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SUMMARY:Civil Society and Democratic Backsliding Conference (Istanbul)
DESCRIPTION:INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC/CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE\n\n\n\nMon 23rd – Tues 24th May\, 2022 \n\n\n\nIstanbul\, Turkey \n\n\n\nHosted by Society and Legal Research Foundation (TOHAV) and Centre for Citizenship\, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL)\, Aberdeen University \n\n\n\nKeynote speakers: \n\n\n\nShalini Randeria President and Rector\, Central European UniversityMarlies Glasius\, Professor in International Relations\, University of AmsterdamAjay Gudavarthy\, Associate Professor\, Centre for Political Studies\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\n\n\n\nAn extraordinary range of countries across the world transitioned to democracy in the 1980s and subsequent decades\, introducing multi-party elections\, constitutional protection for minorities\, freedom of speech and conscience\, and other measures consistent with international human rights treaties and covenants. One set of pro-democracy actors came to be known as “civil society”: a loose term but which often refers to legally-established organizations and associations\, from NGOs and social movements to think tanks and the media\, which maintain a degree of autonomy from governments and political parties\, and which attempt to place pressure on governments through monitoring\, advocacy and policy recommendations. \n\n\n\nIn the past decade\, however\, authoritarian practices and policies have been on the rise in many contexts. Countries as different as Turkey\, Hungary\, Poland\, Brazil\, Mexico and Tanzania\, all held to be consolidating as democracies\, have been criticized for “democratic backsliding”. The term is not wholly satisfactory because some of the authoritarian practices are new – this is no simple return to old habits – and there is no single trend across countries. For example\, though much attention has been paid to shifts toward the political Right\, Mexico is a case of authoritarian practices on the Left. Neither are the processes exclusive to newer democracies: India is an older democracy that is now accused of authoritarianism\, and Trump’s USA was arguably another example. Yet “democratic backsliding” does seem to capture some of the experience of these countries: their governments have abandoned some of the democratic agendas and principles to which they appeared previously committed. \n\n\n\nOne common feature is precisely that governments tend to denounce “civil society” for being elitist and blocking the will of the people\, including by kow-towing to international donors and powers like the EU and the US. Civil society organizations that once struggled against military dictatorship or one-party rule have found that their longstanding strategies are ill-suited to these times. For example\, civil society was instrumental in drafting democratic constitutions and monitoring their implementation\, yet in recent years governments have modified the constitutions and turned them to authoritarian ends. Governments have also looked to harness the judicial institutions that civil society used to work through and with. Meanwhile\, civil society has found itself vulnerable to governments’ ability to rally new constituencies in order to command electoral majorities\, often by stigmatizing minorities which find themselves permanently excluded. Governments use their newfound political power to neutralize and frustrate attempts to limit that power\, whether by civil society organizations\, social movements\, opposition parties\, the media\, or autonomous institutions like electoral tribunals and human rights commissions. \n\n\n\nSociety and Legal Research Foundation (TOHAV) has joined forces with Aberdeen University’s Centre for Citizenship\, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) to invite researchers to share their experience and understanding of civil society’s predicament\, debating these with civil society practitioners from across several countries. The following questions are indicative: \n\n\n\nHow does comparing countries help us to understand authoritarian practices? Does “democratic backsliding” capture recent authoritarian practices across countries\, or are other concepts more useful?How is “civil society” understood in each country\, and what role is envisaged for it? Is civil society considered different to activism\, for example? And have understandings of civil society changed over the decades\, and what does this reveal?What strategies have proved effective in the past in countering authoritarianism\, and do they remain effective in the present? Is there a need to find new kinds and methods of action? Do any of these go beyond “civil society” as understood previously? For example\, does civil disobedience prove effective and/or should organizations engage in electoral politics rather than remain aloof?How realistic is it to expect organizations who depend on donors\, grants\, and international funds (and are sometimes pilloried for that) to counter elected governments with ready access to public funds that engage in authoritarian practices?“Civil society” is often criticised as being elitist\, unrepresentative\, and accountable only to their donors. How can organizations best respond to those accusations?\n\n\n\nFurther information\, including the programme and details of how to join\, is available on the conference page.
URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/civil-society-and-democratic-backsliding-conference-istanbul/
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SUMMARY:Michael Beaney on “Conceptual Empowerment”
DESCRIPTION:In a series of seminars over the next 2 years\, CISRUL will engage with scholarly debates in history\, philosophy\, pedagogy\, psychology\, literature\, linguistics\, and legal\, social and political theory\, on how concepts emerge and develop\, intentionally or otherwise\, and what the consequences are. To begin with\, we propose to engage with conceptual historians who have traced the evolution of concepts like “citizenship” (Koselleck); legal scholars who have considered how concepts become articulated in law and established through jurisprudence; critical discourse analysis of how institutions exert power through creating lexicons; and recent philosophical debates on “conceptual engineering”\, understood as the critique and improvement of concepts. \n\n\n\nWe have invited Aberdeen’s new Regius Chair of Logic\, Michael Beaney\, to open the series: \n\n\n\nConceptual Empowerment \n\n\n\nInterpreting ancient Chinese conceptions of knowing \n\n\n\nThursday 1 July 10-11.30 on MS Teams \n\n\n\nA central debate in contemporary epistemology concerns the distinction between knowing-that and knowing-how\, roughly\, between theoretical (propositional) and practical (action-exemplifying) knowledge. Yet this distinction distorts our understanding of ancient Chinese philosophy (and no doubt many other ’non-Western’ traditions of thought)\, in which different conceptions\, such as of knowing-to and knowing-as\, play an important role. Articulating these conceptions can be achieved within the conceptual resources of English-speakers\, so they are not in any way alien. At the same time\, doing so enriches those conceptual resources\, which we can regard as a form of conceptual empowerment. There has been much interest recently in what is called ‘conceptual engineering’ – sharpening our conceptual tools for specific purpose. This\, too\, can be regarded as a form of conceptual empowerment\, which can therefore be regarded as the broader term. I will primarily be concerned in this talk with illustrating the idea of conceptual empowerment in interpreting ancient Chinese philosophy\, but the illustration is intended to show its importance much more generally\, not least in demonstrating the value of engaging with other forms of thinking with which we may be far less familiar. \n\n\n\nThe seminar is open to everyone – please do forward to anyone who you think might be interested!
URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/michael-beaney-on-conceptual-empowerment/
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SUMMARY:Citizenship in Pandemic Times
DESCRIPTION:Citizenship in Pandemic Times\n\n\n \n \n1– 14 June 2021\nThe 18th annual conference of the Center for the Study of Citizenship\, based at Wayne State University\, is online this year and is co-sponsored by the Centre for Citizenship\, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of Aberdeen and the Citizens\, Nations and Migration (CNaM) Network based at the University of Edinburgh. \n\nOnline conference\, 1– 14 June 2021 \nRegister via conference website https://www.cnam-network.cahss.ed.ac.uk/citizenship-in-pandemic-times/ \nThe 18th annual conference of the Center for the Study of Citizenship\, based at Wayne State University\, is going online this year and will be co-sponsored by the Centre for Citizenship\, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of Aberdeen and the Citizens\, Nations and Migration (CNaM) Network based at the University of Edinburgh. \nThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected citizenship in myriad ways. Since January 2020\, governments across the world have made extraordinary demands on citizens and non-citizens. Few of us had previously experienced or imagined such calls to change how we work\, live\, and play. Citizens have taken it upon themselves to denounce others for failing to heed the restrictions\, and some have volunteered to aid struggling health services. Others protest the curbs on their freedom and livelihood\, within and beyond democracies\, as well as the unevenness in harm and the burdens of care\, nationally and globally. The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated inequalities of race\, gender\, social class and nationality. It has also called into question current political and economic models\, and the relationship they imply with the natural world. Governments design and implement policies to target groups for protective measures from furlough to vaccination\, as well as to call on and reward others for service\, introducing new fault lines into citizenship. Citizens’ engagement with governments\, and with each other and with non-citizens\, continues to evolve in ways that vary globally. In these ways and more\, the lens of citizenship promises to yield important insights into our scholarly and public understanding of the world that is emerging in 2021. \nThis online conference will be held in daily slots\, timed to fit with a range of time zones\, over the period 1-14 June. Please register via the conference website https://www.cnam-network.cahss.ed.ac.uk/citizenship-in-pandemic-times/ \n\n  \n 
URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/citizenship-in-pandemic-times-conference/
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SUMMARY:Community series: Community and Society seminar
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URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/community-series-community-and-society-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Conceptualizing “Political” workshop prep reading seminar
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URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/conceptualizing-political-workshop-prep-reading-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Civic Actors and Illicit Margins Public Policy
DESCRIPTION:A Mexican Case \n\n\n\n\n\nA talk co-hosted by CISRUL\, Centre for Global Security and Governance and the Modern Languages Research Forum \n\n\n\nMonday 22nd April at 2-4 pm in Humanities Manse seminar room \n\n\n\nIn 2018\, a gala dinner was offered in honour of “opinion leaders” in a provincial Mexican city\, and guests included the directors of a pro-transparency civil association\, as well as city reporters and their bosses. These and other guests were surprised to find that their hosts included not only the municipal president\, whom they expected\, but also a businessman who had long been associated with organised crime and a notary with a similar reputation. The vignette serves to complicate the heroic image of a civil society that challenges the hold of criminal actors over state office-holders\, by showing how criminal and other business interests can figure in public policy processes\, and how the line between such interests and so-called civil society can be a fine one. \n\n\n\nThe research was part of the ESRC project Activism in Regions of Crime-Related Violence.
URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/civic-actors-and-illicit-margins-public-policy/
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SUMMARY:Rhetoric of Critique reading-based seminar
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URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/rhetoric-of-critique-reading-based-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Politico PhD Presentations
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URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/politico-phd-presentations/
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SUMMARY:Autonomy\, sovereignty and constitutional change
DESCRIPTION:CISRUL-POLITICO workshop with Nancy Postero\n\n\n\n\nOrganisers: Trevor Stack\, Valentín Clavé-Mercier\, and Chuck Sturtevant\n\nTime and venue: 1 February 2019\, 12-3pm\, Committee Room 2 (University Office)\n\nThis workshop will explore autonomy and sovereignty in processes of constitutional change. Processes of constitutional change include not only moments in which new constitutions are adopted\, but also academic\, activist and judicial proposals for new constitutional frameworks\, reinterpretations of existing constitutions\, and unwritten projects that constitute communities. These processes refigure political communities\, calling for new (di)visions of inclusion and exclusion and conjuring new relationships between institutions and subjects. As moments in which the basic norms by which a political community is defined and governed are made explicit and subjected to public debate\, these processes provide fertile ground in which to explore the relationship between constitutional ideas and their enactment in specific situations.\n\nAlthough discourses of human and communitarian rights have ushered in a trend towards liberal multiculturalism and constitution-making that ‘recognises’ the diversity of ‘the people’ or of ‘the nation’ through equality and minority rights these shifts have generally fallen short of shifting the power of decision-making to minority or marginalised groups. By contrast\, processes as distinct as Maori claims to sovereignty\, the refoundation of Bolivia as a Plurinational State\, and Kurdish models of political organisation have raised the possibility that sovereignty or autonomy might be distributed beyond the state. They suggest that the concept of sovereignty – often a tool of domination in the hands of centralising state projects – holds emancipatory potential for local or marginalised communities. The workshop raises the question about the relationship between  the concepts of sovereignty or autonomy and  the claims and demands of minorities and marginalized groups for autonomy and self-determination.\n\nDo processes of constitutional change allow for the redistribution of sovereignty? How can we compare and contrast sovereignty or autonomy claims by local or marginalised communities with claims by the state? How are social and economic hierarchies maintained or disrupted in the process?\n\nThis one-day workshop will present work at the intersection of normative and empirical scholarship\, considering not only how processes of constitutional change are implemented\, but also what are the moral and ethical consequences of that implementation. We ask how these processes which problematize the distributions of sovereignty might lead to more just political systems.\nSession 1\n12pm    “Self-governance in Bolivia’s First Indigenous Autonomy: Charagua”\n\nNancy Postero (UC San Diego)\n\n\nWhat does autonomy mean for Latin America’s indigenous peoples?  Based in part on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)\, Bolivia’s 2007 constitution recognizes indigenous peoples’ rights to self-determination and to maintain their distinct institutions. This paper explores the debates around concepts of autonomy and sovereignty at Bolivia’s Constituent Assembly\, and the form of “indigenous autonomy” that was included in the final constitution. While the constitutional language appears to give indigenous communities far-reaching new rights\, many questions remain about what autonomy means in practice. This paper investigates how those rights are being exercised in Charagua\, which became Bolivia’s first “indigenous autonomy” when the municipality’s Guaraní majority approved conversion in 2015. I examine the difficult process Charagua’s leaders endured\, the novel institutions of self-government they ended up establishing\, and the ways Guaranís are negotiating autonomy\, both externally and internally. The result of those negotiations is a hybrid political system in which power is balanced between an executive organ (required by the country’s Plurinational Constitutional Court) and a deliberative assembly (which operates according to indigenous custom). The prominence of the assembly expresses a significant form of autonomy that promotes intercultural political participation and enacts indigenous self-government in ways that are important to Guaraní people. Yet\, because the municipality does not control sub-soil rights and thus cannot determine the sorts of development in its territory\, it is hard to conclude they are exercising full and robust autonomy as understood in the UN Declaration’s provisions for self-determination.