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Section Chair:
Dana el Kurd
University of Richmond
delkurd@richmond.edu
The Comparative Politics section welcomes papers and panels on
a broad range of substantive topics, including the study of democracy,
dictatorship and regime transitions, accountability and representation,
civil war, comparative political institutions (political parties,
party systems, electoral rules, legislatures, courts, and central
banks, etc.), political behavior (participation, voting, and social
movements), and comparative political economy. We are also interested
in soliciting papers that interpret the mandate of 'comparative
politics' in new ways, i.e., that step outside the traditional
canon of established subjects. We encourage papers from a variety
of methodological perspectives.
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Section Chair: |
Jonathan Benjamin Alvarado
Texas Christian University
jalvarado@unomaha.edu
WPSA's main call for papers mentions "concerns about changes
in higher education in the United States and other countries,
as faculty governance wanes, the use of contingent labor under
exploitative conditions increases, and an economized bottom line
increasingly becomes the yardstick for success in teaching and
research."
This section invites papers that examine higher education from
any perspective or methodological approach, but especially encourages
papers that examine the many perils and opportunities currently
facing higher education, including diminished resources, online
and alternative methods of instruction, increased dependence on
adjuncts, expanding administrations, issues surrounding academic
freedom, junior faculty support, faculty governance, research
funding, and peer review or any other relevant topic facing higher
education.
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Section Chair: |
Steve Vanderheiden
University of Colorado
vanders@colorado.edu
and
Kellan Anfinson
kanfi2040@gmail.com
The section gathers together activists and scholars who are interested
in what political theory can contribute to larger policy debates
and intellectual discussions about environmental issues. The goal
is to connect theory with practice. The numbers at EPT events
have been growing for more than five years, and participants consistently
are enthusiastic about the significant benefits of developing
this important intellectual community. We seek proposals which
employ the tools, texts, or insights of political theory to improve
our understanding of the environment, the human-nature relationship,
contemporary environmentalist research agendas, academic pedagogy,
public policies, and ethical concerns.
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Section Chair: |
Juliet Carlisle
University of Utah
juliet.carlisle@utah.edu
The section invites papers that focus on the politics of environmental
problems and/or the processes by which they are addressed. Proposed
papers and panels that emphasize comparative environmental politics
are encouraged, as are papers that emphasize theory building and
empirical testing with cutting-edge political methodology. Of
particular interest are papers that use environmental policy as
a critical research setting to address core questions in political
science and public policy. |
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Section Chair: |
Meredith Conroy
Calfornia State University, Santa Barbara
mere.conroy@gmail.com
This section welcomes papers that deal with executive politics,
whether in terms of internal development or with respect to linkages
to other institutions and phenomena. We welcome papers that address
specific controversies and questions relating to the current U.S.
presidential administration as well as papers that signify theoretical
development in the study of executive politics. Potential panel
topics include, but are not limited to: staffing and administrative
politics, rhetoric and public engagement, post-9/11 institutional
evolution, inter-branch linkages and unilateral action.
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Section Chairs: |
Ivy Cargile
California State University, Bakersfield
icargile@csub.edu
and
Natasha Alteema McNeely
University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
natasha.altema@utrgv.edu
Intersectionality has attracted substantial scholarly attention
since the 1990s. Rather than examining discourses and structures
such as gender, race, colonialism, class, sexuality, (dis)ability,
nation, religion, and transnationalism as separate and distinct
dimensions of political life, we seek proposals which examine
how they mutually construct one another. We welcome paper and
panel proposals that draw on a wide range of quantitative and
qualitative methods, as well as a variety of social groups and
contexts within the US and beyond. We especially encourage submissions
on: ways to further develop and push against existing disciplinary,
epistemological, methodological and theoretical boundaries; the
relationship between theories of intersectionality and institutional,
community, and activist practices; Indigenous worldviews and intersectionality;
intersections between faith/spirituality and other categories;
how intersectionality operates in the production and organization
of normalized and deviant bodies; and the role of intersectionality
at the transnational and global level.
