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'Social Movement Governance, The Poor and the New Politics of the Americas' conference February 2-4, 2011, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA CALL FOR PAPERS/PANELS Throughout the Americas, strengthened social movements and governmental policy shifts have presented new initiatives to meet the interrelated challenges of eradicating poverty, protecting the environment and enhancing overall welfare. The conference attempts to mobilize critical research on these themes by bringing researchers, based in the Americas or working internationally on the Americas, together with those affecting and affected by the emergence of such new forms of politics and governance in the Americas, such as actors in civil society organizations, social movements and practitioners. It will address these new forms of politics critically in order to promote an understanding of what they actually consist of, what has been achieved, the effects for the poor, whether (or ways in which) the poor are engaged and participate in these movements, internal weaknesses of the new politics and movements, as well as the structural, economic and political factors that condition their achievements. Sessions and keynote presentations will highlight the following themes: - Characteristics and origins of social movement governance and the new politics of the Americas - The extent to and manner in which these political forms have successfully addressed poverty, social cohesion and inequality - The political economy of multiple types of linkages and relations - migration, social organization, intergovernmental, inter-class - within the Americas Deadline for paper and panel proposals: May 1, 2010 For submissions and more information, visit: http://www.PovertyInTheAmericasConference.com Håvard Haarstad, PhD University of Bergen http://www.uib.no/personer/Havard.Haarstad