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Call for Papers Theme: The Politics of Difference Subtitle: (Re)Locating Subalternity / Marginality Type: International Conference Institution: Department of History, Assam University Location: Diphu, Assam (India) Date: 22.–23.9.2017 Deadline: 15.8.2017 __________________________________________________ The term, ‘politics of difference’ primarily emerged in the context of identity politics out of the experiences of the subalternity/marginality in the late 1970s. The social movements such as ethnic, women, linguistic, third gender, ecological, peasant, tribal, caste etc, can be constructed through the experiences of those people who are instrumental to articulate their differences in terms of politics, action, ideology, recognition and representation that led to question the hegemony of the agencies. These social movements demand for recognition of their politics and eloquent different forms of resistance against hegemonic subjects/agencies. The ‘idea of recognition’ has been influenced by the philosophical work of Charles Taylor (1992). In his leading essay, ‘The Politics of Recognition’ argued that how people get their identity from being recognized or non-recognized as the subject of the politics of difference. Thus, the identities can be shaped by recognition or non-recognition of the subjective or objective conditions. In epistemology, the ‘Politics of Difference’ refers to the state of ‚subalternity‛ that argue condition of subordination brought about by various forms such as political, economic, social, racial, linguistic, geographical/territorial and cultural dominance. The hegemony/power is managed to survive in every corner of the life as Michel Foucault (1976) conceptualized. Who has it and who does not?. Who is gaining it and who is losing it? Power is intimately related to the questions of representation that express the politics of difference by questioning the authority of the text/agency which can exist in different forms. That is why the relationship between subalternity and representation is always problematic when we speak the politics of recognition of the marginal identities in multiculturalism. It is understood as a representation of the marginality shared by a group or community. It means the collective politics of the community while negating the ‘dominant politics’ as James C. Scott (2011) has emphasized in his work, The Art of Not being Governed that the politics of the marginal communities is an art for not being governed rather live in their own cultural world and express dissent in form of non-recognition from the hegemonic agencies. This conference will give a space/platform to the scholars across the world to articulate their marginality or subalternity in different forms of resistance such as region, community, text, agency, gender while corroborating or bringing new debates for understanding the politics of difference. Since the idea of difference or recognition can be constructed through the experiences of marginality this conference will discuss the nature of social or new social movements which are often taking place in every part of the world in diverse forms of resistance or protest. This certainly helps us to understand the paradigm shifts in identity politics that contour the existing scholarship in the present epistemology. However, the experiences of marginalization often overlap. It happens due to idiom of the politics of difference for the recognition. The discourse of dissent does not necessarily begin with clear objectives in terms of the transformation of the society. They often get shaped in the process through the leadership, nature of participation, organization and ideology. Keeping in view of the above discourse this conference is an attempt to explore the diverse ideologies of the social movements, nature of people’s participation and role of organizations as it plays an important role in order to bring a radical social change in the contemporary society. This will certainly discern subaltern voices while negating from ‘dominance’ that led to demand for the recognition or non recognition of their identity. Subthemes: 1. Epistemology: Politics of Difference, the Politics of Recognition and Social Movements 2. (Re)Locations of Subalterntiy / Marginality / Exclusion / Discrimination etc. 3. Spatial Identities, Individual & Group Identities and Imagined Identities 4. State / Agency / Text / Power and Hegemony 5. New Social Movements and the Politics of Difference 6. Discourse of Identity Politics: ‘Race’, Religious Minority, Ethnic/Tribal, Dalit, Class, Caste, Women, Gender, Third Gender etc. 7. Globalization and Marginal Voices 8. Multiculturalism / Cultural Hybridity / Third Space 9. Forms of Resistance / Dissent / Protest 10. Literature and Marginality / Subalternity Guidelines for Submission of Abstract: - The abstract should not exceed 250-300 words. - It should include title of the abstract, the author’s name, designation, institutional affiliation, mailing address, E-mail ID and contact number - Authors are requested to send the abstract through E-mail to: conferencea...@gmail.com latest by 15 August, 2017. - A Committee will review the abstracts and information regarding acceptance, rejection and presentation shall be communicated to the authors subsequently after submission of abstract. Guidelines for full Paper: - Write the paper keeping in view of the publication immediately after the seminar. - The length of full paper including tables, diagrams, illustrations, references, etc. should be between to 6000 to 8000 words. - The full paper should be in English and typed in MS-Word in Times New Roman with font size 12 and 1.5 spaced. - References and Notes should be arranged as Endnote Referencing Style. - The selected full version of papers should be submitted in soft copy through E-mail latest by 10th September, 2017. Outcome of the Conference: 1. The seminar will take up plenary discussion from the resource persons on the central theme of the seminar which attempts to review the themes of the conference and hope to relocate subalternity/marginality in contemporary societies. 2. The seminar will also publish selected papers that will be of high quality by reputed publisher. The publication will be used by research scholars, academicians and policy makers as source of information for various purposes. Important Dates Last Date of Abstract Submission(250-300 words): 15th August, 2017 Notification of Acceptance of Abstract: 2 to 3 days after submission Early Registration: 1st July - 15th August, 2017 Late Registration: 16th August - 10th Sept, 2017 Last Date for Submission of Full Paper: 10th September, 2017 Conference Dates: 22-23, September, 2017 If any enquiry regarding conference you are requested to mail to the conference organisers at: conferencea...@gmail.com For further information please see: http://www.aus.ac.in/seminars/Concference%20Details_assam_university_diphu.pdf __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
