Network Representatives:

The Politics Network invites scholarship that deals with political history, institutions, organization, and mobilization, as well as the politics of policy-making and political processes across time and place. We are broadly concerned with politics' intersections with other social entities, including the state, the economy, culture and knowledge production, welfare state institutions, social citizenship, and education. Past conferences have featured scholarship on political dynamics within and across social (race, ethnicity, gender, etc.) and political (left-right, conservative-liberal, etc.) categories, and on local, urban/suburban, rural, regional, national and international levels. Sessions often have a comparative and/or historical emphasis, and frequently overlap with the following networks: States and Society; Culture; Macro-Historical Dynamics; Migration/Immigration; Race and Ethnicity; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Urban; Economics; Labor; and Criminal Justice/Law.

We encourage submissions from all disciplines, including history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, economics, political science, communications studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, geography and demography. The submission deadline is February 15, 2010. On this year's conference theme of "Power and Politics," we are especially interested in works on bases and forms of political power across time and place, including scholarship on power and politics in the context of present-day economic and financial crises.