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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">As part of my ARC project on the Heterogeneous Citizen in a Complex Work with Prof Bob Hodge, I am working with a UK organisation called the Interdisciplinary Network
(ID Net) on an upcoming conference based in Sydney titled 'The Citizen in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century' for February 2013. </span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">The call for papers is below with link here: <a href="http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/the-citizen-in-the-21st-century/call-for-presentations/" target="_blank">http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/the-citizen-in-the-21st-century/call-for-presentations/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">The idea is that the conference numbers are capped with a maximum of two parallel sessions. There are no keynote speakers as such – just times when the group
comes together at the beginning and end of the day for overview sessions. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Conference proceedings are published in an e-book. Importantly, you are expected to attend every session or you are disqualified from being published.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Thanks, james</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">In its most basic conceptualisation, citizenship is thought of as the rights and responsibilities that an individual has, and is owed to, a national government. The political concept
of ‘citizenship’, however, is one that has been contested from its very beginning: from above, it has been a mechanism of control and surveillance; while from below, it is has been used as a tool for resistance and claims for rights and representation.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">In the 21st century, citizenship continues to be a site of contestation as contemporary governments attempt to find a balance between the rights and responsibilities of the populations
they are representing. This has been complicated by the changing nature of citizenship: it can no longer be thought of as a linear and vertical relationship between an individual and a civic agency, but one of horizontal relationship that is a function of
not only the way one relates to civic institutions, but the relationships of those around them.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">This, in part, is a result of a changing governance system as corporations, private service providers, non government organizations, religious bodies, informal networks (such as
the environmental movement) and supra national bodies increasingly compete with national governments for influence over the lives of individuals. This is further combined and complicated with changing migration patterns – both within and across borders, as
well as dual citizenship, new technologies that impact all aspects of our lives, changing markers of adulthood, success and loyalty, as well as the rise of temporary and precarious workforces. We also need to consider a changing media landscape, the rise of
a neoliberal capitalism that holds no national loyalty and the failure of a number of contemporary states to serve the interests of their citizens.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">As a consequence we have seen the emergence of what has been described as ‘the heterogeneous citizen’ (Arvanitakis 2009): that is, any possibility of describing a citizenry in a
homogenous fashion, if it ever was possible, has now been wiped away. Further, citizenship now must not only be understood from a political perspective, but there are also cultural, social, environmental and economic dimensions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">The aim of this conference is to understand the emergence of the complex, diverse and heterogenous citizen within the contemporary world. This is a citizen who is increasingly asked
to carry the risks as an individual as solidarity institutions and the welfare state have receded from the public sphere and frequently lost credibility. A generation of theorists have attempted to understand this flues environment, from TH Marshall’s discussion
of citizenship and class, to Ulrich Beck’s risk society, and Engin Isin’s neurotic citizen, each is wrestling with the many changes which have only briefly been touched on here. As such, our starting point is that citizenship studies must take an interdisciplinary
perspective, both crossing and combining the political, sociological, cultural, economic and community development academic disciplines to better gauge the developments of the contemporary citizen.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">Presentations, papers, performances and artworks are called for, but not limited to, the following topics:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What constitutes the 21st Century Citizen?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222; margin-bottom:3.75pt; line-height:9.75pt; list-style-position:initial">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What negotiations does it undergo in relation to corporations, private service providers, non government organisations, religious bodies, informal networks (such as the environmental movement)
and supra national bodies?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222; margin-bottom:3.75pt; line-height:9.75pt; list-style-position:initial">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What is its relationship to new media and technologies with their changing markers of adulthood, success and loyalty?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222; margin-bottom:3.75pt; line-height:9.75pt; list-style-position:initial">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">How the citizen of the 21st Century maintain any sense of control over their life or a sense of agency to influence the world around them.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222; margin-bottom:3.75pt; line-height:9.75pt; list-style-position:initial">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">How does the citizen of the 21st century understand the various systems and bureaucracies that influence their lives?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222; margin-bottom:3.75pt; line-height:9.75pt; list-style-position:initial">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">How have democratic deficits and surpluses been transferred to the surpluses and deficits of citizenship?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222; margin-bottom:3.75pt; line-height:9.75pt; list-style-position:initial">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">How does the citizen of the 21st century maintain a sense of agency, if any?</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">In this way, we need to look beyond the legal and political dimensions and also understand the social and cultural practices of citizenship:<br>
~How do we feel about our political and legal rights; are we engaged in formal politics?<br>
~Do we think we have the power (or have the ‘agency’) to change the things we do not like? ~Can we make our voices heard?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">All these dimensions of citizenship are continuously changing: not only because of a changing legal environment, but also cultures changes, from young people experiencing changing
transitions to adulthood, to the emergence of new technologies and structural economic adjustments, all influence the way we relate to citizenship.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">It is our hope that a number of these interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary dialogues will be ongoing and that ultimately a series of related cross context research projects will
be developed. It is also anticipated that these will support and encourage the establishment of useful collaborative networks, and the development, presentation, and publication of research materials.</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">What to Send:</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222"><br>
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.<br>
E-mails should be entitled: Citizen1 Abstract Submission.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt
and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222">James Arvanitakis: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:green"><a href="mailto:J.Arvanitakis@uws.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:green; text-decoration:none">J.Arvanitakis@uws.edu.au</span></a></span></strong><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rob Fisher: </span></strong></span></b><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:green"><a href="mailto:citizen1@inter-disciplinary.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:green; text-decoration:none">citizen1@inter-disciplinary.net</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#222222"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">James Arvanitakis, PhD<br>
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Senior Lecturer - School of Humanities and Languages<br>
Head of Program - Dean Scholars<br>
Research member - Institute for Culture and Society<br>
Member of the Ally Program for GLBIT students<br>
Fellow - Centre for Policy Development<br>
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<a href="http://www.jamesarvanitakis.net" target="_blank"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.jamesarvanitakis.net</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"><br>
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<span class="apple-style-span">Harper Lee: Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.</span><br>
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<span class="apple-style-span">University of Western Sydney</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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