Unravelling the Politics of Disarray

UNRAVELLING THE POLITICS OF DISARRAY

Fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Politics and International Relations

University of Nottingham, 15^th June 2017

Clive Granger Building, University Park

The new challenges facing societies across the globe have dismantled the conventional politics of stability, consensus and peace. Faced with increasing complexity, unpredictability and chaos, the fields of politics and international relations are subject to rethinking the ways in which the political phenomena of the present day can be interpreted and explained.

The 5^th Annual Nottingham Postgraduate Conference in Politics and International Relations invites postgraduate and early-career researchers to reflect upon the unfolding politics of disarray and the potential avenues for reinvigorating political research in the age of crisis. The conference will feature a keynote from Werner Bonefeld, Professor of Politics at the University of York.

Submissions might include, but are not limited to:

Re-imagining ‘the Political’

Transformations in Global Political Economy

Geopolitics in Flux

Social Movements of Resistance and Dissent

Politics of Identity

Past, Present and Future of European (Dis-) Integration

British Politics in Crisis

Extremism and Political Violence

Technology Transforming Politics

Politics of Popular Culture

Please submit an abstract of 300 words, full name and institutional affiliation for a 15-minute presentation, specifying the stream you would like to be considered for. The extended deadline for submissions is Friday 7^th April at 5:00pm.

For abstract submissions, registration and general enquiries (including any dietary requirements for a complimentary dinner) please email polgradconf@nottingham.ac.uk

Applicants will be informed of final decisions by 14^th April 2017.

Author: Andreas Bieler

Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (together with Adam David Morton) (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (Zed Books/Bloomsbury, 2021).

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