The Discourse Power and Resistance (DPR13) conference will be held at the Greenwich University between 9-11 April 2013. The campus is a World Heritage site on the South Bank of the Thames, with buildings laid out by Christopher Wren.
Conference theme (http://dprconference.com/):
A widespread abuse of power is to organise the social world into groups that are included and others that are excluded, using the discourse of the powerful group, like subtly barbed wire, to distinguish the insiders from the outsiders on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, age, wealth, sexuality, class and other grouping. Communities may then disintegrate. The excluded members may seek to be admitted to the privileged group by learning and adopting its discourse; or they may resist this assimilation and celebrate their difference in defiant counter-cultures of their own.
What is the scope of research, learning and teaching in this contested space? What knowledges and methodologies should be included or excluded, and why? These are the issues the conference will consider. Issues of inclusion and exclusion continue to be crucially important in learning, teaching and research on a global scale.
Abstracts for papers, workshops, posters, performance and exhibition work to contribute to the conference are now being invited. Conference streams will be announced soon but a number of projects and symposia proposals are already under way: http://dprconference.com/conference/dpr-13/projects-and-symposia.
For further infomration please contact the conference organiser Jerome Satterthwaite : [log in to unmask]
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