Theory, Action and Impact of Social Protest: An Interdisciplinary Conference · PDF file · 2012-10-07interests include environmental movements and NGOs, green parties, environmental

Theory, Action and Impact of Social Protest:

An Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Kent - Canterbury, UK

October 13-14th, 2012

Conference Program

About the Conference

The TAISP conference hopes to engage participants in discussions of social protest by integrating works from various academic disciplines. The goal of the conference is to promote interdisciplinary integration and cooperation and to broaden the scope of academic work in the fields of social movements and protest. We hope to bring together scholars from disparate disciplines to a forum in which they can draw from new as well as existing research in other fields. Our long term goal is to develop a framework for research on social protest which can stretch beyond the prescribed boundaries of our individual disciplines and we hope the conference can help to achieve this goal. Based on these goals, panels have been selected to be as diverse in disciplines as possible while attempting to maintain a common thread through each of the panels.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

About the conference........................... p 1

Presentation Information..................... p 2

Conference Schedule............................. p 2

Registration Fees.................................... p 2

Keynote Speaker: Chris Rootes............ p 3

Session 1 Panels..................................... p 3

Session 2 Panels..................................... p 5

Session 3 Panels..................................... p 6

Session 4 Panels..................................... p 8

Session 5 Panels..................................... p 10

Keynote Speaker: Dominic Abrams..... p 11

Session 6 Panels..................................... p 12

Travel - to Canterbury ............................. p 14 to University of Kent.................. p 15 University Map........................... p 16

Accommodation - Hotels.......................................... p 17 Hostels and others..................... p 19

Official Acceptance Letter................... p 19

Certificate of Participation................... p 19

Paper Submissions................................ p 20 Organising and Scientific Committee.. p 21

Sponsors................................................. p 21

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Saturday, October 13th

EVENT TIME LOCATIONRegistration 10AM to 12:00NOON Darwin Foyer

Keynote Address 12:00NOON to 12:30PM Darwin Conference SuiteLight Lunch 12:30PM to 1:00PM Darwin Conference SuiteSession 1 1:00PM to 2:45PM - Session 2 2:50PM to 4:35PM -

Break 4:35PM to 4:45PM Darwin FoyerSession 3 4:50PM to 6:35PM -

Sunday, October 14th

EVENT TIME LOCATIONSession 4 10 AM to 11:45 AM -

Lunch 11:50 AM to 12:55 PM Darwin Conference SuiteSession 5 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM -

Keynote Address 2:50 PM to 3:20 PM Darwin Conference SuiteBreak 3:25 PM to 3:40 PM Darwin Foyer

Session 6 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM - Keynote Address 5:45 PM to 6:15 PM Darwin Conference Suite

Conference Schedule

Fees for salaried participants is £10. For postgraduate students, fees have been waived and participation is free of charge thanks to a generous contribution by the School of Psychology.

Fees will be collected at registration on Saturday and must be made in cash. Cash machines are available on the University campus.

Registration Fees

Presentation Information Presentations will last between 15-20 minutes, each. After all presentations there will be a

discussion amongst the panel and then the discussion will be open to the audience. All rooms are equipped with audio-visual tools which will be available to use. The university computers run on Windows 7 using Microsoft Office 2010. If you would like, you will be able to plug in your own

computer to the projector.

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Saturday, Oct 13 12:00PM to 12:30PM Darwin Conference Suite

Prof Christopher Rootes (University of Kent - Political Sociology and Environmental Politics)

Christopher Rootes is professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology at the University of Kent. In addition to being the director of the Centre of the Study of Political and Social Movements, he is the editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Politics. His work in environmental social movements has made him a leader in the field. His interests include environmental movements and NGOs, green parties, environmental protest, and the interactions between environmental campaigners and industry, government and governmental agencies. His publications include : Environmental Movements: Local, National and Global (editor) 1999; and Environmental Protest in Western Europe (editor) 2003.

