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• 30 avr 2014

  Montreal

  Call for papers - History

  Political Mobilization and Citizen Engagement in Canada

  The conference entitled "Political Mobilization and Citizen Engagement in Canada", conference sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association-affiliated Political History Group, promises to provide glimpses of various ongoing research projects in political history. The organizing committee of this conference seeks papers on the following topics in the Canadian context. Papers that compare Canada with other societies are also most welcome: pressure groups/lobby groups; social movements and their relationship with the state and political rulers; the political activism of particular individuals; particular events that have mobilized citizens in large numbers; transformations in political cultures; the evolution of participatory democracy; political ideas and discourses; the transformation of the state and its apparatus; etc.

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• 20 sep 2012

  21 sep 2012

  22 sep 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Contested Democracy:

  Contestation and Participation in the English-speaking World

  The dissent and uprisings that spread through the Arab world during the Spring of 2011 occurred almost a quarter of a century after the fall of East European political régimes that saw the rise of "democracy" modeled on the Anglo-American representative system. This specific context which has come to characterize the past quarter of century calls for a renewed analysis of the models these political systems represent and of the processes that triggered them and led to their long-term establishment in the UK and the US.Since the 1990s, as a response to the story of the inevitable emergence of democracy in the aftermath of the Cold War, researchers on North American politics have provided an alternative reading of events: that of a "contested democracy".

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