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Section Chair: |
Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien
San Diego State University
bgonzalezobrien@sdsu.edu
The last four decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in international
migration throughout the world, raising important political questions
in many countries. We seek paper and panel proposals from a wide
range of scholars studying and analyzing the overlapping subjects
of international migration and politics, immigration policy, immigrant
integration policies and their implementation, political incorporation
and "citizen-making," and the changing meanings and practices
of "citizenship" in an era of heightened international migration.
We seek proposals from scholars studying these overlapping subjects
in a variety of settings, including global, national, sub-national,
regional, municipal, using a variety of approaches, from single-state
to comparative, and drawing on a variety of methodologies and
methods. We would also welcome expressions of interest from those
planning to attend the meeting who are not submitting papers on
this topic this year but who have an interest and research background
in it and would like to be involved as session chairs or discussants.
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Section Chair: |
Bryce Reeder
University of Missouri
reederbw@missouri.edu
This section welcomes papers that address the international dimensions
of political relations. Research should examine interactions between
units in the international system. Papers may focus on any subfield
of international relations, including (but not limited to) international
organizations and law, international conflict and security, foreign
policy interactions, terrorism, international institutions and
regimes, global environmental relations, technology, and international
political economy. A broad mix of papers is encouraged, including
a variety of methods and theoretical perspectives. For this meeting,
we particularly welcome papers that deal with future relations
and policy considerations consistent with the conference's theme.
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Section Chair: |
Natasha Behl
Arizona State University
natasha.behl@asu.edu
The Interpretation and Methods Section engages the methodological
grounding for interpretive empirical research, as well as the
implications for research methods.
Those methods are informed, explicitly or implicitly, by presuppositions
deriving from phenomenology and hermeneutics, plus parts of critical
theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, critical legal
studies, pragmatism, symbolic interaction theories, and ethnomethodology.
What all of these share is a concern with meaning-making at the
center of their understanding and explanation of political phenomena.
Although diverse in their modes of generating and analyzing data,
research processes in the interpretive tradition are united by
an empirical and normative prioritizing of the lived experience
of people in research settings.
Interpretive methods are used in many empirical subfields (e.g.,
public policy, public administration, IR, comparative politics).
The section invites submissions for papers, panels, and roundtables
on a broad range of interpretive methodologies, methods, and modes
of analyses. The latter include, among others, ethnography, discourse
analysis, narrative analysis, semiotics, visual analysis, oral
history, intersectional feminist analysis, hermeneutics, phenomenological
research, and participatory action research. Given these orientations,
this means that the section is not a good home for variables-based
research or traditional political theoretical interpretations
of canonical and contemporary texts.
Papers may critically analyze the theoretical and philosophical
traditions and presuppositions that inform interpretive empirical
inquiry, address the practical challenges of conducting interpretive
empirical research, or examine the interpretive methodological
questions and assumptions or interpretive methods procedures raised
by a specific political topic. Papers may also examine how interpretive
inquiry can provide valuable insight into current pressing political
matters, e.g. state, racial, and sexual violence, global health
pandemics, environmental policy and politics, cyberpolitics, political
polarization, and the political mobilization, organizing, and
representation of marginalized communities.
We especially encourage proposals that address this year’s
conference theme “Unity in the Midst of Disunity: The Role
of Political Science in Democracy.” This year’s theme
provides us with the opportunity to critically reflect on the
development, position, and influence of interpretive inquiry within
the discipline. We also invite individuals to indicate their willingness
to serve as session chairs and/or discussants even if they do
not submit paper or panel proposals.
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Section Chairs: |
Scott Hofer
St. Francis College
scottjhofer@gmail.com
and
Matthew Ward
University of Louisiana
mmward49783@gmail.com
The section welcomes papers or panels that investigate the role
of legal actors and legal institutions in the United States or
comparative contexts as well as those that explore how politics,
institutions, and ideas shape and constrain the law's development.
We particularly encourage proposals that address the theme of
the conference, "Lighting Up the New Dawn— Recover,
Reconcile, and Rebuild at 75." For example, in what ways
are legal actors and institutions responsive to the challenges
and opportunities posed by COVID, emerging social movements and
contentious politics, and the new Roberts Court? We hope to receive
proposals with diverse theoretical, practical, and methodological
perspectives using a variety of approaches, from the conventional
to the creative. The section welcomes panel proposals that offer
opportunities for participation by a mix of senior scholars, junior
scholars, and graduate students. When proposing book panels, consider
submissions that include more than one book, and submissions that
link the work of an established scholar with the work of a more
junior, emerging scholar.
