2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Friday, April 4-12:45 pm
Poster 2 Sages and Straw Dogs: A Study of Political Violence in the
Laozi
A reinterpretation of the classical Chinese Laozi, using Berlin’s
concepts of positive and negative liberty. The Laozi pursues positive
rather than negative liberty, suppressing pluralism for a single
enforced conception of human authenticity.
Rick Parrish, West Texas A&M University
rparrish@wtamu.edu
Poster 3 Foreign Ethos: Toward A Rhetoric Beyond the State
Uses rhetorical theory and examples from classical antiquity to
reflect on the unique obstacles facing a foreigner who wishes to
speak effectively before a people.
Christian R. Donath, University of California, San Diego
cdonath@ucsd.edu
31-8 CREATING THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY
Room UEH 405 on the 4th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Harvey Brown, University of Western Ontario
hbrown2@uwo.ca
Paper Territory and Locke's Conception of Private Property
Traditional interpretation of Locke that center on the relationship
between private property and consent is mistaken. Property is best
viewed as a tool to generate the territorial jurisdiction of a political
community.
Barton T. Edgerton, London School of Economics
b.t.edgerton@lse.ac.uk
Paper The Effervescent Patriot: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Achieving
One’s Country
A new reading of Rousseau's psychology highlighting psychic
effervescence rather than wholeness of soul is applied to the idea
of patriotism showing that effervescent citizens (Poles rather than
Spartans) engage in a critical patriotism.
Fiona Miller, Arkansas State University
fmiller@astate.edu
Paper Rousseau and the Contemporary Dilemma of Patriotism
This paper examines the contemporary relevance of Rousseau's
writings on patriotism by considering the similarities of 18th
century conditions to those of today.
Steven T. Engel, Georgia Southern University
sengel@georgiasouthern.edu
Disc. Palle Svensson, Aarhus University
pal@ps.au.dk
33-6 RETHINKING REPRESENTATION
Room Suite 9-250 on the 9th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota
ldisch@umn.edu
Paper To Be Literal: An Exploration of Experiential Sources of Shared
Metaphors
This paper explores the political logic of the ways through which
the literal experiences of some people’s lives become the stuff of
metaphor for those of others.
Jane Anna Gordon, Temple University
jgordon1@temple.edu
Paper The Political Public
I develop a conceptual understanding of the political potentials of
‘the public’, predicated upon the phantom character of the public
that Lippman, Dewey, and Habermas cast as a problem, whereas I
argue it is at the heart of an opportunity.
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Columbia Univeristy
rkn2103@columbia.edu
Paper Self-Authorized Representatives
Can self-authorized representatives serve as democratic
representatives I provide the normative and structural framework
necessary to assess the democratic credentials of these extrainstitutional
representation claims.
Laura Montanaro, University of British Columbia
laura_m@interchange.ubc.ca
Paper
Disc.
Generative Representation: Constituting the Commonwealth in
Hobbes
This paper looks to Hobbes’s use of representation to recover the
constitutive capacity of representation. It provides resources for
addressing the challenges that emerging transnational political
actors present to modern representative democracies.
Antony J. Lyon, University of California, San Diego
alyon@ucsd.edu
Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota
ldisch@umn.edu
33-18 POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTS
Room Suite 15-250 on the 15th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
twluke@vt.edu
Paper Critical Theory, Aesthetics, and Ecological Politics
In this paper I draw on early Marx and late Adorno to demonstrate
how aesthetic encounters with nonhuman nature can contribute to
ecological politics by disclosing possibilities for overcoming the
domination of nature.
Chris Buck, University of Chicago
cdb@uchicago.edu
Paper Consuming Democracy: Purchasing the Forum at the Market
Drawing upon cases of consumer-driven environmental campaigns,
I assess the prospects of such developments and critique the
supposed opposition of consumer and citizen norms, but arguing
that a modified version of this distinction is still needed.
Steve Vanderheiden, University of Colorado, Boulder
steven.vanderheiden@colorado.edu
Paper A Cosmopolitical Proposal: Towards a Democratic Composition
of Environments
Using the work of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, I draw out
the connections between their cosmopolitical proposal and strands
of contemporary democratic theory to argue for a democraticallyminded
politics of human-nonhuman assemblages.
Michael Nordquist, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
nord0380@umn.edu
Paper Whither We Come, Whether We Go: Originary and Entropic
Imaginaries in Environmental Politics
This paper argues that originary and entropic imaginaries are
inadequate to understand environmental problems, but rather
competing and overlapping logics of legitimacy are necessary to
justify outcomes of environmental action.
Brad Mapes-Martins, University of Masssachusetts, Amherst
martins@polsci.umass.edu
Disc. Sheri Breen, University of Minnesota, Morris
breens@morris.umn.edu
34-8 EMOTIONS IN POLITICAL LIFE
Room Salon 4 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Larry M. Preston, Union Institute & University
Larry.Preston@tui.edu
Paper Approaches to Loss in Politics
This paper considers the traditional approaches that political theory
has taken towards questions of loss. It then presents a critique of
these approaches, and suggests an alternative understanding of loss
informed by the concept of sacrifice.
John Jason Fortuna, University of California, Santa Barbara
jjfortuna@umail.ucsb.edu
Paper What is Political Hope: Kantian Reflections on Practical
Philosophy
This paper is a concept of political hope, drawing primarily on the
work of Immanuel Kant, Ernst Bloch and Paul Ricouer.
Loren Goldman, University of Chicago
goldman@uchicago.edu
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