Movements, Networks, Protest: New Agendas for Society and Politics
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- Location
- Strand campus
- Category
- Conference
- When
- 08/06/2012 (09:00-17:00)
- Contact
- Julia Feilen Julia.feilen@kcl.ac.uk
- The Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London is pleased to announce a call for papers for their third annual postgraduate conference.
- From the Arab Spring to Occupy, environmentalists and feminists, immigrants and students, the importance of social movements, protests, revolutions and riots in today’s world is undeniable. They have raised core questions regarding democracy, power, equality and the relationship between citizens, the state and the global economy, whilst social movement studies have expanded in academia, providing fruitful theoretical and analytical perspectives for the study of social networks, opportunity structures, collective identities, globalisation and transnationalism.
Our conference will explore the importance of movements for social relations, political policymaking and academic research. Empirical studies as well as critical theoretical papers are welcomed on topics…
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