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Section Chair: |
R. Lucas Williams
Texas Southern University
luker1217@gmail.com
The section welcomes papers on any topic related to the study
of the U.S. Congress, state legislatures, or other legislative
institutions. Topics might include congressional parties, committees,
representation, leadership, rules, procedure, reform, policy making,
budgeting, floor behavior, historical development, and race/ethnicity
in legislative institutions. Individually, what determines the
choices that legislators make, and how do the tough votes that
they cast affect their electoral fortunes? How do legislative
and governmental institutions shape the contours and outcomes
of these policy debates, and do decisions made in hard times have
a reciprocal effect on the shape of institutions? Proposals that
take advantage of variation across countries, across time within
a single legislature, or across sub-national legislatures will
be especially welcome as well as papers analyzing the influence
of lobbyists, executive branch, or bureaucracies. Both American
and comparative politics scholars are welcome to submit proposals.
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Section Chair: |
Allison Archer
University of Houston
amarche3@Central.UH.EDU
The section invites proposals for innovative and original research
at the intersection of politics and communication, broadly conceived.
The section welcomes all research methods and analytical approaches
that advance understanding of the practices, processes, and policy
implications of political communication in all its forms. Preference
will be given to proposals that connect research with fundamental
questions about politics. This includes but is not restricted
to: investigations of structural and economic influences on political
news content, media and campaign effects, the relationship between
mass media communication and elite communication, comparative
examinations of media and media systems, inter-institutional communication,
regulation of the media, discrepancies between news reporting
and real world events, and the impact of new media on political
knowledge and behavior. Proposals for papers or panels tackling
methodological and theoretical challenges in the study of political
communication are of particular interest. The organization of
panels will reflect the interests of those whose proposals can
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Section
13: Parties, Interest Groups and Social Movements |
Section Chair: |
Jason Morin
California State University, Northridge
jason.morin@csun.edu
We seek proposals that address new methodological and theoretical
challenges in the study of parties and partisanship, interest
groups, and social movements and mobilization. We are also interested
in proposals that focus on the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity
and partisanship, especially with regard to theories of representation
and mobilization. We encourage proposals that examine these questions
in a wide variety of settings. |
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Section Chairs: |
Tamara Metz
Reed College
tmetz@reed.edu
and
Sean Kim Butorac
North Central College
skbutorac@noctrl.edu
This section welcomes papers at the intersection of theory and
practice, including work that fosters a critical dialogue between
the two. What do our theories reveal about the world – activities,
practices, institutions, stories, structures, discourses, times,
places? What, in turn, does the world tell us about our theories?
What new ideas and categories does that world yield on its own
terms? Especially welcome are papers that engage with the experiences
and activities of historically marginalized groups, look beyond
prevailing sites of political inquiry, use unexpected or unconventional
source materials, and situate new or emerging events within a
broader theoretical framework and/or historical timeline.
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Section Chairs: |
Ines Valdez
The Ohio State University
valdezi@polisci.osu.edu
and
Erin Pineda
Smith College
epineda@smith.edu
The Political Theory: Critical and Normative Theory section of
the WPSA welcomes proposals in all areas of contemporary political
theory including but not limited to feminist theory, democratic
theory, liberalism, Marxism, political aesthetics, comparative
political theory, legal theory, critical race theory, queer theory,
cultural studies, critical geography, and environmental political
theory. This section also encourages proposals that adopt normative-philosophical
and/or critical-theoretical approaches to major topics in political
science including, among others, multicultural politics, neoliberalism,
nationalism, transnationalism and globalization, state power,
technologies of security, civil society, social movements, representation,
democratic governance and citizenship, and political identity.
