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The British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2009 The Challenge of Global Social Inquiry Thursday 16th - Saturday 18th April 2009 Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff Conference Programme & Abstracts www.britsoc.co.uk Work, Employment and Society Conference 2010 Invitation to Tender Every three years Work, Employment and Society organises a conference. The previous conferences at the Universities of Aberdeen, Kent, Cambridge, Nottingham and UMIST have been very successful events, attracting large numbers of national and international contributions. The editorial board of the journal is now inviting expressions of interest from organising teams who would like to host the September 2010 Conference, entitled Work, Employment and Society Conference 2010. The conference should attract papers related to all of the issues and debates with which the journal is concerned (http://wes.sagepub.com/). Bidding teams are invited to submit details of their expertise, venue, accommodation and cost model. Bids should outline transport links to the host location, and also signal any special events proposed for the conference, as well as potential key note speakers. A statement of support from the institutional host department or faculty should accompany the bid. Bidding teams must be composed of members with a demonstrable interest in the fields that the journal covers. A one-page CV for each team member should be included. The journal is particularly keen to receive expressions of interest from teams which include past and present members of the editorial board, though this membership is not a requisite. A decision on the successful bid will be made by a group consisting of the Editorial Team based at the University of Strathclyde, the Chair of the Editorial Board (Stephen Ackroyd, University of Lancaster) and Patricia Findlay (University of Edinburgh) as Editorial Board representative. To aid communication and accountability, a member of the successful team will be co-opted onto the Editorial Board solely for the purpose of liaising with the Board about the conference. A special issue of the journal is ordinarily an outcome of the WES conference, a proposal for which is the responsibility of the organising team. TIMETABLE • 1 June 2009 Bids submitted to the journal editors • 1 July 2009 Decision made on the successful bid For further information and to submit bids, contact: Phil Taylor or Chris Warhurst, Co-editors Department of Human Resource Management University of Strathclyde Glasgow, G1 1XU [email protected] or [email protected] PLEASE LABEL CORRESPONDENCE: WES 2010 Conference Conference Programme & Abstracts Book The British Sociological Association Annual Conference Cardiff City Hall Thursday 16th – Saturday 18th April 2009 THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL SOCIAL INQUIRY © The British Sociological Association, 2009 The abstracts in this volume are not for reproduction without the prior permission of the author. All rights reserved. Inserts Printed on 100% Recycled Paper Cover Printed on FSC Certified Material BLANK PAGE CONTENTS Organisers’ Welcome 1 – 2 Conference Location & How to get to Cardiff City Hall 3 – 4 Contact at the conference, Registration/Help Desk, BSA Conference Office, Late Arrivals 5 Pre-booked Accommodation, Pre-booked Meals: Lunch, Conference Dinner , Tea & Coffee 6 Cloakroom , Email, Paper sessions, Poster session, Plenary sessions, BSA Members’ 7 Annual Meeting Sociology Special Issue 2010 Call for Papers 8 Conference Programme at a Glance 9 – 11 BSA Membership Benefits 12 Conference Programme Grid 13 Plenaries 14 – 17 C-SAP 18 Sub-plenaries 19 – 29 The BSA Members’ Annual Meeting including REF Consultation 30 BSA Events 31 BSA Study Group Events 32 – 36 Symposia and Panels 37 – 40 Exhibition 41 Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence 42 Thursday – Programme in Detail 43 – 52 Friday – Programme in Detail 53 – 66 Saturday – Programme in Detail 67 – 75 Sage 76 Abstracts – Papers 77 – 200 Routledge 201 Abstracts – Posters 202 – 208 Nearby Restaurants 209 Nearby Attractions 210 – 213 Cardiff City Hall Plan 214 Cardiff City Centre Map 215 BLANK PAGE WELCOME TO THE 2009 CONFERENCE OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AT CARDIFF CITY HALL This is the first year of a new format for the Conference. It is organised in streams that are designed to represent the major areas in which sociologists in the UK are engaged. The call for papers within these streams has been open to any topic on which people are currently working. The intention is that these will be the streams of subsequent conferences so that delegates can attend the conference and give papers with an expectation of meeting with colleagues in their area of interest. There are also two open streams in which smaller specialist groups can organise events. I do not think that we have got the format right in our first attempt, and delegates will be asked to suggest modifications during the course of this conference and after. One suggestion that has already been made and adopted, but was too late for inclusion this year, will be to institute a special stream on matters of professional concern, such as teaching, the external environment of higher education, etc. There has been an excellent response to this new format. It has resulted in a rich and challenging programme for this year, which promises to be the largest ever BSA Conference. Conferences will continue to have a theme, which will be addressed in the main plenary sessions and in sub-plenary sessions within each of the streams. The theme of the 2009 conference is The Challenge of Global Social Inquiry: The globalisation of social inquiry is challenging current disciplinary formations, bringing in its train issues of the relationship between the research activities of different ‘national’ communities of research scholars, as each is drawn to address networks of interaction and exchanges beyond the boundaries of national societies (which are frequently the focus of national funding bodies, if not, as some have argued, also embedded within the conceptual apparatus of disciplines). In response, there have been calls to ‘provincialize’ the dominant European and North American constructions of social science in order to accommodate perspectives from other locations of knowledge, both spatial and ‘epistemological’. These have occurred alongside the advocacy of a new ‘universalistic’ critical social theory with ‘cosmopolitan intent’. The post second world war period was marked by the growth of professionalised disciplinary social science and the consolidation of welfare states in the context of the cold war. It was also a period of de-colonisation, although the colonial contexts in which the social sciences had been formed was frequently not recognized, and it was not until recently that post-colonial critiques have begun to have an impact. In these contexts, the collapse of communism has both helped to usher in the current phase of globalisation and has contributed to a fundamental alteration of the structures of value-relevance that inform social inquiry in post- communist societies, formerly non-aligned societies and liberal democracies alike. Although the collapse of communism has been associated with the re-assertion of liberal values (and neo-liberal public policies of governance), it is also associated with a decline in the secular values with which liberalism and modernity are conventionally associated and which would be intrinsic to any claim to replace ‘national’ social science with a ‘cosmopolitan’ social theory. The conference will address these problems of global social science and their implications for sociology. It is a pleasure to announce the following plenary sessions: On Thursday, Sue Scott (Glasgow Caledonian University) will give the BSA Presidential Address and will speak on “Sociology: Edges, Excellence, Engagement”. On Friday, Patricia Hill-Collins (University of Maryland, USA) will speak on “The New Politics of Community”. On Saturday, Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra, Portugal and University of Wisconsin-Madison USA) will speak on “Reinventing Social Emancipation through Epistemologies of the South”. Thanks are due to the many people who have helped with the organisation of the conference. In particular, thanks go to Liz Jackson and the team at the BSA office as well as the team at Cardiff City Hall. This conference does not have the familiar academic organising committee, but it has relied on a lot of separate organising effort for the individual streams: Consumption: Mark Featherstone Culture, Media and Society: Andrew Blaikie, David Inglis, Garry Crawford and Jessica Evans Education: Amanda Coffey Generations and the Lifecourse: Julie Seymour and Esther Dermott Medicine, Health and Illness: Gillian Bendelow Methods: Jennifer Mason and Graham Crow Religion: Linda Woodhead and Sarah Page Science and Technology Studies: Harry Collins Social Divisions/Social Identities: Kalwant Bhopal Social Relationships: John Holmwood Space, Mobilities and Place: Tim Dant, Monika Buscher Theory: Gurminder K. Bhambra, Ipek Demir and Stephen Kemp Work, Economy and Society: John Holmwood Open Streams: John Holmwood Finally, thanks to everyone for travelling to Cardiff and contributing towards what all those involved in its organisation hope will be an enjoyable and stimulating conference. John Holmwood BSA Council Member with special responsibility for the Conference CONFERENCE LOCATION The British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2009 is taking place at Cardiff City