[ecrea] Call for papers: Politics, Consumption or Nihilism: Disorder and Protest, the UK and beyond.

Call for papers: Politics, Consumption or Nihilism: Disorder and Protest, the UK and beyond.

September 13th-14th 2012

Prof. David Waddington, Dr. Bob Jeffery and
Dr. Joseph Ibrahim, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

Since 2010 the world has witnessed the rise of some major political protest
movements and revolts across the globe, including the Greek riots and the Arab
spring. In the UK, August 2011 saw the most widespread and sustained disorder
on English streets in living memory. In London alone (as of October 2011) this
has led to approximately 3,000 arrests (London Evening Standard) and the cost
of the riots are estimated at somewhere between £200-300 million (The
Guardian).
Yet those riots were only the latest incarnation of a wave of disorder and protests
that has swept through the country since the onset of the financial crisis and the
election of a coalition government committed to cutting state-spending through a
rolling back of a range of services. Of equal significance has been the mobilization
of students and young people through various campaigns to resist the cuts in the
education budget, the increase of university tuition fees and the removal of the
Educational Maintenance Allowance, leading to mass-demonstrations
characterized by outbreaks of violence between demonstrators and the police.
The aim of this conference is to explore both theoretically and empirically the
political dynamics of recent protest events since 2010. In this respect, to consider
new ways of understanding the recent protests and mobilizations which go
beyond popular narrative tropes.

We invite papers that are relevant to the general analytic conference themes:

 Movements and Networks
 Neighbourhoods and exclusion
 Class and race inequalities
 Contemporary political economy
 The role of policing
 Media representations of protest

Broad empirical foci could include, but is not limited to:

 The Arab Spring
 The Greek protests
 UK Educational protests
 August 2011 UK riots
 Anti-cuts movements and trade union mobilisations
 The Occupy movement

Keynote speakers

Prof. Nick Crossley, University of Manchester, Co-founder of the
Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, author of Relational
Sociology; Contesting Psychiatry: Social movements in mental health;
Reflexive Embodiment in Contemporary Society; and Making Sense of
Social Movements, amongst other works.

Prof. Simon Hallsworth, London Metropolitan University, Director
of the Centre for Social and Evaluation Research, author of Punitive
States: Punishment and the Economy of Violence; The New Punitiveness:
Trends, Theories, Perspectives; Street Crime; Cybercrime: Impact and
Responses to Cyber Threats and The Criminology of Pleasure, amongst
other works.

Prof. Tim Hope, University of Salford, Chair of Criminology is
Scientific Advisor to the International Centre for the prevention of
Crime, he is Editorial Advisor to Safer Communities, Criminal Justice
Matters and the European Journal of Policing Studies. He is the author of
over a 100 research publications in 9 languages.

Prof. David Waddington, Sheffield Hallam University, Director of
the Communications and Computing Research Centre, author of
Policing Public Disorder: Theory and Practice; Rioting in the UK and
France; Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder: A Comparative and
Historical Approach and Flashpoints: Studies in Public Disorder, amongst
other works.

Submission of papers

To offer a paper please e-mail an abstract of approximately 300 words with 'PCN
Abstract' in the subject box, to the Conference Secretariat: e-mail
(conference21 /at/ shu.ac.uk)

The deadline for papers is Friday 24th August 2012
Conference costs and registration

Costs to delegates is £85 for the whole conference (this includes lunch and
refreshments for both days). Further information and details of how to register
to attend the conference please (e-mailconference21 /at/ shu.ac.uk)

Publication of papers
It is the intention of the organisers to seek publication of a selection of suitable
papers in an edited collection with a leading publisher after the conference.

Evening meal
Conference delegates will be invited to dine together at a local restaurant on the
first evening of the conference (September 13th), the cost of which is not
included in the conference fee. Costs for the meal should be paid directly to the
restaurant on the night.

Accommodation
The cost of the conference does not include accommodation, this must be
organized and paid for separately by delegates.
There are a number of hotels very close to the university, with which Sheffield
Hallam University has special rates. Details can be found at
http://www.shu.ac.uk/conference21/accommodation.html
Conference Secretariat

Please direct any enquiries regarding the conference to:
Conference 21, Sheffield Hallam University, telephone 0114 225 5335/5340,
(emailconference21 /at/ shu.ac.uk)


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