Keynote Speaker

Saturday, Oct 141:00 PM to 2:45 PM

Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 (DLT1)

Session 1 - PANEL 1

Broad Explorations of Protest

Edgar Everardo Guerra Blanco (Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology) Observing Protest organizations and the organization of protest as social systems Erica J. Dollhopf (Pennsylvania State University) Comparative Models of Social Change: A Modern Theoretical Perspective

Jaqueline Berumen (Institute of Development Studies) Complexity theory´s contribution to understanding contemporary cycles of protest and social mobilization

David S. Gordon (University of Exeter) Private gain can lead to enforcement of the public good

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Suresh Babu GS (University of Jammu) Evolving Texture Of Environmentalism And Submergence Of Justice: A Case Of Narmada Valley Protest In India J. Bheemaiah (University of Hyderabad) Theorizing Dalit Metaphor: The Impact of Contemporary Social Protest Movements in India

Smitana Saikia (King’s College London) Political economy of the ‘social protest’ - What the current grammar of protest politics holds for social justice”



Session 1 - PANEL 2 India

José G. Vargas-Hernández (University of Guadalajara) Indigenous Political Ecology Approach To Social Movements In Mexico And Latin America Lorenza Belinda Fontana (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) State and Social Movements in Contemporary Bolivia: Facing the Problems of a Turbulent Marriage

Mrudul Jagannath Nile (University of Mumbai) Conceptualising Naxalite Movement as a Social Protest Movement



Catalin Mamali (Loras College and NICC) Majority of one, political manifestoes and the quality of social movements Anastasios Gaitanidis (University of Roehampton) Divine Violence or Atheistic Non-Violence? The Aporias of Religious and Atheistic Accounts of the Use of Violence by Contemporary Social Movements

Shailendra Deolankar (Government Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities) Transparency Revolution in India: Unleashing confrontation between the State and Civil Society


Cornwallis North East 08 (CNE08)

Session 1 - PANEL 3

Movements & Indigenous Peoples

Sutapa Chattopadhyay (United Nations University and Maastricht School of Governance) Whose space, Whose rights, Why squat the neoliberal ‘city’? Jan Sládek (The Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Pragu) Organized Collective Protest On Urban Level: Four Cases From Prague

Adam Stoneman (The Courtauld Institute of Art) Cultural Interventions as Social Protest: Contesting the Configurations of the City


Conference Suite

Session 1 - PANEL 4 Nonviolence and Civil

Disobedience

Session 1 - PANEL 5

Cities and Squares

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Mateusz Proch (Nicolaus Copernicus University) Sources of creative revolutionary processes in critical discourse of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Jeffrey M. Butcher (Arizona State University) Retrieving Lenin in Theory and Practice: A Political Intervention into Shakespeare

Corra Boushel and Bram Meuleman(University of Edinburgh) Hash tags, “ruling relations” and the everyday: sociological insights on the assemblage of social movements

Iain MacKenzie (University of Kent) The art of sustainable resistance: Or, why Johnny may have been right after all



Session 2 - PANEL 1 Towards a Reinvention of

Radical Theory Saturday, Oct 132:50 PM to 4:35 PM


Session 2 - PANEL 2 Turkish social movements



Session 2- PANEL 4

Environment and Animals

Özlem AVCI (Usak University) Muslim Youth Movements: The Case of Turkey

Ömür Kurt (Middle East Technical University) and Ezgi Pınar (Istanbul University) The Environmental Movement As A Terrain Of Conflict: The Case Of Movements Against Hydro-Electric Plants In Turkey

Esra Yıldız (İstanbul Technical University) Cinema from “below”, Rethinking Militant Cinema Today: An Approach to Genç Sinema’s (Young Cinema) Practices in the late 1960s

Anastasia Harrison (Open University) Creating community resilience: Exploration of the practices of mobilisation of grassroots sustainability experiments in Haringey, London

Rebecca Fowler (University of Kent Canterbury) The Nuclear Choice in the Face of Climate Change: A Story of Framing

Kerstin Jacobsson (Södertörn University) and Niklas Hansson (Gothenburgh Business School) Learning to be Affected: Subjectivity, Sense and Sensibility in Animal Rights Activism

Michael Briguglio (University of Malta) ENGOs, EU Accession and Empowerment – Case Studies from Malta


Conference Suite

Session 2 - PANEL 3

Women and Protest

Olorunfemi Dada (Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko Ondo State) Women And Environmental Protection Protest In Niger Delta, Nigeria

Elzbieta Korolczuk (Södertörns högskola) In bed with an enemy? Women‘s movements and neoliberalism in the post-state socialist context

Andreea Molocea (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration) Women in Social Movements and Protests. Why Do They Matter

Nadia Thibault (Simon Fraser University) She Stood Up For Them: The German Expressionism of Kathe Kollwitz

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Saturday, Oct 134:50pm to 6:35pm


Session 3 - PANEL 1 Squatting & Social Protest



Session 2 - PANEL 5 Motivations for participation

Gema Garcia-Albacete (University Autonoma of Madrid), Hanna Bäck (Lund University) and Emma Bäck (Stockholm University) Contextual and individual-level determinants of political protest: The interaction between feelings of discrimination and institutional arrangements.

