Society for the Study of Power Relations

Power: Forms, Dynamics and Consequences
Tampere, Finland.
September 22-24, 2008

What is power and who has power today? Has power escaped from nation-states to international organizations and the global market? Does power reside in big institutions or is it rooted in micro level interaction? How does power hide from view and therefore become most effective? For social scientists power is in many ways like what St. Augustine said about time: it is central to our investigations and we think we know what it is, but it is hard to
explain. By bringing together scholars who approach power from different angles this conference will advance our understanding about power relations in social reality.
 

Keynote speakers will include:

- Mitchell Dean
- Robert Dingwall
- Mark Haugaard
- Tuula Juvonen
- Randy Lippert
- Lois McNay
- Leslie Pal
- Pekka Sulkunen

 

Sessions:

- ANTing the Analytics of Power - powering ANT
- Arbitrary Power
- Care, Agency and Power
- Child Policy Meets Children as Political Agents
- Children and Power
- Ecologies of Power and Resistance in Cognitive Capitalism
- Envisioning Technology: Power and Practice
- Gender, Ethnicity and Everyday Citizenship Practices
- Globalization and New Forms of Control and the Mobilization of
Powerless
- Governmentality and Global Governance
- Images & Power: Visual Communication and the Public Sphere in Late
Modern Societies
- Immigration and Governmentality
- Pension Power and Pension Fund Governance
- Political Power
- Power and Signification
- Power and Space
- Power Asymmetries
- Queer Powers
- Representations of Capitalism and Identity
- Rethinking the State
- Social and Vital Norms – Canguilhem Revisited
- The Power of Male Dominance