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Date sent: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:27:03 +0100 IFK Workshop "The construction of contemporary political identities" Time and Location: 9-10 April 1999 Diplomatische Akademie Favoritenstraße 15a A-1040 Wien What are the logics governing the construction of social identities in the contemporary world? At least two major changes have taken place over the last twenty years. The first is that, since the 1970's, the Welfare state consensus which had been the dominant hegemonic form of western political systems since 1945 entered into a process of prolonged crisis. That hegemonic form had been characterised by a high degree of institutionalisation of ever expanding social demands, within a context of overall growth. Although the division of the political spectrum resulting from the Cold War was very much present, it did not directly affect the structuration of demands in the social field. During the 1970's and 80's this model collapsed to a large extent, as a result of the proliferation of new groups and demands which could not be easily articulated within the existing political structures, and of the social and political reorganisation that the major western democracies experienced during those years, under the hegemony of neo-liberalism. The result has been a decline of the ability of the political systems to contain – or rather, construct – social protest within the existing forms of anti-status quo politics, of different ideological orientations, which go from libertarian currents expressed by ecological demands, by anti-institutional struggles and by all the gamut of social protests emerging around 1968, to the development, during the last decades, of a new right wing populism in some of the main countries in Western Europe. This workshop attempts to study the logics governing the emergence of these disparate anti-institutional movements within the framework of the theory of hegemony developed by Ernesto Laclau (University of Essex) and Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster, London). Program: Ernesto Laclau, Essex ž Chantal Mouffe, London ž Participants: Alain Caillé, Paris ž Oliver Marchart, Wien/London ž Anton Pelinka, Innsbruck ž Linda Zerilli, Zürich ž Slavoj Zizek, Ljubljana ž Gotthart Wunberg, IFK Director, Vienna Friday, 9 April 1999 9.00 Welcome and introduction Gotthart Wunberg Ernesto Laclau Chantal Mouffe 9.30 Alain Caillé Towards a new welfare in an agonistic and radical democratic perspective 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Linda Zerilli Agonistic universalism 12.00 Lunch Break 13.30 Oliver Marchart Micropolitics, macropolitics and the category of the political in populist discourses 14.30 Ernesto Laclau Populist ruptures and hegemonic logics 15.30 Coffee break 16.00 Slavoj Zizek Deconstruction, historicity and the real 17.00 End of first day Saturday, 10 April 1999 9.30 Anton Pelinka The political function of political identities 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Chantal Mouffe The "end of politics" and the rise of the extreme right 12.00 Final discussion 13.00 End of workshop For more information please contact: IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Danhausergasse 1 A-1040 Wien Tel.: (+43-1) 504 11 26-28 Fax: (+43-1) 504 11 32 ifk@ifk.ac.at ____________________________________________________ HUMANITIES - SOZIAL- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE H-SOZ-U-KULT@H-NET.MSU.EDU Redaktion: Email: hsk.redaktion@geschichte.hu-berlin.de WWW: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de ____________________________________________________
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