Fifth Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis, Grenoble
On behalf of the organisation committee of the upcoming 5th Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis to be held in Grenoble, we would like us invite you to the general call for papers that we have just launched.
Following successful conferences in Birmingham (2006), Amsterdam (2007), Essex (2008) and Kassel (2009), the 5th Conference on Interpretive, Policy Analysis in Grenoble will extend the complex investigation of meaning and politics by exploring, in particular, current challenges for discursive politics and policy practices.
Interpretive Policy Analysis entails diverse methodological paths aiming to explain current challenges of politics. IPA 2010 stresses in particular the relationship among policy, legitimacy and power. Current worries about democratic deficits highlight the question of legitimacy and power and invite reconsiderations of the very core of policy practice as an analytic category through which policy analysts and policy planners inspect the nature of politics that is at stake.
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We aim to gather about 40 panels with a variety of topics raising a crucial set of questions that deal with:
a) theoretical investigations: knowledge and society, global economy, deliberation, argumentation, governance
b) methodological accounts and innovations: analytical concepts and crossovers between different methods
c) practice turn in policy analysis: interpreting the analysts, policy ethnography, etc.
d) specific tasks of policy analysis: historical policy analysis, emotions in policy analysis, etc.
e) empirical examples engaging with discursive politics and policy
practices: technology policies, environmental policies, etc.
There are three possible types of submission:
1. You can submit a paper in one of the panels listed here on our website. The papers for the panels should be submitted directly to the panel chairs, as announced on the website.
2- If you do not find a suitable panel for your paper, you can respond to the call for papers in general terms according to the topic of the 5th edition. These (general or free-floating) papers should besubmitted directly to the organisational committee.
3- As in the past editions, research projects can be submitted for “Methodological workshops”. We encourage especially PhD students to submit their research projects. The discussion by two experts from will give you a complex feedback on your work. Please read more about the methodological workshop here.
Each paper submission should include: (1) 300 - 500 words abstract, (2) paper title (3) name of paper giver, (4) institutional affiliation and (5) email address.
The call is open until January 31, 2010.
For more information please click here.
