[Xmca-l] Fwd: [ALTFUTURESCONFERENCE] Final Call for Paper: Alternative Futures & Popular Protest (Manchester, 15-17 April 2019).

Tue Feb 5 06:41:53 PST 2019

This is the announcement of the upcoming Manchester conference, with a notice of Colin Barker’s death in it.  Note the title of the conference.

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From: AFPP <afpp@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:afpp@manchester.ac.uk>>
Subject: [ALTFUTURESCONFERENCE] Final Call for Paper: Alternative Futures & Popular Protest (Manchester, 15-17 April 2019).
Date: February 5, 2019 at 7:58:27 PM GMT+7
To: <ALTFUTURESCONFERENCE@listserv.manchester.ac.uk<mailto:ALTFUTURESCONFERENCE@listserv.manchester.ac.uk>>
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Dear colleagues

I am writing with a final reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the next edition of the AFPP conference is nearly upon us. Please send your abstracts by Monday 11th February to afpp@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:afpp@manchester.ac.uk>

All previous editions of this conference have been organised by Colin Barker and Mike Tyldesley. It is with sadness that we pass on the news that Colin died yesterday, peacefully on the morning of 4th February. AFPP is just one of the legacies of Colin’s remarkable generosity of spirit and life-long commitment to making a better world. We gratefully remember his good humour, intelligence, kindness and political commitment.

This year the conference will host a roundtable in which friends, comrades and colleagues will celebrate Colin’s life and work. Speakers will include: Ian Allinson, Tithi Bhattacharya (tbc), Laurence Cox, Gareth Dale, John Krinsky, Jane McAlevey, Trevor Ngwane and Mike Tyldesley.

Call for Papers

The Conference rubric and structure will remain much as in previous years. The aim is to explore the dynamics of popular social 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.

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

·         contemporary and historical social movements and popular protests

·         social movement theory

·         utopias and experiments

·         ideologies of collective action

·         social movements and everyday politics

To offer a paper, please send a title, abstract (max 300 words) and 4-6 keywords to the organisers at afpp@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:afpp@manchester.ac.uk> including ‘ABSTRACT SUBMISSION’ in the email subject field.

If your abstract is accepted we will also ask you to supply a written paper in advance of the conference, which will be distributed to all participants in advance. Ideally, this would take the form of a fully-referenced working paper, of 6-8,000 words in length in MS Word .docx, Adobe .pdf or compatible format. However, some speakers have submitted different kinds of documents in the past (e.g. extended notes; powerpoint slideshows and so on). We are open to the submission of such documents instead of a working paper as long as they successfully communicate the main argument and evidence base for your paper to a scholarly audience and without the need for specialist software.

Deadlines

·         Receipt of abstracts: Monday 11th February 2019. We aim to respond by 1st March.

·         Conference registration: Monday 1st April 2019

·         Receipt of full papers: Monday 1st April 2019
These are final dates. The earlier we receive abstracts, and actual papers, the better.

Arrangements & Fees
The conference will run from lunch-time Monday 15th April until after lunch on Wednesday 17th April 2019 at The Manchester Meeting Place, Sackville St, Manchester. Registration fees cover participation, three lunches and coffee breaks. Fees are set at:

·         Full rate: £150

·         PGR/precarious: £90
The ‘PGR/precarious’ fee is intended for doctoral students and those on short term contract work where there is no access to discretionary funds for conferences.

Conference participants will also be invited to dine together at two local (and not too expensive) restaurants on the two conference evenings with payment to be made directly at the restaurants.

Please find the supporting information at the conference website (updates coming soon) here: http://www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.movements.manchester.ac.uk_afpp_&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=T3M7WqZ0RbUeTqBOlRSLuTbENHCFq7BqymTnBxdPzw8&m=ZK6J7GcL6Oas1IPANmWCM8sf3Z-pPv1hYBqmFNJ7-oU&s=sHB8SqiTxuzZhEC65AnjtNhrUHyQjEGolm_qVgrE8eM&e=>
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Best wishes,
Kevin

(On behalf of the AFPP Organising Committee)

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