Call For Papers
POWER, CAPITAL, CHAOS
CRITICAL LEGAL CONFERENCE 2014
4-6
September 2014
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, BRIGHTON, UK
Call
for Papers
Conference
Theme:
By ‘Power, Capital, Chaos’, we refer
to a context of ongoing global economic crisis, the neo-liberal destruction of
social democracy and the ever-widening
entrenchment of inequalities of wealth, power and technology within and between
a global ‘North’ and global ‘South’. A contemporary political situation marked
by austerity and privatisation, by security and responsibility, by racist
political reaction, class-war and gender-domination.
Yet, this is also a situation marked
by manifold acts of protest, struggle, occupation, riot and revolution. All of
which demand the reimaging of social, political, juridical and material life.
These are modes of resistance that call-out disparate and conflicting visions
of the ‘public good’, ‘human dignity’ and ‘justice’. Equally these involve
legal and political claims to knowledge which exist within and contend with a
late-modern context of endless critique, scepticism and disagreement. As such,
the contemporary theorisation of ‘power’ and ‘capital’ involves critical
thought’s confrontation with a certain ‘chaos’ of reason and unreason.
Conference participants are asked to
consider how we might attempt to understand, explain and respond to a chaotic
contemporary political situation? You are invited to do so on the lovely campus
of the University of Sussex set in the chalky South Downs of South-East
England. In this respect, one context of the CLC 2014 is the city of Brighton
and Hove, which carries on a long tradition of pleasure and distraction. In
another, the context is the University of Sussex which holds onto both a
radical intellectual tradition and a tradition of radical student protest.
We ask you to make your own
interpretation of the theme ‘Power, Capital, Chaos’, and invite scholars from a
range of disciplines to propose papers and streams. Traditionally the Critical
Legal Conference is a friendly and interdisciplinary conference bringing
together scholars from a wide body of disciplines.
Proposals should consist of a short
abstract (max. 250 words).
Deadline
for Stream Proposals: 31 March,
2014
Deadline
for Paper Proposals: 30 June,
2014
Plenary
Speakers:
Mark
Devenney (University of Brighton) Maria
Drakopoulou (University of Kent)
Denise
Ferreira da Silva (Queen Mary) Mark
Neocleous (Brunel University)
Louiza
Odysseos (University of Sussex) Nina
Power (University of Roehampton)
Organisation:
The
CLC 2014 is hosted by the Sussex Law School, and by the School of Law, Politics
and Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
For
stream proposals, paper proposals and general information please contact:
Kimberley
Brayson or Tarik Kochi: clc2014@sussex.ac.uk
Conference Fees, including
conference dinner, drinks reception, lunch and refreshments:
Early-Bird
Registration (by 31 July 2014): £180
Late
Registration: £200
Reduced
Rate (postgraduate): £100
For
further information see the Conference Website:
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