[ecrea] CfP "Transnational Democracy: mobilization, organisation and communication", ESA Research Network Social Movements, Florence (Italy), 20-21 January 2011

>ESA Research Network Social Movements in 
>cooperation with ECPR Standing Group Forms of 
>Participation holds the ESA RN 25 Mid-Term Conference
>Transnational Democracy: mobilization, organisation and communication
>European University Institute  Florence  Italy, 20- 21 January 2011
>
>Deadline for abstract submission: 20 October 2010
>
>The second mid-term conference of the RN Social 
>Movements will take place in Florence (It) at 
>the European University Institute in January 
>2011. The workshop Transnational Democracy: 
>mobilization, organisation and communication is 
>jointly organised with the ECPR Standing Group 
>on Forms of Participation, and aims at 
>bringing together scholars with different 
>disciplinary perspectives who are interested in 
>the theme of democracy and organizational 
>innovation in movements in transnational publics and pluralist societies.
>
>The workshop addresses the transnational 
>condition of participation in globalized 
>societies and Europes multilevel polity to 
>explore the cultural and political context for 
>democracy and organization in social movements. 
>Theories of global democracy and political 
>communication have addressed the potential of 
>social movements to re-invent cultures of 
>democracy and organization by creating 
>transnational participatory publics and 
>cross-border networks. New work on political 
>sociology and protest shows the relevance of 
>transnational citizen assemblies, public spaces 
>and online forums as a promising field to 
>explore democratic and organizational innovation 
>created through collective action in pluralist 
>polities and globalized societies. Contrasting 
>low participation in electoral politics and 
>political parties, comparative analysts of 
>European integration note an increase in forms 
>of transnational participation, reaching from 
>interest groups over populist resistance and 
>protests on issues such as social justice, 
>climate change or privatization in the EU or at 
>the global level. What is the democratic 
>potential, and the access points to emerging 
>transnational public spaces created in social 
>movements, given structural and linguistic 
>hurdles? How do social and political organizers 
>build cultural strategies of translation, and 
>which constraints do they face trying to 
>communicate over ICT and/or organize joint collective action?
>
>The workshop will bring together social movement 
>scholars interested in democracy and cultures of 
>participation with media scholars and political 
>analysts of protest and comparative politics. 
>When activists from different countries decide 
>on joint protest on EU politics or frame their 
>local events as part of global protest, they 
>need very specific skills, resources and 
>cultural practices to network with others or to 
>reach a broader public. Transnational discourse 
>settings also present challenging
>opportunities for institutional organizers of 
>citizen assemblies or European policy-making to 
>interact with protesters, NGOs and lobbyists. 
>Workshop participants may explore how 
>transnational protest activities and practices 
>of communication transform traditional cultures 
>of organizing, participating and decision-making 
>in social movement groups or civil society institutions.
>Paper givers may want to explore how the 
>transnational context of action, or new media 
>technologies and ICT environments transform 
>traditional cultures of organizing, 
>decision-making and protest in social movement groups and institutions.
>
>We welcome papers with a focus on:
>- challenges for democracy in globalized social 
>movements (e.g. translation, communication)
>- innovations in the organizing of (transnational) protest
>- local networking, and (transnational) alternative media cultures
>- citizen assemblies and online forums for public deliberation
>
>Abstract Submission
>Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) by 
>email to ESA RN25 Social Movements
>Coordinators Emanuela Bozzini and Nicole Doerr, 
>using <mailto:(esasocialmovements /at/ gmail.com)>(esasocialmovements /at/ gmail.com)
>
>Key Dates
>Deadline for abstract submission: 20 October 2010
>Registration (by email) 30 October
>Deadline for papers: 15 December 2010
>Conference: 20  21 January 2011
>

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