Civil disobedience
DEADLINE: APRIL 3Oth 2019
Civil disobedience has on numerous occasions proven to be a touchstone of the democratic political culture, and has shown itself to be valuable both to challenge the legalistic casting of the rule of law and to prevent transformative action from escalating into a politically sterile and ethically reprehensible confrontation. In the last decade, with the rise of authoritarian governments in states that are still formally democratic, with an extremist element in both left and right-wing social movements and the resurgence of surveillance systems and mechanisms that jeopardize the collective or individual privacy of political subjects, the concept of civil disobedience has once again received widespread attention in the political debate.
In order to examine both its historical importance and contemporary scale, the journal Dissonance opens this call for papers for its fifth issue, edited by Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Ph.D. candidate), and by Prof. Dr. Felipe Gonçalves Silva and Prof. Dr. Ricardo Crissiuma (both Associate Professors at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). The journal welcomes articles, reviews and translations that investigate the normative and conceptual bases of civil disobedience, preferably (but not exclusively) from the perspective of the following themes:
- investigations on the importance and trajectory of the concept of civil disobedience within the tradition of critical theory, as in the work of Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, William Scheuerman, Robin Celikates, Seyla Benhabib, Maeve Cooke, among others;
- studies on the classical theoretical bases of civil disobedience (Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.), especially from the perspective of new debates on the history of the concept;
- revisions of the main contributions amidst the theoretical debates of the 1960s and 1970s, notably those of Hugo Bedau, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Howard Zinn, Hannah Arendt, Peter Singer, and Joseph Raz;
- discussions on contemporary re-appropriations of the concept of civil disobedience beyond the bounds of critical theory.
Please send contributions by April 30th, 2019. For further inquiries, contact us by e-mail: revteoriacritica@gmail.com
