International conference on "Power,
Governmentality, Resistance and State of Exception" to be held at
AUB.
Summary: An international workshop on "Power, Governmentality,
Resistance and State of Exception in the Arab World" will be held
at the American University of Beirut on August 29-30 in West Hall.
International conference on "Power, Governmentality,
Resistance and State of Exception" to be held at AUB
An international workshop on "Power, Governmentality,
Resistance and State of Exception in the Arab World" will be held
at the American University of Beirut on August 29-30 in West Hall.
Organized by the Association of Arab Sociology Center for Arab
Unity Studies and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at
AUB, in cooperation with the Heinrich Boll Foundation, the workshop aims
to analyze the different modes of governance in the Arab World as well
as resistance to these modes.
"The workshop draws on the observation that, since their
independence, Arab States have been governed by states of emergency,
exception and occupation," said AUB Professor Sari Hanafi, from the
conference's organizational committee. "The state formation in
this region has witnessed a production of different forms of
citizenship, refugee-ness, and statelessness."
"The question is not to describe authoritarianism in the Arab
world but to go beyond the binary dichotomy of authoritarian regimes
versus democratic regimes and to analyze the art of governance used in
the region in order to control the populations and to restrict them to
the public sphere," he added.
The international workshop will exhibit an inventory of all forms
of governance but will tackle the thorough study of some particular
significant sites. Through unpacking the relationship between power,
sovereignty and control, this workshop will privilege the study of
certain mechanisms of powers deployed by the sovereigns, namely states
of exception and bio-politics.
The international workshop will bring together scholars from the
Arab World, Europe and other regions.
Simultaneous translation (Arabic and English) will be ensured
during the conference.
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