Interpreting Authoritarianism: Politics, Practices, Meanings

Date: September 20-21, 2010

Site: Exeter, UK
Organiser: Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK
Topics: This workshop will explore what interpretive approaches can tell us, about the discourses, practices and politics of authoritarianism that, other approaches cannot. The workshop provides an opportunity for interpretive researchers on authoritarianism to engage explicitly with the conceptual issues, which inform their work. The workshop invites papers from across the social and human sciences (including political science, sociology, history, anthropology, geography, area studies, international relations, and related fields) which address theoretical, methodological, empirical or disciplinary issues related to the theme of 'interpreting authoritarianism'. Empirical studies of particular cases are welcome (whether from the developing, developed, or over-developed worlds) but should also engage with questions of broader conceptual relevance.

Contact: Daniel Neep, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK
E-mail: d.neep@exeter.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.ipsa.org/site/content/view/1240/38/lang,en