28.5344, Calls: English, Discourse Analysis/Czech Republic

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Subject: 28.5344, Calls: English, Discourse Analysis/Czech Republic

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:20:25
From: Massimiliano Demata [maxdemata at yahoo.com]
Subject: 14th ESSE Conference - Seminar S59: Precarious Borders & Imagined Communities: Linguistic and Cultural Challenges of (New) Nationalism

 
Full Title: 14th ESSE Conference - Seminar S59: Precarious Borders & Imagined Communities: Linguistic and Cultural Challenges of (New) Nationalism 

Date: 29-Aug-2018 - 02-Sep-2018
Location: Brno, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Massimiliano Demata
Meeting Email: massimiliano.demata at uniba.it

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

14th ESSE Conference - Seminar S59: Precarious Borders & Imagined Communities:
Linguistic and Cultural Challenges of (New) Nationalism

Recent events – including indefinite detention, Europe’s struggle faced with
the so-called ‘refugee crisis”, Brexit, various calls for ‘walls’ and the
election of Donald Trump – are drawing increasing attention to nations and
(their) precarious borders. The new impetus to nationalism that accompanies
these events has to be understood as a complex set of discursive practices.
Celebrating the nation, they are nourished by a largely populist agenda,
characterized by hostility towards immigrants, and the desire to revitalize
borders, both physically and, paraphrasing Anderson, imaginatively, between
different nations and/or identities.

While many populist movements tend to counter a waning of state sovereignty in
times of globalization with a reinforcement of borders (cf. Brown, Wodak),
scholars have called for a reconceptualization of (human) life and identity as
relational and globally embedded (Butler) or cosmopolitan (Appiah) rather than
contained and sovereign. The renewed “territorialness” of law (Agamben) and
its intersections with new “territorialit[ies]” produced by “global
capitalism” and non-governmental organizations (Ong), place an increasing
number of human beings within liminal spaces, onto thresholds and sites of
“inclusive exclusion” (Agamben) and thus at the border of our attention, where
the integrity of individual bodies and subjects is greatly at risk.

Convenors: 

Sylvia Mieszkowski, University of Vienna, Austria,
Sylvia.mieszkowski at univie.ak.at
Birgit Spengler, University of Bonn, Germany, bspengle at uni-bonn.de
Massimiliano Demata, University of Bari, Italy, massimiliano.demata at uniba.it
Ljiljana Saric, University of Oslo, Norway, ljiljana.saric at ilos.uio.no


Call for Papers:

On the basis of these contrasting tendencies animating contemporary debates on
the concept of nation, we welcome papers that explore precarious
(geographical, political, symbolic, psychological, collective and individual)
borders and/or examine how national identity is discursively constructed on
interrelated linguistic and cultural planes, including literary and political
genres in and beyond the new media.

Abstracts of 200 words (excluding references) of proposed presentations should
be sent directly to all four convenors as Word attachments via email. Deadline
for abstracts: 31 January 2018. Notification of acceptance: April 2018.




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