POLITSCI '16 / 4th International Political Science Conference

POLITSCI '16 / IV. International Political Science Conference Istanbul, Turkey Papers will be published in DAKAM's online library and in the proceedings e-book (with an ISBN number), which will be given to you in a DVD box and will be sent to be reviewed in the "Thomson & Reuters WOS' Conference Proceedings Citation Index-CPCI" Enquiries: conference@dakam.org Web address: http://www.dakamconferences.org/#!politsci/er6b8 * CALL FOR PAPER POLITSCI '16 / IV. International Political Science Conference will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions). Since 2013, more than one hundred presentations by scholars from different places of the world have been hosted by DAKAM's POLITSCI Conference and three proceedings books have been published. The means of formation of authoritarian power, potentialities of resistance to authoritarianism, social movements, dialectics of force and consent in the creation of power, and the means of ideological legitimization of government policies are among the themes to be tackled within the framework of the event. The conference aims to constitute a forum for prolific exchanges between different theoretical perspectives, interests and concerns prevalent within political science. We welcome papers based on original research in politics. We also encourage submission of abstracts derived from papers in other disciplines, including history, philosophy, and economics, hoping to engage in inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary dialogues that will add to our understanding of what political theory may mean for people today living in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts. Our hope is to initiate fruitful discussions aiming at expanding the horizons of political theory through problematizing traditional boundaries, mainstream perspectives and concerns. Presently the world is witnessing a series of radical transformations in the political sphere; the debate about the great transformation of the 2010s is focusing on the process of authoritarianization on the one hand, and on social and political resistance movements on the other. A manifold of political and social scientists tend to situate power and resistance in the contemporary world within a broader process, and tend to analyze them as components of political and social dynamics related to late capitalism, or, of neo-liberalization. The current forms of political power (including "illiberal democracy" and other less conventional forms of authoritarian regimes) can be also linked to the destruction of the public sphere in the real sense of the word, and to the creation of an imagined/fabricated "public sphere". This process implies the use of means such as the rewriting of history, and distortion of reality, within a seemingly democratic and participatory framework and renders analyses related to forms of power and resistance and the importance of creating genuine public spaces crucial. We believe the gathering of scholars who work on the complex web of relationships between political institutions, society, and the individual with a focus on the dialectics between consent and coercion in politics and who seek to transcend perspectives that tend to confine the question of authoritarianism to a schematic struggle between State and civil society will be most fruitful. * THEMES I. Political System and Institutions The State: Coercion and Hegemony Democracy and authoritarian regimes Authoritarian populism Illiberal democracy Authoritarianism and neo-liberalism Securitization in politics Repression, police, and surveillance networks Ideological Apparatuses Education and Legitimization Mass Media, Social Media and Politics of Authority and Resistance Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony Ways of Resistance to Authoritarianism Gender and political power Gendered effects of the rise of authoritarianism Ecologism and resistance Humor and Politics II. Political Thinking and Ideologies Political Philosophy Legitimacy of Political Power: Philosophical Insights Waning of the public space and the public citizen Religion and Politics The power of religion in the public sphere Religious Extremism: Identity, Class and Propaganda Political Symbols and Political Memory The use of symbols and rituals in politics Political memory: Centenary and millenary anniversaries Art, architecture and politics Spaces of memory * SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Organizing Committee Assoc. Prof. E. Zeynep Guler, Istanbul University Assist. Prof. Mehmet Arisan, Istanbul University Assist. Prof. Ates Uslu, Istanbul University Scientific Committee Prof. Dr. Deniz Kandiyoti, Emeritus Professor, University of London Prof. Dr. David M. Smith, Middlesex University Prof. Dr. Birsen Ors, Istanbul University Prof. Dr. Serpil Cakir, Istanbul University Prof. Dr. Aysegul Komsuoglu Çitipitioglu, Istanbul University Prof. Dr. Nazim Irem, Istanbul Aydin University Prof. Dr. Namik Sinan Turan, Istanbul University Prof. Dr. Burak Samih Gulboy, Istanbul University Assoc. Prof. Sevgi Ucan Cubukcu, Istanbul University Assoc. Prof. Inci Ozkan Kerestecioglu, Istanbul University Assoc. Prof. Arnault Skornicki, Paris West University Nanterre La Defense Assist. Prof. Guven Gurkan Oztan, Istanbul University Dr. Biriz Berksoy, Istanbul University Dr. Tatiana Senyushkina, Taurida National V.I.Vernadsky University * AGENDA Abstract submission: SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 Registration: OCTOBER 28, 2016 Full papers submission: NOVEMBER 4, 2016 * CONTACT conference@dakam.org +90 212 244 23 03