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<font face="Arial" size="3"><b><i>Call for Papers</i></b></font>
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<font face="Arial" size="4"><b>Where have all the classes gone?
Collective
action and social struggles in a global context</b></font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><b>ICDD Workshop at the University of
Kassel
(Germany), 3-4 December 2015</b></font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">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. </font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">Topics of interest can include,
albeit by
no means limited to, studies that focus on:</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">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.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">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.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">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.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">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.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">Applications are to be sent to </font><a href="mailto:2015workshop@icdd.uni-kassel.de" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="3"><u>2015workshop@icdd.uni-kassel.de</u></font></a><font face="Arial" size="3">
with an abstract of not more than 300 words <b>by</b> <b>August
30, 2015</b>
at the latest. The successful participants will be notified by
September
30, 2015. The submission of full papers is requested by
November 15, 2015.
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<font face="Arial" size="3">The workshop, organized by the
International
Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), will take place
at the University
of Kassel, Germany. </font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Confirmed Keynote Speakers</b>:
Cenk Saracoglu
(University of Ankara), Emma Dowling (Middlesex University)</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Contact:</b> </font><a href="mailto:2015workshop@icdd.uni-kassel.de" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="3"><u>2015workshop@icdd.uni-kassel.de</u></font></a>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Organizing Committee: </b>Jorge
Forero,
Aishah Namukasa, Halyna Semenyshyn </font>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Program Committee:</b> Joaquin
Bernaldez,
Oksana Balashova, Alexander Gallas, Ismail Doga Karatepe,
Verna Dinah
Viajar</font>
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