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Cultures in Resistance
18 - 20 March 2008
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
The aim of this multidisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for the critique of contemporary cultural practices in all their forms, and to explore the negotiations with agencies of power working to inhibit or redirect those practices.
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Cultures in Resistance
18 - 20 March 2008
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/dpr/
Conference Stream: Social justice and communities: responses to dominant discourses
The income gap between rich and poor in the UK means we live in an increasingly divided society. Disadvantaged groups and communities within society are further marginalised by dominant cultural discourses that promote particular ideals and behaviours while stigmatizing the behaviours and cultures of others, thus justifying their continued social, political and economic exclusion. The amplification of dominant cultural discourses can create 'silences', where groups/ communities feel unable to speak out, or are denied a voice. Other groups/ communities are more successful, and create their own resistant dialogues, which although often unheard outside their communities, challenge the dominant discourses.
We are seeking empirical and/ or theoretical papers that consider the nature of dominance, silences and resistance by groups and communities, and the possibilities for social justice in the twenty first century.
Please send abstracts to Jude Robinson, at [log in to unmask]
marked 'Social Justice and Communities' by 31 January 2008. Abstracts should be in Word format, no more than 200 words.
Dr Jude Robinson
Deputy Director of the Health and Community Care Research Unit,
Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences
HaCCRU,
Thompson Yates Building,
The Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill,
University of Liverpool.
L69 3GB
Telephone: +44 (0) 151 794 5288/ 5503
Fax: +44 (0) 151 794 5434
Email: [log in to unmask]
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