THE NATION AND THE RADICAL LEFT

Organizers

Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Jacopo Custodi (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Keynotes

Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Daniel Keith  (University of York)

Presenters

Laura Chazel (Sciences Po Grenoble)
Adriano Cirulli (La Sapienza University)
Jacopo Custodi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Vincent Dain (University of Rennes)
Maria Della Porta Rodiani (University of Exeter)
Costas Eleftheriou (University of Athens)
Nikos Folinas (University of Crete)
Fani Giannousi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Luigi Giorgi (LUISS Guido Carli University)
Stephen Hopkins (University of Leicester)
Giorgos Katsambekis (Loughborough University)
Kriton Kuci (Mediterranean University of Albania)
Josep Lobera (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Jakob Meer (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
Francis O’Connor (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
Panos Panayotu (Loughborough University)
Camilo Pérez-Bustillo (Stanford University)
Paolo Perri (University of Calabria)
Edon Qesari (Independent Researcher)
Ihab Shabana (University of Peloponnese)
Joe Shaughnessy (University of Cambridge)
Panagiotis Sotiris (Hellenic Open University)
Kei Takata (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Rossana Tufaro (Scuola Normale Superiore)
José Neves (NOVA University of Lisbon)
Aimilia Vilou (Panteion University)

Discussants

Giada Bonu (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Loris Caruso (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Benoît Challand (The New School)
Hakan Övünç Ongur (TOBB University of Economics and Technology)
Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Conference description

The conference aims to explore and evaluate the intricate relationship between national identity, nationality and nationalism on one side, and left-wing, emancipatory and radical politics on the other side. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers on the following themes:

Left-wing populism and nationalism
The radical left and the nationalist-globalist cleavage
The radical left and the nationalist revival
Imagined communities and left-wing projects
National identity and migrant solidarity activism
Alter-Europeanism and Euroscepticism
Radical left and nationality in post-colonial contexts
Transnational leftist movements beyond the nation
Patriotism and anti-imperialism
Internationalism and cosmopolitanism
Internationalism and popular sovereignty

The conference intends to cover cases from different areas of the world, as a necessary step in order to better grasp the complexity and the polymorphism of national identity within radical left politics. Consequently, we welcome papers assessing European as well as non-European cases.

 

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