Brian Callan (Loughborough University) Somethings wrong here: Transnational Activism and the Unimagined Community

Augusta Isabella Alberici, Patrizia Milesi, Paolo Malfermo, Daniela Marzana, and Raffaele Canfora (Catholic University of Milan) Comparing social movements and political parties’ activism: the psychosocial predictors of collective action and the role of the Internet.

Rim Saab (University of Liverpool), Nicole Tausch (University of St Andrews), Russell Spears (Groningen University), and Wing Yee Cheung (University of Southampton) Prosocial Emotions and Efficacy Perceptions as Predictors of Solidarity-Based Collective Action

Miguel A. Martínez López and Ángela García Bernardos (University Complutense of Madrid) Why Did the Spanish Occupy Movement Help To the Legitimation of the Squatting Movement?

Deanna Dadusc (University of Kent / University of Utrecht) Criminalisation of social movements: the case of squatting in the Netherlands

Gianni Piazza (University of Catania)Between political opportunities and strategic choices: a case study of protest campaign against eviction of an Occupied Social Centre in Italy



Session 3 - PANEL 2Party Politics for the 21st

Century

Sakari Hänninen (National Institute for Health and Welfare and University of Helsinki) Populism as a non-event

Nikos Sotirakopoulos (University of Kent) The Curious Case of KKE: the rise and fall of Europe’s last Orthodox Communist Party

Giulio Regeni (University of Cambridge) Egyptian labour and the political contestation of neoliberal policies: how workers’ struggles created a popular base for regime contestation

Jamie Melrose and Cerelia Athanassiou (University of Bristol) Challenging the Status Quo in the Modern University: Participation, Democracy, Counter-Hegemony

Hanna Bäck (Lund University), Emma Bäck (Stockholm University) and Gema Garcia-Albacete (University Autonoma of Madrid)The Impact of Social Incentives and Rejection Sensitivity on Protest Activity. Results from a Survey Experiment about Student Fees

Alexander Hensby (University of Edinburgh) Mobilizing the ‘caring but not committed’ – protest participation and non-participation in the 2010/11 Student ‘Winter of Discontent’



Session 3 - PANEL 3 Student Movements



Session 3 - PANEL 4 Class conflict & Globalization

Mustafa Berkay Aydın, Ceyda Tırman(Middle East Tecnical University), Duygu Hatıpoğlu Aydın (Ankara University) and Çağdaş Ceyhan (Anadolu University) Neo-Liberal Times and ‘Struggle of People’s Rights’: A Case Study from Halkevleri/Turkey

Davide Però (University of Kent / University of Utrecht) Migrants, Class and Collective Action Political engagements among new migrants in Britain

Ina Radtke (University of Potsdam) The International Trade Union Confederation – Capable of strategic action?

Giovanni A. Travaglino (University of Kent), Adriano Zamperini, Marialuisa Menegatto (University of Padua) Social Representations of Conflict in Protesters’ narratives of the Genoa G8: A Qualitative Analysis.

Saturday, Oct 134:50pm to 6:35pmConference Suite

Session 3 - PANEL 5Nigerian Social Movements

Matthew Okiri Okeyim (University of Allicante, Spain) and James Bassey Ejue (Cross River State College of Education, Akamkpa) Occupying buildings or liberating homes? An analysis of struggles for the right to housing in the Spanish 15-M movement

Okechukwu B. C. Nwankwo (Anambra State University) The Politics of Disruption in Nigeria: Influencing Policy through Disrupting Polity

Ojakorotu Victor (North West University, Mafikeng, South Africa) Social Movement And Good Governance: The Panacea To Ethnic Conflict In Nigeria

Hari, Solomon Ibrahim (Plateau State University Bokkos) The Evolution Of Social Protest In Nigeria: The Role Of Social Media In The “Occupy Nigeria” Protest Phenomenon

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Tiina Likki (University of Lausanne) Unity within Diversity: A Social Psychological Analysis of the Internal Diversity of the Indignados Movement

