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Arbeitskreis Pakistan

As an initiative by the Interdisciplinary Research Groups MC7 “Political Legitimation”, MC 3.4 “Negotiating Religious Identities Among Hindu Communities in Pakistan” and Junior Research Group B21 “Transcultural Dynamics of Pentecostalism”, we would like to announce a new working group for “Political Theory and Transculturality" that engages theories put forward by the “Essex School” of political thought. The "Essex School" is the outcome of Ernesto Laclau’s (and Chantal Mouffe’s) theoretical advances to political theory and offers a distinctive approach to group formation and the history of political mobilisation. Its linguistic orientation deploys insights from poststructural theory and aims at a post-foundationalist approach to society, thus differing deliberately from much of mainstream political science and social theory.
With this working group, we aim to engage theories put forward by the “Essex School” and related currents and to trace their application not only in the field of political theory, but also test their applicability for theories of culture and transculturality. The working group will regularly meet to discuss some of the school’s recent publications. In the course of this engagement, we will invite David Howarth, reader at the Department of Governmental Studies at the University of Essex, to discuss some of his later writings and their impact on methodologies within a transcultural framework in May 2015.

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