[ecrea] 2010 IUAES Intercongress- Commission on Urban Anthropology - Call for papers

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>2010 IUAES Inter-Congress  Antalya, Turkey  3-6 October
> From the Crossroads of Civilizations: Understanding Diversity 
> to  Connect Societies.
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>CUA - Commission on Urban Anthropology
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>Political Mobilization: Understanding Determinants and Constraints
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>Session Convenors: Dr Marcello Mollica ( University of 
>Fribourg,  Switzerland, 
><mailto:(marcello.mollica /at/ unifr.ch)>(marcello.mollica /at/ unifr.ch)<mailto:(marcello.mollica /at/ unifr.ch)>) 
>and Dr  Kayhan Deliba (Adnan Menderes University, 
>Turkey, 
><mailto:(kdelibas /at/ adu.edu.tr)>(kdelibas /at/ adu.edu.tr)<mailto:<mailto:(kdelibas /at/ adu.edu.tr)>(kdelibas /at/ adu.edu.tr)>)
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>In the post 9/11 situation, the action of Political Islamic 
>movements  appears to fall into two broad categories. In some 
>countries they  engage in political violence; in others they 
>generally refrain from  doing so. Turkey makes a good example of 
>this second category for  there, unlike what is increasingly 
>happening in some neighbouring  Muslim countries, Islamic movements 
>have, so far, substantially  refrained to move to political 
>violence. More precisely, the case of  Turkey raises stimulating 
>questions that have broader significance.
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>Participants in this Session are asked to draw on 
>ethnographic  evidence to examine the various, sometimes overlapping 
>processes,  determinants and constraints that may explain the 
>emergence of  religious fundamentalist violence. The focus will be 
>on the impact of  Islamic mobilization on political violence, 
>particularly but not  exclusively in the Middle East, and on the 
>reasons why individuals do,  or do not, engage in accepted and 
>legitimate political movements.
>
>By bringing together anthropologists who specialise in 
>various  ethnographic settings, this Session aims to develop a 
>comparative view  of the processes that mark the rise of 
>extra-parliamentary  fundamentalist violence in some Muslim 
>countries and, possibly, how to  respond to such processes. We need 
>to understand the motivations and  purposes, both personal and 
>political, behind political violence, and  why it has become so 
>virulent. Equally importantly, we need to  understand the causes of, 
>and limitations on, the development of  political violence, as well 
>as their acceptability within and without  actors own communities. 
>It is imperative that our analysis takes fully  into account the 
>role of socio-cultural influences in explaining  political 
>strategies, responses and behaviours. In the light 
>of  empirically-based accounts of normative accepted rules, of 
>political  deterrence and of the accommodating democratic structure 
>of secular  states, it is the ambition of this Session to develop a 
>better  understanding of this phenomenon, addressing the close 
>relationship  between religion and political and socio-cultural structure.
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>Paper proposals, including title and a short abstract (250 
>words),  should be sent to Dr Marcello 
>Mollica 
>(<mailto:(marcello.mollica /at/ unifr.ch)>(marcello.mollica /at/ unifr.ch)<mailto:(marcello.mollica /at/ unifr.ch)>) 
>and  Prof. Kayhan Delibas 
>(<mailto:(kdelibas /at/ adu.edu.tr)>(kdelibas /at/ adu.edu.tr)<mailto:(kdelibas /at/ adu.edu.tr)>) 
>by 15th June 2010.
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