\n\nFollowed by responses from Tamas Gyorfi (Law) and Ritu Vij (Politics & IR)\, and then open discussion\n\n1.30pm  Sandwich lunch (all welcome)\nSession 2\n2pm    “A Constitutional Path to Indigenous Sovereignty: Matike Mai Aotearoa”\n\nValentin Clavé-Mercier (University of Aberdeen)\n\nThis paper is a preliminary presentation of the early stages of an ongoing PhD research on discourses and practices of indigenous sovereignty\, more concretely in the New Zealand context. Even though it has been an ever-present claim in indigenous discourses since the 1970s\, sovereignty is not applicable to indigenous peoples according to Western universalised standards. Therefore\, this paper intends to lay out key features of indigenous sovereignty shared across English-speaking settler contexts in order to explore how it might be achieved through constitutional change. In a first part\, I will sketch some of the specificities of indigenous sovereignty in order to understand the meaning and scope of their political claim. In this regard\, I argue that they mobilise a conceptualisation different to the Westphalian construct traditionally predominant in Western political and legal doctrines. In the second part of this paper\, I will present the concrete case of a Māori proposal for constitutional transformation\, tracing how this alternative understanding of sovereignty can lead to new configurations of political authority. Through this example\, I intend to point out alternative modalities of sovereignty\, but also to raise questions about their political and institutional translations\, or even whether the transformative weight of indigenous sovereignty can be encapsulated in constitutional arrangements.\n\n2.15pm    “Autonomy and the Self-Administration of North and East Syria”\n\nAviva Stein (Catalystas Consulting)\n\nAutonomy is often seen as a step towards sovereignty; a necessary stepping stone for communities to ease their way into governing themselves. However\, in the case of North and East Syria\, autonomy is the cornerstone of a movement for internal governance. The Self-Administration of North and East Syria (SANES)\, formerly known as Rojava\, has held fast to the desire to remain under the umbrella of one united Syrian state\, denying themselves independence and sovereignty in the eye of the international community in favor of building a stronger\, more tolerant Syrian identity.\n\nThis approach has greatly influenced both the construction and implementation of practical governance within the region\, as well as the development of a new constitution and other constitutional documents\, including the Social Contract. It can be argued that the adherence to the principle of autonomy over sovereignty has hindered the progress of North and East Syria in geopolitical affairs and international diplomacy\, preventing the region from being taken seriously as an independent actor with recognized state-level authority and decision making power. However\, it can also be argued that North and East Syria’s loyalty to autonomy within a State system has also enabled the region to make great strides in a relatively short period of time. The region has succeeded in building and implementing a democratic\, multicultural\, and representative system in practice without antagonizing the central Syrian government and other regional and global powers which would not appreciate the shift in status quo necessitated by a declaration of independence for a new Middle Eastern state.\n\nThis paper will examine the fine line which North and East Syria has tread with regards to creating a new constitution and governing system within the confines of the debate on autonomy vs. sovereignty\, and the ways in which their decisions on constitutional development have affected the social\, cultural\, economic\, and geopolitical situation in the region overall.\n\n2.30pm    “Iraqi Kurdistan’s Struggle for Sovereignty”\n\nAhmed Fawaz (University of Aberdeen)\n\nKurds were pivotal in the Iraqi opposition prior to the toppling of Saddam\, hosting Iraqi opposition figures and speaking on behalf of the opposition to present their perspectives. The Kurds succeeded in getting their allies’ acceptance of their demand for a federation in case the opposition managed to overthrow Saddam’s regime.  However\, it is a unique type of federalism; a federation between Kurdistan on one hand and the rest of Iraq on the other hand. Stansfield (2007) argues that the inclusion of federalism as the political system of Iraq in the constitution indicated the strength of the Kurds. Moreover\, Iraqi Kurdistan received considerable political advantages\, including formation of the parliament of Kurdistan\, formation of the government of the territory\, upgrading of Arbil and Sulaimaniyah airports to international airports and granting the Kurdistan parliament the veto power against any central legislation that it deems detrimental to Kurdish interests. The last-mentioned advantage raised a dispute over the regions’ powers against the centre. The Sunni Arabs in Iraq criticised the Constitution as they saw that it indirectly gives the Kurds the right to veto any law or the amendment of the constitution when it gives two-thirds of any three governorates (Kurdistan region then consists of three governorates) the right to reject any amendment.\n\nThe presentation will seek to answer the following questions:\n\n 	How had the Kurdish politicians seized the opportunity of constitutional change in Iraq to achieve political and economic gains?\n 	How had the constitutional change in Iraq raised a dispute over issues of sovereignty between Baghdad and Arbil (the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan)?\n 	What impact has the secession referendum had on the political arena in Kurdistan?\n\n2.45pm    Open discussion\n\n4pm    End of workshop
URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/autonomy-sovereignty-and-constitutional-change/
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SUMMARY:Citizen Participation in Contexts of Crime-Related Violence and Institutional Fragility
DESCRIPTION:ESRC-funded Workshop hosted by the Centre for Citizenship\, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of Aberdeen \nThursday 22nd November\, 2018 \nThe aim of the workshop was to present research on citizen participation within regions characterized by violence and fragile institutions\, especially where related to organized crime. \nResearchers and policy-makers have called for “citizen participation” or “civil society” to help address issues of crime-related violence and institutional fragility. Yet it is not clear what scope there is for citizens and civil society to play a role\, especially from within the most affected contexts. Although there are now literatures on criminal organisation\, political corruption and related violence\, as well as on state initiatives and on the role of national and international Civil Society Organizations\, there was little research on the role of individuals and organizations within the most violent regions. \nThe workshop included research from Italy\, Libya and Brazil\, but focused on research on Mexico\, where a government offensive launched in 2007 led to a decade of extraordinary violence. There were presentations from the team of the ongoing “Activism in Violent Regions” project\, and Professor Jenny Pearce also presented the findings of the “Co-Constructing Security Provision in Mexico” project. \nSchedule\n9                           Welcome and introduction (Trevor Stack) \nCitizen participation in contexts of crime-related violence\nChair: Pilar Domingo (ODI) \n9.30                     Baris Cayli (Derby) on the anti-mafia movement in S. Italy \n10.05                   Sasha Jesperson (St Mary’s Twickenham) on anti-people trafficking in Libya \n10.40                   Carolina Maurity Frossard (UVA) on security-focused neighbourhood groups in Brazil \n11.15                   Jenny Pearce (LSE) “Co-Constructing Security Provision in Mexico” \n11.50                   Tea/coffee/snacks break \n“Activism in Violent Regions” project\nChair: Sasha Jesperson (St Mary’s\, AKTIS Strategy) \n12.10                   Introduction to “Activism in Violent Regions” project \n12.20                   Citizen security councils (Irene Álvarez\, Denisse Román and Trevor Stack) \n12.55                   Cultural activism (Edgar Guerra and Ariadna Sánchez) \n1.30                     Sandwich lunch will be provided \n2.20                     Legal activism (Iran Guerrero and Salvador Maldonado) \n2.55                     Church-linked initiatives (Trevor Stack) \nArmed Self-Defence Groups in Michoacán\, Mexico\nChair: Edgar Guerra (CIDE) \n3.30                     Irene Álvarez and Denisse Román (Activism in Violent Regions project) \n3.45                     Alexander Curry (SAS) \n4.00                     Romain LaCour Grandmaison (Paris) \n4.15                     Discussion \n4.55                     Break \nConcluding session\nChair: Trevor Stack (Aberdeen) \n5.15                     Workshop discussants: \n\nWil Pansters (Utrecht)\nGearoid Millar (Aberdeen)\nLars Walford (Dundee)\nPilar Domingo (ODI)\n\n5.45                     Open discussion \n6.30                     End of workshop \n_____________________________________________ \nThe support of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) is gratefully acknowledged.
URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/citizen-participation-in-contexts-of-crime-related-violence-and-institutional-fragility/
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SUMMARY:Citizens beyond corruption and crime: The case of Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Trevor Stack (CISRUL Director)\, Irene Álvarez\, Irán Guerrero\, Denisse Román and Ariadna Sánchez (visiting postdoctoral researchers from Mexico) presented findings of their ESRC-funded project involving seven ethnographic researchers in Michoacán\, a Mexican region heavily affected by criminal violence and corruption. \nResearchers and policy-makers have called for “citizen participation” or “civil society” to help address issues of crime-related violence and institutions that are not only corrupt but also ineffective. Yet it is not clear what scope there is for citizens and civil society to play a role\, especially from within the most affected contexts. Although there are now literature on criminal organisation\, political corruption and related violence\, as well as on state initiatives and on the role of national and international Civil Society Organizations\, there is little research on movements and organizations operating within the most violent regions.
URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/citizens-beyond-corruption-and-crime-the-case-of-mexico/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Authoritarian Practices Beyond the State
DESCRIPTION:CISRU/POLITICO Seminar with Marlies Glasius (University of Amsterdam)
URL:https://cisrul.blog/event/authoritarian-practices-beyond-the-state/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Workshop
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