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Final call for papers

For the last nine years, Manchester Metropolitan University has hosted a series of very successful annual international conferences on 'ALTERNATIVE FUTURES and POPULAR PROTEST'. A Tenth conference will be held from 6th-8th April 2004. The Conference aim is to explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas which animate their leaders and supporters and which contribute to shaping their fate.

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

For the last nine years, Manchester Metropolitan University has hosted a series of very successful annual international conferences on 'ALTERNATIVE FUTURES and POPULAR PROTEST'. A Tenth conference will be held from 6th-8th April 2004.

The Conference aim is to explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas which animate their leaders and supporters and which contribute to shaping their fate.

Reflecting the inherent cross-disciplinary nature of the issues, previous participants (from over 40 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.

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, Dept. of Sociology
OR Mike Tyldesley, Dept. of Politics and Philosophy
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West
Manchester M15 6LL, England
email: [email protected]
Tel: M. Tyldesley 0161 247 3460
email: [email protected]
Fax: 0161 247 6321 (+44 161 247 6321)
(Wherever possible, please use email.)

CONFERENCE PAPERS
Those giving papers are asked to supply them in advance, for inclusion in the bound volumes of papers which will be available from the conference opening.

* Either provide two single-spaced copies, on A4 or US Letter paper, with one inch margins, and with a copy of the text on a DOS disk in MS Word format (if in doubt, please contact one of the convenors in advance). Or send the paper to Colin Barker as an email attachment in Word.

* Word limit 7,000 words (including notes etc.)

* Final date for receipt of abstracts: 8th March 2004

* Final date for receipt of papers: 15th March 2004
* Participants who do not supply their papers by the final date are asked to bring 50 copies to the Conference for distribution. Advance submission is much preferred, since the bound volumes of papers are sent to the British Library but loose papers are excluded.
FURTHER INFORMATION

A selection of papers from the 1995 conference appeared in early 1996 as: Colin Barker & Paul Kennedy (eds.), To Make Another World: Studies in Protest & Collective Action, Avebury, 1996

Manchester University Press has recently published a volume of papers inspired by previous conferences: Colin Barker, Alan Johnson & Michael Lavalette, eds., Leadership in Social Movements (MUP, 2001).

A few recent sets of conference papers (two vols. in each year, £25.00 each set, post free) may still be obtained from Colin Barker. Email to check availability. Cheques with orders, please, to Manchester Metropolitan University.