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Call for paper: "Chance in Time of Crisis"
| Location: | Ireland |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-03-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-02-11 |
| Announcement ID: |
174020 |
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we are currently organizing a panel on “Chance in Time of Crisis” at the EASA 11th Biennial Conference, Maynooth: "Crisis and imagination"; August 24th-27th 2010.
The panel aims to collect contributions highlighting the role of chance or luck in individual or collective experiences and particularly in situation of crisis. We often talk about causality when confronting drastic and critical phenomena we are unable to control or predict, i.e. natural disasters. In daily life experience, too, people feel dependent on luck and chance, in particularly some professional or non professional categories: stock exchange investors, gem and precious metals prospectors, gamblers. Fortune (or misfortune) are important in explaining the outcome of a lottery or a game show, sport scores, stock market investments, professional career; or an existential drama, an unfavourable financial situation, and so on. In any case, the notions of luck and chance are supposed to explain the reasons for an uncertain and unpredictable reality. Contributions will focus on most recent events of public interest, such as the case of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, the "environmental" disasters like tsunami or earthquakes, and other crisis derived from ecological deterioration (droughts, famine) or technological risk.The objective of this panel is to raise the debate on a comparative level. On the one hand, it will address the issue of luck in front of the shared human condition of uncertainty and vulnerability. On the other, it will try to understand whether, in the globalized "risk society", the concepts of luck and chance acquire a special significance, as probably inferred by some depoliticizing explanations made by analysts and politicians to the recent international economic crisis.
Call for papers is open until the 1st March. Please, feel free to send an abstract and to forward this call to anyone who might be interested. For more details visit: www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2010/index.htm
We hope to hear from you soon,
All the Best,
Riccardo Ciavolella & Lorenzo D'Angelo
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