[p2p-research] SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS

[Michel Bauwens]

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE  - CALL FOR PAPERS
abstracts due by Monday 2nd March 2009

>From 1995 to 2008, 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 Fourteenth AF&PP Conference will be
held, between Wednesday 15th April and Friday 17th April 2009.

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.

Reflecting the inherent cross-disciplinary nature of the issues, previous
participants (from over 50 countries) have come from such specialisms as
sociology, politics, cultural studies, social psychology, economics,
history and geography.  The Manchester conferences have also been notable
for discovering a fruitful and friendly meeting ground between activism and
academia.

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, Dept. of Sociology
OR Mike Tyldesley, Dept. of Politics and Philosophy
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West
Manchester M15 6LL, England
email: c.barker at mmu.ac.uk
Tel: M. Tyldesley  0161 247 6718
email: m.tyldesley at mmu.ac.uk
Fax: 0161 247 6769 (+44 161 247 6769)
(Wherever possible, please use email, especially as Colin Barker is now a
retired gent. Surface mail and faxes should only be addressed to Mike
Tyldesley)

CONFERENCE PAPERS
Those giving papers are asked 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 placed at the end of the
paper, 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 2nd March 2009

* Final date for receipt of actual papers: Monday 23rd March 2009

CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS AND COSTS
The conference will run from lunch-time Wednesday 15th April to lunch-time on
Friday 17th April 2009.

Cost, inclusive of three lunches, teas/coffees and copies of the
Proceedingson CD, will be £130 (students and unwaged £80).

Bed and Breakfast accommodation in student bedrooms can be booked through
the conference organizers at nearby University of Manchester accommodation,
at £35 per night. It is possible, in principle, to book these rooms on the
nights immediately preceding and following the conference. Delegates
preferring hotel accommodation should make their own bookings. The most
convenient hotel is IBIS, Charles Street, Manchester M1 7DG (tel 0161 272
5000).

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.

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