Book reviews of interest to CNSIMC

The following book reviews appear in the Fall 2009 issue of the Canadian Journal of Sociology (34, 3):

Cecil Foster, Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom (Roberta Hamilton), pp. 916-919

Jennifer J. Nelson, Razing Africville: A Geography of Racism (Don Clairmont), pp. 920-922

Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, and Mark J. Goodman, Diaspora by Design: Muslims in Canada and Beyond (Abdie Kazemipur), pp. 923-925

Micheline Labelle, François Rocher et Rachad Antonius, Immigration, diversité et sécurité: les associations arabo-musulmanes face à l'État au Canada et au Québec (Zeina Sleiman), pp. 926-929

Hiromi Mizuno, Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan (Grégoire Mallard), pp. 930-932

Kelly Moore, Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945–1975 (Ronjon Paul Datta), pp. 933-934

Tina Fetner, How The Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism (Thomas John Linneman), pp. 947-949

Kristen Bumiller, In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence (Judith K Taylor), pp. 950-952

Kathleen M. Fallon, Democracy and the Rise of Women’s Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa (Julie Lyn Kaye), pp. 953-955

John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond, Darfur and the Crime of Genocide (Augustine SJ Park), pp. 956-959

Ron Eyerman, The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma (Frank J. Lechner), pp. 960-962

Mabel Berezin, Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security, and Populism in the New Europe (Andrej S Zaslove), pp. 963-965

Martin Koopman et Stéphane Martens (dir.), L'Europe prochaine. Regards franco-allemands sur l'avenir de l'Union européenne (Mathieu Petithomme), pp. 966-968

Proposed CNSIMC sessions for 2010 CSA meetings

When submitting your abstract to the CSA, please mention the session in which you'd like your paper to appear.

Nationalism in Theory: 
Organizers of this session invite presentations discussing current developments in theories of nationalism, not least of all those aiming to point out weaknesses or oversights in the past endeavours in the field, and ways in which those may be addressed or overcome. Theoretical contributions concerning ethnogeneses, ethnic conflicts, nation-making, separatism, secession, ethno-national diversity, multiculturalism and other related themes are all welcome.

Nationalism in Practice: 
Organizers of this session invite presentations dedicated to case studies of ethnogeneses, ethnic conflicts, nation-making, separatism, secession, ethno-national diversity, multiculturalism and other related themes, and particularly critical and/or theory-oriented ones. Comparative, historical, demographic, qualitative, quantitative and any other contributions are all welcome.

Militarism and Society:
 Organizers of this session invite presentations discussing relationships between militarism and society, both those unearthing the social grounding and geneses of militarism, and those analysing the impact of militarism on society. Theoretical, comparative, historical, demographic, qualitative, quantitative and any other contributions are all welcome.

Social Movements in Theory: The session invites papers concerned with conceiving, critiquing, synthesizing, extending, and/or elaborating upon social movement theory. Macro and micro perspectives are welcomed, as are comments on recent debates in the field, including those surrounding emotion and social movements, cultural approaches, and transnational action.

Social Movements Case Studies: Case studies form the core of social movements scholarship. The session welcomes papers that focus on particular instances of collective action as bases for discussion of social movement approaches and concepts. Investigations of recent examples of collective action are welcome, as are historical and/or comparative works.

Emerging Scholarship in Social Movements: The session highlights graduate student research on social movements. MA and PhD students in the final stages of their research are encouraged to submit papers on any topic pertaining to social movements study toward creating a forum for presentation and critical discussion of emerging scholarship in the field.

Some new books

Donatella Della Porta, ed., Democracy in Social Movements. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 304 pp. $US 90.00 hardcover (978-0-230-21883-3).

Publisher's blurb: This collection explores conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement organizations involved in global protest. Focusing on the global justice movement this book shows how they adopt radical new democratic approaches and thus provide a fundamental critique of conventional politics.

