Civil Sphere and Radicalization

Hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), University of Aberdeen

Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd October, 2017

Our conference will transform understanding of radical protest, first by cross-fertilizing existing debates through comparing species of radical protest, and second, by explaining radical protest not only in terms of the perceived inadequacy of existing institutional channels for dissent, but also and crucially, drawing on Jeffrey Alexander’s The Civil Sphere, in terms of the lack of response from the mainstream social movements which Alexander dubs the “civil sphere”.

Breaching the Civil Order Radicalism and the Civil Sphere ~ Cambridge University Press
Breaching the Civil Order Radicalism and the Civil Sphere book cover

Participants:

Jeffrey Alexander ~ Yale University
Maeve Cooke ~ University College Dublin, Ireland 
Volker Heins ~ Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany
Anne Kane ~ University of Houston-Downtown
Farhad Khosrokhavar ~ Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk ~ University of Oslo, Norway
María Luengo Cruz ~ Universidad Carlos III en Madrid, Spain
Stephen F. Ostertag  ~ Tulane University
Trevor Stack ~ University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Yasushi Xavier Tanaka-Gutiez 
Carlo Tognato ~ National University of Colombia, Bogotá. 
Christine Unrau ~ University of Cologne, Germany
Liv Egholm  ~ Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Peter Kivisto ~ Augustana College