please take me off of listserve<br><br><b><i>DISCOURS automatic digest system <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:32 -0500<br>From: DISCOURS automatic digest system <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG><br>Subject: DISCOURS Digest - 13 Nov 2007 to 17 Nov 2007 (#2007-49)<br>To: DISCOURS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><br> There is 1 message totalling 159 lines in this issue.<br><br>Topics of the day:<br><br> 1. Call for Papers<br>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:59:46 -0500<br>From: Eva Tolasch <eva.tolasch@SOZIOLOGIE.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE><br>Subject: Call for Papers<br><br> On behalf of Professor Andrea D. Buehrmann I would like to inform you of a<br>jointly organised conference with the University of Hamburg on "Control or<br>Care of the Self - Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century"
taking<br>place from 3-5 July 2008 in Hamburg. A ‘call for papers’ is now officially<br>requested and we would like to ask kindly for your support by further<br>distributing this information as you see fit. <br><br>Thank you in advanced for your participation<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Eva Tolasch <br><br>Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München<br>Institut für Soziologie<br>Lehrbereich Bührmann<br>Konradstrasse 6<br>80801 München<br><br><br><br>Control or Care of the Self<br>Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century<br><br>Organised by:<br>Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Andrea D. Bührmann / Prof. Dr. Stefanie Ernst<br>Date: 3-5 July, 2008, Location: University of Hamburg<br><br><br>The beginning of the twenty-first century is characterized by fundamental<br>social changes: in addition to demographic changes and to the globalization<br>of economic flows the transformation of an industrial-Fordist society to a<br>non-industrial service society is worth mentioning. For more than
twenty<br>years, these major trends and their inherent chances and risks have been of<br>the topic of vivid discussions in all the social sciences. Keywords have<br>been ‘risk-society’ and ‘post-industrial society’, but also<br>‘knowl-edge-society’ and ‘information-society’. <br> <br>We want to concentrate in particular on the following trends:<br>• The erosion of so-called standardized employment and the move towards a<br>growing variety of precarious work forms like secondary work, temporary<br>work, casual labour, low paid work etc.<br>• The increasing subjectivation of work and the blurring of the borderlines<br>between working life and home life, especially considering the zone of<br>inclusion and the opportunities to participate in the civil society.<br>• The erosion of the traditional nuclear family, its transformation towards<br>so-called patchwork-families and the interdependent effects on modelling<br>patterns of emotion regulation.<br>• The changes pertaining to
the hierarchical division of labour and the<br>balance of power be-tween the sexes, especially with respect to the blurring<br>of the boundaries between working life and private life.<br><br>Implications of these developments are also reflected in the challenge of<br>the traditional, hegemonic and rational understanding of subjectivity.<br>Against the background of these great social changes, sev-eral factors also<br>indicate that the forms of self-regulation or self-governance are being<br>transformed too. A one-sided concentration of the homo economicus and its<br>varieties tends for example to under-estimate certain non-rational forms of<br>self-perception and self-reflection as well as non-rational prac-tices of<br>self-management and subjectivation. This debate suggests that social<br>sciences cannot do without a clear definition of human beings nature and<br>their essential traits. Moreover, facing the bioge-netic challenges in the<br>twenty-first century the basic
fundament of what is making up humankind has<br>at least been highlighted. <br>The question what these transformations mean to individuals has not yet been<br>clarified. In-deed there is a discussion about whether individuals will be<br>forced to create their own biography and to work on their identity. Others<br>point out that completely new forms of subjectivity are developing. But<br>these considerations have not yet led to empirically or theoretically<br>saturated and deeply reflected conceptions. Therefore it seems to be the<br>great task of the twenty-first century to define the role of the individual<br>in a fundamentally changing society.<br>The aim of the planned conference therefore is to discuss the question, of<br>how far the rela-tionship to oneself and relationships towards others in<br>(post-)modern societies are being transformed. The perspectives offered by<br>Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology as well as by Michel Foucault’s<br>post-structural theory
