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26 March, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT / 16:00 – 17:00 CET
Social contracts in flux: crises as challenges and chances for transformation
Speakers
Anna Björk, Demos Helsinki
Claudia Wiesner, Fulda University of Applied Sciences and University College London
The Lecture Series explores the role of Political Concepts in a broad variety of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives. Linking to the rationale of the Standing Group “Political Concepts”, it is based on the claim that political concepts can be studied on various and different levels and from various theoretical, methodological and empirical angles. Concepts have a key role in and for political science: they serve in describing, analysing, explaining, and understanding its research objects - concepts function as analytical categories. But, it is a key insight of conceptual history that political concepts are not stable. They are themselves controversial and an object of politics. Concepts, accordingly, are discussed, they are even fight over, they are debated, and they are contested – by it in debates, protests, or in academic writing. Concepts also change continuously, and such conceptual changes often relate to political processes themselves: Conceptual change often is a pivot for political and social changes. The Lecture Series invites contributions on books and research projects that discuss one or several of these questions and topics.
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Political concepts have a key role in and for political science: they serve in describing, analysing, explaining, and understanding its research objects. Concepts first function as analytical categories. It is a key insight of conceptual history that political concepts are not stable, but they are themselves controversial and an object of politics. They change continuously, and such conceptual changes often relate to political processes themselves: Conceptual change often is a pivot for political and social changes. The new Standing Group will focus on the role of political concepts in political science in all possible respects, namely in their function both as analytical categories and as objects of political controversies. Such an approach is important for nearly all the sub-disciplines of political science. The Standing Group will therefore be open to political scientists from all sub-disciplines sharing a focal interest in the role of political concepts.
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