From: "Research on Anarchism" <anarchism-AT-sympatico.ca>
Date: 04 Apr 2008 03:57:12 UTC   (07:57:12 AM in author's locale)
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From: LJ Coleman <Lara.Coleman (at) bristol.ac.uk>

Please forward widely and note deadline of 21st April.

Call for Papers: 'Disciplining Dissent'

Recent years have seen an upsurge of scholarly interest in the activities
and significance of the activist groups and resistance movements which
have come to be associated with 'anti-globalisation' politics.

Whilst analyses of the diverse assemblages, solidarity movements and
activist networks involved in resisting neoliberal globalisation and
promoting alternatives are an important addition to literatures on
globalisation and global politics, there has been a tendency in some of
this work to romanticise the activities and transformative capacities of
these groups and networks. What is often missing from the analysis is
consideration of the formal and informal forms of discipline that operate
towards, within and through resistance movements - be it through coercive
repression, through interventions to co-opt social movements, or through
the production of particular resisting subjects.

We are currently calling for paper proposals for a series of events that
will explore the different forms of discipline and power that operate
towards, within and through contemporary resistance movements. We are
organising panels for BISA Annual Conference in Exeter, 15-17 December
2008 and the ISA Annual Convention in New York, 15-18 February 2009,
followed by a one-day workshop in Bristol in June 2009. We plan to
arrange for selected papers from these events to be published in a journal
special issue.

We seek proposals for papers that address any aspect of the formal and
informal ways in which anti- or alter-globalisation movements are
disciplined, including but not limited to forms of discipline based around
class, gender, sexuality, race, law/exception, militarism and capital. We
welcome predominantly empirical as well as predominantly theoretical
papers.

Titles and abstracts of proposed papers (max 200 words) for BISA 2008 and
ISA 2009 should be sent to Karen Tucker (karen.tucker [at] bristol.ac.uk) by
21st April 2008. Please indicate if you would like to be included in the
panel proposal for both BISA 2008 and ISA 2009, or only one of these
conferences.

We will send out a call for papers for the June 2009 Bristol conference at
a later date. Expressions of interest for this conference are,
nevertheless, still welcome at this stage.

Lara Coleman
Karen Tucker
Department of Politics, University of Bristol

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