si veda sotto. saluti, alice
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Alice Mattoni
Research Fellow
Centre on Social Movement Studies
Political and Social Science Department
European University Institute
www.alicemattoni.com
New Article: Media Practices, Mediation and Mediatization in the Study of Social Movements in Communication Theory, co-authored with Emiliano Trere'
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/comt.12038/abstract
New Article: Visions of Protest. A Media-Historic Perspective on Images in Social Movements in Sociology Compass, co-authored with Simon Teune
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12173/abstract
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> From: Grzegorz Piotrowski <gregpio.trowski@???>
> Date: July 23, 2014 1:29:05 PM GMT+02:00
> To: ces-movements@???
> Subject: [CES-Social-Movements] Call for papers
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> Dear colleagues,
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> Please take a moment and look at the call for papers pasted below. Feel free to circulate it among your networks and apologies for cross-posting.
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> Yours,
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> Dr Grzegorz Piotrowski
> School of Social Sciences
> Södertörn University
> SE- 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
> grzegorz.piotrowski@???
> http://sh.academia.edu/GrzegorzPiotrowski
> gregpiotrowski@???
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> Call for Papers: Social movements and contentious politics in Central and Eastern Europe.
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> Research workshop, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 13-14 November 2014.
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> Keynote speaker: Dr. Máté Szabó, Professor of Political Science and former Ombudsman of Hungary
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> The recent crisis in party politics affecting also Central and Eastern Europe and the economic crisis that sparked public contention, pose questions about civic engagement, contentious action and protest politics.
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> The systematic study of social movements in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe began with studying the transition of communist regimes and the role of grassroots mobilizations in the process. The official mass movements of the communist era, like women-, union-, pioneer movements, served as “transmission belts” of the communist party; therefore those could be regarded merely as pseudo-movements. On the other hand, initiatives with ‘soft’ issues similar to the ones in Western Europe (ecology, pacifism, alternative lifestyle) were often in fact an opposition to the communist system. As the democratic transition proceeded, new political parties built up on the basis of former social movements and movement leaders became professional politicians. This development led to a complex relationship of political parties and contentious politics. The autonomy of social movement sector was also limited by the lack of resources, the disrupted democratic development and by the heritage of demobilization strategy of the communist regime. Additionally, among academics the concept of civil society – which had a per se political connotation during the communist times – became the main theoretical framework to understand collective action leaving studying social movements underresearched.
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> By the end of the 1990s, massive protest events signaled the emergence of the Global Justice Movement around the globe, while in CEE smaller advocacy groups (Ondrej Cisař) and political subcultures (Grzegorz Piotrowski) were the bearers of the same issue. While the global justice movement remained relatively weak in CEE, mainly because of the communist heritage, popular discontent found its way through apolitical populist (Dawn of Direct Democracy in Czech Republic, Andrej Kiska in Slovakia) and radical rightist movements (Jobbik in Hungary).
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> The shared characteristics of political-historical development and common traits of social movements sector of Visegrad countries and CEE in a broader sense make the academic reflection necessary. Through the workshop ‘Social movements and contentious politics in Central and Eastern Europe’ we aim at filling several gaps in social movements research in the region. We want to have a critical reflection on the movements themselves but also on the ways they are studied and analyzed. We are looking for papers that primarily address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
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> · Social movement research in Central and Eastern Europe: theoretical and methodological assumptions. Is there such thing as a regional specificity in Central and Eastern Europe when it comes to social movements and the ways to study them?
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> · Embedded contention: civil society and social movements in CEE. Can social movements be seen as part of the broader civil society, do they label themselves as such and do they refer to the heritage of the civil society actions from the communist times?
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> · Captured movements? Political parties and social movements, their relations and prospects for the future.
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> · Radical rightist movements and un-civil society. Do the recent (and growing) right wing mobilizations in Central and Eastern Europe could be seen as a new cycle of contention, and attempt to redefine the concept of civil society and how do these mobilizations relate to previous forms of activism?
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> The working language of the workshop will be English. We do not have any registration fees and we can offer accommodation and meals to 9-10 participants, however we cannot cover travel expenses. If you are interested, please send an abstract of your paper (maximum 500 words) together with a short resume highlighting your experience in the topic and research interests by September 1 to:
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> Daniel Mikecz [mikecz.daniel@???] and
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> Grzegorz Piotrowski [grzegorz.piotrowski@???]
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> As we are planning a publication after the workshop, we expect the participants to come with already developed papers.
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