CfP: The Power of the People: the dynamics and limits of social
mobilization in South Eastern Europe. Oxford, 27 February 2015


Dear All,

we would like to invite you to an interdisciplinary symposium called "The
Power of the People: the dynamics and limits of social mobilization in
South Eastern Europe". More information can be found here:
http://protestconfox2015.wordpress.com/

The event will be organized on February 27, 2015 at St Antony’s and St
John’s College in Oxford, United Kingdom. We are currently accepting paper
proposals from all interested advanced graduate researchers.

The call for papers can be found here<
http://form.jotformeu.com/form/43212867546358>.

Please join our Facebook group<
https://www.facebook.com/groups/340349682811466/> and our Facebook event. <
https://www.facebook.com/events/555719857894493/?source=1>

Best wishes,

Jessie Hronesova
DPhil Candidate in Politics
SEESOX Associate
St Antony's College
University of Oxford

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Call for Papers: The power of the people: the dynamics and limits of social
mobilization in South Eastern Europe

University of Oxford is seeking paper proposals for an interdisciplinary
symposium being held on February 27, 2015 at St Antony's and St John's
College at Oxford.

Proposals by graduate candidates and researchers in all relevant
disciplines are being accepted for presentations of 20 minutes.
ESRC/AHRC-funded students are especially encouraged to apply.

Submission deadline: January 15, 2015

Website:http://protestconfox2015.wordpress.com/

The aim of the symposium is to bring together distinguished scholars from
various disciplines to discuss the merits, limits and legacies of social
protests, demonstrations, sit-ins and other forms of social mobilization,
which we have witnessed in South Eastern European in the past twenty years
and especially since 2011. The keynote speaker for this conference is
Professor Michael Biggs (University of Oxford). The keynote panelists of
the symposium are two scholars-activists Igor Štiks and Srećko Horvat, who
have just published one of the first analyses of contemporary radical
politics in the former Yugoslavia.

Social mobilization from the global to the local level have contributed to
important shifts in our thinking about political, economic and cultural
aspects of our societies. The massive scale of the recent waves of protests
- such as the Occupy movements, the Arab Spring, Maidan in the Ukraine,
Gezi Park in Turkey and many others - is often a response to particular
events, popular disenchantment with their elites and global phenomena such
as the economic downturn. In 2013 and 2014 a wave of social protests swept
across South Eastern Europe (SEE), unseen since the fall of socialism in
1989. The mass protests in Turkey, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Bosnia and
Herzegovina surprised many by their intensity and duress. These events had
been long in the making, nourished by similar grievances and
disenchantments, though they were triggered by different immediate causes.
Not enough time has passed to evaluate their consequences and legacy yet.
However, we can study some positive and negative lessons from these and
previous protests and put forward some tentative propositions about their
consequences.

The specific themes we want to explore are the following:

1.  Power and leadership;

2.  Sources of mobilization – motivation and rationale;

3.  Role of the media and new media (Facebook, Twitter);

4.  Economic factors;

5.  Role of the civil sector;

6.  Role of emotions;

7. Visualization of social actions and culture as a platform for
mobilization;

8. Successful versus failed cases and legacies of social protests;

9. Positive and negative aspects of social protests;

10. Methodological approaches to social mobilization beyond social
sciences  (fieldwork, surveys);

11. Ethical issues in the study of social action.

Successful applicants will notified by the end of January 2015.

Eligibility: Only doctoral candidates can apply. Applications from ESRC and
AHRC-funded students are especially welcomed.

Cost: Travel costs for all accepted presenters from the UK will be covered.
Accommodation and overseas travel will be discussed on an individual basis.

Please fill out the form below (including an abstract of 300 words).

Convenors: Jessie Hronesova, Ana Ranitovic, Ivor Sokolic

If you have any further questions please contact the convenors at
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