<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear all - Please find attached and pasted below the final CFP for the Michigan workshop in November, entitled Political Subjectivities and Popular Protest: Transnational Flows and Vernacular Knowledges. Can we ask you to please circulate to potential participants via your personal lists? <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Warm regards,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Alf <br><br>
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Subjectivities and Popular Protest: Transnational Flows and Vernacular
Knowledges</span></b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">At certain
conjunctures in our modern history, we have witnessed the eruption of waves of
popular protest across multiple sites in the world system – the mass movements
of the 1960s, culminating in the global revolt of 1968,<span style="color:rgb(79,129,189)">
</span>stand<s>s</s> as an obvious reference point, and more recently the
movements of the Arab Spring, resistance to austerity measures across the
global North, student protests in South Africa and India, and the rise of
BlackLivesMatter in the US all suggest that ours is also such a conjuncture of
revolt. </span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">A defining feature
of these conjunctures – both in the recent past and in our turbulent present –
has been the presence of transnational flows of idioms, affects, practices,
ideas, and aspirations between and across sites of popular protest. <span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">For example, black popular movements in the U.S. –
from the civil rights and black power movements to BlackLivesMatter--have both
drawn on and contributed to transnational traditions of resistance to racism
and colonialism. And </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">protests centred on the
decolonisation and decommodification of institutions of higher learning in
South Africa</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-US"> fall within the orbit of a long trajectory of student activism on the
African continent and elsewhere.<span style="color:red"> </span></span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">However, at the same time, these transnational flows
do not render eruptions of protest everywhere all the same. Rather, the idioms,
affects, ideas, and aspirations that constitute the stuff of these flows are
shaped and moulded in very specific ways as they come to be embedded in
particular sites of resistance and mobilization. In these places, particular
histories and geographies have produced complex intersections of identities and
other vectors of power – in no small part through past struggles and the
victories, defeats, and truce lines that these have yielded – that mediate
transnational flows and constitute political subjectivities and popular protest
as vernacular forms of knowledge. </span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">It is precisely
this dialectic – the dialectic between transnational flows and vernacular
knowledges across different sites of protest, both past and present – and the
challenges that they pose for scholarly practice in the humanities and the
social sciences that we want to interrogate at this workshop. We welcome
500-word abstracts centred around specific sub-themes such as affect,
identities, inequalities, austerity, <span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">state
violence, historical consciousness and public memory, intra-movement race,
gender and class relations, </span>crisis and transformation by 31 May. </span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Potential paper
topics might address, but are not limited to, the following questions:</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">How have formations of
race, gender, and class converged to create generated global waves of popular
protest at different points in modern history? What continuities and –
conversely – discontinuities can be traced in these dynamics across historical
time and geographical space?</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">How do activists forge
identities, articulate affects, and define projects that resonate across
distinct locales in the world-system? What are the modalities through which
movement practices travel across sites of protest, and how do they come to be
embedded in and shaped by particular places?</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Is there a distinct
political economy at play across sites and moments of contemporary popular
protest? If so, how does this political economy condition the making of
oppositional movement projects in the current era?</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">How do #RhodesMustFall,
#FeesMustFall, #BBUM, and #BlackLivesMatter build upon and break with longer
trajectories of student activism in Africa, North America, and elsewhere?</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"">What are the shared intellectual resources that current
movements draw on in South Africa, the US and elsewhere to craft collective
oppositional projects?</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman"">What can and do earlier generations of organizers can offer
to present-day activistts by way of example, inspiration, or orientation in the
making of social movements?</span><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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<br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."</span><br></b></div><div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><i><b>Frederick Douglass</b></i></font></div></div><div><i><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></i></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i>We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism </i></b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">- See <a href="http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745334813&" target="_blank">http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745334813&</a></font></div><div><div><i><font face="garamond, serif"><b><br></b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="garamond, serif"><b>New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India<br><br></b></font></i></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">- See </font><font face="garamond, serif"><a href="http://www.oup.co.in/isbn/9780199457557" target="_blank">http://www.oup.co.in/isbn/9780199457557</a></font><i><font face="garamond, serif"><b><br><br>Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage</b></font></i></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">- See <a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415558648/" target="_blank">http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415558648/</a></font></div></div><div><i><font face="garamond, serif"><b><br></b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="garamond, serif"><b>Marxism and Social Movements</b></font></i></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">- See </span><a href="http://www.brill.com/marxism-and-social-movements" style="font-family:garamond,serif" target="_blank">http://www.brill.com/marxism-and-social-movements</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><i><font face="garamond, serif"><b>Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance</b></font></i></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">- See <a href="http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=395781" target="_blank">http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=395781</a></font></div><div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">See also <a href="http://uib.academia.edu/AlfGunvaldNilsen" target="_blank">http://uib.academia.edu/AlfGunvaldNilsen</a></font><br></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font><br></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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