2021 NZPSA
| NZPSA Annual conference 202129th November - 1st December 2021 Auckland University of Technology (AUT), City Campus The Politics of Crisis The annual conference of the New Zealand Political Studies Association will be held at AUT from Monday 29th November until Wednesday 1st December 2021. After a prolonged period of online interactions, we look forward to seeing everyone in person! We welcome paper submissions, especially those that relate to our theme of The Politics of Crisis. Submission details are below.The Politics of Crisis We are living through a world moment in which major social and political problems are frequently framed as crises. The Covid-19 pandemic has presented us with a global health crisis, leading to increased social and economic suffering in many parts of the world. It has also exposed crises in state capacity and political leadership in polities as diverse as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Brazil. The ability of international actors and institutions to cope with potential crises brought on by future pandemics, the climate emergency, pressures on trade routes and the global supply chain, and shifts in power dynamics in an increasingly multi-polar and fractured international system, is in question. For many countries, the crisis of democracy, marked by the rise of anti-system forces and anti-social political movements, has only deepened over the past two years. Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand might not be under the same kind of pressures or to the same extent as it is elsewhere, but we face our own series of crises, nevertheless. Among other national and local problems that are described in crisis terms are the “housing crisis”, an “infrastructure crisis”, a “climate change crisis”, a “crisis in local governance” and a “mental health crisis”. This raises a number of questions that political scientists and political theorists might further investigate. These include some of the following, and we invite panels and papers especially on these themes:
Scheduling preference will be given to papers that are submitted by the deadline below. Paper submissions: For a single author paper include: your name and institutional affiliation (if applicable), paper title, and a 150-250 word abstract. For a paper with multiple authors include: the names, institutional affiliations and email addresses of all authors of the paper, the name of the conference presenter(s), the paper title and a 150-250 word abstract. For panel session and roundtable proposals: please ensure the commitment of all presenters to attend the conference before submitting your proposal. Include information, as above, for all authors and presenters. Abstracts must be submitted for a paper to be included in a panel session. Indicate the unifying theme of the session and where else in the conference the paper proposals might be placed should the panel session or roundtable not proceed for any reason. Email paper submissions to: nzpsa2021@aut.ac.nz Initial Deadline: 5pm, Friday 3rd September. The deadline will be extended if the programme is not full at this point. Submitters will be informed on a rolling basis about the acceptance of their proposals. Conference Prizes: Postgraduate students may be eligible for the following Conference Prizes:
Registration: Details TBC Accommodation: Details TBC Covid-19 Disclaimer: Conference details as released assume that Auckland is in a Covid-19 alert level of 1 or 2 at the time the conference is scheduled. We may, however, be required to cancel or make changes to the conference, possibly at short notice, either because of a change in alert levels or because of uncertainty about the safety of proceeding with an in-person conference at the scheduled time. We appreciate the difficulty this poses for those planning on attending. We will proceed in a cautious way and on the advice of our institution. We are not in a position to offer advice, or assume risk, for people wanting to attend this conference from outside New Zealand, including overseas-based New Zealand citizens and permanent residents. |