Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Fwd: CFP: The Transnationality of Social
Movements - Leuven
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> Da: Laurence Cox <Laurence.Cox@???>
> Data: 07 luglio 2009 13:25:48 GMT+02:00
> A: SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS@???
> Oggetto: CFP: The Transnationality of Social Movements - Leuven
> Rispondi a: International forum for discussion and information on
> social movements <SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS@???>
>
> Hi,
>
> This might be of interest to some listmembers.
>
> Laurence
>
>> http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11821 >>
>> History department, Free University of Brussels (VUB); research unit
>> MoSA, Catholic University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven)
>> 21.05.2010-22.05.2010, Leuven (Belgium)
>>
>> In recent years, an interdisciplinary community of scholars has
>> engaged
>> in a debate about the transnational scope of social movements with an
>> international focus. The anti-apartheid movement is considered by
>> some
>> as a trailblazer of present-day protest against neoliberal
>> globalization, climate change, etc. Many of the current
>> "anti-globalization" movements´ features, such as transnational
>> cooperation, the use of media, and the mobility of activists, are
>> said
>> to have been prefigured by this important social movement of the Cold
>> War era. Others argue that the nation state was, and still remains,
>> the
>> primal context of social movement mobilization. Despite common
>> political
>> goals, cultural symbols, patterns of protest, and synchronization of
>> mobilization waves, and antipathy against the U.S., the peace
>> movements
>> in the 1980s, for instance, are presented by many as primarily
>> national
>> phenomena. The solidarity movements that were sparked by the crisis
>> of
>> the Polish communist regime are discussed in similar terms.
>>
>> These debates are part of a larger debate on "globalization" and the
>> role of NGOs therein. In an effort to historicise this process, a
>> host
>> of scholars are re-examining the projects of "internationalism" that
>> have been propagated by NGOs and within inter-governmental bodies
>> since
>> the later decades of the nineteenth century. Far from being a
>> straightforward affair of spatial reconfiguration, this turn towards
>> architectures of "global governance" has spawned many complementary
>> and
>> competing projects under the rubric of Westernization,
>> Europeanization,
>> Third Worldism, etc. The conference aims to gather historians and
>> social
>> scientists having an expertise in the study of social movements in
>> order
>> to discuss the issues of national differentiation, cross-border
>> cooperation and transnational identity construction. It is especially
>> concerned with transnational contact within the Atlantic World of
>> Europe
>> and northern America and aims to analyze social movement structures,
>> networks, identities, and praxis. It encourages comparative
>> analyses of
>> a diachronical or synchronical nature. Papers that elaborate on a
>> more
>> theoretical level are particularly welcomed.
>>
>> Possible questions for analysis
>> -Is it possible to discern longer-term cycles of grassroots
>> mobilization
>> and social movement institutionalization?
>> -What are the differences between the contributions of "older" social
>> movements (e.g. labour and church organizations) and "newer", more
>> specialized social movement organizations?
>> -Should certain transnational "moments of change" (1884, 1917, 1945,
>> 1968, and 1989) be regarded as thresholds in a widening and deepening
>> process of globalization?
>> -Why did certain geographical regions or international issues develop
>> into focal points of social movement mobilization?
>> -Have current social movements made a faithful leap from
>> internationalism to globalism?
>> Practical
>> - organized by the history department at the VUB & the research unit
>> MoSA at K.U.Leuven
>> - The conference is scheduled in May 2010
>> - Selected papers will be published in Revue Belge de Philologie et
>> d´Histoire - Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis,
>> accepting contributions in English, French, Dutch or German
>>
>> Applicants should submit a 500 word proposal and a brief C.V. (in
>> Word
>> or PDF format) before 31 October 2009 to Mr. Kim Christiaens
>> Kim.Christiaens@??? . Participants whose papers have
>> been accepted will be notified by 30 November 2009.
>>
>> Please send all queries to the same address.
>
> Department of Sociology
> National University of Ireland, Maynooth
> Co. Kildare
> Republic of Ireland
>
> Tel. (+353-1) 708 3985
> email: laurence.cox@???