Dora Fonseca and Elísio Estanque (Faculdade deEconomia da Universidade de Coimbra/ Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES)) Indignation waves and their political logic: antagonism, conflict and expressions of middle class radicalism

Sunday, Oct 1410:00 AM to 11:45 AM


Session 4 - PANEL 1 Indignant Movements





Session 4 - PANEL 2 Middle East & Arab Protests



Session 4 - PANEL 3 Art & Music in Movements

Session 4 - PANEL 4Police, Riots and Terrorism

Monir Birouk (Ibn Zohr University, Agadir) Re-Mapping the Orient in the Western Discourse after the Arab Spring: from Neo-Orientalism to Comparativism

Fatima Zahra El-Amrani (Dhar al-Mihraz) The Gender Battle in the Arab Revolts

Ruma Guha (B.K.C.College, West Bengal State University) The Arab Spring: Consequence of Post Colonial Exploitation

Andrew J. Wood (University of California, Santa Cruz) Punk Rock, Resistance, and Social Movements

Jeremy Tranmer (University of Lorraine) Cable Street Beat

Julian Paulo Topf Aguiar de Medeiros (University of Freiburg) Representations of social unrest in Romain Gavras’ “No Church in the Wild” music video: re-framing the European arena as a hip-hop dystopia

Alex Trott (Royal Holloway, University of London) Battle in bohemia: Hydropathe caricature as social protest in the early Third Republic

Sharon Coen and Caroline Jones (University of Salford) A matter of law and order: reporting the Salford riots in Local news webpages Iyabo Osho (Middlesex University) ‘Race’, Space and Social Action: The UK Riots 2011

Sotirios Karampampas (University of Sheffield) Applying Social Movement Theory in Terrorism Research: The Case of Greek Revolutionary Terrorism

B.K.C.College

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Conference Suite

Session 4 - PANEL 5Be the change you want to see? Prefigurative Politics

Sunday, Oct 1410:00 AM to 11:45 AMD.PeterBrown Room

Session 4 - PANEL 6 Across countries,

Across cases

Maria Martin de Almagro (ULB and LUISS Guido Carli) Evolving Texture Of Environmentalism And Submergence Of Justice: A Case Of Narmada Valley Protest In India Robin Mydlak (University of Kent) Capitalism is obviously failing, so why won’t they listen to us? The Financial Crisis and the need to open up space.

Juuso Miettunen (University of Kent) Questioning hierarchy and representation: Prefiguration and horizontal decision making as social movement strategy – initial observations from Buenos Aires and Chiapas

Stephen Driver (University of Roehampton), Alexander Hensby (University of Edinburgh) and Joanne Sibthorpe (University of Roehampton) I fought the (iron) law (of oligarchy)…”: Social activism and the possibility of post-bureaucratic politics

Blair Taylor (New School for Social Research) Changing the World without Taking Power?Occupy Wall Street and the Legacy of the Alter-Globalization Movement

Rebecca Wallbridge (University of Southampton) Green intentional communities: spaces of and for ecocentric difference

D.PeterBrown

Sunday, Oct 141:00 PM to 2:45 PM




Session 5 - PANEL 3 Identity Politics & Protest

Session 5 - PANEL 4Movt’s in Russia





Session 5 - PANEL 1 Occupations

Session 5 - PANEL 2High Tech Activism

Sina Arnold (Technical University Berlin) The Limits of Social Protest: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ and the Discourse on Antisemitism The Limits of Social Protest: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ and the Discourse on Antisemitism

Joseph Ibrahim (Sheffield Hallam University) The moral economy of student protest networks in the UK

Paolo Gerbaudo (American University in Cairo) The phenomenology of popular reunions: occupied squares as empty signifiers in contemporary“populist” movements Miha Novak (University of Ljubljana) Why things happened that way: The Occupation of the Faculty of Arts

Rachel A Barkley (North Carolina State University) A New Challenger Appears: The Role of New Technology in Political Activism

Khalil Dahbi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Usage of the Internet by Social Movements in Authoritarian Settings:The Case of the emergence of the “20th February Movement” in Morocco

Camilo Cristancho and Eva Anduiza (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Connective Action in European Mass Protest

Gokhan Yilmaz (Hacettepe University) Social Media Networks or Mobilization of Dissent

