Sosyo-seminer: Ibn Haldun Beks'te

Dusunce dunyalari uzerine bilgilenirken kendi cografyamiza ait dusunurlere ne kadar vakit ayirabiliyoruz? Anadolu'nun ruhunu, zihin dunyasini sekillendirmis kisiliklerden ne kadar haberdariz?

Elbet bugunun dunyasinda yasadigimiz icin simdiki zamani inceleyen konularin ilgimizi daha cok cekiyor  olmasi normal.. Bununla birlikte, her simdinin bir gecmisi, bir kulturu bir anlatisi oldugu unutulmamali diye dusunuyorum..Bu sabah vakti dusuncelerini fazla nasihata donusturmeden :) gecmis zaman dusunurleribahsini niye actigimi paylasayim..

BEKS (Bellek ve Kultur Sosyolojisi Calismalari Dernegi) onumuzdeki ay icerisiden cografyamizin eski onemli dusunurlerinden Ibn Haldun'a ait bir seminer serisi organize ediyor. Calisma ofisi Beyoglu'nda bulunan Beks'in bu seminerlerine katilmak icin asagidaki linkten gruba uye olmak ya da bilgi almak mumkun.

https://groups.google.com/group/seminer-ibn-i-haldun?hl=tr

Konuyla ilgilenenler icin guzel bir firsat diye dusunuyorum..

Sosyo-kitap: "Bildigin gibi degil": 90'larda Guneydogu'da Cocuk Olmak

Gecen ay inimden cikip da Beyoglu'na gittigim bir vakit Mefisto kitapcisinda gozume bir kitap takildi.
"Bildigin gibi degil: 90'larda Guneydogu'da Cocuk Olmak"..Rojin Canan Akin ve Funda Danisman'in 90'li yillarda cocukluklarini Guneydogu'da geciren kurt gencleriyle yaptiklari roportajlardan olusan kitap kanimca kurt meselesini sosyolojik gozden anlamaya calisanlar icin cok onemli bir kaynak olusturuyor.

Sanirim hayat hikayesi metodunun en guzel tarafi tarihselige buyuk aktorlerin, kurumlarin anlatilarinin otesinde kucuk anlatilarin isiginda da bakabilmemizi saglamasi. Sonrasinda da bu anlatilarin bir yerlerde birlesmesi, ortak yonlerin, ortak yasanmisliklarinin ve bu yasanmisliklar karsisinda hissedilen ortak duygularin, tepkilerin, cosku ya da kizginliklarin bir bir nasil ortak eylemlere donusugunu kimi zaman cok net bir sekilde ortaya cikartabilmesi...
"Bildigin gibi degil" elbet sosyolojik metod ile yapilmis mulakatlardan olusan ya da bilimsel amaclarla ortaya cikmis bir kitap degil. Bununla birlikte, icindeki yer alan hayat hikayelerinin kurt meselesini buyuk soylemlere, guc merkezlerinin oyunlarina ya da ideolojilere hemencecik sarilmadan anlamak isteyenler icin cok cok onemli oldugunu dusunuyorum.
Kitabin basligi da kanimca okuyucuya hemen hitap eden, cok guzel secilmis bir baslik. Sadece bu konuya dair degil elbet. Sosyolojik olarak ele alinan bir cok konuda, onceden olusturulmus cevaplarimizin, kalip yargilarimizin varligini hissettigimiz ve otesine gecmeyi tercih ettigimiz bir cok vakit telafuz ettigimiz ilk cumle belki: "Bildigim gibi degilmis". Kisiyi, medyatik ya da ideolojik bilginin sisirdigi geveze egosundan cikaran, kucucuk, sus pus bir mahluga donusturen ama caba sarfedip soru sormaya devam ederse de bir o kadar zenginlestiren anahtar bir cumle belki.."Bildigim gibi degilmis."

Bu yuzden Rojin Canan Akat ve Funda Danisman'in hazirladigi roportaj kitabinin bilmeme ihtimali oldugunu dusunenlere siddetle tavsiye ediyorum..

Sosyo-konferans: Europeanization : Do we still miss the big picture?

29-30 March 2012, Université libre de Bruxelles

The Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL) of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and the Institute for European Studies  (IEE) of the Université libre de Bruxelles are organizing an international conference with the title “Europeanization : Do we still miss the big picture?” on March 29 and 30, 2012 in Brussels.

