Final Reminder: Call for Papers | PSAI Conference | Panel: "Life in a Permanent State of Crisis" | Ireland 2022
Piero Tellerías
Dear Colleagues,
The 40th Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) conference will be held between the 14th and 16th October 2022 in the College Street Campus of Waterford IT. Antoine Gallard and myself (Piero Tellerías) propose a specialist group panel on a topic that may be of interest to you given your recent or past works.
Panel title: Life in a Permanent State of Crisis: Interpreting our World through the Crisis Management Lens.
Chairs: Piero Tellerías, Antoine Gallard (University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Panel abstract: In a world that has become “uncertain”, governments urge populations to be prepared and "resilient" in order to "live with risk". Over the last two decades we have experienced a financial crisis, a security crisis marked by terrorist attacks, “natural” disasters and the return of war in Europe, a health crisis shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a climate crisis whose mismanagement has been highlighted by IPCC reports. How is it that we came to think of our world as being in a permanent state of crisis? This panel takes its distance from the institutional discourses, which accept crises without questioning the social dynamics of their production. It focuses instead on the “crisis framing” of different social conflicts which are not of the same “nature” but which are deemed as "crises". We argue that four main lines of inquiry can provide fruitful avenues of reflection on how the interpretation of social conflicts through the lens of "crisis", an event supposed to break with the ordinary experience of time as a simple renewal of the past, came to be normalized: the "Crisis Management" agents; instruments and knowledge in "Crisis Management"; "Crisis Management" temporalities; the circulation of "Crisis Management" agents and devices.
Should you be interested in participating in this panel, we would be pleased to consider your application. Submissions are to be emailed to pftel...@gmail.com (or Piero-Fabio.Tel...@univ-paris1.fr) and should include the following details:
- Paper title.
- Author name(s) and affiliation(s).
- Professional status (PhD student, postdoc, lecturer, professor, independent scholar, etc.).
- Summary of the proposed paper (no more than 200 words) in English.
It is preferable that abstracts are emailed as a word or pdf attachment.
The deadline for submissions is the 29th June 2022.
Should you know other colleagues potentially interested in this issue, we would be grateful if you could forward this email.
All the best,