Rose Erin Holyoak (University of Leicester) The Political is Personal: Negotiating Feminisms and Femininities in Social Movement Activism

Aidan McGarry (University of Brighton) Social Movements and Contested Identity: An Analytical Framework

Yutaka Sato (Hitotsubashi University) The limits to women’s collective action in the time of neoliberal urban reforms: views from the slums of Ahmedabad, India

Svetlana Erpyleva (European University at Saint-Petersburg) From political rally to civic initiative: the evolution of the forms of political participation during post-election protests in Russia

Anna Grigoryeva (University of Cambridge) “Our politics is nothing like their politics”: Relating to the boundaries of the political as a researcher from “the West” in Moscow

Valeria Kasamara and Anna Sorokina (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Russian youth about contemporary Russian situation: Street Protests and their Effects

Oleg Zhuravlev (European University Institute) De-politicization as a logic and a context of political participation strategies

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Sunday, Oct 14 2:50 PM to 3:20 PM Darwin Conference Suite

Prof Dominic Abrams (University of Kent - Social Psychology)

As director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes, Professor Abrams research interests cover all aspects of relationships between social groups, particularly the psychological causes, characteristics and effects of social exclusion. He has worked extensively in the area of social identity and prejudice and how different types of group membership (ranging from age and gender to nationality, neighbourhood and teams) affect people’s social relationships, health and well-being. His research spans childhood to old age and encompasses a wide range of methods from laboratory experiments to national surveys, and both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Keynote Speaker

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Pei Man Jessica Wan (University of Oxford) From Local to National: An Investigation of the Multi-scalar Mobilization for Mining Advocacy in Ghana

Dluhopolskyy Oleksandr (Ternopil National Economic University) Ukrainian Specificity Of Lobbying Interests

Charles N Perretti (Florida International University) Immigration, Islam and Western Europe’s Far Right: Operationalizing Securitization Theory

Michael Shalev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Socioeconomic And Sociopolitical Roots Of Mass Protest: The Israeli Social Justice Movement Of 2011

Sunday, Oct 141:00 PM to 2:45 PMConference Suite

Session 5 - PANEL 5Campaigns around the world 1


D.PeterBrown Room

Session 5 - PANEL 6 Emotions & Social Movements

Huseyin Cakal (University of Oxford), Miles Hewstone and Anthony Heath Do unhappy people protest less? A multilevel analysis of protest mobilization and subjective levels of satisfaction with political, economic and social structure, and trust in Russia, Ukraine and Israel and 23 European countries. Atalanti Evripidou and John Drury (University of Sussex) Approaching collective empowerment in the Greek anti-austerity movement: An interview study

Ashley Frawley (University of Kent) Is it Radical to be Happy?

Julie Van de Vyver (University of Kent) Can moral emotions promote prosocial action?

D.PeterBrown

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Session 6 - PANEL 4 Campaigns around the world 2



Session 6 - PANEL 3 Media, Discourse & Ideology

Paulina Górska (Warsaw University) The Web Rebel. Social-psychological perspective on protests against ACTA in Poland Juliette Harkin (University of East Anglia) Against the dogma of the ‘virtual public sphere’: Why the Arab Spring is not ‘the Facebook revolution’

Jeong-Im Hyun (Sogang University) When a mouse meets a candle in Korea: the birth of mass mobilization. Case study of anti-American protests in South Korea in 2002

Francesca Ruisi (University of Palermo) Women e-participation: glass ceiling decrease?



Session 6 - PANEL 1New Media, New Activism

Gardikiotis Antonis, Alexandri Nikoletta and Apostolidis Akis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Collective action in turbulent times: How public discourse in the Greek mass media affects people’s intention to act Panagiotis Kakaletris (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) Psychosocial Characteristics of the “Indignant” protesters at “Syntagma” Square in Athens

Dionysios Mitropoulos and Iro Zavogianni (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Action and Impact of the the “Indignant Citizens Movement” in Greece.



