CALL FOR PAPERS: “New Working Paper Series: National Culture and National Habitus” Trent
University / Center for the Study of Global Power and Politics; Peterborough, Ontario
(Deadline: Open).
New Working Paper Series 2012
Editors: Andreas Pickel and Gad Yair
Nations and national cultures receive less and less attention as scholars and the general
public focus attention primarily on new transnational and global cultural realities. In
many respects, this shift of attention is justified. The contributors to this series of
working papers disagree with this dominant view to the extent that generalizations or
comments on national culture, where they actually do occur in the globalization debate,
tend to be theoretically and empirically problematic.
For a variety of reasons, nations and national cultures have received little attention from
mainstream social science. To be sure, the study of nations and nationalism has become a
large and fruitful field of scholarly activity, albeit separated from fields such as
society and culture, political economy, and global politics. But in theoretical terms,
nations, national cultures and national habitus have no home as concepts and as part of
larger conceptualizations of the social.
The contributions to this series attempt to zero in on this misunderstood and
undertheorized area by providing theoretical, conceptual, and/or empirical arguments and
evidence with the aim of creating a broader debate on the significance of national culture
and national habitus in the global age. Contributions are invited from scholars who would
like to participate in such a debate.
As working papers, contributions made to this series may be published elsewhere. Previously
published material can be made available on this site through links, abstracts, etc. Papers
are not refereed, but the editors will reject those they do not consider of sufficient
relevance to the series' agenda.
For more information, visit
http://trentu.ca/globalpolitics/publications.php