>> CALL FOR PAPERS:
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>> SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND/IN THE POSTCOLONIAL:
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>> DISPOSSESSION, DEVELOPMENT AND RESISTANCE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
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>> A conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Social and
>> Global Justice, School of Politics and International Relations,
>> University of Nottingham
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>> June 23 – 25 2008
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>> The popular classes of the global South are up in arms. From
>> Soweto to Caracas to Nandigram, social movements are making
>> demands for social justice and human dignity against the multiple
>> processes of dispossession that are the hallmark of neoliberalism.
>> In and through these practices of resistance the direction and
>> meaning of the process and project of postcolonial development is
>> transformed. Such struggles with their challenges to the hegemony
>> of liberal democracy and questioning of state-centric strategies
>> of social change, suggest the need for the development of new
>> categories of political analysis and a critical interrogation of
>> the progressive potential of state-centric theoretical frameworks.
>> They force us as academics, committed to social justice, to
>> critically interrogate whether it is both possible and/or
>> desirable to resurrect the development state as part of a radical
>> political project.
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>> The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice wishes to
>> make a contribution to the development of empirically grounded,
>> theoretically informed and politically enabling analyses of these
>> processes and therefore invites proposals for papers for the
>> conference Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial:
>> Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South. The
>> two-day conference will be structured around the following two
>> streams of discussion:
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>> Struggles over dispossession in the global South – in which we
>> seek papers that offer theoretical and empirical analyses of:
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>> (i) the nature of dispossession and its impact
>> upon conceptions of social justice and democracy.
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>> (ii) forms of opposition to processes of
>> dispossession related to neoliberal restructuring.
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>> (iii) the relationship of such struggles with the
>> state and market
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>> · Social movements and the politics of development - in
>> which we seek theoretical, conceptual and empirically focused
>> papers that deepen our understanding of:
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>> (i) how and why social movements politicise
>> development
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>> (ii) the practices/conceptualisations of development
>> that are a result of such politicisation
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>> (iii) the relationship of such practices/
>> conceptualisations with other transnational and national actors,
>> institutions, and networks.
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>> Abstracts should be of a maximum of 200 words. Proposals for
>> panels should offer a short overview of the panel and then up to a
>> maximum of three abstracts. The deadline for proposals is January
>> 5 2008. Notification of acceptance will be in early February.
>> Please contact Dr Alf Nilsen ( Alf.Nilsen@???) and Dr
>> Sara Motta (Sara.Motta@???) for further information
>> and/or with your proposal.
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