Session 6 - PANEL 2

Greece Protests

Immanuel Brüggemann (University of Kent) ‘The Age of Aquarius’ - A case study on the Iconography of Social Movements Gulin Kayhan (Waseda University) Whale Wars: A Contentious Performance

Rodolfo Leyva (King’s College London) Exploring the Political-Economic and Socio-Cultural Discourse of London Youth: A Cognitive Sociological Approach

Wiktor Marzec (Central European University) For critical, discourse oriented, historical sociology of social movements

Jón Gunnar Bernburg (University of Iceland) Economic Crisis and Forces of Mass Protest: The Case of Iceland

Agnieszka Kwiatkowska (University of Warsaw) The feminist movement in Poland: divided we stand

Patrizia Riso (University of Bologna) Social movement against mafia: the action of civil society in Calabria and Sicily

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D.PeterBrown Room

Session 6 - PANEL 6Social Movements & Methods


Conference Suite

Session 6 - PANEL 5

Movements & States

Aziz Choudry (McGill University) Research, Action, Change: Activist Research Practice and Social Movements Andrew G. Livingstone (University of Stirling) Reaching boiling point: Why the psychology of collective action requires qualitative transformation as well as quantitative change

Raphael Schlembach (University of Central Lancashire) Researching Social Movements: Taking Movement Debates Seriously

Nela Milic (Goldsmiths University) Bring streets into your home - contain the revolution!

Irena Sarieva (National Research University Higher School of Economics) The effect of the perceived fairness of political elections on ethnic prejudice

Céline Théodose (University of Edinburgh) “Martinique is Ours, not Their”: Framing Collective Identities in Martinique in the Context of the 2009 Social Movement

Franziska Hoppen (University of Kent) Utopia and Experiment in the Pirate Party movement- a Musilian interpretation

Sunday, Oct 14 5:45 PM to 6:15 PM Darwin Conference Suite

Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck College, University of London - Law)

Sarah Lamble is a Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London and Director of the BSc Programme in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Sarah’s research examines the relationships between law, activism and social change, exploring how grassroots activists generate new forms of knowledge as a response to the limits of legal reform. Focussing on issues of imprisonment, border controls and globalisation, Sarah’s work considers the impact of knowledge production processes in shaping the conditions of political possibility. Sarah has been active in prisoner’s justice, antipoverty and violence prevention work for more than 15 years, focussing on issues of gender, race, sexuality, and disability.

Keynote Speaker

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Parkwood Bus

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CONFERENCE LOCATION(DARWIN Bulding)

to Canterbury city centre

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Visitor Parking

* Take this stop for all university buses marked ‘Parkwood’ - this is the stop following the central university bus stop (Keynes bus stop)

** Take this stop for all university buses marked ‘Darwin’ - after this stop the bus will head back toward the city centre

***Buses marked ‘University’ or ‘Keynes’ will stop here. This includes buses 4x (4 and 4a if marked ‘University’

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www.contentionjournal.org | [email protected]

The TAISP Conference serves as the launching pad for a new multidisciplinary journal on social protest. This journal will work to further the goals of the conference to “promote interdisciplinary integration and cooperation and to broaden the scope of academic work in the fields of social movements and protest.” The journal is peer-reviewed, open access and will be published in print and online.

Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest will serve two purposes:

1) It aims to become an ongoing forum for debate and discussion across the social sciences and humanities on the topic of Social Protest. We hope to deepen our knowledge regarding a comprehensive range of collective actions, social movements and other forms of political and social contention.

2) Contention accepts the challenges brought about by multidisciplinary cross-fertilization and aspires to expand the community of academics who are able to learn from and help to produce advances in a variety of different disciplines.

Call for Papers

Contention is inviting submissions for the inaugural issues. The Journal will aim to present original perspectives and points of view across disciplines and areas of investigation and will be peer-reviewed. Contention will accept both theoretical essays and report of empirical findings. We welcome you to submit you conference papers, as well as additional papers on the topic of social protest, social movements and collective action.

Articles should be between 5,000-7,000 words and use APA formatting. To submit a paper, please read the detailed guidelines found here: http://contentionjournal.org/authors/. Then use the online submission form at this address http://contentionjournal.org/submit/.

The deadline for submissions to the first issue is December 15th

For more information email: [email protected]

Call for Associate Editors & Reviewers

To fully achieve a real multidisciplinary we are recruiting Associate Editors and Reviewers from different areas of the humanities and of the social sciences and with an expertise in social protest to take part to the multidisciplinary board of Contention and to contribute to the direction of the Journal.

The successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary and international team of researchers and will be expected to actively promote a multidisciplinary approach in the field of social protest.

The full Call for Associate Editors & Reviewers, together with a complete description of the positions can be found here: http://contentionjournal.org/callboard/.

Deadline for Associate Editors: Nov. 30

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