Table of contents: http://us.macmillan.com/democracyinsocialmovements#toc

Jeffrey Ayres and Laura MacDonald, eds., Contentious Politics in North America: National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 272 pp. $US 85.00 hardcover (978-0-230-22427-8)

Publisher's blurb: This is the only book of its kind devoted to exploring contentious politics from a North American perspective including protests, social movements, transnational contention, and emergent regional governance processes between Canadian, U.S. and Mexican state and civil society actors.

Table of contents: http://us.macmillan.com/contentiouspoliticsinnorthamerica#toc

Kiran Asher. Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009, 272 pp. $US 22.95 paper (978-0-8223-4483-4), $US 79.95 hardcover (978-0-8223-4487-2)

Publisher's blurb: In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia’s Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990s. more

Victoria Squire. The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum: Migration, Minorities and Citizenship. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 272 pp. $US 85.00 hardcover (978-0-230-21659-4)

Publisher's blurb: This critique of the securitization and criminalization of asylum seeking challenges the claim that asylum seekers 'threaten' receiving states. It analyzes recent policy developments in relation to their wider historical, political and European contexts and argues that the UK response effectively renders asylum seekers as scapegoats.

Table of contents: http://us.macmillan.com/theexclusionarypoliticsofasylum#toc

Global Justice Movement Posters

Dear social movement researchers,

I've started a collection of posters from the Global Justice Movement. The preliminary results (265 posters from 1998 to 2009) can be viewed online as a Picasa album

http://picasaweb.google.com/SocialMovementResearcher/GlobalJusticeMovementPosters#

So far the collection is rather eclectic and contains everything that I've found on the web and digitized posters from a several personal collections. The Picasa web album is just an interim solution which should (hopefully) be replaced by a proper image database sometime in the future.

If anyone would like to contribute to this collection I would appreciate any support very much. Please send original posters and/or digital images of posters to my postal or email address.

Best

Sebastian

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Dr. Sebastian Haunss

University of Konstanz

Universitaetsstrasse 10

Fach 90

D-78457 Konstanz

Germany

tel: +49-(0)7531-88-3757

fax: +49-(0)7531-88-2855

email: sebastian.haunss at uni-konstanz.de

web: http://shaunss.wordpress.com/

http://www.ipgovernance.eu

CFP: Outdoor Sport and Eco-Politics

Mark Stoddart is organizing the following session at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). The conference takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from November 4-7. Abstracts are due by August 15, and should be submitted via the conference website: http://www.nasss.org/2009/submissions.php

Outdoor Sport and Eco-Politics

This session invites papers that explore the relationship between outdoor sport and environmental values, environmental conflicts, or environmental movement participation. There is a history of continuity between outdoor sport and environmentalism. Several core members of early environmental groups were avid mountaineers and skiers. A common narrative in histories of environmentalism connects the growth of environmental concern in the 1960s to increased opportunities to "get back to nature" through outdoor sports. Contemporary tourism further globalizes opportunities to "get back to nature" through sports like mountaineering, rock climbing, skiing or surfing, while transforming local environments into objects of an environmental gaze. Participation in sport can also form the basis of collective political identity, as in the case of Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) in the UK, or Protect Our Winters (POW) in the US. Conversely, social movement actors have questioned the environmental legitimacy of sport. Ecological concerns have been invoked in opposition to the Winter Olympics among potential host cities over the past two decades. Ski development has similarly been defined as a problem by environmental groups in North America and Europe. Theoretical or empirical work that examines the complex relationship between eco-politics and outdoor sport are welcome.

Ralf Dahrendorf 1929-2009

I haven't seen anything about Ralf Dahrendorf's death in Canadian papers. Here are some  obituaries

The Economist http://www.economist.com/obituary/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13895016&fsrc=nwlptwfree

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/19/ralf-dahrendorf-obituary-lords-lse

The Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6530884.ece

New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/world/europe/22dahrendorf.html

Le Monde http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2009/06/22/ralf-dahrendorf-sociologue-homme-politique_1209947_3382.html

Book reviews in Canadian Journal of Sociology

Some book reviews of possible interest to CNSIMC members have appeared in the latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Sociology

