{"id":398,"date":"2011-11-15T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/?p=398"},"modified":"2017-11-06T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:40:29","slug":"cfp-what-is-a-coalition-university-of-geneva-may-15-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/2011\/11\/cfp-what-is-a-coalition-university-of-geneva-may-15-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"CfP: What is a coalition? University of Geneva, May 15 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for papers:
\n<\/span>What is coalition? Reflections on the conditions of alliance formation with Judith Butler\u2019s work<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Date: 15 May 2012 with Prof. Judith Butler (UC Berkeley)<\/strong>
\nVenue: Institute for Gender Studies, Geneva University, Switzerland<\/strong>
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\nConception\u00a0:\u00a0Delphine Gardey (Geneva University) and Cynthia Kraus (Lausanne University)
\nLogistics:\u00a0<\/strong>Aur\u00e9lie Chrestian and Julien Debonneville (Geneva University)
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\n<\/span>In her groundbreaking book,\u00a0Gender Trouble<\/em>\u00a0(1990), Judith Butler inaugurates and develops her critique of foundational reasoning \u2013 of identity categories such as (biological) sex, or of a transcendental subject such as \u201cthe woman\u201d or even \u201cwomen\u201d (in the plural) \u2013 as a critique of identity politics in general, and of a women\u2019s identity-based feminism in particular. For this reason, her antifoundationalism appears as a critical practice that seeks not only to rethink the political \u2013 along with genders, bodies, subjects and agency \u2013 in terms of performativity rather than of representation, but also, and most importantly, to theorize\u00a0alternatives<\/em>\u00a0to identity politics in terms of\u00a0coalition building<\/em>. Since then, we can consider that Butler has insistently returned to the action-oriented question of \u201cwhat is coalition?\u201d and further elaborated on the conditions of possibility of alliance formation \u2013 at least, as much as on the conditions of subversion \u2013\u00a0in order to move effectively toward what she calls a \u201cprogressive\u201d or \u201cradical democratic politics.\u201d
\nThis one-day conference aims to reflect \u2013 historically, sociologically, philosophically \u2013 on the conditions of possibility, on the objects, means and purposes of alliance formation \u2013 between minorities, with the State, political parties, and other public actors, or between disciplines, or even across species (e.g. animal-human), etc. \u2013, of political transformation, and thus of a collective agency, in both domestic and international contexts, through the concrete and generic question of \u201cWhat is coalition?\u201d \u2013 with special interest for the ways in which critical perspectives inspired from feminist and queer theory can be made into productive tools to theorize the political at various levels, at different times and locations, but also to intervene and do better democratic work. We encourage submissions from all research fields that present original material and engage, with creativity and precision, with both the theoretical and practical dimensions of the conference question with insights from \u2013 rather than directly on \u2013 Butler\u2019s \u201cpolitical theory.\u201d
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Deadline for conference paper (including abstract) submission: 15 February 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Notification of acceptance by: 5 March 2012<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline for final conference papers: 15 April 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Abstracts, conference paper proposals and final conference papers should be sent to: \u00a0coalition-genderstudies@unige.ch<\/a><\/div>\n

Please find attached the full call for conference paper or check the following link:\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u00a0https:\/\/www.unige.ch\/etudes-genre\/Institut\/Evenementsscientifiques\/Coalition.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n
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