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INSPR Newsletter October 2013
1) Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest: Issue 1
2) Contention – CFP: Feminist Movements Across the Board: A Critical Analysis
3) Journal of Social and Political Psychology: CFP special issue on Social Psychology of Citizenship, Participation and Social Exclusion
4) Global Uprising Conference (Amsterdam)
5) Conference: Alternative Futures And Popular Protest – Manchester Metropolitan University
6) New Book ‘Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western Europe: The Case of Italy’ (Andrea Hajek; Palgrave MacMillan). Discount Code (25%) for INSPR members.
1) Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
The first issue of Contention may now be downloaded here https://www.dropbox.com/s/ne55gjmqmuvuqa1/Contention_Vol1_Iss1_EBook.pdf
You may also buy a printed copy of the volume here https://www.createspace.com/4456808
Table of Contents
ARTICLES: Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, & Gema Garcia-Albacete, "Protest Activity, Social Incentives, and Rejection Sensitivity: Results From a Survey Experiment About Tuition Fees" // Sophie Toupin, "An Open-Air Self-Managed Social Center Called Occupy" // Atalanti Evripidou & John Drury, "This Is the Time of Tension: Collective Action and Subjective Power in the Greek Anti-Austerity Movement" // Wiktor Marzec, "The 1905-1907 Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland: Articulation of Political Subjectivities Among Workers"
FAST-TRACK REPORT: Edgar Everardo Guerra Blanco, "Observing Protest Organizations as Social Systems: The Popular Front Francisco Villa's Media Diffusion Articulation of Political Subjectivities Among Workers"
BOOK REVIEWS: Mark Bergfeld--Kate Khatib, Margaret Killjoy, & Mike McGuire (2012), "We Are Many. Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation (Edinburgh/San Francisco: AK Press) & David Graeber (2012), "The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement" (London: Allen Lane Press) // Jeffrey Butcher--Manuel Castells (2012), "Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press) // Heather A. Came--Glenn Laverack (2013), "Health activism: Foundations and strategies" (London: Sage Publications) // Nikos Sotirakopulos--Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2012), "Declaration" (Argo Navis Author Services)
INSPR: Barbara Franchi, "INSPR Seminar: Occupy Gezi Parki - Eyewitness Accounts" // Barbara Franchi, Natália Perez, & Giovanni A. Travaglino, "CFP: Feminist Movements Across the Board: A Critical Analysis"
2) Contention – CFP: Feminist Movements Across the Board: A Critical Analysis
http://contentionjournal.org/cfp-feminist-movements-across-the-board-a-critical-analysis/
Guest editors: Barbara Franchi, Natalia S. Perez & Giovanni A. Travaglino
This special issue will aim to provide readers with a broad overview of contemporary feminist perspectives. The editors are keen to publish papers about the impact of feminist theories and movements on literary, cultural, political, scientific and social practices from a trans-disciplinary and post-disciplinary approach.
For a full lis of topics and details about the submission, please visit the following web site
http://contentionjournal.org/cfp-feminist-movements-across-the-board-a-critical-analysis/
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract of their paper previous to the submission date.
Deadline for abstracts is 30 November 2013.
Final submissions of full articles should be sent by 31MARCH 2014.
Please send abstracts and full articles to Barbara Franchi [log in to unmask] and Natália S. Perez – [log in to unmask].
3) Journal of Social and Political Psychology: CFP special issue on Social Psychology of Citizenship, Participation and Social Exclusion
Editor: Clifford Stevenson
Associate Editors: John Dixon, Nick Hopkins, Russell Luyt and Evanthia Lyons
Submissions are invited for a special section on "The Social Psychology of Citizenship, Participation and Social Exclusion".
