[xmca] Manchester social movements conference - 2nd call for papers

[c.barker@mmu.ac.uk]

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE  - SECOND CALL
FOR PAPERS
abstracts due by Monday 14h March 2011

>From 1995 to 2010, Manchester Metropolitan University hosted a
series of very successful annual international conferences on
'ALTERNATIVE FUTURES and POPULAR PROTEST'.

We're very happy to announce that the Sixteenth AF&PP
Conference will be held, between Monday 18th April and
Wednesday 20th April 2011.

The Conference rubric remains as in previous years. The aim is to
explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas
which animate their activists and supporters and which contribute
to shaping their fate.

Reflecting the inherent cross-disciplinary nature of the issues,
previous participants (from over 60 countries) have come from
such specialisms as sociology, politics, cultural studies, social
psychology, economics,  history and geography.  The Manchester
conferences have also been notable for discovering a fruitful and
friendly meeting ground between activism and academia.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite offers of papers relevant to the conference themes.
Papers should address such matters as:

* contemporary and historical social movements and popular
protests

* social movement theory

* utopias and experiments

* ideologies of collective action

* etc.

To offer a paper, please contact either of the conference
convenors with a brief abstract:

EITHER Colin Barker, Dept. of Sociology
OR Mike Tyldesley, Dept. of Politics and Philosophy
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West
Manchester M15 6LL, England
email: c.barker@mmu.ac.uk
Tel: M. Tyldesley  0161 247 3460
email: m.tyldesley@mmu.ac.uk
Fax: 0161 247 6769 (+44 161 247 6769)
(Wherever possible, please use email, especially as Colin
Barker is a retired gent. Surface mail and faxes should only be
addressed to Mike Tyldesley)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Those giving papers are asked to supply them in advance, for
inclusion on a CD of the complete papers which will be available
from the conference opening.

* Preferred method: send the paper to Colin Barker as an email
attachment in MS Word. Any separate illustrations etc. should be
placed at the end of the paper, in .jpg format.

* if this is impossible, post a copy of the text to Mike Tyldesley on
a CD disk in MS Word format

* Final date for receipt of abstracts: Monday 14th March 2011

* Final date for receipt of actual papers: Monday 28th March 2011


CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS AND COSTS

The conference will run from lunch-time Monday 18th April until
after lunch on Wednesday 20th April.

Cost, inclusive of three lunches, teas/coffees and copies of the
Proceedings on CD, will be £135 (students and unwaged £80).

Unfortunately, the previous arrangement we had with the
University of Manchester to provide bed and breakfast
accommodation in student halls is not available in 2011. We are
therefore obliged to refer conference participants to local hotels
and hostels. These are plentiful, as the briefest search on the web
shows.

Two relatively cheap hotels are available, only a few minutes? walk
from the conference venue on Oxford Road. They are Ibis, Charles
Street, Manchester. {www.ibishotel.com/gb/booking/hotels-list.shtml" }www.ibishotel.com/gb/booking/hotels-
list.shtml
and
Holiday Inn Express, 2 Oxford Road, Manchester.
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ss_Manchester_CC-Oxford_Road_272041/hotel.aspx

There is information about Manchester hotels at
{www.hotelscombined.com/City/Manchester.htm" }www.hotelscombined.com/City/Manchester.htm.
We?re told that delegates can request a 10 per cent reduction in
hotel bills if they visit
{www.hotelscombined.com/Education_Support" }www.hotelscombined.com/Education_Support, and we?ll be
interested to gather people?s experiences with this.

There are two hostels only slightly further away, and still with
walking distance of the conference venue:

Hatters, Newton Street, Manchester
Hilton Chambers, Stevenson Square, Manchester.

These are both part of the same chain, with Hilton Chambers being
slightly more upmarket and thus slightly more expensive (but still
pretty cheap). Both can be accessed via www.hattersgroup.com.

We cannot do hotel or hostel bookings for you.

Conference participants will be invited to dine together at two
local (and not too expensive) restaurants on the two conference
evenings. Payment for dinners should not be made in advance, but
directly to the restaurants on the night.

BOOKING FORM

ALTERNATIVE FUTURES and POPULAR PROTEST XV
18th April to 20th April 2011

Name __________________________________

Address _________________________________

                   ___________________________________

__________________ postcode_________

Tel No.	_____________________________

Email	_____________________________

Conference fee                     135.00      .............
Student fee
(post- & under-grad)              80.00      .............

	TOTAL       £ stlg                      .............

Cheques should be made payable to "Manchester Metropolitan
University"

Credit or Debit Card payment (Visa and Mastercard only)

Card Number  .........   .........  .........  .........

Expiry Date         ...... / ......

Three-digit security code (on back of card)  ?.

Please let us know of any dietary or other requirements.

Please return the Booking Form by email to Colin Barker
(c.barker@mmu.ac.uk), or by email, fax or post to Mike Tyldesley
(m.tyldesley@mmu.ac.uk; fax +44 161 247 6769; Dept of
Philosophy and Politics, Manchester Metropolitan University,
Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester
M15 6LL, England)

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