The General Assembly of the Political Sociology Standing Group will take place on
Wednesday, August 24 at 18.30
in one of the rooms of the ECPR conference in Reykjavik (detailed information will follow)
You are all invited to come and share your ideas with us about the standing group.
For PhD students working in the field of international relations: the European International Relations Summer School takes place 4 – 16 July 2011, in Barcelona.
More information can be found in the EIRSS_2011_brochure.
Sciences Po Paris opened two faculty positions (tenured Professor) in political sociology (voting and political behaviour) and in international relations, to be filled by January 2012.
More details can be found here for the position in political sociology, and here for the position in international relations.
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.
For the 2012-2013 academic year, EURIAS offers 36 fellowships (19 junior and 17 senior positions).
All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of € 26,000 for a junior fellow and € 38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses.
APPLICATION AND DEADLINE
– Applications are submitted online via www.eurias-fp.eu, where, you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria, selection procedure, etc.
– The deadline for application is May 31st, 2011. Late applications will not be considered.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, a peer-reviewed volume published by Emerald Group Publishing, encourages submissions for Volume 34 of the series.
This volume will have a thematic focus on nonviolent civil resistance and will be guest edited by Lester Kurtz (George Mason University) and Sharon Erickson Nepstad (University of New Mexico). We encourage submissions on the following topics: variations of nonviolent strategies, the effects of repression on nonviolent movements, reasons for the recent rise of nonviolent revolutions, factors shaping the outcome of nonviolent struggles, and the international diffusion of nonviolent methods.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is a fully peer-reviewed series of original research that has been published annually for over 30 years. We continue to publish the work of many of the leading scholars in social movements, social change, and peace and conflict studies. Although RSMCC enjoys a wide library subscription base for the book versions, all volumes are now published both in book form and are also available online to subscribing libraries through Emerald Insight. This ensures wider distribution and easier online access to your scholarship while maintaining the esteemed book series at the same time.
RSMCC boasts quick turn-around times, generally communicating peer reviewed-informed decisions within 10-12 weeks of receipt of submissions.
Submission guidelines
To be considered for inclusion in Volume 34, papers should arrive by October 1, 2011.
Send submissions as a WORD document attached to an email to BOTH Lester Kurtz and Sharon Erickson Nepstad, guest RSMCC editors for Volume 34, at lkurtz(at)gmu.edu and nepstad(at)unm.edu. Remove all self-references (in text and in bibliography) save for on the title page, which should include full contact information for all authors.
For more information, please visit the RSMCC homepage.
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The Université libre de Bruxelles, Institut d’études européennes, offers a 2-Year long Post-Doc Research Fellowship on “The EU as a Global Discursive Actor”, from September 1st, 2011 till August 31st, 2013.
Attached to the Vice-President of the Institut d’Etudes Européennes (IEE), the hired researcher will seek to contribute to the research capacities of the EUNRAGG research unit specifically within the context of the EU FP7 funded project “Europe Facing a Rising Multipolar World” entitled ‘Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks’ (GR:EEN)
More information can be found here
Deadline for application: May 1st 2011.
6 Postdoc positions are open at the Humboldt University Berlin.
Assignment: Research within a postdoctoral program for young researchers in sociology and political science, set up a research group in the course of the year and apply for its funding.
Click here for more information on how to apply.
The Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, has opened a full-time academic position in political sociology.
Click here for more information
Kate Nash, Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, and Power, Second Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden MA, Oxford, 2010
This fully revised and updated introduction to political sociology incorporates the burgeoning literature on globalization and shows how contemporary politics is linked to cultural issues, social structure and democratizing social action. The second edition includes new material on global governance, human rights, global social movements, global media, a new discussion of democracy and democratization, and clearly lays out what is at stake in deciding between alternatives of cosmopolitanism, imperialism and nationalism. Includes additional discussion of the importance of studying culture to political sociology.
Salvatore Palidda (Ed), Racial Criminalization of Migrants in the 21st Century, Farnham, Ashaget, 2010
Over the last two decades in the West, there has been a significant increase in the arrest, imprisonment and detention of migrants. The racial criminalization and victimization of migrants and Roma people has led judicial authorities, local governments, the police, mass media and the general population to perceive migrants and ‘gypsies’ as responsible for a wide range of offences. Taking into consideration the political and cultural conditions that affect and interconnect societies of emigration and immigration, the contributors examine and compare a range of cases in Europe and the United States. The contributions demonstrate how the persecution of the ‘current enemy’ is the ‘total political fact’ of the 21st century in that it ensures consensus and business, or what might be termed the ‘crime deal’ of today.