Papers that develop a contemporary perspective on enduring theoretical
concepts, such as equality, justice, domination, sovereignty,
rights, the subject, civic virtue, and moral judgment, are also
welcome. Finally, the section would be especially interested in
panel proposals that address ongoing controversies within the
field of political theory. |
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Section Chair: |
Jeff Becker
University of the Pacific
jbecker@pacific.edu
The "Political Thought: Historical Approaches" section
of the WPSA seeks papers that interpret and theorize the canon,
other political literatures, archives from all periods, and that
explore the political dimensions of artistic and cultural products
in historical perspective. Papers that adopt critical, transformative,
and/or comparative perspectives on these historical materials
are welcome, as well as those that address the political dimensions
of classical and modern themes of intellectual history. Such themes
may include freedom, equality, justice, authority, modernity,
liberalism, individual rights, republicanism, virtue and private
interest, enlightenment, science and reason, democracy, race,
gender, federalism, libertarianism, populism, nationalism, power,
sexuality, luxury, sovereignty, representation, punishment, revolution,
friendship, and so on. Papers that focus on specific political
thinkers are also welcome.
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Section Chair: |
Kiku Huckle
California Lutheran University
khuckle@callutheran.edu
The section welcomes proposals for papers or panels covering
the broad scope of the study of politics, policy and institutions
using historical perspectives to address issue areas of contemporary
concern. In particular, the section encourages submissions from
scholars whose work focuses on developmental themes related to
major political processes including institutional reform and policy
change and concepts, such as democratization, citizenship, political
representation, and political parties. We especially encourage
research that locates American political development in comparative
and historical frameworks and that addresses the intersection
of major group identities, such as race, class, gender, and religion.
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Section Chair: |
Douglas Dow
University of Texas at Dallas
dougdow@utdallas.edu
This section welcomes proposals at the intersections of politics
and aesthetics broadly conceived. We are especially interested
in papers and panels that examine the connections between democratic
representation and aesthetic representation. We also welcome papers
that explore particular texts or films either as forms of political
rhetoric or in conversation with political theory or other forms
of political expression. The theme of this year's conference,
"peril and opportunity" seems especially suited to literary and
filmic representation. Why is this so? Is political art in permanent
tension with politics as "the slow boring of hard boards"? Are
some particular genres of art (film, television, literature) better
suited to political engagement than others? What is the nature
of aesthetic power in politics and what are its limits?
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Section Chairs: |
Gabriele Magni
Loyola Marymount
gabriele.magni@lmu.edu
and
Mary McThomas
University of California, Irvine
mary.mcthomas@uci.edu
The section welcomes proposals that address the conference theme
of “unity in the midst of disunity” by considering
the changing status of sexuality and gender identities in the
United States and globally. We are especially interested in papers
that take an intersectional approach to the location of LGBTQI
people at the fault lines of recent political contests, especially
as they have been disproportionately impacted by the populism,
nativism, democratic backsliding, and politics that have marked
the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and anti-Black racism as well as
the resurgence of the far-right globally. Among the wide range
of topics worthy of exploration are the ever-shifting terrain
of LGBTQI rights developments (e.g., anti-trans legislation in
the U.S.), fluctuations in societal attitudes toward sexuality
and gender, LGBTQI movement organizing, backlash and opposition
to such movements/rights (e.g., the growing momentum of “gender
ideology” around the world), the nature of sex work in the
global political economy, and public health crises and their disproportionate
impact on queer communities.
Additionally, work exploring new frontiers in pedagogy and research
that centers sexuality and gender identity in the profession is
also welcome.
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Section Chairs: |
Charles Mitchell
Grambling State University
mitchellc@gram.edu
This section invites paper proposals that address questions related
to public administration, public management, and governance. This
includes scholarship engaging questions about networks, collaboration,
policy implementation, governance relationships, citizen engagement
in public affairs, public workforce diversity, technology, the
role of non-profits in service delivery, administrative ethics/dissent/resistance,
and other similar questions. Transnational administrative questions
and/or comparative studies of public administration are welcomed.
Finally, we invite studies of the institutional and administrative
foundations of inequality, inequity, marginalization, oppression,
and exploitation—and how to address them. The section encourages
and will highlight diverse research epistemologies, methodologies,
and methods.
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Section Chair: |
Angel Saavedra Cisneros
Bowdoin College
asaavedracis@gmail.com
The section welcomes proposals that are related to the political
perspectives and preferences of members of the public. This includes
but is not restricted to investigations of the sources of public
opinion, processes of opinion formation, the relationship between
context and public opinion, the relationship between public opinion
and public policy, and the relationship between public opinion
and elite behavior and decision making. We also seek proposals
that use a psychological lens to examine political decision-making
and behavior as well as proposals that examine political phenomena
in the service of developing and enhancing psychological theory.
