenship for NGOs, grass-roots
organizations, or watchdog groups? How do networks transcend national
boundaries
and do they vary from West to East, North to South?
citizenship ⇒ networks
What rights and responsibilities do we hold within our various networks? How
does our network participation (in such networks as trade, migration,
religious,
artistic, and political) bind us and/or empower us? What are the norms of
behavior in those networks and how do they differ from some networks to others?
How deep is our sense of belonging in networks and how does this vary with the
type of network and our position in it? How do we practice citizenship in
online
networks and how do governments engage in the regulation of them?
networks ⇒citizenship ⇒networks
Have the patterns of citizenship and networks changed? What will patterns of
the
future look like? How do traditional networks (kinship, migratory, labor)
evolve
into modern or post-modern networks? How have political alignments in
democratic
and authoritarian regimes fashioned citizenship? How do new networks mediated
by
electronic communications and computing technology reshape our understanding of
our connection to one another?
These points illustrate the wide range of possibilities to link networks and
citizenship and we encourage papers that address citizenship/networks in ways
not
addressed above. We welcome proposals from any time period or geographic area
and across the widest range of disciplines from faculty, graduate students, and
independent scholars. Proposals should be submitted online at
http://141.217.132.114/csc/csc_request.htm no later than Friday, October 23,
2009. Both panel proposals and individual submissions are welcome. Those
interested in submitting panel proposals can use H-Citizenship (http://www.h-
net.org/~citizen) to locate scholars with compatible interests. Remote
presentation of papers and remote participation will also be available.
Questions should be directed to Marc W. Kruman, aa1277@wayne.edu.
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