*Itinerant activism: movement, collaboration and discordance*
Short abstract
Contemporary activism relies on the physical movement of people
establishing forms of collaboration for political projects. This panel
invites ethnographic descriptions of the multifaceted encounters,
pollinations and discordances between local activist projects and visiting
or mobile activists.
Long abstract
Where previous work on activism has highlighted its networked quality
(Juris 2015; Maeckelbergh 2009; Acosta 2009) and the circulation of forms
of action in international activist networks (Krøijer 2015), in this panel
we wish to zoom in on the itinerant quality of contemporary political
activism: the forms of collaboration and discordances itinerancy produces.
Social movements and activists working on the fringes of institutional
politics are involved in longstanding efforts to make a difference in their
local social worlds while facing up to structural forces underlying the
policies and practices of states and international institutions. These
local struggles often involve overlooked forms of transnational mobility,
such as travels to partake in each other's struggles, 'summit hopping' and
summer rendezvous. This panel invites papers that provide ethnographic
descriptions of the multifaceted encounters between local activist projects
and visiting or mobile activists, as well as efforts to establish interim
spaces of political activism, for example with a view to engage in protest
events, express solidarity, exchange knowledge or providing resources and
ideas. We are particularly interested in papers analyzing the
collaborations and discordances that might emerge when groups meet,
including questioning of 'foreign' ideas and practices, accusations of
neo-colonialism, strategies to counter movement or impede distortions of
existing power balances. We seek to go beyond simplifications of foreign
activists as 'colonizer' or 'violent travelling vandals' by considering the
purchase of concepts such as exchange, collaboration, friction and
cross-pollination for understanding the dynamics through which mobility
shape activism in specific localities.
Convenors:
Raul Acosta (Universität Konstanz)
Stine Krøijer (Copenhagen University)
To submit a proposal:
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6531
Conference webpage:
https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/
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