[ecrea] CfP: ECPR panel “social movements and memories”

Please find below the call for papers for the panel "Social Movements 
and Memories", proposed to the ECPR general conference 2014.

Please feel free to distribute this call to interested colleagues.

Please send paper abstracts (max. 250 words) by 26 January 2014 to: 
(p.daphi /at/ hu-berlin.de) or (lorenzo.zamponi /at/ eui.eu)

Social Movements and Memories

Chair: Priska Daphi (Humboldt University Berlin) (p.daphi /at/ hu-berlin.de)

Discussant: Lorenzo Zamponi (European University Institute) 
(lorenzo.zamponi /at/ eui.eu)

Though large protests often surprise observers, they hardly start from 
scratch. Mostly, they are rooted in previous mobilisations with respect 
to their diagnostic framing, forms of organisation, and repertoires. 
Memories of previous mobilisations crucially influence which activities 
are considered helpful or successful and which are not. Hence, analysing 
memories allows crucial insights into social movement dynamics and 
continuity. Memories are, at the same time, outcomes of mobilisation and 
significant factors in shaping further mobilisation.

In the last few years, the interest in collective memory has been 
constantly growing among scholars of contentious politics. In this 
context, memory studies and in particular the sociology of memory based 
on the seminal work of Maurice Halbwachs, have become fundamental tools 
in advancing our understanding of social movements. These approaches 
provide useful insights into the symbolic construction of the reality in 
which collective action takes place. On the other hand, contentious 
politics approaches inform the growing number of studies on the 
conflictual dynamics of memory.

This panel aims to discuss the role of memories in social movements. How 
does the past and its public representation influence mobilisation? How 
do social movements participate in the construction of public memory? 
How and why do some specific events from the past become fundamental 
symbols for social and political contention, while others do not? How 
does diffusion of practices, symbols, and repertoires of mobilisation 
work over time?

We welcome submissions coming from different disciplinary fields, in the 
attempt to bring together the scholarships on social movements and 
memory studies. Each abstract will be evaluated for: quality and clarity 
of the research question; methodological precision of the comparative 
approach; theoretical originality of the contribution and discussion of 
available knowledge; relevance and pertinence to the panel’s theme.

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Lorenzo Zamponi
PhD Candidate/Researcher
European University Institute
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Via dei Roccettini 9
I-50014 - San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
Italia
http://www.eui.eu
(lorenzo.zamponi /at/ eui.eu)

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