Conference and Special Issue Call For Papers - National Questions, International Possibilities: Democratic Revival in an Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Alternate Routes and the University of Bari, Italy invites individual paper and panel submissions for our latest conference and journal special issue. Liberal democratic capitalism is increasingly losing legitimacy but what might replace it is increasingly unclear. It has become almost an orthodoxy to argue that the great divide in world politics today is between nationalists and globalists, left- and right-wing populists, and identity and class politics. Despite talk of a new world order, the end of history and an era of post-truth politics, these divisions also reflect profound political limitations. This Call for Papers interrogates these divisions and more, including: What role for social democratic and socialist politics today? How to challenge the authoritarian/anti-democratic politics of the right and the debilititing post-politics of “the centre”? What role for national self-determination in interntional contexts? How to organize social and political conflict? How are labour and other social movements responding?
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