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
