This conference could be a good venue for papers about the Disabled
People's Movement and/or related movements such as neurodiversity, Mad
Pride/mental health system survivors, etc.
(for clarity, I have nothing to do with the organisation of this, just
forwarding the call for papers which I presumably got because I
attended a previous conference in this series)
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From: C Barker <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:51:20 +0000
Subject: Manchester Social Movements Conference – Call for Papers
To: C Barker <[log in to unmask]>
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS
From 1995 to 2015, 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 Twenty First AF&PP Conference
will be held between Monday 21st and Wednesday 23rd March 2016.
The Conference rubric will remain 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.
Reflecting the inherent cross-disciplinary nature of the issues,
previous participants (from over 60 countries) have come from such
specialisms as sociology, politics, cultural studies, social
psychology, economics, history and geography. The Manchester
conferences have been notable for discovering a fruitful and friendly
meeting ground between activism and academia.
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite offers of papers relevant to the conference themes. Papers
should address such matters as:
* contemporary and historical social movements and popular protests
* social movement theory
* utopias and experiments
* ideologies of collective action
* etc.
To offer a paper, please contact either of the conference convenors
with a brief abstract:
EITHER Colin Barker,
email: [log in to unmask]
OR Mike Tyldesley, Politics Section, HPP,
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West
Manchester M15 6LL, England
Tel: M. Tyldesley 0161 247 3460
email: [log in to unmask]
Fax: 0161 247 6769 (+44 161 247 6769)
(Wherever possible, please use email, especially as Colin Barker is a
retired gent. Surface mail and faxes should only be addressed to Mike
Tyldesley)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
One way we organise this particular conference is that we ask those
giving papers to supply them in advance, for inclusion on a CD of the
complete papers which will be available from the conference opening.
* Preferred method: send the paper to Colin Barker as an email
attachment in MS Word. Any separate illustrations etc. should be sent
separately, in .jpg format.
* if this is impossible, post a copy of the text to Mike Tyldesley on
a CD disk in MS Word format
* Final date for receipt of abstracts: Monday 29th February 2016
* Final date for receipt of actual papers: Monday 7th March 2016
These are final dates. The earlier we receive abstracts, and actual
papers, the better.
CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS AND COSTS
The conference will run from lunch-time Monday 21st March 2016 until
after lunch on Wednesday 23rd March 2016.
The conference cost will be inclusive of three lunches, teas/coffees
and copies of the papers on CD. The full cost is £140.00, with a cost
of £80.00 for students and the unwaged. We will circulate a Booking
Form shortly.
To register, please go to
https://www.kxregistration.mmu.ac.uk/AlternativeFutures2016 and
complete and send the form. (If you have problems ‘clicking’ on this
URL, cut and paste this address directly into your browser. Please
contact Mike Tyldesley if you encounter any difficulties.) You will be
given two options; “pay by Credit/Debit Card” or “Pay by Invoice”. If
you use the “Pay by Invoice” option, please contact Mike Tyldesley
([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) immediately
after you complete the form to let him know that you have done so and
discuss your payment method with him.
Hotels, hostels and dining out
We can supply information about relatively cheap local hotels and
hostels. Let us know if you would like this information.
We cannot do hotel or hostel bookings for you.
Conference participants will be invited to dine together at two local
(and not too expensive) restaurants on the two conference evenings.
Payment for dinners should not be made in advance, but directly to the
restaurants on the night.
Please feel free to circulate this to anyone who might be interested.
Colin Barker
Mike Tyldesley
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