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Power and Domination: An International Research Workshop

Arts Council Room 160, 涩里番

August 15-17, 2022

Co-Organized by the Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS) of the Yan P. Lin Centre, the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montr茅al (GRIPP), the Centre de recherche en 茅thique (CR脡), and the 涩里番 Department of Philosophy.

Description

RGCS, GRIPP, CR脡, and the 涩里番 Department of Philosophy are pleased to announce a three-day international workshop which will highlight new and ongoing work that undertakes substantive inquiry into the scope and dynamics of structures of social power and domination.

As the high tide of Rawlsianism recedes, political theorists and philosophers are devoting renewed attention to a number of concepts that had been central to classical social theory but largely submerged during Rawls鈥檚 ascendance in political philosophy. New works on domination, social structures, and power have proliferated. In particular, the relational egalitarianism pioneered by Elizabeth Anderson and the neo-republicanism favoured by Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner have aspired to reorient the focus of political theory away from the distribution of goods and towards social structures constituted by hierarchical relations of social power amongst individuals, whether relations of oppression (emphasized by relational egalitarians) or of domination (the central issue for neo-republicans). This workshop will highlight work analyzing these key concepts.

The workshop will take place over three days. Day one will be a workshop on Arash Abizadeh鈥檚 manuscript on Power, Subjection, and Democracy, elements of which have appeared in recent articles on social power. Day two will focus on William Clare Roberts鈥檚 book manuscript, A Radical Politics of Freedom: Domination, Ideology, and Self-Emancipation. On day three, participants will present papers on key questions and concepts which work to clarify the stakes of competing definitions of power and domination and the implications of focusing our political theorizing on these concepts.

Format

To maximize the quality of discussion, participants are expected to have read the manuscripts beforehand. All participants will receive copies of the manuscripts in advance of the workshop.

Programme

Papers

Registration: The workshop is open to everyone, but attendance is by registration and limited in number. RSVP the registration coordinator Michelle Atkin:听michelle.atkin2 [at] mcgill.ca