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University of Manchester (UK)
Appel à communications / Call for Papers
Colloque / Symposium
Transnational Cultures of Petitioning
from 1750 to the present
Manchester (UK)
29-30 juin 2015 (June 29 - June 30, 2015)
(limite: 25 mai 2015 - May 25, 2015)
Abstract:
Petitioning was and is a universal phenomenon that transcends place and time. In pre-democratic periods it was frequently the most accessible form of popular political participation, but it has long been neglected by historians and political scientists pre-occupied with voting, elections and parties. The recent rise of e-petitioning and the crisis of traditional representative democracy across the Western world makes the study of alternative forms of popular representation and participation not only timely but urgent. This two day symposium brings together historians and social scientists to highlight future directions for research in this exciting emerging field.
The symposium will identify key questions for the study of petitioning in North America, Britain and Europe from 1750 to the present, specifically focusing on the changing relationship between petitioning and participation, representation and democratic development. In particular, the symposium seeks to promote the study of the transnational and comparative study of petitioning and place national and local studies in global perspective.
We welcome papers that address these broad themes from historians and social and political scientists. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The relationship between petitioning and representation, participation and democracy/ democratization
- E-petitioning and contemporary petitioning
- Comparative studies
- Cultural and political transfer of petitioning cultures
- Different methodological approaches to the study of petitioning
- The export and import of petitioning in national political constitutions
- Petitions to international organisations and the role of petitioning in supranational systems
- Imperial petitions/ petitions within empires
Participation
Email abstracts of no more than 250 words to Dr. Henry Miller, henry.miller@manchester.ac.uk by 25 May 2015
This event is supported by the Social History Society and the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.
Confirmed participants:
- Dr. Benoît Agnès (Paris/Sorbonne)
- Prof. Daniel Carpenter (Harvard)
- Prof. Malcolm Chase (Leeds)
- Dr. Richard Huzzey (Liverpool)
- Dr. Henry Miller (Manchester)
- Dr. Maartje Janse (Leiden)
- Dr. Diego Palacios Cerezales (Stirling)
- Prof. David Zaret (Indiana)
Research Interests [in Academia.edu's]:
European History, Modern History, Social Movements, European Studies, Constitutional Law, Comparative Politics, Transnationalism, British Politics, Political Science, Democratization, Comparative Constitutional Law, Political History, Transnational History, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, History of the British Parliament, Public Sphere, Parliamentary Studies, Transnational Social Movements, Legislatures, New Models Of Participatory And Direct Democracy, Participatory Democracy, 19th Century (History), Parliamentary History, Political Representation, Comparative Historical Analysis, Modern European History, Constitutional History, Electronic Democracy, EU National Parliaments, Petitioning, and E-Petitions
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