SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS
abstracts due by 6th February 2006
From 1995 to 2005, 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 Eleventh AF&PP Conference will be
held, between Wednesday 19th April and Friday 21st April 2006.
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 40 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: [log in to unmask]
Tel: M. Tyldesley 0161 247 3438
email: [log in to unmask]
Fax: 0161 247 6312 (+44 161 247 6312)
(Wherever possible, please use email, especially as Colin Barker is now a
retired gent. Surface mail and faxes should only be addesssed to Mike Tyldesley)
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