7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANALYSIS Dates Thursday July 5 – Saturday July 7, 2012 Location Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Inquiries to info@ipa2012.org Paper proposals Deadline January 31, 2012 List of Panels below Please submit through the website (500 words max.) Conference website www.ipa2012.org Theme Understanding the drama of democracy: policy work, power and transformation In the age of mediatisation, network governance, and multi level governance, all public agents, including government officials and academic experts, must now be credible next to being legally legitimated and effective. Therefore, policy work and its evaluation are not only based on formal positions and legal responsibilities but are also negotiated in policy practices by civil organizations, experts, journalists and the general public. The performative dimension of democracy is increasingly important. This challenges actors involved to cross boundaries, to learn, to transform, to deal with constantly alternating power relations, and to be perceived as authentic or trustworthy. It also challenges interpretive research to study how public actors perform in practice and suggests a need to pay attention to action-oriented and language-oriented dimensions of practice. Moreover, it raises questions about the role of interpretive research in the mediation and transformation of different meanings and creating or supporting policy learning. Programme Pre-conference Course on Interpretive Methods Wednesday the 4th of July we will organize a pre-conference course. This day-long course is intended to introduce participants – from doctoral students to more seasoned researchers – to interpretive policy analysis. The morning plenary session will provide an overview of interpretive methodologies and methods. In the afternoon, participants can choose one of three parallel sessions. For more information see the website. Keynote Speakers: John Forester, Aletta Norval, Mieke Verloo Round Tables: 1. The Practice Turn in social theory and policy Research (multiple sessions) 2. Critical Realism and Interpretivism 3. Facilitation in Participatory Governance 4. Building bridges between teaching and research Author meets critics 1. Frank Fischer and Herbert Gotweiss (editors) The Argumentative Turn Revisited 2. Maarten Hajer Authoritative Governance in the Age of Mediatization 3.Carol BacchiAnalysing Policy: what is the problem? 4. Bas Arts, Jelle Behagel, Jessica De Koning and Severine van Bommel (editors) A practice Based Approach to Forest and Nature Governance Methodology Workshop These 90-minute workshop sessions feature specialists in different aspects of interpretive policy analysis. The workshops are a “master-class” in which two experienced researchers will meet a small number of “newer” researchers to discuss issues in using a particular methodological strategy or method. For more information see the website. Panels 1. Policy Work and Professional Practice Colebatch 2. Policy as design Colebatch 3. The state in the interpretation of governing Colebatch 4. Meaning at the front-line. Spaces and practices in street-level public service provision Needham 6. The Emotional Turn in Policy Analysis: Theory and Interpretation Durnova, Orsini 7. The Performance of Public Deliberation Boswell, Hendriks 8. Interpreting Political Leadership: inside the leader’s head Teles 9. Professional Credibility and the Democratisation of Planning Processes in the Western and non-Western Contexts Connelly, Yamamoto 10. How Does a Policy Matter? Interpretive Policy Analysis and the 'New Materialities Turn' Van Veeren 11. Planning as a collaborative act / the plan as a collaborative actor Barry, Inch, Matthews 12. States of Emergency. Crisis Narratives as Challenge to Democracy Feindt, Fischer 13. Shattered images, baroque hersies and Rhizomatc indignation Weiner 14. Prompters and Curtain-Pullers: Policy advisers in Practice Beisel, Lippert, Ninan 15. Discourses of Democracy Farrelly, Mulderrig 16. Critical Discourse Analysis in Interpretive Policy Analysis Farrelly , Mulderrig 17. Globalisation, Discourse and Education Policy Farrelly, Mulderrig 18. Evidence and meaning in policy practice Colebatch 20. The King’s Head: making sense with hierarchy (with a special interest in Health care) Colebatch 21. Engineering, interpretation and the governance of urban infrastructure Sharp 22. Researching Complexity: systems, time, and interpretation Boons, Gerrits, Marks, Spekkink, Verweij 24. Assemblage, Enactment and Agency: Educational Policy Perspectives Riveros, Viczko 25. Logics in action: studying austerity across contexts Dreyer Hansen, Glynos, Speed, West 27. Interpretive Policy Analysis in non-Western Contexts Connelly, Mathur, Narain 28. Technological Dramas in Interpretive Policy Analysis hunsinger 29. Post-Democratic policy making and post-national dimensions of order (3 sub-panels: regimes, actors and technology) Plehwe, Strassheim, Voss 30. The blind man in search of the elephant: making sense of divergent perspectives on self-organisation Aarts, Sherwood, van Bommel 31. Changing times de Haan, Enserink, Naber 32. Community Art and the Creative Economy in Challenged Neighborhoods Dodge, Metze 33. Paradoxes in transformative contexts Avelino, Jhagroe 34. Shocks, Crises, Disasters and Others: The Construction of Extraordinary Circumstances in Legitimating Policy Change Akdogan, Orhan 35. Changing the world? The impact of interpretive policy analysis Connelly, Sharp 36. Inclusion, Participation and Equality in Global Governance– Theoretical Reflections on the Place of the Democratic in the Global Imaginary Freistein, Mert 37. Participation professionals: a research/practice conversation on the policy work of public engagement practitioners Bartels, Escobar 38. Corpus-assisted policy analysis? The uses of corpora and quantification for interpretation Blaette 39. Interpreting the Future Justice 40. Examining the EU’s energy options – internal and external components for securing, diversifying and de-carbonising Cheng, Kirby-Harris, Solorio 41. Interpreting the facilitator (new panel format) Aggar, Metze, van der Arend 42. Learning to facilitate policy deliberation Allain, Fischer 43. Regimes of Citizenship and Public Policy Analysis Cuevas, Speed, Vezovnik 44. Development Policy and Intervention: sustaining livelihoods? Darbas 45. Public Managers in a Mediatized World Klijn, van Twist, Skelcher 46. Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governance Ney 47. Understanding Processes of Policy Contestation Bröer, Verhoeven 48. Performing Welfare State Reform Duyvendak, Jansen Verplanke, Tonkens, Verhoeven 50. Democracy, performance assessment, and interaction research Schaap, van den Dool 99. Open Section Proposals for papers that do not fit into one of the panels can be submitted to this section. The conference is Tilburg Law School, Tilburg School of Politics supported by and Public Administration. Dr. M.J. (Merlijn) van Hulst Assistant Professor/Universitair Docent Tilburg School of Politics and Public Administration Tilburg University tel: 0031 13 4668189 http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=m.j.vanhulst Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments