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CPSA Students Caucus Meeting
2019 Annual Conference - June 4, 2019 -
Workshop: The Official Languages Act at 50
Le 50e anniversaire de la Loi sur les langues officielles
2019 Annual Conference - June 4, 2019 -
Reception: Department of Political Science
University of British Columbia
2019 Annual Conference - June 4, 2019 -
Canadian Political Science Association2019 Annual Conference Programme
ALL SIDES OF THINGS:
SPEAKING TRUTH TO PEOPLE
Hosted at the University of British Columbia
Tuesday, June 4 to Thursday, June 6, 2019 -
Presidential Address:
François Rocher, CPSA President
Life and Death of an Issue:
Canadian Political Science and
Quebec Politics
Location: CIRS 1250
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 | 05:00pm to 06:00pm -
Keynote: UBCIC Grand
Chief Stewart Phillip
Asserting Indigenous
Title and Rights in 2019
Location: CIRS 1250
June 04, 2019 | 10:30am to 12:00pm -
Keynote Speaker: Wendy BrownIn the Ruins of Neoliberalism:
Our Predicaments:
the Rise of Anti-democratic
Politics in the West
Location: CIRS 1250
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 | 02:00pm to 03:30pm -
Keynote Speaker: Roland ParisCanada Alone?
Surviving in a Meaner World
Location: CIRS 1250
Thursday, June 6, 2019 | 10:30am to 12:00pm
Political Theory
H19(c) - Roundtable: Grounded Normative Theory and its Philosophical Foundations
Date: Jun 6 | Time: 01:30pm to 03:00pm | Location: ESB 2012
Chair/Président/Présidente : Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt University)
Discussant/Commentateur/Commentatrice : Chris Tenove (University of British Columbia)
Discussant/Commentateur/Commentatrice : Fonna Forman (University of California – San Diego)
Abstract: A grounded approach to normative theorizing is not new. Indeed, it has been used in some of the most influential works of classical and contemporary political thought. For instance, Jane Mansbridge conducted extensive field work to inform her theorizing of democratic practice in her influential monograph, Beyond Adversary Democracy. However, grounded normative theorizing (GNT) has rarely been treated as a cohesive approach to doing political theory, and has received relatively little attention in the literature as an approach. This proposal is for a roundtable on the conceptual foundations of GNT, and is part of a series of proposed roundtables, which is aimed at developing GNT as a distinct approach. GNT derives from a long-standing orientation to political theory that holds that lived experience, practices, institutions, and beliefs reveal what we should do and should value. In different ways, theorists have argued for normative analysis to engage the concrete realities of people’s lives, “taking men as they are and laws as they might be...so that justice and utility are in no way divided” (Rousseau 1762), or arguing that theorizing should not be “something which can go on in the head without including observation of new facts as part of itself” (Dewey [1920] 2004: 141). Today, political theorists frequently call for normative theory that is more practice-dependent, more realistic, or less focused on “transcendent institutions” (Sen 2009). We seek to explore intellectual traditions that have contributed directly to the contemporary turn toward grounded normative theory and the development of its methodological commitments.
ParticipantsMonique Deveaux (University of Guelph)Christine (Cricket) Keating (University of Washington (Seattle))Margaret (Peggy) Kohn (University of Toronto)James Tully (University of Victoria)Melissa Williams (University of Toronto)