Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

5th Global Conference

Friday 6th November – Sunday 8th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Friday 6th November 2009
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14:00
Session 1: Citizenship – Critical Assessments
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Robert Danisch
Jane Addams, Pragmatism and Rhetorical Citizenship in Multicultural Democracies

Sanja Ivic
Postmodern Liberal Conception of Citizenship

Paulina Tambakaki
Rethinking Citizenship in Agonistic Terms

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Social Movements and Political Mobilisation
Chair: Elsa Peralta

Sonia Pires
Pro-Immigrant Political Mobilisation in Portugal and Italy: The Role of Civil Society

Tania Ganito
Cynical Realism: Evoking the Past through Laughter and Ironic Bodily Performances

Swetha Rao Dhananka
Explaining the Absence of Social Movements in Light of Unsuccessful Brokerage

17:30
Wine Reception (with delegates from The Erotic)

Saturday 7th November 2009
09:00
Session 3: National Identities
Chair: Itai Sneh

Imagining the Nation Differently: Redefinitions of Narratives of Identity in Contemporary Irish Writing
Carmen Zamorano Llena

Good ‘Swedishness’? Expressions of Swedish National Identity in the Minority and Integration Policies
Ellinor Hamren

Living between Countries, Living between Nature and Society: Anthropological Remarks on National and Cultural Identities
Humberto Dos Santos Martins

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 4: Citizenship Narratives and Participation
Chair: Julian Chapple

More than Participation: A Grounded Theory on Youth Engagement
Matteo Artoni

12:00
Lunch

13:30
Session 5: Minorities, Rights and Inclusion
Chair: Clemens Rieder

Free to Move but Nowhere to Go: The Renovation of Freedom of Movement as a Human Right for the Roma
Alessandra Beasley Von Burg

Immigrant Voting Rights within the European Union and the Southern African Development Community: Can the EU Model be Applied in the Developmental and Post-Colonial Context of SADC?
Thembinkosi Wilson Maseko

How to Empower Gypsies? An Ethnographic Study
Elisabetta Di Giovanni

15:00
Coffee Break

15:30
Session 6: Pluralistic and Inclusive Politics
Chair: Swetha Rao Dhananka

The Potential and Possibility of a Pluralistic Japan
Julian Chapple

Diversity in Parliaments of Germany: Turkish-origin Members of Parliament in Germany
Devrimsel Nergiz

Public Broadcasting in New Zealand: Can State Media Be Inclusive Media?
Donald Reid

17:00
Sessions End

Sunday 8th November 2009
9:00
Session 7: Solidarity and Justice
Chair: Ellinor Hamren

Practices of Care and the Intergenerational Solidarity in the Context of Transnational Migration (Azores to Canada)
Ana Gherghel

Justice the Next Frontier: Inclusion of Individuals with Mental Disorders within Liberal Theories of Justice
Melissa Matheson

Why Shouldn’t We Care For EU Citizens?
Clemens Rieder

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 8: Being a Citizen
Chair: Paulina Tambakaki

Citizens and Aliens: A Greek Paradigm of ‘Effective’ Government
Christina Georgiadou

Economic Migrants, Expatriate Citizens and the Right to Vote within the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Wessel le Roux

Racialized  Citizenship: The Contested Advance in the Rights of Prisoners in Light of the Struggle of African-Americans for Citizenship
Itai Sneh

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Cosmopolitan Reflections
Chair: Tania Ganito

British South Asian Muslim Women, National Identities and Cosmopolitanism
Fazila Bhimji

Cosmopolitan Mythscapes: (Re)Memorializing the Empire in a Multicultural City
Elsa Peralta

15:00
Coffee Break

15:30
Thematic Discussion and Development Meeting

16:30
Conference Ends