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Author: Tommaso Vitale
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Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Research + resistance
> Rispondere-A: International forum for discussion and information on
> social movements <SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS@???>
>
> ::CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS::
> Constituent Imagination: Research + Resistance in the Global Justice
> Movement
>
> Over the past ten years the various tendrils of the global justice
> movement have developed a multiplicity of new forms of social
> resistance.
> From occupied factories and neighborhood assemblies in Argentina to
> raucous UK street parties and Italian social centers, these new forms
> of
> resistance and organizing have blurred, questioned, and broken down
> notions of political action and organization. Far from the ?end of
> history? predicted in 1989, the circulation and spread of autonomous
> struggles and politics worldwide has proclaimed loudly ?we are
> everywhere.? These forms of social protagonism are developing
> alternatives
> to a neoliberal world in the organization of resistance, constructing
> new
> possibilities through the constitutive power of lived imagination.
>
> Just as we use narratives to construct and deconstruct our social
> world,
> so narratives about forms of politics open up or delimit possibilities
> for
> organization. But the relation of radical academics and intellectuals
> and
> the social movements we work with (or more often talk about with little
> real connection) has had a tenuous and not always positive history. Far
> too often radical theorists have used their knowledge or ideas to claim
> leadership roles and positions of power within movements, attempting to
> control and direct through vanguard structures, leading to many
> problems
> despite their positive intentions. The practices of the interwoven
> strands
> of the global justice movement, creating and enacting horizontal
> networks
> instead of top-down structures like states, parties, or corporation,
> demand that radical theorists and academics critically rethink their
> role
> in and relation to movements, and the nature of intellectual practice
> itself.
>
> This volume seeks contributions of essays and interviews as well visual
> contributions that explore the relation between research, resistance,
> and
> organization occurring in the global justice movement. That is, we
> wish to
> seek out the voices not of those who comment upon organizing from afar
> or
> from above, but engage in research and investigation from an engaged
> perspective and political praxis, people who take seriously the
> Zapatistas? concept of walking while asking questions. Contributors are
> encouraged to be creative with format and style (think beyond the
> generic
> academic paper format!). Please send your proposal of 500 words or
> less to
> stevphen@??? by January 15th, 2004.
>
>
> Constituent Imagination: Research + Resistance in the Global Justice
> Movement
> Edited by Stevphen Shukaitis (University of Leicester, Centre for
> Philosophy and Political Economy) & David Graeber (Yale University,
> Anthropology)
> Website: www.constituentimagination.net
> For more information please contact Stevphen Shukaitis by e-mailing
> stevphen@??? or calling +44 (0) 870 015 6097.
>
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