Apologies for cross posting.
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Everyday Activism: Protests as Events 2
Leeds City Market: Thursday 12th June
A call for mobilisation
Last year we took as our starting point Paul Chatterton’s (2006) argument that: “acknowledging that protest encounters are emotionally laden, relational, hybrid, corporeal and contingent, possibilities open up for breaking the silences that divide us and overcoming onto-logical divisions such as activist and non-activist.” This year we aim to take the conversations begun last year and move them on in some interesting new ways. Not just challenging the false division of academic and activist but also that of everyday activism and universal struggle, in order to explore the complex construction of protests as events / events as protests. We propose an innovative coming together of activists and academics to continue to build bridges, provoke debate and establish future agenda in the convergence of academic research and activist intervention.
This call is less a traditional call for papers and more a call to mobilise; it seeks papers that challenge concepts of the staid and routine format of academic presentation. We are looking for innovative presentations; workshops; happenings and interventions, which may contain interactive elements that explore and enhance our understanding of one or more of the following topics:
· Living protest and activism
· The carnivalesque and protest
· Protest and activism as community and identity
· Protest and activism as leisure
· Performance, performativity and activism
· Protests and activism spaces
· Protests as tourism
· Mobilisation strategies and capacity building for community engagement and active citizenship
· Protest and activism networks
· Embodiment of protest events
Please note that in keeping with our desire for interventions that break with orthodox academic presentation formats the use of PowerPoint of similar presentational tools are not permitted and instead we invite you to rethink the way you wish to engage with participants. There will be electricity and access to AV equipment if needed, but you may also wish to devise a more active/participatory session.
We are now seeking proposals for this symposium. Abstracts and outlines should be emailed to Ian Lamond at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and be no more than 300 words.
The call is now open and abstracts must be received by March 21st 2014 at the very latest.
For further details on the symposium, including information for potential attendees, please visit: http://protestsasevents.wordpress.com; call +44 (0) 113 812 3816 or email either [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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