V. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE

POLITSCI '18

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS

POLITSCI '18 / V. International Political Science Conference will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions).

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All abstracts are going to be selected according to double blind reviews and accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings E-Book with an ISBN number that will be given to you in a DVD box during conference registration.

We invite you to join us at the event in Istanbul and would like to emphasize that proposals from different parts of the world are welcomed.

For the publication opportunities, registration conditions and presentation instructions, please visit the REGISTRATION INFO page. For accommodation opportunities and city tours, please read the ACCOMMODATION & TOURS page. 

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Every generation so far believe that their age is special, full of tensions, problems and contradictions, hard to understand and analyze.. This is how we feel. In the midst of the wars and social tensions, economic crisis as well as hopes for a better world.

In 2018 Political Science Conference we like to discuss on the theoretical and practical matters of politics and social processes, the means of formation of authoritarian power as well as potentialities of resistance to authoritarianism; social movements, dialectics of force and consent in the creation of power, and the means of ideological legitimization of government policies.

There are various forms of parliamentary democracy in the world and some of them are quiet far from meeting its basic prerequisites. However, recently there are various complaints about the failures and shortcomings of parliamentary democracy even in the most developed countries. Especially the concept of political representation has become the basic problematic issue in dealing with parliamentary democracy. It is completely related to the decrease in voting turnout in most of the developed “parliamentary democracies” as most of the people do not think that they are being represented in one way or another. In that sense the shortcomings and failures of parliamentary democracy and political representation would be very useful to deal with the most current and popular problem.

These are among the themes to be tackled within the framework of the event.

The conference aims to constitute a forum for prolific exchanges between different theoretical perspectives, interests and concerns prevalent within political science. We welcome papers based on original research in politics. We also encourage submission of abstracts derived from papers in other disciplines, including history, philosophy, and economics, hoping to engage in inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary dialogues that will add to our understanding of what political theory may mean for people today living in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts.

Our hope is to initiate fruitful discussions aiming at expanding the horizons of political theory through problematizing traditional boundaries, mainstream perspectives and concerns.

Presently the world is witnessing a series of radical transformations in the political sphere; the debate about the great transformation of the 2010s is focusing on the process of authoritarianization on the one hand, and on social and political resistance movements on the other. A manifold of political and social scientists tend to situate power and resistance in the contemporary world within a broader process, and tend to analyze them as components of political and social dynamics related to late capitalism, or, of neo-liberalization. The current forms of political power (including “illiberal democracy” and other less conventional forms of authoritarian regimes) can be also linked to the destruction of the public sphere in the real sense of the word, and to the creation of an imagined/fabricated “public sphere”. This process implies the use of means such as the rewriting of history, and distortion of reality, within a seemingly democratic and participatory framework and renders analyses related to forms of power and resistance and the importance of creating genuine public spaces crucial. We believe the gathering of scholars who work on the complex web of relationships between political institutions, society, and the individual with a focus on the dialectics between consent and coercion in politics and who seek to transcend perspectives that tend to confine the question of authoritarianism to a schematic struggle between State and civil society will be most fruitful.

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AGENDA  

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Abstract submission: 

JUNE 16, 2017

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Registration: 

AUGUST 11, 2017

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Full papers submission: 

AUGUST 18, 2017