CFP: From Misrecognition to Maldistribution: Ethnic discrimination and the Politics of Difference

Submission deadline: November 3, 2015

Conference date(s):
July 23, 2016 - July 28, 2016

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Conference Venue:

RC 14 Politics and Ethnicity, 24th IPSA World Congress of Political Science
İstanbul, Turkey

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The increased focus on the politics of difference over the past decades has allowed a re-evaluation of stereotypical perceptions of ethnicity and prejudiced attitudes towards outgroups. However, ethnicity remains central to structuring social interactions and institutions, often engendering misrecognition of identities and interests along distinctly ethnic categories. Importantly, ethnicity represents a salient category used to discriminate against people, as misrecognition or non-recognition of ethnic identity often translates into other forms of inequality including economic disadvantage, social exclusion, and impairments to democratic participation.

This panel invites papers to consider the processes through which direct or indirect discrimination on ethnic grounds creates or perpetuates existing social and economic inequalities, maintains multidimensional disadvantages for individuals and groups, and converts forms of misrecognition or non-recognition into forms of maldistribution. What is distinctively wrong about discrimination on ethnic grounds? What is the role played by misrecognition in discrimination? What is the connection between discrimination and other social and economic inequalities?

Possible themes include (but are not limited to):

- The role of stereotype and prejudice in discrimination

- Misrecognition, non-recognition and ethnic discrimination

- Intersectionality, relational inequality and ethnic discrimination

- Ethnic discrimination and geographic exclusion

- Antiziganism as a form of plural inequality

- Ethnic discrimination in the labour market

- Measuring and detecting ethnic discrimination

- Policies to redress ethnic discrimination

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted by 3 November 2015 through the Congress website following the link

https://istanbul2016.ipsa.org/node/add/ipsa-event-paper/58305

Successful applicants will be notified by January 18, 2016. Full papers of 3500 words should be submitted no later than July 1st, 2016 

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