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Dates: February 12-13th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, CALL FOR PAPERS: LAST CHANCE!! The CRESP 2009 organizing committee has decided to postpone the deadline for paper and panel proposals for it's conference. For those who still hesitate or for the ever late students: this is your chance! So please send us your proposal before October 17th, 2009. For more details on the conference, visit www.cresp2k9.org. If you have any questions, e-mail us at cresp2k9@uottawa.ca. ------------------------------------------------- The conference is organized by the graduate students of the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and is sponsored by the Quebec Society of Political Science. It has two main objectives:
Rooting, Uprooting: Politics in Context To acknowledge that politics are embedded in a context means that political practices and studies cannot dismiss – nor reduce themselves to – past and present experiences. Nor can they extract themselves from the sequence of past and future events. The word context, from the Latin contextere: “weaving together”, is the canvas on which politics and its study can be painted with all the nuances of language, space and time, as well as the social, historical, symbolic, textual, natural, and constructed factors which contribute to the way we live and understand politics. The context is a juncture, a set of specific conditions with which we must cope, that may propel or limit the scope of our actions. Context takes into account cultural manifestations, institutions and practices, the organization and construction of space, the environment, as well as History and its discontents. To what extent is the political conditioned by the context? Is it possible to transcend these conditions? To what extent do political theory, action and organization influence the context, encourage or discourage future political manifestations? When speaking of context from a theoretical perspective, are we at risk of falling into the traps of relativism or determinism?
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