Manuscripts can be theoretical articles, review articles, original research reports, replications and refinements, or commentaries. We are interested in submissions that examine the implications of various conceptualizations of citizenship for people’s everyday lives. This includes the study of how formal definitions of citizenship, as encoded and enforced by government policy, impact upon the perceptions and experiences of citizens and non-citizens; how the informal everyday regulation of the public sphere (such as public space or government services) affects the rights and entitlements of groups or individuals; and how different understandings of citizenship across gender, socioeconomic class and culture lead to different perceptions of what is worthwhile civic behaviour. In particular, we would welcome papers which consider the inclusive potential of concepts of citizenship in facilitating participation across the spectrum of political, civic and community life as well as
papers which consider the exclusive nature of citizenship in marginalizing, stigmatizing and denying rights and entitlements to individuals or groups. In addition, we encourage submissions that offer innovative views and/or identify how the psychological study of citizenship might be enriched by other perspectives, within and outside of academia.
The deadline for submission of articles is 15th May 2014 (although manuscripts may already be submitted earlier and will be reviewed on a rolling basis). All submissions may be made via the journal’s on-line system (http://jspp.psychopen.eu/author/submit/). The initial review and feedback process should be completed within three months and we aim to finalise the special section by the end of 2014. Informal inquiries concerning potential papers can be made to Clifford Stevenson (mailto:[log in to unmask] ).
4) Global Uprising Conference (Amsterdam)
http://roarmag.org/2013/10/global-uprisings-conference-amsterdam-balie/
This three-day event will bring together activists, journalists and scholars from the front-lines of the popular uprisings unfolding around the world.
GLOBAL UPRISINGS - The Stories, Ideas and Future of Uprisings around the World
De Balie, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
November 15-17, 2013
The conference will open on Friday night with a keynote speech by the acclaimed British journalist Paul Mason, author of Why it’s Still Kicking off Everywhere. On Saturday and Sunday, we will have multiple discussion sessions with grassroots organizers about where today’s movements have come from and where they are headed; how people are organizing in the areas worst hit by the euro crisis; what happened to the revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East; how the Occupy Wall Street movement was organized; why Canadian and Chilean students decided to take to the streets; what animated the most recent popular uprisings in Turkey and Brazil, and much more.
The Global Uprisings Conference is organized by Brandon Jourdan (award-winning independent filmmaker) and Marianne Maeckelbergh (anthropologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands) of the Global Uprisings documentary film project. The event will be hosted by discussion center De Balie in Amsterdam and is made possible with the funding of the Foundation for Democracy and Media.
For more information and a list of confirmed speakers, please visit the following link
http://roarmag.org/2013/10/global-uprisings-conference-amsterdam-balie/
5) Conference: Alternative Futures And Popular Protest – Manchester Metropolitan University
http://www.hssr.mmu.ac.uk/politics-research-group/alternative-futures-conference/
From 1995 to 2013, Manchester Metropolitan University hosted a series of very successful annual international conferences on 'Alternative Futures And Popular Protest'.
We're very happy to announce that the Nineteenth AF&PP Conference will be held, between Monday 14th April and Wednesday 16th April 2014.
The Conference rubric remains as in previous years. The aim is to explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas which animate their activists and supporters and which contribute to shaping their fate. Given the significance of the mass movements in numbers of countries during the early years of this decade, we especially welcome papers discussing these – while no less welcoming suggestions on other topics.
Anyone interested in attending the conference should email Mike Tyldesley on [log in to unmask]
For a list of speakers see http://www.hssr.mmu.ac.uk/politics-research-group/alternative-futures-conference/
6) New Book ‘Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western Europe: The Case of Italy’ (Andrea Hajek; Palgrave MacMillan)
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=629157
Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western Europe explores the transmission of memories of European protest movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on the specific case of Italy, the book examines the ways in which different memory agents negotiate memories of violence against left-wing activists, perpetrated by representatives of the state. It does so through a discussion of commemorative rituals, memory sites and other forms of 'memory work' performed by various social groups within the local setting of Bologna, where a left-wing student and protester was shot dead by police in 1977. By drawing on this fascinating case study, Andrea Hajek lays bare the dynamic relation between official and unofficial memories of conflict and and explores the challenges of historical research into social movements.
For INSPR members:
Discount: 25%
Discount code: CONF2013
Terms and conditions: Special offer valid until Jan 1st 2014. This price is available to individuals only. This offer is not available to our trade and library customers. Orders must be placed direct with Palgrave Macmillan. To order your copy at this special price complete the order form, visit www.palgrave.com and quote discount code CONF2013