Call for papers: Manchester Conference: ALTERNATIVE FUTURES and POPULAR PROTEST

SOCIAL MOVE­MENTS CONFE­RENCE  – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

abstracts due by Monday 2^nd March 2009

 

From 1995 to 2008, Manches­ter Metro­po­li­tan Univer­sity hosted a series of very success­ful annual inter­na­ti­o­nal confe­ren­ces on 'ALTER­NA­TIVE FUTU­RES and POPU­LAR PROTEST’.

 

We’re very happy to announce that the Four­te­enth AF&PP Confe­rence will be held, between Wednes­day 15^th April and Friday 17^th April 2009.

 

The Confe­rence rubric remains as in previ­ous years. The aim is to explore the dyna­mics of popu­lar move­ments, along with the ideas which animate their acti­vists and suppor­ters and which contri­bute to shaping their fate.

 

Reflec­ting the inhe­rent cross-disci­pli­nary nature of the issues, previ­ous parti­ci­pants (from over 50 coun­tries) have come from such speci­a­lisms as soci­o­logy, poli­tics, cultu­ral studies, social psycho­logy, econo­mics, history and geography.  The Manches­ter confe­ren­ces have also been nota­ble for disco­ve­ring a fruit­ful and friendly meeting ground between acti­vism and acade­mia.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

We invite offers of papers rele­vant to the confe­rence themes.  Papers should address such matters as: 

 

* contem­po­rary and histo­ri­cal social move­ments and popu­lar protests

 

* social move­ment theory

 

* utopias and expe­ri­ments

 

* ideo­lo­gies of collec­tive action

 

* etc.

 

To offer a paper, please contact either of the confe­rence conve­nors with  a brief abstract:  

 

EITHER Colin Barker, Dept. of Soci­o­logy  

OR Mike Tyldes­ley, Dept. of Poli­tics and Philo­sophy  

Manches­ter Metro­po­li­tan Univer­sity  

Geof­frey Manton Buil­ding, Rosa­mond Street West  

Manches­ter M15 6LL, England  

email: c [ punto ] barkermmu [ punto ] ac [ punto ] uk (c[dot]barker[at]mmu[dot]ac[dot]uk)  

Tel: M. Tyldes­ley  0161 247 6718  

email: m [ punto ] tyldes­leymmu [ punto ] ac [ punto ] uk (m[dot]tyldes­ley[at]mmu[dot]ac[dot]uk)  

Fax: 0161 247 6769 (+44 161 247 6769)  

(Where­ver possi­ble, please use email, espe­ci­ally as Colin Barker is now a reti­red gent. Surface mail and faxes should only be addres­sed to Mike Tyldes­ley)