Call for Proposals

The Executive Committee of the Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy Research Committee (RC49) of the International Political Science Association invites proposals for papers and panels for the next IPSA World Congress, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina (July 15-19, 2023).
 
While we welcome any proposals addressing the core themes of the research committee, we are especially interested in papers and panels that fall under one or more of the following broad thematic headings:
 
  1. Capitalism, the state, and democracy
    1. The political economy of disaster law
    2. Assessing neoliberalism after 2008
    3. The limits of liberal democracy
    4. “neo-statism” and the new form of the capitalist state
 
  1. Capitalism and the realization of value
    1. The Workplace after Covid
    2. The Global Care Economy
    3. Platform capitalism and its alternatives
    4. Governing digital commons
 
  1. Capitalism and the environment
    1. Rentier States, Politics and Natural Resource Exploitation.
    2. Varieties of capitalism in sustainability and climate change discourse
    3. Identity politics and the green "tide" in Latin America.
    4. Escazu Accord and the Protection of Environmentalists: A Case For Greater Democracy.

  2. Capitalism and race
    1. The Faces of Racial Capitalism
    2. The contemporary radical right and how it compares to the historical far right

  3. Social order/social struggle
    1. Rethinking Hegemony and Hegemonic Crisis
    2. Theorizing class: Precariats and Proletariats
    3. Activism, protests and social mobilization post-Covid 19
    4. Identity politics in a post-Covid 19 era: radicalized feminist and indigenous agendas in Latin America.
 
Regardless of thematic focus, we welcome submissions from a range of social scientific and philosophical approaches, including work that is mainly normative or mainly empirical.
 
All proposals are due by January 18, 2023 but deadlines vary depending on whether the proposal is for an open panel (1 November), closed panel i.e. one in which you have identified all panelists (18 January) or a paper (18 January).