Proposals that focus on information processing, identity formation
and its consequences, the role of emotion and affect, personality
at the elite or mass level, socialization, media and campaign
effects, intergroup relations, and leadership are welcome as well. |
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Section Chair: |
Elizabeth Maltby
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
elizabeth.maltby@unlv.edu
This section invites paper proposals in all areas of public policy
studies, including but not limited to: theory-based research on
the processes of policy making and change, and public engagement
in those processes; and practically oriented policy analyses and
program evaluations. In all cases, authors are encouraged to incorporate
empirical, theoretical, and normative concerns in their papers.
Keeping with the conference theme, papers addressing recent and
future policy issues, and those incorporating interdisciplinary
or multidisciplinary perspectives and methods are strongly encouraged.
All policy issues will be considered, as will all levels of policy
making from the local to the international arena.
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Section Chairs: |
Angel Luis Molina
Arizona State University
almolin5@asu.edu
and
Chris Towler
California State University, Sacramento
towler@csus.edu
In recent years the central questions of REP scholarship have
become, more than ever, critical features of the nation’s
political discourse. For the 2022 WPSA conference, we invite proposals
for papers, panels, and roundtables, as well as other, innovative
presentation formats which demonstrate the power, significance,
and broad diversity of our work.
We welcome proposals, for example, which focus on the electoral
mobilization and political empowerment of racially marginalized
communities; on the political consciousness and policy views of
individuals within those communities; on gendered systems of racialized
power; on the rise of Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander,
and Indigenous leaders; on patterns of intra- and inter-racial
policy conflict, as well as racial disparities in labor markets,
housing, professions, education, health care, criminal injustice,
electoral access, environmental risk, immigration, and other key
policy arenas; on the politics and practices of social movements
to end police violence, dismantle patriarchal systems, protect
immigrants, and build community power; on the presence (or absence)
of racial themes in popular culture, literature, and media; on
racial political history; and on other topics which center the
politics of race and ethnicity, in local, national, and international
contexts.
We have no methodological restrictions or preferences (all are
welcome), and we actively solicit work from a wide range of theoretical,
substantive, and normative approaches. We welcome papers and panels
which facilitate engagement with advocates and practitioners from
outside the academy. We value the insights and contributions of
emerging scholars, and welcome proposals from students, as well
as from established scholars at all ranks. Finally, we invite
contributions which explore innovative pedagogies and modes of
classroom/community engagement, and others which focus on the
particular needs, strengths, and contributions of first-gen, non-traditional,
veteran, and recovering students. |
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Section Chair: |
Jason McDaniel
San Francisco State University
mcdaniel@sfsu.edu
Past WPSA meetings have been characterized by especially rich
work in the area of state, local, and urban politics. We hope
to continue and expand upon that tradition for the 2018 meeting.
This section welcomes papers on a wide variety of topics, addressing
different types of questions, using varied methods, and specifying
different units of analysis. We strongly welcome work that is
comparative in nature or addresses larger questions of federalism,
but these are not requirements. Given the conference theme we
especially encourage research on sub-national politics that might
shed light on conflict and consensus in the arena of the Politics
of Identity and Intergroup Bias.
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Section Chair: |
Renee Van Vechten
University of Redlands
renee_vanvechten@redlands.edu
The section welcomes proposals on all topics related to educating
both undergraduate and graduate students. Proposals could explore
such topics as: advising, assessment, civic engagement, curriculum
development, diversity within the classroom, educational goals,
experiential learning, applied learning, internships, pedagogic
responsibilities, service learning, simulations, teaching strategies,
and technology. The focus may be on pedagogic practice or the
scholarship of teaching and learning. Qualitative, interpretive,
quantitative, theoretical, or philosophical approaches will all
be considered. |
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Section Chair: |
Peter Burns
Soka University
pburns@soka.edu
Undergraduate students are invited to present posters on research
they are conducting under the supervision of their Political Science
faculty advisors. Any topic appropriate to the political science
discipline - broadly conceived - is welcome. |
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Section Chair: |
Fernando Tormos-Aponte
University of Pittsburgh
fernandotormos@pitt.edu
The section welcomes panels and papers on topics related to important
theoretical, substantive, and/or methodological issues dealing
with electoral behavior in the United States and in comparative
perspective. Among others, topics could include campaign effects,
election forecasting, campaign finance reforms, alternative voting
technologies, voter registration, mobilization, and turnout. This
section welcomes panels and papers on topics related to campaigns
and electioneering in the United States and in comparative perspective
with particular attention to whether and how the behavior of candidates
affects outcomes. Topics include campaign effects writ large,
advertising, mobilization and get-out-the-vote efforts, strategy,
primary election campaigns, and media coverage of campaigns. Proposals
examining the role of fundamentals in relation to campaign efforts
are especially welcome, along with proposals that highlight the
use of new or novel data, observational or other, that are well-suited
to study campaign efforts.
