Occupy Research Collective Convergence (ORCC): Activism & Research Ethics - 30th June

First Event – 30th June – Conver­gence on Activ­ism & Research Ethics

Occupy Research Collect­ive Conver­gence (ORCC): Activ­ism & Research Ethics

10:00–17:00 Saturday June 30th – Pear­son Build­ing, Univer­sity College London, Blooms­bury, London, WC1E 6BT (enter from Gower Street).

See here for direc­tions.

• Are you research­ing Occupy or contem­por­ary social move­ments?
• Are you involved in Occupy or other forms of activ­ism?
• Are you inter­ested in using research to take action towards creat­ing other possible worlds?
• Are you keen on research which respects activ­ism?

This one day conver­gence will focus on the ethics of research­ing within-and-beyond the Occupy move­ment. We would like this to be the begin­ning of an ongo­ing conver­sa­tion about the ways in which research can comple­ment, inform, chal­lenge and present social move­ments and radical polit­ics.

This conver­gence aims to provide an open space in which to share ideas about the ethics of Occupy, activ­ism and research. The agenda is fluid and will be final­ised collect­ively at the start of the day, but themes might include:

• The ethics of Occupy and the role of critique in activ­ism.
• Activ­ism & insti­tu­tional rela­tion­ships; within and against the neolib­eral univer­sity.
• Consen­su­ally research­ing consensus-based move­ments; research for/research about; approach­ing (re)present­a­tion.
• Parti­cip­at­ory meth­od­o­logy; research dissem­in­a­tion and free­dom of access; radical publish­ing; milit­ant research; collab­or­a­tion and mutual aid in research.

This Conver­gence is being organ­ised by the Occupy Research Collect­ive. We are an open network of activ­ist-research­ers work­ing within and around the Occupy move­ment. We aim to bring together a broad vari­ety of research and research­ers, from students and academ­ics, to social and community research­ers work­ing outside academia, to unof­fi­cial research­ers – anyone inter­ested in think­ing and doing research for the sake of activ­ism, know­ledge or other purposes. We want to exper­i­ment with altern­at­ive, collect­ive ways of doing, dissem­in­at­ing and collab­or­at­ing on research and publish­ing, help­ing to counter the increas­ing neolib­er­al­isa­tion of the univer­sity and research envir­on­ment, and find­ing new ways to support each other as radical research­ers.

In the mean­time please join the email list (below) to start shar­ing and discuss­ing read­ings. If you have any ques­tions, you can contact us:

By email: occupyr­e­search­col­lect­ivefast­mail [ punto ] co [ punto ] uk (occupyr­e­search­col­lect­ive[at]fast­mail[dot]co[dot]uk)

At our website: http://occupyr­e­search­col­lect­ive.word­press.com

And by join­ing our mail­ing list, at: http://groups.google.com/group/read­ing-occupy

Please distrib­ute this call out widely through your friends, colleagues, activ­ist networks, or univer­sity (ask your school admin to forward it to all students!).

http://occupyr­e­search­col­lect­ive.word­press.com/first-event-30th-june-conver­gence-on-activ­ism-research-ethics/