Description of the conference

The concept of Europeanization can be considered as a tremendous success in the field European Studies of the last 20 years. Already early on the number of approaches to analyze how and “when Europe hits home” has multiplied. While this variety certainly is a strength, it runs a methodological risk: no common definition of Europeanization has been found and more precisely the danger of conceptual stretching occurs. Meanwhile, the first generations of definitions have been abandoned due to their conceptual proximity to concepts European integration, but more comprehensive definitions imply again the complexity of processes of Europeanization and mutual impacts of Europeanization and European Integration.

This development points at a complex facet of Europeanization research: do we want to limit ourselves to use Europeanization as the explanans for change? Is it not also necessary to explain Europeanization itself, i.e. treating it as the explanandum? Instead of assuming that we find a linear process in either direction, shouldn’t we take into account that processes of construction, diffusion and institutionalization do not necessarily follow a stringent or coherent pattern? Furthermore it is questionable that these processes will have the same impact on the ‘classical’ 3 P’s of Political science: policies, politics and polities.

We still seem not to know a lot about the black box of the national and subnational level, i.e. how actors deal with the EU’s direct and indirect impact every day and the relationship of Europeanization and European Integration. Do we still miss the big picture of Europeanization? Is such a picture desirable? Or does it become much more of a mosaic given its plethora of analytical approaches? Hence a discussion on research methods and case selection is needed as the emphasis on complexity runs the risk of losing the analytical capacity to determine causality in Europeanization.



This conference will try to develop answers to these questions by dealing with the above mentioned complex processes of Europeanization:
o Do we still miss the “big picture” of Europeanization?
o How can we improve theory in Europeanization studies?
o What methodology for opening the black box?
o How do complex processes of Europeanization relate to European integration?


The conference structure will follow this threefold focus of attention with three panels:
(a) Improving theory
(b) Europeanization and European Integration
(c) Case Studies on Europeanization.


Submission Guidelines

Abstracts (max. 300 words) should be submitted, along with contact information (name, institutional affiliation, department, e-mail address), to Thomas Kostera (Thomas.Kostera@ulb.ac.be ) by November 15, 2011.Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format or as a Microsoft Word document.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by December 10, 2011. For more information, please contact Thomas.Kostera@ulb.ac.be or Luca.Tomini@ulb.acbe .

The full paper (max. 8000 words) must be submitted by March 1st, 2012.

A publication of the conference papers is planned.

Organizing Committee:
Prof. Ramona Coman, Université Libre de Bruxelles (CEVIPOL)
Thomas Kostera, Université Libre de Bruxelles (IEE / CEVIPOL)
Luca Tomini, Université Libre de Bruxelles (CEVIPOL)

Sosyo-konferans: Nationalism and the City/Milliyetcilik ve Kent

 Asagiya 10-11 subat 2012 tarihinde gerceklesecek "milliyetcilik ve kent" temali  cok ilginc buldugum baska bir konferansin haberini koyuyorum..ilgilenenler ayrintilari   http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1684/ linkine girerek de edinebilirler.

 

Nationalism and the City

Friday, 10 February 2012 to Saturday, 11 February 2012
Location: CRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge

Conference Conveners

Christopher Moffat (Gonville & Caius/History)
 

Conference Summary

Blame it, perhaps, on a hangover from nationalism’s early mingling with European romantics, but the primacy of ‘the rural’ in nationalist imaginaries remains well established, recurring in political and cultural discourse as the fundamental site of national authenticity, tradition and identity. This tendency has resulted in a distortion of nationalism’s crucial yet ambivalent relationship with the pastoral inverse – the smoky, crowded, dynamic space of ‘the urban’ – and despite the usual eagerness of scholars to dismantle any and all ‘myths’ propagated by nationalist paradigms, very little has been done to theorize this pivotal interplay between nationalism and the city.

How are we to understand the role of cities in nationalism’s pasts, presents and futures?

The urban landscape is at once intensely local and profoundly global, while commonly appropriated (internally or externally) as a compelling (though never uncontested) representation of ‘the national whole’. It was through cities that intellectuals traded early ideas of ‘the nation’, and it is in cities that national identities have been pushed to their breaking points. The urban has helped to shape the national and this relation also works in reverse: cities can be sites for national consolidation and commemoration, but also facilitate the emergence of ‘spaces of alterity’ and zones of conflict.

