Dear all,
The ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence is sponsoring and organizing a section on Political Violence in Time and Space at the ECPR General Conference in Bordeaux next 4-7 September. The section, convened by Dr. Lorenzo Bosi (European University Institute) Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (National University of Ireland Galway) and Prof. Martha Crenshaw (Stanford University) comprises eight panels and we encourage scholars who are researching political violence to propose papers for inclusion in these panels through MyECPR (deadline 1 February 2013).
Abstract:
It is a truism that every kind of political violence, including riots, violent state repression of dissent, guerrilla warfare, insurgency, terrorism, rebellion and civil wars, occurs in time and space, but much of the literature is not informed by clear conceptions of time and space. Instances of violent conflict are often treated as independent events that can be understood outside their temporal and spatial contexts. This section will debate how the temporal and spatial structuring of political violence has important implications for its emergence, development, decline and impact. For these reasons we welcome papers that address three main issues: (1) conceptual and theoretical thinking about political violence in time and space, including refining existing definitions and typologies; (2) methodological reflections about how to deal with the subject matter and how to avoid the obstacles that have hindered previous research, from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective; (3) empirical analyses of political violence in time and space, in particular comparative studies encompassing different types of conflicts and/or countries. We welcome submissions that deal with actor groups such as social and protest movements, terrorist groups, insurgencies and other non-state armed formations, and radicalizing state institutions. The section will bring together distinguished scholars and younger scientists not only from political science, but from related disciplines, including sociology, geography, anthropology, psychology, historical science, international relations, and area studies. In organizing this section we seek to further the development of research on political violence in Europe and globally, to contribute to establishing an international network of scholars working in this field and to promote the publication of outputs such co-edited books or special issues of international journals).
The section includes panels on:
· Violent groups and their socio-spatial environments
· Political violence and the politics of place
· Times of (Counter-)Terrorism: Remembering, Knowing and Practicing Political Violence
· Temporality in the Study of Political Violence
· Radicalisation in time and space
· Negotiating Political Violence
· 'How violence ends: “Macro”, “meso” and “micro” analysis of insurgents, terrorists, and the way out of conflict'
· New Methodological Approaches to Local Context and Violence
You can find further details for these panels on the conference programme (http://new.ecprnet.eu/Events/SectionList.aspx?EventID=5).
The Standing Group on Political Violence is one of the newest ECPR groups, established in 2012. We are currently establishing a collaborative blog for the group that will act as a central focus for information sharing and co-operation. We will distribute further details and calls for participation in the coming weeks.
The Standing Group will provide a collaborative network and infrastructure for international junior and senior scholars working on aspects of political violence, including riots, guerrilla warfare, insurgency, terrorism, rebellion and civil war. It particularly encourages comparative research and approaches that seek to understand political violence in terms of the wider political and geopolitical context in which actors are located. The group is methodologically plural and welcomes scholars whatever their theoretical or methodological orientations.
Key areas of interest to the group include:
§ Mobilization into Political Violence
§ The Politics of Violence
§ Exits from Political violence
§ Consequences of Political Violence
We particularly welcome the involvement of younger scholars and PhD students. To become a member of the group and to be included in all updates on Standing Group activities please send the following information to: lorenzo.bosi@???
· Name
· Academic affiliation (please include department / institute)
· Email
· Research homepage, if any
· Research interests
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Dr Lorenzo Bosi,
Department of Political and Social Sciences,
European University Institute,
Via dei Roccettini, 9, 50014,
San Domenico (Firenze), Italy.
http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/bosi/
http://eui.academia.edu/lorenzobosi
Main research interests: Social Movements and Political Violence
“Explaining Pathways to armed Activism in the Provisional IRA, 1969-1972”. Social Science History, 36 (3): 347-390. (http://ssh.dukejournals.org/content/36/3/347.full.pdf+html)
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