*** Call for Papers ***
The Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47)
in the International Sociological Association (ISA) is organizing 14
sessions at the ISA Worldconference of Sociology which takes place
in Gothenburg, 11-17 July 2010.
Anyone interested in presenting a paper at a session organized by this
Research Committee should contact a session organizer before October 31,
2009.
The session titles are:
Session 1: Globalization, risk, crisis and subjectivity
Session 2: The Social construction of risks and citizens' movement
Session 3: The Eastern community versus Western individuality? Rethinking
subjectivity
Session 4: The IT revolution, solidarity and social movements
Session 5: Memory, democracy and collective action
Session 6: Collective action and the legitimacy crisis of democracy within
a fragile and interconnected world
Session 7: Effects of the current crisis on social practices
Session 8: Effects of the current crisis on theoretical production
Session 10: The subject and crisis
Session 11: Social movements and crisis
Session 12: Movements and conflicts. Theoretical perspectives
Session 13: Grammars of global public spheres
Session 14: United we stand? Social movements in Eastern and Western Europe
Session 15: Souffrance et politique
A more detailed description of the sessions can be found at
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc47.htm
and http://www.isarc47.org/Pages/ISAConferences.html
As co-organizer of the session on social movements in Central and
Eastern Europe, I would like to give you some more details about that
session and how to submit your paper for that session, with which we
aim to bridge the gap between research on movements in eastern and
western Europe:
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Session 14: United we stand? Social movements in Eastern and Western Europe
Organizer: TransNet Research Group:
Christoph Haug, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany, haug@wzb.eu,
Kerstin Jacobsson, Södertörn University, Sweden,
Adrienne Sörbom, Stockholm University, Sweden.
The session focuses on social movements in Eastern and Western Europe.
It has often been argued that civil society functions differently in
countries of the former Soviet block and Western Europe, and that the
conditions for social movement mobilization and collective action
differ in these regions. How does that express itself in the workings
and the culture of different movements in this current period of
crisis? And, to what extent are these differences relevant for newer
transnationalized movements, such as the global justice movements? How
does a transnational movement working various national contexts? We
especially invite papers with empirical findings and/or a comparative
perspective. We also invite papers about processes of transnational
networking and coalition-building involving East and West.
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If you would like to present your paper in this session, please send a
short proposal with a title and a short description (150 to 250 words)
to haug@wzb.eu before October 31, 2009. Be sure to include in your
proposal your name, complete affiliation, email address and contact
information. Please note that the session will be held in English.
If you are interested in any of the other sessions, please contact the
chair of that session or the programme coordinators (see website given
above).
We encourage both young and experienced researchers to contribute!
Once we have accepted your paper, you will have to submit the abstract
online through the conference website in order to have it included in
the official conference programme (instructions will be made
available in due course). The deadline for the submission of the
abstract is May 1, 2010.
Kind regards,
Christoph Haug
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Christoph Haug
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Social Science Research Center (WZB)
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Germany
Fon: +49 30 25491-589
Fax: +49 30 25491-318
haug@wzb.eu
http://www.wzb.eu/zkd/zcm/leute/haug.en.htm
http://www.wzb.eu/zkd/zcm/leute/haug.en.htm
