[eccr] Call for Papers: IRICS 2005, Section on: Politics, Transnationality, Civil Society

>Apologies for Cross Posting:
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>Call for Papers:
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>CONFERENCE: Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies
>(IRICS)
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>Vienna, 9-11.December 2005
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>Section: Politics, Transnationality, Civil Society
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>Sub-Section: Transnational Activism, (Cyber-)Cultural (Re-)Presentations
>and Global Civil Society
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>Sub-Section Brief:
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>Social consequences of economic globalization are chaos: from the view
>point of the political Left: unbridled capitalism does produce effects
>of exploitation of the weak and socio-ecological degradation, and for
>the political Right: the malignant forces of globalization engender
>xenophobia, the demising local people$B!G(Bs jobs, culture, language and
>hence identity.
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>Against the problematic globalization project, the anti-globalization
>campaigns become the main (re-)presentation of a new identity politics
>and the global citizenship. Thanks to the Internet and mobile telephony,
>the annual May 1st anti-globalization demonstration against global
>capitalism in major cities around the world is a core part of the
>anti-globalization processes. Their messages and representations are
>loud and clear that the present mode(s) of the WTO/G8/World Bank
>sponsored global project is not just and fair, for many people in the
>developing world, as well as those underprivileged in the developed
>ones, and the healthy cultural reproduction is endangered.
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>This section attempts to examine aspects and processes of transnational
>activism, social mobilization logics and dynamics, with specific
>reference to the new cultural (re-)presentations and (re-)productions in
>constituting the global civil society, as well as the new identity
>building for the social activists$B!G(B global citizenship.
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>Every speaker is responsible for her or his own travel costs. The
>Conference Fee is waived for speakers. After acceptance into the program
>of a section, a speaker can request from the Conference Coordinator, an
>official letter of invitation or a letter supporting an application for
>financial support from one's university, etc.
>
>Please register your presentation solely with the Section Chair. The
>Sections are listed on the Startpage of the Project (Projektstartseite)
>under "Sections/Section Groups". Only the Section Chair can make the
>decision regarding the acceptability of your contribution.
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>
>Deadline: 28.August 2005.
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>Interested please contact:
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>Prof.Dr. On-Kwok Lai,     E-mail: (oklai /at/ ksc.kwansei.ac.jp)
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>IRICS Webpage:
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>http://www.inst.at/irics/index_english.htm
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>Section Webpage:
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>http://www.inst.at/irics/sektionen_g-m/lai.htm#ref
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>posted by:
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>Dr. On-Kwok Lai, Professor,
>School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University,
>2-1 Gakuen, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1337, JAPAN
>
>E-Mail: (oklai /at/ ksc.kwansei.ac.jp)
>Fax: (81)-79-565-7605
>Tel: (81)-79-565-7665
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