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Dear all,<br>
<p>together with Jamal Bashir I am organizing this workshop on
Patron-Client-Relationships. It may be of interest to some of
you. Please forward to anyone interested and apologies for cross
posting.</p>
All the best,<br>
David Kananizadeh
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PhD Researcher
Graduate School "Society and Culture in Motion"
University of Halle
Reichardtstr. 6, 06114 Halle (Saale)
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<p>Call for Papers</p>
Online-Workshop<br>
<b>Patronage and the State as ‘Politics‐in‐Conjunction’</b><br>
February 9-10, 2021<br>
Graduate School "Society & Culture in Motion", University of
Halle-Wittenberg<br>
<p>We cordially invite applications for the two-day online
workshop "Patronage and the State as ‘Politics-in-Conjunction’",
which will be held online in February 9-10, 2021.<br>
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<u><b>Theme:</b></u><br>
In social scientific engagements with modern statehood,
patron‐client‐relationships are on a rather complicated footing,
regularly framed as state apparatuses’ wicked other. Whereas the
modern state is understood as working through a bureaucratic
process that facilitates a fair distribution of resources,
patron‐client‐relationships emerge as “corrupt” and “ineffective”
(cf. Asiimwe 2013). However, as more recent contributions
(Chatterjee 2004, 2011; Piliavsky 2014; Lyon 2019) have tried to
show, often enough, it is exactly these networks that keep states
“working” and provide them with legitimacy by mediating between
state apparatuses and citizens in complicated ways. In this
workshop, we will contribute to these debates by interrogating the
relationship between patronage and the state as
‘politics‐in‐conjunction’, i.e. exploring the ways patronage and
the state are politically productive in relation to each other.
Hereby, we focus on exploring the critical moments in which actors
navigate between these two registers – patronage and the state –
in holding politics accountable for the ways resources are
distributed.
<p>We understand patron‐client‐relationships as a form in which
people “invest” (Thévenot 1984) to engage the uncertainties of
resource scarcities and related constraining conditions (Scott
1972). By asking how equivalences are established in these
relationships, we will inquire into the reciprocity at work
therein, into how exchanges of service are measured, and into
the materialities of measurement (cf. Boltanski and Thévenot
2006 [1991]). Rather than engaging patron‐client relationships
merely as an ideal type, we will investigate the negotiations
necessary to stabilize such relationships and their frequent
contestation. While patronage as a system of exchange can be
mobilized to problematize the distribution of resources, often
enough, patron‐client‐relationships are themselves criticized by
the actors involved with reference to other institutionalized
forms (e.g. Scott 1985; Van der Linden 1997; Mannathukkaren
2010; Bolten 2013; Murphy 2017). Here, we interrogate
patron‐client‐relationships not as isolated, but deeply
entangled with other social institutions (e.g. kinship, gender,
class) and principles of sociality, through which actors
creatively navigate to make claims, pursue negotiations and
contest resource flows. These moments of contestation provide
fruitful insights into the ways patronage is accounted for and
how these accounts relate to other regimes of accountability,
like the technical‐financial accounting through which, ideally,
the modern state distributes its resources (cf. Luhmann 1983
[1969]). It is exactly in these moments in which actors
translate between these different regimes, where notions of the
common good are negotiated (cf. Boltanski and Thévenot 2006
[1991]). In what ways, then, do patronage and modern statehood
supplement each other in accounting for the flows of resources
and the inequalities produced therein?</p>
<u><b>Application:</b></u><br>
Applications for participation are open to PhD students from all
social science disciplines. interested applicants are requested to
send a short abstract (250 words max) to <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:david.kananizadeh@scm.uni-halle.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">david.kananizadeh@scm.uni-halle.de</a>
before January 4, 2021. Applicants will be notified of the outcome
of the selection process by January 8, 2021.
<p><u><b>Format and organization:</b></u><br>
The workshop will be based on the discussion of pre‐circulated
papers. Participants should hand in their full papers (up to
8000 words excluding bibliography) by January 25, 2021 to be
distributed among the participants. Participants are expected to
read all papers in advance and comment on them during the
workshop. Papers will be introduced by the author with a short
presentation followed by intensive discussion with the invited
discussants. Due to the current Corona‐Pandemic, the workshop
will be conducted online.</p>
<p>In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us
at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:david.kananizadeh@scm.uni-halle.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">david.kananizadeh@scm.uni-halle.de</a>.
We are looking forward to your applications and eventual
participation in the Workshop. <br>
</p>
<p>Best Regards & Happy Holidays,</p>
<p>The Workshop Organizers,</p>
Jamal Ali Bashir<br>
(Grad. School "Society & Culture in Motion", University of
Halle-Wittenberg)<br>
David Kananizadeh<br>
(Grad. School "Society & Culture in Motion", University of
Halle-Wittenberg; LOST Research Network) </div>
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