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Call
for Papers
Where have all the classes gone?
Collective action and social struggles in a global context
ICDD Workshop at the University
of Kassel (Germany), 3-4 December 2015
The so-called new social movements
(NSM) have emerged in Western countries from the 1960s and
1970s. The apparent novelty of their struggles was the
rupture with class politics and labor movement struggles.
Since then, a vast majority of analyses and theoretical
contributions have moved away from class struggle analysis
and labor-capital antagonisms. In order to make sense of
diverse and novel forms of resistance, social movements
theories focused on particular aspects such as the
institutionalization of political opportunities, the
formation of identities or the ways of bringing the protests
into public debate. Despite the strength of these approaches
in understanding different elements of collective action,
the question concerning the role of class politics and the
political economy in collective action still remains.
Collective forms of resistance continue to be diverse and
stem from different contexts. Their demands range from the
right to housing to calls against modern violence and
slavery, gender equality or access to land and environmental
protection. In an increasingly globalizing world, social
movements and resistance are formed even in virtual
campaigns against global trade agreements that benefit
corporations, urban-rural movements against rising poverty,
and localized political movements challenging neoliberal
policies in their countries. What do all these struggles
have in common? How does the global political economy affect
them, even those which are apparently not connected to
economic issues? Is class still a valid category for
understanding resistance? These are some of the questions
that the workshop intends to address. The space for
exchanging insights is offered to academic contributions
from different disciplines and activists. Hence, we
especially encourage junior scientists and activists as well
to submit their abstracts in this context.
Topics of interest can include,
albeit by no means limited to, studies that focus on:
1) Actors: Studies focusing on
protests and social movements emerging and revolving around
class and non-class identities such as migrants, peasants,
women, LGBTIH, and youth.
2) Context or process-tracing:
Research tracing processes or focusing on historical
conjunctures from which collective action and struggles
surface, i.e., neoliberal expansion in the Global South.
3) Aims and issue-based demands:
Studies that examine political, economic or social issues
and problems highlighting the demands from which the
protests and discontent arises such as right to city spaces,
housing, water struggles, free education, and health and
rural movements arising against land-grabbing.
4) Types of conflict: Studies
could also explore the features and characters of conflicts
whether long term, emerging or recent popular uprisings
varying from Brazil, Hong Kong, China, Turkey or Ukraine.
Applications are to be sent to 2015workshop@icdd.uni-kassel.de with an abstract of not more than
300 words by August 30, 2015 at the
latest. The successful participants will be notified by
September 30, 2015. The submission of full papers is
requested by November 15, 2015.
The workshop, organized by the
International Center for Development and Decent Work
(ICDD), will take place at the University of Kassel,
Germany.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Cenk Saracoglu (University of Ankara), Emma Dowling
(Middlesex University)
Contact: 2015workshop@icdd.uni-kassel.de
Organizing Committee: Jorge
Forero, Aishah Namukasa, Halyna Semenyshyn
Program Committee:
Joaquin Bernaldez, Oksana Balashova, Alexander Gallas,
Ismail Doga Karatepe, Verna Dinah Viajar
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