Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Remember that great ASEN event you missed? There’s good news: many of our past events, including several from the 2016 conference, are now available as podcasts on iTunes (click here).
Recent highlights include presentations from Matthew Goodwin, Eric Kaufmann, Anna Triandafyllidou, Milica Z Bookman, and John A Hall, with more to follow. Don’t forget to hit ‘subscribe’ to keep up to date.
Posted in Research Opportunities on July 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
New fully funded PhD studentship on ‘Nation and Migration: Living together in diversity’ at Loughborough University:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOF848/nation-and-migration-living-together-in-diversity/
Posted in Call for Papers on July 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Next year’s BACS conference includes speakers of interest to Nationalism Studies, namely Will Kymlicka and Guy Laforest.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2016| 1 Comment »
It is with a particular sadness that we announce the death of Professor Anthony D Smith, a hugely influential theorist of nationalism, and founder of the ethnosymbolist perspective within nationalism studies. ASEN obituary here.
Posted in Call for Papers on July 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Call for Papers: Historical Sociologies of War and Violence
Workshop at University of Sussex – Autumn 2016
BISA Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
Historical sociology has long been linked with a ‘bellicist’ tradition in social theory, especially in its neo-Weberian mode. Its initial adoption by International Relations scholars was partially due to the attention paid by scholars such as Giddens, Mann, Tilly and Skocpol to the international as a realm of geopolitical competition, and its concurrent effects on and interactions with states and societies. The focus on war as part of the process of state-building became entrenched in the IR literature (if not a dominant mode of thinking about war). Furthermore, Mann and Shaw have both produced rich accounts of the role of militarism in the constitution of modern societies.
However, as neo-Weberian forms of historical sociology became subject to increased scrutiny for their relatively narrow account of the international, the focus on war was less pronounced within historical sociological accounts of IR. Despite playing a role in sociologies of collective action such as Tilly’s, the historical sociological scholarship in IR has moved increasingly away from an account of historicised dynamics of war and society. As such, a reintegration of these concerns is a potential area of renewal within the historical sociology of IR. The study of the micro-dynamics of war and its cultural and social contexts have increased in the field, but there has been less reflection on its historicity and interrelations with other dimensions of the international such as political economy and diplomacy.
The proposed workshop seeks to reconnect the sociology of war with its history, drawing on newer sociologies of war, but also seeking to revisit and rethink the links with past scholarship. The workshop invites contributions from any theoretical perspective within the broad remit of historical sociology looking at various dimensions of war and violence: practices, structures, organization and lineages.
Possible paper topics include:
· Revisions or critiques of standard historical sociological models of war/state-making
· Application of historical sociology to war/state-making in novel forms
· The application of war/state-building models to more recent cases
· Non-statist historical sociologies of violence
· Historical sociological treatments of war and violence as rivals for mainstream explanations (e.g. in political science)
· Historical sociology and technologies of war: battle-spaces; high-tech war; insurgency and counter-insurgency; revolution and revolutionary war
The workshop is sponsored by the BISA Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group: http://historical-sociology.org/. Thanks to funding from BISA, the workshop is free and catering will be provided (spaces will be limited). Both paper givers and research students will also receive a limited travel allowance.
The workshop will be held at the University of Sussex in late-Autumn 2016.
Those interested in presenting papers at the workshop should send brief abstracts (no more than 200 words) to Bryan Mabee (b.mabee@qmul.ac.uk) and Kamran Matin (k.matin@sussex.ac.uk). The deadline for paper proposals is: September 1, 2016.
Posted in Events on July 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
THURSDAY 21 JULY
Dr Erle Rikmann (University of Jyväskylä, Finland / IASH Fellow): ‘Transnational civic activity online and offline: young Russian-speakers in Finland and Estonia’.
1:00pm – 2:00pm, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.
Posted in Journals, Publications on July 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Call for Papers, Journals on July 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Nazioni e Regioni, Call for papers 9/2017
The deadline for the delivery of the articles and book files to be published in the “Studies” section of the seventh issue of “Nazioni e Regioni” (June 2017) is the 31 January, 2017. As regards the texts for the “Reviews and debates” and “Bibliographical notes” sections, the deadline for their delivery is 15 April 2017.
The journal accepts contributions that analyze theoretical questions related to nationalism and regionalism, enquiries on the current situation of the study of specific cases, researches on concrete aspects of national construction analyzed from different scientific angles. Apart from Italian, the journal will accept contributions also in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Catalan. The submitted articles will go through an anonymous peer review procedure and, if accepted, will be translated into Italian by the editors.
The contributions must follow the editorial guidelines of the journal:
http://www.nazionieregioni.it/?page_id=278
e-mail: nazionieregioni@gmail.com
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