Dear friends,

I appreciate any help you can give in circulating this call and encouragement for people to apply. Last year's report featured the Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif and was illustrated beautifully by a collective of Mexican street artists. Check it out at https://www.tni.org/stateofpower2017 We hope to do something similar this year. If you have a proposal for some insightful analysis or an artistic project on the theme than please get in touch.

Thanks for your support! Nick

Call for Papers: State of Power 2018

The Transnational Institute (TNI) in the Netherlands is issuing an open call for essays/short papers and artistic collaborations for its forthcoming report on the issue of counter-power.

TNI’s annual State of Power reports have, since their launch in 2012, become an important reference point for citizens, activists and academics concerned with understanding the nature of power in our globalised world in order to inform struggles for justice. With a mixture of compelling infographics and insightful essays, State of Power has examined dimensions of power (economic, political, social, cultural), exposed the key players who control power, and highlighted movements of counter-power seeking to transform our world. Last year’s State of Power was widely praised for its amazing provocative essays and brilliant art. This year's seventh edition will focus on counter-power.

Counter-power

As we mark in 2018 the 50th anniversary of the 1968 uprisings, the world is experiencing a new wave of protests and resistance by social movements. This visible rise of popular mobilisation has emerged in the context of major social and ecological upheaval and political and economic uncertainty.

Today’s movements of counter-power must contend with the rise of dangerous demagogic leaders, using a language of hate and politics of fear, as well as the challenge of confronting the unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of transnational corporations and a small elite. Many movements are also going beyond resistance, seeking to build transformative practices, particularly at local level, that can reflect values of solidarity and cooperation, rather than competition and greed.

But what is the nature of this counter-power? What is needed for it to work? What blocks effective counter-power? And how can it be best harnessed not just for resistance but also long-term transformation?

Full call for papers can be seen here: https://www.tni.org/en/article/call-for-papers-state-of-power-2018

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