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[ecrea] call for papers- deadline 1st Feb 2011

Thu Dec 23 13:08:34 GMT 2010



CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline February 1st 2011,
ECPR General Conference in Reykjavik, 25th - 27th Aug. 2011

Violence and Social Movements Panel, at:
http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=11

Panel Chairs
Laurence Cox (laurence.cox /at/ nuim.ie); Michael S Drake (m.drake /at/ hull.ac.uk)

Panel Abstract:
The study of social movements raises a range of very interesting questions in relation to the politics of violence. On the one hand, violence can be associated with movement activity (whether in the form of rioting, of clandestine or paramilitary activity, or in revolutionary situations) and with state repression of movements (whether in the form of protest policing, the use of political police and unofficial paramilitaries, or in military clampdowns).

On the other hand, there is often an overt or covert negotiation, or even choreography, around the limitation of violence, in situations where its use is symbolic more than instrumental, such as where the real issue is that of the respective legitimacy of state power and movement activity; and the use of overtly or supposedly non-violent methods (in "non-violent direct action", hunger strikes, "non-lethal weapon" use by state forces, "defensive violence" by paramilitaries etc.) is almost always a political as well as a practical question. We can also note some global and historical shifts in the meaning and deployment of violence, which are as yet poorly understood and theorised.

While social movements research has produced some fine studies of individual areas, such as protest policing, revolutions, rioting, urban guerrillas, non-violence and so on, it has rarely integrated the question of violence as such in any systematic way. This panel welcomes proposals from any relevant discipline, in particular those which set their empirical material in a wider historical or comparative context.

Paper Proposals
The paper proposal should contain the following information:
?       Title of the proposed paper
?       Abstract of paper (up to 300 words)
?       Name of author
?       Email of author
?       Institution of author
?       Name of co-author (if applicable)
?       Email of co-author (if applicable)
?       Institution of co-author (if applicable)
Deadlines
Panel proposals are due by February 1st 2011, and decisions will be made and communicated
to the authors after that.

How to submit your paper proposal
Please consider that they can be submitted via the conference page only, at: http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/ However the panel chairs are happy to communicate with authors prior to the deadline; please email <(laurence.cox /at/ nuim.ie)> and <(m.drake /at/ hull.ac.uk)> for discussions. The panel is part of the broader conference section Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Politics, at: http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/section_details.asp?sectionID=47 chaired by Cristina Flesher Fominaya ((c.flesher /at/ abdn.ac.uk)). The other panels in that session are "Gender, violence and politics"; "Perpetrators of political violence"; "Political violence and memory"; and "Victims of political violence".

Best wishes,

Laurence Cox
Michael S Drake

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