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***For abstract submissions please use the online form (below) and contact Licia Cianetti in case of any queries***
Call for Papers: Protest and Power in the Baltic States
The UK Baltic Study Group is now calling for papers for a
panel on ‘Protest and Power in the Baltic States' at the 2014 BASEES conference
in Cambridge.
The recent wave of protests and demonstrations that spread across and beyond Europe has renewed scholarly interest in social movements and protest. The aim of this panel is to explore issues of protest and contestation in the Baltic States, in order to identify and discuss existing structures of power, grassroots challenges to them, and possible directions of change.
Ethnic relations, socio-economic inequality and economic
policies, gender issues, LGBT rights, environmental issues, are all fields of
contestation worth exploring (the list is not meant to be exhaustive). The best
would be to have a variety of themes in order to ensure a well-rounded
discussion.
Some of the questions contributors to this panel are
particularly (but not exclusively) invited to investigate – in relation to one
or more of the three Baltic States - are:
• What is the role of social movements, contestation and
protest in the democratic process?
• What are the conditions of acceptability of a social movement: what is “too radical” and what is “legitimate” civil society?
• What are the institutional responses to protest and contestation and what do they reveal about the existing power structures?
Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words by 1
September 2013, indicating your full contact details, your institutional
affiliation and a brief academic biography, at UKBSG – BASEES 2014. For
any questions on this panel, please contact Licia Cianetti at [log in to unmask]