[DemocracyNet.eu-list] CFP Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

[Asenbaum, Hans]

Dear All,

I hope this CFP for the conference of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy group is of interest for many of you!

https://deliberativehub.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/cfp-pdd-conference-democratic-transformations/


Call for Panels and Papers
International Conference of the
PSA/PSAI Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Groups
Democratic Transformations
Spaces, Connections, and Systemic Change
Dublin City University, Ireland
June 4-5 2020
Current times are characterized by the proliferation of a variety of participatory spaces, emerging in response to the shortcomings and challenges that modern democracies are facing. These sites of engagement vary widely, including citizens’ assemblies, occupied public squares, workplace democracy, participation in schools, and flash mobs. Further variety to these spaces is added by new modes of digital deliberation, e-rulemaking, and various forms of online engagement. Recent debates in the scholarship on deliberative and participatory democracy suggest that the most fruitful way to understand these spaces is not as insular phenomena but rather as connected in participatory ecologies or participatory systems. Different spaces might fulfil different democratic functions in a larger system. Digital connectivity often contributes to these newly emerging networks of various, hybrid forms of participation. This opens up opportunities for systemic change. Through their connections, participatory spaces are part of deep systemic transformations toward more participatory societies.
The Conference of the PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group 2020 invites democracy researchers in all stages of their careers (including PhD students) to discuss their empirical and theoretical work. Topics may include but are not limited to
-       Digital engagement, e-rulemaking, and crowdsourcing
-       Mini publics, Citizens Assemblies
-       Global democracy
-       Participatory experiences from the Global South
-       Feminist, gender and queer approaches to democracy
-       Radical democratic, socialist or anarchist politics
-       Participatory constitution-making
-       Workplace participation and worker cooperatives
-       Democratic innovations
-       Social movements’ democratic experiences and unconventional forms of participation
-       Ecological and green democracy
-       The economic context of participation
-       Inequalities and modes of exclusion/inclusion
-       Consumerism as form of participation
-       Public administration, representative institutions, and elite deliberation
-       Research methods for studying participatory and deliberative democracy
Conference Venue: Dublin City University, School of Communications, Glasnevin Campus, Henry Grattan Building, www.dcu.ie<http://www.dcu.ie>, https://www.dcu.ie/info/campus.shtml.
How to submit a paper/panel proposal: Please send a paper abstract of around 150 words with a title, authors’ names, affiliation, and contact information or a panel proposal containing three to four paper abstracts by 24th of January 2020 to PDDconference2020 at gmail.com<mailto:PDDconference2020 at gmail.com>.
The application of early career researchers including PhD students is encouraged. Conference attendance is free of charge. Participants and their institutions need to cover expenses for travel and accommodation.
Members of the organising committee:
Hans Asenbaum, IASS Potsdam, hans.asenbaum at iass-potsdam.de<mailto:hans.asenbaum at iass-potsdam.de>
Anthony Costello, University College Cork, anthony.costello at ucc.ie<mailto:anthony.costello at ucc.ie>
Rod Dacombe, King’s College, London, rod.dacombe at kcl.ac.uk<mailto:rod.dacombe at kcl.ac.uk>
Anastasia Deligiaouri, Dublin City University, anastasia.deligkiaouri at dcu.ie<mailto:anastasia.deligkiaouri at dcu.ie>
Jane Suiter, Dublin City University, jane suiter at dcu.ie<mailto:suiter at dcu.ie>
This conference is organized in an international cooperation between the PDD group of PSA (UK) and the PDD group of PSAI (Ireland). It is hosted by Dublin City University in Ireland. We are grateful for the generous support of King’s College London, the Institute for Future Media and Journalism  (fujomedia.eu<http://fujomedia.eu>) and the project “Promoting E-Rulemaking in the EU through Deliberative Procedures” (funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Curie Sklodowska grant agreement No798502).


Best
Hans


Hans Asenbaum
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS)
Berliner Strasse 130
14467 Potsdam, Germany
Tel.: +49 331 28822 426<tel:%2B4933128822426>

Latest publications:
Making a Difference: Toward a Feminist Democratic Theory in the Digital Age, Politics & Gender, 2019<https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X18001010>

Anonymity and Democracy: Absence as Presence in the Public Sphere, American Political Science Review, 2018<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/anonymity-and-democracy-absence-as-presence-in-the-public-sphere/7D914F6529697778EB3D35C3C22065AE>
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