{"word_count": 697, "character_count": 5673}
Situated Practices Seminar 200919-20 March 2009 Department of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandOrganised in collaboration with the Research Committee &#34;Interpretative Sociologies&#34; of the Swiss Sociological Association. Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Sociological AssociationIn recent years, abstract entities such as the State, the Citizen and Power inherited from political philosophy have been reassessed empirically, notably under the influence of pragmatist considerations in social science approaches of the political order. This important development has led to a much more concrete understanding of modern democracies, now seen as a contingent process rather than the direct outcome of institutional structures. The workshop will contribute to this development through presentation and discussion of related research projects. These projects have in common an observational approach to the situated practices through which political phenomena emerge in the first place. Ethnographical and video-supported enquiries are expected to demonstrate how the practices examined exhibit an orientation to their political dimension. While this dimension may concern the organisation, modification and discussion of &#8216;life in common&#8217;, how it is specifically produced remains to be described and explicated in each instance. In other words, the political character of the analysed practices has to be demonstrated as relevant for the participants involved and consequential for the organisation of their unfolding activity.The aim of the workshop is twofold: first, to assess how relevant and important observational studies of situated practices are to the sociological understanding of political phenomena; second, to discuss key epistemological and methodological issues in the observational study of situated practices with a focus on their political dimension. In sum, the workshop is expected to provide a greater understanding of the concrete realisation of the political order, understood as a contingent and situated achievement. The results (and their publication in an edited volume) should therefore be of particular interest to the scientific community as well as to any citizen involved in the (re)organisation of the world we live in. The workshop will be the second in a series of Situated Practices Seminars, following the &#8216;Scientific Practice as Ordinary Action&#8217; International Workshop (March 2007 - Department of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg). The Situated Practices Seminars are intended to contribute to, and suggest the advantages of, a &#8216;practical turn&#8217; in the study of social phenomena. The workshop will be conducted in English and French.PROGRAMME19 March 2009Chair: Esther Gonz&#225;lez Mart&#237;nez (University of Fribourg)8:30 &#8211; 9:00Registration9:00 &#8211; 9:30Welcome and introduction Alain Bovet (University of Fribourg), Esther Gonz&#225;lez Mart&#237;nez (University of Fribourg) and Philippe Sormani (The University of Manchester)9:30 &#8211; 11:00Louis Qu&#233;r&#233; (Ecole des hautes &#233;tudes en sciences sociales, Paris)Qu&#8217;est-ce qu&#8217;une pratique politique? Comment se rend-elle observable?Discussant: Baudouin Dupret (CNRS-ISP, Cachan)Break11:15 &#8211; 12:45Christoph Maeder (P&#228;dagogische Hochschule Thurgau)Negotiating performance. Human resources management as an interpretive and political practiceDiscussant: Yasmine Siblot (University of Paris I)Lunch2:15 &#8211; 3:45Baudouin Dupret (CNRS-ISP, Cachan) and Jean-No&#235;l Ferri&#233; (CNRS-PACTE, Grenoble)On deliberative politics in action: A praxiological stance Discussant: Henrike Padmos (University of Groningen)Break 4:00 &#8211; 5:30Yasmine Siblot (University of Paris I)Les dimensions politiques et morales des rapports aux administrations en milieu populaireDiscussant: Christoph Maeder (P&#228;dagogische Hochschule Thurgau)Break 5:45 &#8211; 7:15Ivan Leudar (The University of Manchester) and Jiri Nekvapil (Charles University, Prague)War on terror revisited. On historical contingencies of membership categorisation analyses of political discourseDiscussant: C&#233;dric Terzi (Universit&#233; de Lille 3)20 March 2009Chair: Philippe Sormani (The University of Manchester)9:00 &#8211; 10:30Tim Berard (Kent State University)Sovereignty and jurisdiction as practical accomplishments. Reflections on praxis and prosecutions in cases of contested authority Discussant: Louis Qu&#233;r&#233; (Ecole des hautes &#233;tudes en sciences sociales, Paris)Break 10:45 &#8211; 12:15Henrike Padmos (University of Groningen)The discursive construction of the citizen identity in public debates on GMOs Discussant: Ivan Leudar (The University of Manchester)Lunch1:45 &#8211; 3:15Thomas Scheffer (Freie Universit&#228;t Berlin)Strong and weak procedures Discussant: Tim Berard (Kent State University)Break3:30 &#8211; 5:00Philippe Gonz&#225;lez (Universit&#233; de Lausanne) and C&#233;dric Terzi (Universit&#233; de Lille 3). Lorsque l'incantation se fait politique. La politisation des &#233;vang&#233;liques &#224; la crois&#233;e du politique et du religieuxDiscussant: Jean-No&#235;l Ferri&#233; (CNRS-PACTE, Grenoble)5:00 &#8211; 5:15ConclusionAlain Bovet (University of Fribourg), Esther Gonz&#225;lez Mart&#237;nez (University of Fribourg) and Philippe Sormani (University of Lausanne) Organising Committee&#160; Alain Bovet (Universit&#233; de Fribourg), Esther Gonz&#225;lez Mart&#237;nez (Universit&#233; de Fribourg) and Philippe Sormani (The University of Manchester).Workshop website: http://www.unifr.ch/sociomedia/2007/index.php?page=sps