Call For Papers: Organizing a panel - ISA Human Rights Joint Conference June 16-19, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

Proposed Title: Critical Perspectives towards Human Rights 

ISA Human Rights Joint Conference 2014, Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/HRIstanbul2014.aspx

Dear all,

The International Studies Association-Human Rights is holding a joint conference in collaboration with IPSA, APSA and the Standing Group on Human Rights and Transition and ECPR; this is the third joint international conference on human rights, on the theme of  “Human Rights and Change.” It will take place on 16-18 June 2014 at Kadir Has Üniversitesi (http://www.khas.edu.tr/en/) in Istanbul. I am in the process of writing an article on Orientalism and Human Rights, which is part of a larger book project.

If you are interested in participating in forming a panel together on Critical Perspectives towards Human Rights (this is a tentative title, we can change it after further discussion), please let me know off the list. I know this is short notice, and the deadline is the December 1st. For this conference, you need to be a member of the International Studies Association. I welcome submissions related to, but not limited to the following
subjects:

-Critical Perspectives towards Human Rights
-Human Rights Industry and New Missionaries: AI, HRW, USIP, NED, etc. 
-State actors and the Human Rights Industry
-Local actors (NGOs and think-tanks) and the Human Rights Industry
-Political Economy and Human Rights
-Democracy Promotion and Human Rights
-Regional (Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia) Implications of Human Rights Policies

Please check the following books and articles before you submit a proposal:

Bricmont, Jean.  2006. Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War. Montly Review Press. http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1471/
Judith Blau and Mark Frezzo, 2011. Sociology and Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235439
End human rights imperialism now http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/31/human-rights-imperialism-james-hoge
Amnesty International and the Human Rights Industry http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/08/amnesty-international-and-the-human-rights-industry/
Human Rights as Myth and Ceremony? Reevaluating the Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties, 1981–2007 Author(s): Wade M. Cole Source: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 117, No. 4 (January 2012), pp. 1131-1171.
Imperialism, Human Rights, and Protectionism http://www.zcommunications.org/imperialism-human-rights-and-protectionism-by-robin-hahnel.html
Imperialist feminism redux. Saadia Toor. Dialect Anthropol. October 2012.
Globalization, the world system, and "democracy promotion" in U.S. foreign policy WILLIAM I. ROBINSON.Theory and Society 25:615-665, 1996. 

Email me the following information by Monday, November 25, be sure you are a member of ISA: http://www.isanet.org/Membership.aspx 

-abstract, 300 words
-title of your paper
-your short bio, 100-150 words, including your institutional affiliation, email, etc.

Any questions or suggestions are welcome.

Please also check the website for updates: http://sociologyofhumanrights.org/  

Best to all,

--
Tugrul Keskin

Assistant Professor of International and Middle Eastern Studies
Affiliated Faculty of Black Studies
Sociology and Center for Turkish Studies
Middle East Studies Coordinator (INTL)
Portland State University