CFP: Nation/Boundaries/Place: Reappraising the Global Sphere
2-3 June 2016, University of Oslo
In the 1980s and 1990s, the swift decline of the national space as the basis for research in the humanities and the social sciences cleared the way for theories of globalization and globality, and for the subordination of the national. In the subsequent years, however, we have seen the rise and rise nationalisms of the right and populist movements of the left that are positioned to challenge the global turn and many associated ideas from postnationalism to glocality and postmodernism.
We invite paper proposals that consider how recalling, reinventing or referencing the nation is challenging the contemporary discursive parameters of the global as structured by understandings of space and time and/or the practical institutional arrangements of globalization, economic interdependence, cultural convergence or global governance. Papers may discuss these issues theoretically or historically, analytically or normatively, from one of several disciplinary or cross-disciplinary viewpoints, and in relation to various realms of discourse: academic discourse, especially in political theory, cultural studies, history, media studies etc.; or popular discourse in mass media, social media or political parties. Papers may be proposed in relation to specific nations or across national borders.
Please send proposals to nationalboundaries@ilos.uio.no by 1 February 2016.
