Source: Luis Lobo Guerrero, Deadline: 15.08.2007.

Sponsored by COST ACTION A24 : The evolving social construction of threats / 8– 9 November 2007 / Institute for Advanced Studies
Lancaster University United Kingdom / deadline 15 August 2007The first workshop ‘Security, Technologies of Risk, and the Political’ attracted the attention of a wide European inter-disciplinary group of scholars concerned with the problem space that arises when security, technologies of risk, and the political are interrogated in relation to each other. This second workshop is intended to further dialogue and incorporate contentious debates on the emergence of a global order of governance informed by various technologies of risk.

The workshop seeks to address the following questions, although not exclusively, and papers related to them are invited:

-  How is ‘the political’ pictured within orders of governance operating through technologies of risk?

- How are technologies of risk deployed in the process of securitising ‘life’?

- How are technologies of risk adapting to the changing environment of global capital?

- How does the privatisation of security relate to changing understandings of what is to be ‘at risk’ and the technologies through which such issues get treated?

- How are questions of ‘political economy’ reconstituting under pervasive rationalities of risk and risk management?

-What is the role of the catastrophic imaginary of risk in shifting modalities of governance? What would a ‘critical’ approach to the problematization of the future as disaster or catastrophe entail?

- What happens to sovereignty when nation-states increasingly deploy technologies of risk as their rationality for governance?

- What happens when the nation-state ‘securitises’ outside itself?

- What do ‘critical approaches to security’ and ‘critical approaches to political economy’ have to say about the ways in which global orders of governance reconstitute around rationalities of risk management?

- How do traditional governmental security technologies such as defence and diplomacy interact with emerging security ensembles premised upon the governance of risk?


Guest Speakers:
 
Pat O’Malley (University of Sydney, Law School)
Nikolas Rose (London School of Economics, Sociology/BIOS)
Engin Isin (The Open University, Politics and International Studies)

 
How to apply?
 
Please send a 400 word abstract, including e-mail address and institutional affiliation, before 15th August to Luis Lobo-Guerrero: l.lobo-guerrero@lancaster.ac.uk. Participants will be notified soon after and a draft program will be published. Accommodation and travel expenses of paper givers will be funded by COST according to standard rates. A limited number of funded places will also be available.
 
 
Local organizers:
 
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Lancaster University
Email : l.lobo-guerrero@lancaster.ac.uk

Claudia Aradau
Open University
Email: Claudia.aradau@kcl.ac.uk

Rens Van Munster
University of Southern Denmark
Email : rvm@sam.sdu.dk