CFP: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Politics

Dr. Cristina Flesher Fominaya is organizing a section on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Politics, ECPR General Conference Reykjavik 2011, and would be most grateful if you could circulate the information below to any interested parties. The deadline for online submission to any of the panels is February 1, 2011. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The link to the section, panels, and conference page is below:

http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/section_details.asp?sectionid=47

Here is the description of the section:

Section ID: 47
Section Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Politics
Panels: 5 - List of Panels

Section Chair(s)

Name: Cristina Flesher Fominaya (c.flesher@abdn.ac.uk)
Institution: ABERDEEN, University of

Section Abstract

Violence has been at the center of political studies for centuries. Despite the increasing democratization of States across the world, political violence continues to pose one of the most pressing challenges today. Within the social sciences, political science and sociological approaches to violence and politics have been enriched by insights from cultural studies, gender studies and memory studies, among others, yet the treatment of political violence remains at the margins of many disciplines, and is often treated within narrow disciplinary boundaries. This section seeks to bring the theoretical and empirical analysis of political violence from margin to center, and address not only the dynamics of political violence itself, but also its aftermath in post-conflict contexts.

There are five panels:

Gender, Violence and Politics

Perpetrators of Political Violence

Political Violence and Memory

Victims of Political Violence

Violence and Social Movements



Please click on the link above to get detailed information on each of these.

The conference will be held at the University of Iceland, from August 25th - 27th 2011.