[ecrea] CFP: Generations of Protest: Marxism Matters?

The inaugural event of the MeCCSA Social Movements Network

Generations of Protest: Marxism Matters?
20-21 November 2013 at De Montfort University, Leicester

Supported by:
Media Discourse Group at De Montfort University
Meccsa Social Movements Network

Please send abstracts of 250 words including your name, affiliation and
email address to Ruth Sanz Sabido at (rsanzs /at/ dmu.ac.uk).
The closing date is 30 September 2013.

Keynote speakers include:

Dr Pollyanna Ruiz (LSE)
Professor Des Freedman (Goldsmiths)
Professor John Downey (Loughborough) and Professor Peter Golding 
(Northumbria)

Roundtables organised by:

Dr Uri Gordon (Leicester)

Special Session:

Memory and Ideology in the Spanish Civil War

The current financial crisis has led to the global economy being clearly
nominated as ‘capitalist’  in public and media debate and pushed Marxism
back on the agenda as a viable mode of critical analysis. Yet new
generations of protest have both abandoned and embraced histories of
Marxism, socialism and anarchism. To what extent has recent protest
brought back earlier political vocabularies? What has been the role of
media in these shifts? Are we seeing new ‘post-capitalist’ and
anti-capitalist practices and subjectivities emerge? What are potentials
and pitfalls of these turns away from and beyond the language of
Marxism? What kinds of inter-generational, coalitional and
inter-movement possibilities are emerging? What obstacles to organising
across lines of difference remain? And what roles do media and
communication play in generations of protest?

We welcome papers that address questions, tensions and challenges in
both historic and contemporary Social Movements. Topics could include
but are not limited to:

- Social Movements and Media Technologies
- Socialist feminisms from the 70s to today
- Sexual Politics and Queer resistance
- The Occupy movement and its predecessors
- Trade Unions
- Autonomist Traditions
- Postcapitalism and 'Grow your own Economy'
- Theories of State power
- Syndicalism and Workplace Activism
- State violence and policing
- Consensus decision-making and its critiques
- International solidarity and the media
- In/visibilities of class and race
- The far right and re/turns to nationalism
- Uprisings and revolution

We are particularly interested in proposals that move beyond descriptive
analysis to explore concepts and practices, asking what can social
movement and media scholarship offer to activism and protest?


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