Democratizing Globalization: Call for Working Group Members!
The Democratizing Globalization Working Group is a project of the OSUN Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. The working group asks how and at what scale state power persists in globalization processes and how large-scale social relationships can be democratized. The objective of the group is to frame questions on the relationship of politics and space in new ways at a moment when globalization is being profoundly restructured.The group will bring together OSUN scholars as well as additional experts in regular meetings for a planned period of three years.
We will have three annual meetings and regular online sessions (5-6 per year) for participants to discuss readings, ideas, and their own work.
The following three main themes will serve as a more general orientation:
Year 1- Global Democracy: Governing at scale
Year 2 - Global Production: Sustainable Divisions of Labor
Year 3- Globalization Reconsidered: New geopolitical imaginaries.
Modern social systems operate at the large scale. For a long time their geographical size seemed to hold a range of emancipatory promises: a larger pool of talents for a national society's political elites, increased productivity and innovation in larger markets, international peace through global codependencies. After the fall of the iron curtain, space and scale even seemed to lose in importance altogether. Globalization peaked. New transportation and communication technologies, coupled with proliferating regional trade agreements and a triumphant economic liberalism in international institutions seemed to render geographic distance meaningless in both political practice and social analysis.
Apply to join the working group
The group will gather for the first time in Berlin from November 30 to December 2, 2023. The two subsequent annual working groups (Fall '24 & Fall '25) will be followed by a final conference (Fall '26). Travel costs and accommodation for these meetings will be paid for by the organizers. The group will engage in public dialogue and aims to produce educational videos and teaching materials that will be available at no cost. Beyond this, the group will constitute an active research network that will seek to present its findings to the larger scholarly community through possible book publications, public interviews, and reading groups.
The working group invites applications from OSUN network members with a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds (including political economists, historians, sociologists, political philosophers and theorists, anthropologists, comparative political scientists, and international relations scholars).
Deadline to apply is Sunday, May 14
Cross Reference: Application,Opportunities,Hannah Arendt Humanities Network
Deadline Expired on May 14, 2023