CASCA2014 CFP: Plenary: “Unsettled Politics and Radical Potential: Figuring the Impulse to Act” - Panel: Alternatives to Acquiescence: Unsettling Legitimacy and Resisting Emergent Ordinaries

CfP

*Submission Deadline Extended*: February 13, 2014

Conference: CASCA 2014

Plenary: "Unsettled Politics and Radical Potential: Figuring the Impulse
to Act"
http://casca2014.apps01.yorku.ca/plenary/

Panel: Alternatives to Acquiescence: Unsettling Legitimacy and Resisting
Emergent Ordinaries
Organizers: Othon Alexandrakis (York University, oalexand@yorku.ca),
Daphne Winland (York University, winland@yorku.ca), Antonio Sorge (York
University, asorge@yorku.ca), Maya Shapiro (York University,
shapirom@yorku.ca)
Discussant: Neni Panourgiá, Columbia University

Political movements and activist programs in the twenty-first century
disrupt the reconfigurations of political authority that define late
modernity, and seek to provide alternatives to often calamitous emergent
ordinaries. They interrogate the claimed necessity for public austerity
and the entrenchment of market imperatives in governance, effectively
unsettling the legitimacy of the neoliberal state. Notably, the range of
agendas that constitute these alternatives knows little to no bounds, and
spans across the political spectrum, reflecting dissatisfaction from
numerous quarters. Panelists will take up the issue of lived changes in
political topography and topology, as well as responses to the rise over
the past decade in insurgent agendas driven by parochialism and
xenophobia, examining the alternatives presented within micro-social sites
of resistance to these troubling shifts in the global political landscape.

Please submit your paper proposal including title, an abstract (max 150
words), your name, email address and affiliation to oalexand@yorku.ca no
later than February 13th.