seem to be promising because they appear to have been<br>the first researchers consis-tently and convincingly analysing the nature of<br>individuals by reflecting upon their long term historical processes of<br>transformation. The two have different visions but similar concerns. Both<br>bodies of work deal with structures of control that exist within society and<br>within the individual.<br><br>As the two most prominent sociologists concerned, at an early stage of<br>research Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault offered concepts for the debate<br>on the position of individuals in society, with the aim of clarifying the<br>interwoven socio- and psychogenetic development of modern societies. Within<br>indi-viduals is mirrored the social interdependency of complex formations of<br>power. <br>In describing the mechanisms of self-controls (Selbstkontrollapparatur) or<br>the techniques of normalisa-tion (Foucault), both dealt with the hidden<br>structures of social rationalization,
but without specifying or using an<br>explicit definition of the subject. <br>We think that these brief thoughts prove that there is enough reason for<br>bringing these different but similar sociologists, Elias and Foucault,<br>together. In view of recent social changes we consider it worthwhile to<br>discuss their theoretical and empirical potential. Questions whether a new<br>kind of life-style or a ‘self-regulating form of subjectivity’ (Ernst 2006,<br>2007) come to exist with a new social char-acter should be discussed. On the<br>other hand, we want to discuss whether a completely new form of<br>subjectivation (Buehrmann 2005) occurs, or whether the tendency towards<br>self-care creates a new relationship to oneself. Has the old search for<br>identity and self-realisation become obsolete and a dangerous pitfall? What<br>could be an adequate term for the subject accurately describing the<br>proc-esses of social transformation? The planned conference will
conclude<br>with keynote speeches (already fixed) about the nature of the subject,<br>techniques of self-regulation and self-care, and a fixed closing discussion<br>forum. The parallel sessions of discussion are oriented towards theoretical<br>and empirical research results of the following fields:<br><br>1. Work: What are the chances and risks of the increasing subjectivation?<br>Individualization and in-creasing constraints of self-regulation are the<br>keywords of this session.<br>2. Body: Here we want to focus on the body as a representation of the<br>social, as a symbol and in-dicator of status and subjectivation. <br>3. Desire: What are the alternatives against the normalising of identity<br>politics, especially focusing on the sexual identity politics? <br>4. Time and space of action: What varieties of subjectivation and<br>differentiation could be observed in its material, spatial and temporal<br>figurational dimension? <br><br>Papers are invited in any of the
above fields. More concretely, anticipated<br>themes for papers in-clude:<br>• Elias and Foucault and current theories of the body, <br>• Elias and Foucault and the study of organizations, <br>• Elias and Foucault and sexuality/identity, <br>• Elias and Foucault, time and space. <br><br><br><br>Proposals for papers are invited on these or any other related topics until<br>January 31, 2008. The conference organisers are keen to promote<br>cross-disciplinary and cross-paradigmatic dialogue and debate.<br><br>Abstracts (no longer than 300 words) should be submitted to: <br>Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Andrea D. Bührmann Prof. Dr. Stefanie Ernst <br>Institut für Soziologie Department Wirtschaft und Politik <br>LMU München Universität Hamburg <br>Konradstr. 6 Von-Melle-Park 9 <br>D-80801 München D-20146 Hamburg<br>Andrea.Buehrmann@soziologie.uni-muenchen.de <br>Stefanie.Ernst@wiso.uni-hamburg.de<br><br>Please include with the abstract: institutional affiliation, e-mail
address,<br>telephone number, and postal contact details.<br>Any enquiries can be addressed to the conference organisers: <br><br>Andrea D. Bührmann: Andrea.Buehrmann@soziologie.uni-muenchen.de<br>Stefanie Ernst: Stefanie.Ernst@wiso.uni-hamburg.de<br></blockquote><br><BR><BR>Kim Anderson, Ph.D.<br>Senior Policy Research Analyst<br>Regional Educational Laboratory-Southeast<br>at the SERVE Center, UNC Greensboro, and <br>the Georgia Department of Education<br>kiminha@yahoo.com<br>Teach For America 1991 corps member http://www.teachforamerica.org: "One day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education."<p>
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