Workshop 39
Hegemony –
Regulation – Governmentality –
Governance. What’s
in a Term?
Convenors:
Susana Narotzky,
University of Barcelona
Davide Peró,
University of Oxford
Discussants:
Sue Wright, Danish
University of Education
Gavin Smith, University
of Toronto
In this session we want to
examine the usefulness and the
implications of a series of
terms which have been used to refer
to the control of social
life, as well as the play of resistance
and praxis. Each of the
above terms seeks to understand the
relationship between the
possibilities of power and the realities
of control. One assumes
that each arose out of dissatisfaction
with its predecessor. And
yet what was the nature of that
dissatisfaction with its
predecessor? And yet what was the nature
of that dissatisfaction?
And anyway we come to this history a
posteriori? What are the
tensions, attractions and enablements
that encourage us to
prioritise the one over the other? What is
the methodological work
that each imaging of power invokes?
Aware of the stakes
involved in terms of the latest academic
fashion urged on by the
realpolitik of policy (where “governance”
for example has become de
rigueur, while other terms have had
less success), we ask
contributors to use ethnographic material
to test the usefulness of
these concepts as intellectuals interact
with the people they study
the better to enable their historical
praxis.
“The Free
Town”. Normalisation, Governance and Disciplining
of the Unruly
Christa Simone Amouroux,
Stanford University
Implications of
Governance for Studies of International
Immigration in the U.K.
Joshua P. Hatton,
University of Oxford
Immigration and the
Politics of Governance in Southern
Europe
Davide Peró,
University of Oxford
Nemak Story: “Jan
Rajter. From Collectivisation to Globalisation”
A Case Study of an NGO
Campaign and Social Struggle in the
Czech Republic
Jan Drahokoupil, Central
European University, Budapest
Tsimshian Ayaawk and
Adaawk: Indigenous Challenges to Euro-
American Theory and
Practice
Charles R. Menzies,
University of British Columbia
Analysis, Policy and
Politics: On the Interaction Between
Genres
Gudrun Dahl, University of
Stockholm
Democracy and
Solidarity: The Vigilance of Civil Society in
Argentina
Victoria Goddard,
Goldsmiths College, London