What does Transnationalisation do with Sovereignty and the State?
Normative Implications and Reconfigurations of Politics
at ECPR General Conference 2013 in Bordeaux (Deadline for Paper Proposals: 1st February 2013)
at ECPR General Conference 2013 in Bordeaux (Deadline for Paper Proposals: 1st February 2013)
Transnationalization has become a buzz word in research on globalization
in political science and neighboring disciplines. Legal scholars debate the
transnationalization of law and the emergence of legal arrangements alongside
and beyond international law. Similarly, sociologists and historians
increasingly emphasize the role of transnational processes in the (re-) shaping
of social order.
Most of these approaches define the concept of transnationalization in
opposition to state-driven international relations. By the concept of
transnationalization they refer to and describe an ever-expanding process in
which actors other than states generate and become involved in forms of social
organization across and beyond territorial boundaries. In view of this process,
scholars across the disciplines raise questions about the present and future of
the concept of sovereignty and the national territorial state. While some argue
that transnationalization amounts to an erosion of the state and of (state or
national) sovereignty, others hold that the function and substance of the state
and of sovereignty are altered or disaggregated by this process, but not
effaced.
In this panel we wish to take up this debate and discuss the complex
relation between sovereignty and transnationalization in an interdisciplinary
setting. We assume that a better grasp of the “transnational” and its
implications necessitates trans-disciplinary engagement. We wish to bring
together scholars from different disciplines for the purpose of debating the
question of how the interplay between transnationalization and sovereignty can
be conceptualized in historical, sociological, legal and political terms and
with what results. To what extent are foundations of modern political
normativity renegotiated and contested in the process of transnationalization
and how are political concepts (trans-) formed and (re-) appraised in the
debate on it? How does this reshape the imaginary of politics?
Panel Chair: Christian Volk, University of Trier
Panel Co-Chair: Friederike Kuntz, University of Trier
Panel Discussant: Hauke Brunkhorst, Flensburg/ Oslo University College
Further information on the conference, the call for papers, and
submission process on http://new.ecprnet.eu/Conferences/General/2013_Bordeaux/Default.aspx