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Section Chair: |
Markie McBrayer
University of Idaho
markie.mcbrayer@gmail.com
Seventy-five years ago, in 1947, the United Nations held its
first ever Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), triggering
global political attention to women and gender dynamics. It was
not until Spring 1969 that the American Political Science Association
(APSA) created its own Committee of the Status of Women (Mitchell
1990), over 20 years later. This illustrates the critical relationship
between women, gender, and politics scholarship and feminist activism
at local and global levels. As WPSA also celebrates its 75th year,
we ask for gender scholars to embrace the theme of “lighting
up the new dawn” and to think about importance of 1) imagination
and 2) feminist political activism for recovering, reconciling,
and rebuilding democratic governance. Panels that include policy
practitioners and/or activists are welcome, as well as papers
that reflect creativity and imagination to foster “a more
just and inclusive new dawn for America and for the world,”
(WPSA Conference Theme Statement). This section also welcomes
papers and panels that examine the interaction of gender and power
in political institutions, social movements, and textual encounters
(theoretical, legal, literary, visual, or mass media). Proposals
from scholars at all stages in their careers, methodological traditions,
and cross-disciplinary approaches are invited to submit their
work.
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Section Chair: |
Jason Casellas
University of Houston
jcasellas@uh.edu
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This 2023 annual meeting will be held
in the aftermath of a trying time in our world, most especially
the multiple challenges of economic insecurity, inequality, climate
change, public health, democratic instability, and international
conflict. Given these and myriads of other challenges not only
in the United States but across the world, the WPSA is excited
about reconvening scholars from all types of institutions to come
together and explore where we have been and examine political
problems from multiple perspectives, including historical, analytical,
quantitative, qualitative, interpretive, normative, and empirical
points of view. What are some examples of how division has impacted
our political discourse and what role can we political scientists
play, as individuals and as members of an association to help
find ways to foster unity and coalescence around shared principles?
How can our research and teaching contribute to fostering unity
in the midst of disunity? What does unity mean for WPSA and its
members? Under what circumstances can we realistically achieve
unity in the midst of disunity?
We invite proposals that discuss the many ways we can think of
unity in the midst of disunity from the points of view of our
very diverse range of sections to help realize a renewed understanding
and appreciation of the democratic pluralism that undergirds our
society. We encourage members to submit proposals that explore
how feasible and achievable unity is in the midst of such polarized
division and in what ways division and disunity have affected
and will affect the endurance of the American experiment in constitutional
self-governance. |
Section 29: Miniconference: Asian Pacific American Politics |
Section Chairs: |
Dukhong Kim
Florida Atlantic University
dkim4@fau.edu
-and-
Nicole Filler
University of Massachusetts Boston
nicole.filler@umb.edu
The Asian and Pacific Islander American Caucus
(APAC) and the WPSA Status Committee for Asian Pacific Americans
in the Profession invites you to submit proposals to the mini-conference
on Asian and Pacific Islander American politics typically held
on Friday.
In line with the theme of the conference, “Unity in the
Midst of Disunity: The Role of Political Science in Democracy,”
and the significance of San Francisco to the Asian American
and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, historically and today,
we welcome proposals that interrogate the meanings, sources,
dynamics, and consequences of “unity” and “disunity”
among AAPIs and between AAPIs and other racialized groups from
various ontological, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.
