Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] CFP - Interface Repression and Social Movements
> > Subject: CFP - Interface Repression and Social Movements
>
> For those interested in Repression and Social Movements..
>
> Interface – A Journal For and About Social Movements
> - www.interfacejournal.net -
>
> Call for papers volume 3 issue 2 (May 2011):
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> Repression and Social Movements
> Special issue editors: Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Lesley Wood
>
> Interface is a new journal produced twice yearly by activists and academics
> around the world in response to the development and increased visibility of
> social movements in the last few years – and the immense amount of knowledge
> generated in this process. This knowledge is created across the globe, and in
> many contexts and a variety of ways, and it constitutes an incredibly valuable
> resource for the further development of social movements. Interface responds to
> this need, as a tool to help our movements learn from each others' struggles, by
> developing analyses and knowledge that allow lessons to be learned from specific
> movement processes and experiences and translated into a form useful for other
> movements.
>
> We welcome contributions by movement participants and academics who are
> developing movement-relevant theory and research. Our goal is to include
> material that can be used in a range of ways by movements – in terms of its
> content, its language, its purpose and its form. We are seeking work in a range
> of different formats, such as conventional articles, review essays, facilitated
> discussions and interviews, action notes, teaching notes, key documents and
> analysis, book reviews – and beyond. Both activist and academic peers review
> research contributions, and other material is sympathetically edited by peers.
> The editorial process generally is geared towards assisting authors to find
> ways of expressing their understanding, so that we all can be heard across
> geographical, social and political distances.
>
> Our fifth issue, to be published in May 2011, will have space for general
> articles on all aspects of understanding social movements, as well as a special
> themed section on
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> Repression and Social Movements
> The question of repression is important for social movement scholars and
> activists. On a practical level, activists need strategies to deal with
> repressive forces – and build them by sharing their experiences and analyses.
> But the question of repression and mobilization is also very intriguing
> theoretically. Scholars have explored the contradictory effects of repression
> on mobilization (sometimes it inspires more mobilization, sometimes it
> effectively quashes it or pushes it underground; sometimes it is successful in
> characterizing protesters as legitimate targets of repression, and other times
> it delegitimizes the State and increases the legitimacy of the social
> movements; facing repression collectively can strengthen bonds between
> activists and strengthen movements or can lead to fragmentation; and so on).
> Without wanting to be prescriptive and purely in the spirit of prompting
> critical reflection we offer these questions as themes for possible
> contributions:
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> What are the effects of repression on activists and organizations (biographical
> effects, solidarity/trust within movement groups, evaluation of risk and
> participation)?
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> What are the effects of repression on movements (over time, within particular
> national or local contexts, transnationally)?
>
> What are the effects of repression on civil society? What happens, as in Haiti
> or South Africa, when popular politics is targeted for repression but
> professional civil society is allowed to operate freely?
>
> How are particular narratives and projects such as "the war on terror",
> "Operation Green Hunt" in India, state paranoia about the "Third Force" in
> South Africa and so on affecting social movements’ strategies and experiences?
> How does the existence of new technologies affect repression and how are social
> movements dealing with these changes?
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> How are supra national contexts, actors like multinational defense corporations
> and institutional frameworks like the European Union affecting repression of
> social movements on the national level?
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> What are the connections between social movement tactics and repression? In
> particular, what is the relationship between violent state repression and
> violent social movement tactics?
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> How are changes in repression intersecting with changes in social movements in
> different regions? Is a new global repertoire in protest policing emerging – or
> is there increasing fragmentation in the ways movements and repressive forces
> are interacting?
>
> The deadline for initial submissions to this issue, (Issue 5, to be published
> May 2011) is November 1st 2010.
>
> For details on how to submit to Interface please consult the "Guidelines for
> contributors". on our website at www.interfacejournal.net, and submit to the
> appropriate regional editor.
>
>
>
> Lesley J. Wood
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Sociology
> 2067 Vari Hall
> York University
> 4700 Keele Street
> Toronto Ontario
> M3J 1P3
> Canada
> (416)736-2100 x77988
> ljwood@???
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