[Xmca-l] Manchester Social Movements Conference – Call for Papers

[C Barker]

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE  - CALL FOR PAPERS



>From 1995 to 2015, 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 Twenty First AF&PP Conference will be held between Monday 21st and Wednesday 23rd March 2016.



The Conference rubric will remain 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 been notable for discovering a fruitful and friendly meeting ground between activism and academia.



PRELIMINARY 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,

email: c.barker@mmu.ac.uk

OR Mike Tyldesley, Politics Section, HPP,

Manchester Metropolitan University

Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West

Manchester M15 6LL, England

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



One way we organise this particular conference is that we ask those giving papers 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 sent separately, 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 29th February 2016



* Final date for receipt of actual papers: Monday 7th March 2016



These are final dates. The earlier we receive abstracts, and actual papers, the better.





CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS AND COSTS



The conference will run from lunch-time Monday 21st March 2016 until after lunch on Wednesday 23rd March 2016.



The conference cost will be inclusive of three lunches, teas/coffees and copies of the papers on CD. The full cost is £140.00, with a cost of £80.00 for students and the unwaged. We will circulate a Booking Form shortly.



To register, please go to https://www.kxregistration.mmu.ac.uk/AlternativeFutures2016 and complete and send the form. (If you have problems ‘clicking’ on this URL, cut and paste this address directly into your browser. Please contact Mike Tyldesley if you encounter any difficulties.) You will be given two options; “pay by Credit/Debit Card” or “Pay by Invoice”. If you use the “Pay by Invoice” option, please contact Mike Tyldesley (m.tyldesley@mmu.ac.uk<mailto:m.tyldesley@mmu.ac.uk> ) immediately after you complete the form to let him know that you have done so and discuss your payment method with him.



Hotels, hostels and dining out


We can supply information about relatively cheap local hotels and hostels. Let us know if you would like this information.


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.



Please feel free to circulate this to anyone who might be interested.



Colin Barker

Mike Tyldesley



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