This conference will move to ‘re-centre’ the urban in theories of nations and nationalism, facilitating a dialogue across disciplines to address the many layers of what has been described as ‘the urban palimpsest’. A special emphasis will be placed on integrating the insights of those focused on dynamics in the city and those addressing the broader phenomenon of nationalism, to enliven debates on space, identity, and politics and to illuminate important convergences and contradictions, conjunctures and disjunctures.

The task for researchers is as follows: how are we to conceptualize the role of cities/urban environments in the origins/spread/perpetuation/undermining of nations and nationalism?

The continuities and variations in urban forms across continents necessitates a global focus, and participants are encouraged to consider the transnational dimension of both ‘the urban’ and ‘the nation’ as sociological phenomena and cognitive categories.

Suggested focal points include:

• Urbanization/modernization and the conditions of nationalism’s emergence
• Urban intellectual networks and the global diffusion of nationalism
• Cities as battle-space and/or as sites for mobilization
• National unity and the urban/rural ‘divide’
• The city as metaphor for nation
• Globalizing cities, ‘post-nationalism’, and notions of urban reclamation
• Cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and layers of belonging
• Multiculturalism, heterogeneity and the urban
• Disintegration, dystopia and ‘spaces of alterity’ 

Call for Papers

Paper proposals for this conference are now being accepted and will be considered if submitted before the deadline of 1 October 2011. Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to nationalismandthecity@gmail.com.

Proposals creatively addressing aspects of the above conference summary are most welcome. Applicants are especially encouraged to engage with the existing theoretical literature on nations, nationalism and the city.

Accommodation for non-paper giving delegates

We are unable to arrange accommodation, however, the following websites may be of help.

Visit Cambridge
Cambridge Rooms
University of Cambridge accommodation webpage

NB. CRASSH is not able to help with the booking of accommodation.

Sponsors

The conveners are grateful for the support of  The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).

 Administrative assistance: Helga Brandt (Conference Programme Manager, CRASSH)

IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND EUROPEANIZATION/ Kuresellesme ve kimlik

Asagida kasim ayinda gerceklesecek bir konferans haberini bulabilirsiniz...

The Institute for sociological, political and juridical research (University SS Cyril and Methodius- Skopje) and the Institute of sociology, Faculty of Philosophy (University SS Cyril and Methodius- Skopje) are organizing international conference titled:

IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND EUROPEANIZATION

The conference includes two general and several more specific topics:

GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY

Implications of the globalization on economic and social policies
The nation-state in the era of globalization
Cultural imperialism
Identity changes in the era of globalization
Globalization and (in) the countries of the Balkans

IDENTITY IN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS

National identity in Europe and the Balkans

Political identities
Language and identity
Culture and identity
Religion and identity
Collective identities

The conference will take place at 3rd and 4th of November 2011 in Skopje. The abstracts (up to 500 words) and short narrative CV should be sent at anetac@isppi.ukim.edu.mk no later than 25 September. The accommodation for the international participants will be provided by the organizers. There is no participation fee.

Farkli ulkelerden sosyal bilimci portreleri..

Gunun kesfi olarak asagidaki linki sizlerle paylasmak istiyorum.

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/audiovisual.html

King's College (Cambridge) 'te sosyal antropoloji profesoru Alan Macfarlane'in internet sitesinin "films" bolumunde kesfettigim bu link butun dunyadan 191 sosyal bilimci ile yapilmis roportajlari bir araya getiriyor. Farkli ulkelerden antropolog, sosyolog, tarihci, ekonomist bir cok sosyal bilimci kendi calisma alanlarindan, etkilendikleri konulardan bahsediyorlar. Videolarin dili ingilizce. Taninmamis sosyal bilimcilerle tanismak icin guzel bir firsat diye dusunuyorum. Haricinde Macfarlane'in internet sitesi farkli konularda seminer konferans ya da derslerin videolarini iceren neredeyse bir veri tabani gorevinde..Evvelde kesfetmemis olanlar icin tavsiye ederim.
Aksam vakti cay esliginde keyifli seyirler :)