We especially encourage submissions from scholars whose work
centers the lived experiences of Native Hawaiians and other
Pacific Islanders in America and transnationally, as well as
works that are attentive to the intersectionalities of race,
ethnicity, indigeneity, immigration history and status, gender,
sexuality, class, religion, and/or other dimensions of identity
and structural inequality across various topics in political
science. Scholarship that works with and for the communities
interrogated is also encouraged.
To submit your proposal, please select “29-Mini-Conference:
Asian Pacific American Conference” as your first choice
in the drop-down menu of the Request to Participate form. We
welcome proposals for individual paper, full panel, and/or roundtable
discussions as well as volunteers for chairs and discussants.
Please also kindly inform us if you have submitted a proposal
on APA politics but did not check the mini-conference as your
first choice.
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Section 30: Miniconference: Feminists Re-Theorize the
Political |
Section Chairs:
Anna Daily
Sacramento State University
anna.daily@csus.edu
Michaele Ferguson
University of Colorado Boulder
michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu
Elena Gambino
Rutgers University
elena.gambino@rutgers.edu
Danielle Hanley
Clark University
danhanley@clarku.edu
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The 1992 volume, Feminists Theorize
the Political, revolved around questions about method, the
political stakes of knowledge production, and changes in feminist
praxis - and our mini-conference similarly seeks to engage these
overlapping questions in the context of the current political
climate and evolutions in feminist political thought and theory
over the last 30 years. We invite paper proposals exploring how
feminists re-theorize the political today: What are the central
tensions and questions at the intersection of feminist politics
and theory in the twenty-first century? What theoretical frameworks
are pushing feminist theorists forward, and how might we explore
the limits of our contemporary frameworks for thinking through
questions of feminist politics? What place do theoretical approaches
like poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, or queer theory play in
conceptualizing politics anew in the age of climate crisis, Covid,
populist insurgency, and reproductive conservatism? What is gained
- and lost - as we shift frames for conceptualizing “the
political” along these new lines? To re-theorize what the
political means for today’s feminists, we hope to return
to, reconsider, and even rework the questions central to earlier
scholars and activists. We also invite new questions and formulations
of feminist analyses unique to the political landscape of today.
We invite papers, panels, and roundtables that explore these
and other questions that help us to explore feminist theory and
politics. Topics may include, but are not limited to, analyses
of political formations like the nuclear family, the politics
and methods of Native and Black feminisms, challenges for multiracial
solidarity in the populist moment, gender and the climate crisis,
the uneasy relationships between queer, trans, and feminist claims,
feminism’s role in thinking critical disability and Crip
studies, feminist care frameworks and Covid-19, and abolitionist
and decolonial feminisms. In order to attend to these complexly
evolving political issues, a primary goal of our mini-conference
will be to understand how these wide-ranging topics are both related
to and disruptive of traditional frameworks in feminist political
theory by engaging emergent methodologies in feminist theory,
including but not limited to critical fabulation, decolonial and
Indigenous epistemologies, and critical race theory. Deadline
for Submissions to the miniconference is October 3, 2022.
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Section 31: Miniconference: Community College |
Section Chairs:
Kelly Velasquez
Associate Professor, Political Science
East Los Angeles College
Social Sciences Department
Gender Pronouns She/Her/Hers
velasqkm@elac.edu
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The 6th Annual Community College Mini-Conference will take place Saturday, April 8th 9am-12pm. The committee welcomes in person and hybrid attendance.
The theme is "Rebuilding Democratic Institutions in the Age of Contestation". The theme for this conference is intended to address the current state of America. In recent years, America has undergone tremendous tumult including erosion of long-standing democratic institutions, systems of justice, and American political saliency have been contested. What is the danger of these things going away? How can we center justice? How does this decrease engagement of students of color?
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Section 32: Miniconference: Undemocratic Politics |
Section Chairs:
Peter Lorentzen
University of San Francisco
plorentzen@usfca.edu
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The Undemocratic Politics mini-conference
welcomes theoretical and empirical papers on a broad range of substantive
topics, including the study of democracy, dictatorship and regime
transitions, state repression, social movements, authoritarian institutions,
and propaganda and censorship. We encourage papers from a variety
of methodological perspectives. Deadline for Submissions
to the miniconference is October 3, 2022. |