Conference Today: Aliens and Nations at Keele
UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (ALSP) Conference
ALIENS AND NATIONS: CITIZENSHIP, SOVEREIGNTY AND GLOBAL POLITICS IN THE 21st CENTURY
Keele University, UK, 19th-21st April 2007
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Seyla Benhabib
Stephen Macedo
Bhikhu Parekh
Andy Dobson
Judith Squires
This international conference aims to stimulate debates about whether, given the daunting challenges of the 21st century, the nation-state is an outmoded concept. Global crime networks and international terrorists, for instance, defy the executive will of nation-states, while states' integrity seems sapped by porous borders, cultural conflict, and by breakaway or irredentist movements. These problems hit failed states hardest, but often defeat even well-ordered polities. At the same time, supra-national bodies like the UN have proved largely impotent against the global challenges of cllimate change, capital mobility, nuclear proliferation, the AIDS pandemic, human rights abuses, and trafficking in drugs, weapons and persons. Contributors to this conference are invited to consider the role of the nation-state within these and other contemporary problems. How might our understanding of political values like democracy, sovereignty, justice and citizenship be transformed to fit a post-national world? Possible topics for papers include:
Justice, war and international intervention
immigration and border controls
multicultural citizenship
citizenship, loyalty and identity
environmental citizenship
nationhood, citizenship and self-determination
gendered citizenship and feminists critiques of law and sovereignty
outlaw states and international law
transnational jurisdiction, sovereignty and human rights
Paper/panel submissions:
Please send a title and abstract of c. 300 words to ALSP07@ilpj.keele.ac.uk by 15th December 2006
ALSP welcomes panel proposals of up to 3 papers.
Conference organisers:
Glen Newey and Monica Mookherjee (SPIRE, Keele University).
