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December 12, 2012

CFP Authoritarianism and Beyond? (deadline December 15)
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From: Philip Michael Fountain <aripmf@nus.edu>

Call for Papers (submission deadline approaching)

2013 Annual Soyuz Symposium
"Authoritarianism and Beyond? Lessons from Postsocialist Societies"

Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, March 22–23, 2013

Theme:
Authoritarianism has become the common denominator for political regimes of
many contemporary postsocialist societies. Authoritarianism highlights
strong presidential authority, lack of democratic succession of rule and
insufficient public representation. Within this analytic, authoritarianism
is the opposite of liberal democracy, deficient in terms of active civil
society and critical public sphere, and plagued by state-led oppression and
violence.

The 2013 SOYUZ symposium invites papers that would extend interpretive work
on authoritarianism beyond this dualistic framework. We solicit
field-research-based presentations from across the disciplines exploring
political and social processes in postsocialist societies in ways to
complicate this top-down understanding of the state-society relationship.

What kinds of alternative analytical frameworks are there to approach these
processes? What kind of interpretation might the understanding of politics
drawing, for example, on Foucault or Agamben offer to this conversation?
Overall, we seek to extend the scope of this symposium beyond the concerns
of postsocialist societies and to explore analytical limits and
possibilities of the term authoritarianism itself.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- working through/making sense of authoritarian pasts
- specters of the state
- agencies of state: law, the military, borders, and taxation
- the role of media and cultural production
- conjuncture of capitalism and authoritarianism
- non-state authoritarianism
- neoliberalism as a type of authoritarianism

Keynote Speakers: John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton
University, and Alexander Cooley, Tow Professor of Political Science at
Barnard College

SOYUZ, the Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies, is an
interdisciplinary forum for exchanging work based on field research in
postsocialist countries, ranging from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union to Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. The Symposium has met
annually since 1991 and offers an opportunity for scholars to interact in a
more intimate setting.

The deadline for abstracts is: December 15, 2012

Please send abstracts of 250 words by email to Zhanara Nauruzbayeva (
zn2123@columbia.edu). Please include your full name, paper title, and
academic affiliation. Write "SOYUZ 2013" in the subject line.

Papers will be selected and notifications made by January 15, 2013.


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