2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Thursday, April 3-4:45 pm
32-5 THE POLITY: CONSTITUTION AND
REPRESENTATION
Room Suite 8-150 on the 8th Floor, Thur at 4:45 pm
Chair Phyllis Farley Rippey, Western Illinois University
pf-rippey@wiu.edu
Paper Whose Democracy: A Critique of the Nationalist Conception of
Democracy
This paper argues that the question of who is eligible to participate
in the democratic governing processes should be determined in the
open deliberation among those who share common allegiance to
democratic procedures.
Bumsoo Kim, Seoul National University
bkim@uchicago.edu
Paper Exit-Based Empowerment in Democratic Theory
Contemporary democratic theory is primarily an account of voicebased
mechanisms for making collective decisions. This paper
examines the device of exit—the power to leave a collectivity when
it fails to respond.
Mark Edward Warren, University of British Columbia
warren@politics.ubc.ca
Paper Forming the Union: Representation, Constituencies and
Bargaining Units
Using normative theories of political representation, I compare and
contrast institutions that structure political elections with those that
govern unions in the workplace.
Susan E. Orr, University of Florida
susanorr@ufl.edu
Disc. Phyllis Farley Rippey, Western Illinois University
pf-rippey@wiu.edu
33-3 PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE
Room PDR 16 on the 5th Floor, Thur at 4:45 pm
Chair Roudy W. Hildreth, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
roudy@siu.edu
Paper Rambling as Resistance: Michel de Certeau, Frederic Olmsted
and the Micro Politics of Walking
This paper argues that characteristics of landscape architect Frederic
Law Olmsted’s parks encourage the style of urban walking that
Michel de Certeau claims acts as a method of somatic resistance to
spatio-temporal somatic discipline.
Jason Evan Kosnoski, Univeristy of Michigan, Flint
kosnoski@umflint.edu
Paper Amsterdam Coffeehouses Revisited: Marijuana and the
Bourgecis Public Sphere
A study of the type of public sphere(s) that is/are developed in
Amsterdam's marijuana coffee shops
Brian David Solis, University of Maryland
bsolis@gvpt.umd.edu
Paper Voluntary Choices and Feminism: Names, Naming and
Community
In this paper, I use feminist theories of when a choice is voluntary
to address the issue of names and naming. In particular, I examine
how feminist theory illuminates the importance of community in the
decisions of women.
Charlotte Lee Ridge, University of Iowa
charlotte-ridge@uiowa.edu
Disc. Roudy W. Hildreth, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
roudy@siu.edu
33-21 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL
POLITICS
Room Suite 12-250 on the 12th Floor, Thur at 4:45 pm
Chair Benjamin Laing McKean, Princeton University
bmckean@princeton.edu
Paper Two Modern Paradigms of International Struggles
Dominated by the modern intellectual context, Grotius’s natural
law and Hegel’s master-slave struggle are the two most intelligible
accounts of state agency. They explain the co-existence of Realism,
morality of states and cosmopolitan liberalism.
Chia-Ming Chen, University of Chicago
charming@uchicago.edu
Paper Empowering the Political: Reconceptualizing the Political in an
Age of Globalization
A critical theory of transnational justice requires a theory of the
political that can locate political action beyond the limitations of
the territorial state. An analysis of power within global governance
mechanisms can achieve such a location.
Adam Gannaway, New School for Social Research
adamgannaway@gmail.com
Paper Churchill as Political and International Relations Theorist
We uncover a core set of theoretical commitments that guide
Churchill’s decision making on relations between law and
international affairs, democracy and liberalism and the relationship
between ‘a people’ and the nation state.
Michael Robert Reinhard, Millsaps College
reinhmr@millsaps.edu
Mitchell Carrington, Millsaps College
carrijm@millsaps.edu
Disc. Benjamin Laing McKean, Princeton University
bmckean@princeton.edu
34-5 POLITICS IN TIME: HISTORY AND MEMORY
Room UEH 403 on the 4th Floor, Thur at 4:45 pm
Chair Jane Anna Gordon, Temple University
jgordon1@temple.edu
Paper Historical Sickness: Strauss and Heidegger
An examination and evaluation of Leo Strauss's three distinct
critiques of Martin Heidegger.
Ian Gordon Loadman, Arkansas State University
iloadman@astate.edu
Paper History of the Theory of Biopower: Foucault's Debt to
Canguilhem
Michel Foucault's work on political power, I argue, is indebted to
Georges Canguilhem's biological kind of philosophy, even as it
seeks to question the nature of his implicit appeal to the sovereignty
of life and science.
Samuel R. Talcott, DePaul University
stalcott@depaul.edu
Paper An Idealist Approach to Political Philosophy
The British idealist Michael Oakeshott can help us think through
the dominant approaches to political theory and offers an attractive
alternative.
Eric Steven Kos, Eastern Michigan University
ekos@emich.edu
Paper The Self-Destruction of All Right: Schelling's Critique of
Natural Right
The paper presents Schelling's critique of natural right. Although
sympathetic to liberal ends, Schelling argues that appeals to nature
unavoidably equate right and might. A "new science", History, is
thus necessary to ground a just regime.
Samuel Goldman, Harvard University
swgoldm@fas.harvard.edu
Disc. Jane Anna Gordon, Temple University
jgordon1@temple.edu
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