Deadline: 20-Aug-21
The Forum Transregionale Studien is inviting applications for Advanced PhD Students and Early-Career Researchers to apply for participation in the Working Group In Search for the “Political”: Law’s (Il)legibility between Violence and Care.
The Working Group is initiated by Ola Galal (The Graduate Center at CUNY) and Revital Madar (The Program in Cultural Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), with the support of the Trajectories of Change program of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, and in collaboration with the Forum Transregionale Studien.
The working group’s discussions will focus on narratives, processes, structures, and institutions through which law is produced, appropriated, and contested throughout its different life stages of drafting, interpretation, and implementation. Within this framework, the organizers seek to draw attention to the entanglement of violence and care in modern law and explore the extent to which the global judicialization of politics reproduces the very inequalities and injustices the law is imagined and promises to address.
Following nine online meetings, held between October 2021 and June 2022, a workshop will be organized in order to meet in-person and discuss participants’ work in progress that originated from discussions held throughout the year.
Themes
This is an interdisciplinary workshop that seeks to address the problematic of law and care. They thus invite early-career researchers (including advanced PhD students and independent researchers) from disciplines across the social sciences and the humanities to apply.
Forum Transregionale Studien is interested in the following questions, but are by no means limited to them:
- How has care become a key modality of governance? In what ways have vulnerability and protection emerged as key grounds for rights claims-making?
- How can modern configurations of law and (in)equality help them rethink facile distinctions between reason and passion; the religious and the secular; and the local and the transnational that underlie modern governance?
- Can they draw a line between law and care?
- What defines law’s carness and carelessness?
- Do inclusive legal actions that seek to improve the lives of minority groups enhance the law’s caring performance? Can they, and should they, dismantle the law as a caring mechanism?
- To what extent are the law’s expressions of care related to its legibility and Illegibility?
- How does the law, through the entanglement of care and violence, make itself (il)legible to its differently positioned subjects, and in turn, how does it produce social categories as (il)legible?
- How is the political constituted, reshaped, and contested in relation to the law’s care/carelessness?
- What are the violent aspects of care to which law (also in the form of norms) abides?
Eligibility Criteria
Forum Transregionale Studien accepts applications from early-career researchers (including advanced PhD students and independent researchers) in any discipline across the social sciences and the humanities.
Applications should include:
- A short bio, (name, institutional affiliation, status, titles of relevant works/PhD thesis, and research interests). To ensure the diversity of the group, please also indicate your gender and nationality;
- The applicant’s interest in the working group, indicating as well how the working group may contribute to his/her ongoing work (200 words);
- One recommendation of a book or an article, including a short explanation of the choice (150 words).
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