The MSSU Honors Program is delighted to announce that Senior Honors student Caleb Gallemore will publish a scholarly essay in the journal Milennium, as part of the F.S. Northedge Essay competition for 2005.
Caleb's essay, entitled "Of Lords and (Cyber)Serfs: eGovernment and Poststructuralism in a Neomedieval Europe," was originally written during his international study at the University of Plymouth in the UK, but extensively revised by Caleb over the past year.
The abstract for Caleb's essay goes a little something like this:
The decentralisation and despatialisation of governmental architectures within the European Union (EU) that will result from the development of eGovernment under the Lisbon Strategy could have a crucial impact on political structures and identity in Europe. eGovernment projects at the European and Member State levels are professed to expand citizens' access to political institutions, increase social inclusion and enhance the efficiency of pan-European government. This essay examines the possible implications of long-term digitalisation of government in the EU given the current trajectory of eGovernment discourse and its place within the broader Information Society goals. It argues that eGovernment will reconfigure several political relationships within the EU, fostering the development of a neomedieval polity similar to that first described by Hedley Bull, where government is multi-layered and overlapping and mobility among certain individuals is very
high. To make the neomedieval perspective more appropriate for this digital analysis, the essay draws upon postructuralist ideas concerning political forms and the construction of knowledge and subjectivity.
Congratulations, Caleb! You make us all proud.
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