Colin Campbell, The Easternization of the West: A Thematic Account of Cultural Change in the Modern Era. reviewed by Zaheer Baber

Sultan Tepe, Beyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey. reviewed by Aviad Rubin

Philip Carl Salzman, Culture and Conflict in the Middle East. reviewed by Mark Haugaard

Aziz Al-Azmeh and Effie Fokas, eds., Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence. reviewed by Peter Beyer

Jonathan Fox, A World Survey of Religion and the State. reviewed by Kristen R Lucken

Y. Michal Bodemann, ed., New German Jewry and the European Context: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora. reviewed by Alena Heitlinger

Ginetta E.B. Candelario, Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Radical Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops. reviewed by Wendy D. Roth

Paul Bramadat and David Seljak, eds., Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada. reviewed by Nancy Nason-Clark

Maryse Potvin, Crise des accommodements raisonnables: une fiction médiatique? reviewed by Ratiba Hadj-Moussa

Stefan Svalfors, ed., The Political Sociology of the Welfare State: Institutions, Social Cleavages, and Orientations reviewed by Julia S O'Connor  

Daniela Del Boca and Cecile Wetzels, eds., Social Policies, Labour Markets and Motherhood: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries. reviewed by Mehmet Fatih Aysan and Roderic Beaujot  

Margaret R. Somers, Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to have Rights. reviewed by  Alan Hunt  

Jackie Smith, Social Movements for Global Democracy. reviewed by 

Liam Swiss  

Amin Ghaziani, The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington. reviewed by  Tina Fetner  

Ann Mische, Partisan Publics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks. reviewed by  David Benjamin Tindall 

Tenure Track Position in Sociology & Criminology – Saint Mary’s University

The Department of Sociology and Criminology invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the Assistant Professor level commencing July 1, 2010. We seek a Sociologist who will contribute to teaching in Quantitative Methods and whose research areas are preferably Class and Critical Political Economy. Candidates should have a Ph.D. or be near completion. We encourage applicants to consult faculty web pages to determine how, as potential hires, candidates might enrich or expand the Department’s intellectual community. The Department offers undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Criminology as well as a Master of Arts Degree in Criminology. The University is committed to serving the local, regional, national, and international communities, and integrating such activity as part of the learning environment for undergraduate and graduate students.

Applicants are asked to include in their packages a curriculum vita, an example of recent published work, teaching portfolio, and the names, addresses and contact numbers for three referees. Application packages should be sent directly to Dr. Evangelia Tastsoglou, Chairperson, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary’s University Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H3C3. The deadline for completed applications is September 30, 2009. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Saint Mary's University is committed to principles of employment equity.

Honourable mention for CNSIMC's Liliana Riga

Liliana Riga (University of Edinburgh) received an honourable mention in this year's ASA Comparative/Historical Sociology Section Best Article Award for her article "The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism: Rethinking the 'Russian' Revolutionary Elite," American Journal of Sociology 114 (2008): 649-705.

CFP: 1989-2009: The East European Revolutions in Perspective

Conference announcement and call for papers and panel proposals

1989-2009: The East European Revolutions in Perspective

Organised by: Debatte. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

Location and date: London, 17-18 October 2009.

Keynote speakers:

Caroline Humphrey, Boris Kagarlitsky, Gáspár Miklós Tamas, Peter Gowan, Alex Callinicos, Bernd Gehrke, Catherine Samary.

Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals:  22 June, 2009.

Rationale

Debatte is marking the twentieth anniversary of the revolutionary upheavals of 1989 by inviting scholars and students of Central and Eastern Europe to reflect upon the events of that year, their causes and processes, and the ensuing transformation of the region.

In line with Debatte’s credo, the conference encourages critical and inter-disciplinary contributions. Especially welcome are papers that:

• examine the part played by social movements in overthrowing regimes and bringing about democratic change;
  
• explore the power relations involved in the post-1989 restructuring of Central and Eastern Europe;
  
• look afresh at the seminal contributions and debates in this area of research;
  
• investigate ways in which research on 1989 and the transition has affirmed, deconstructed or challenged dominant ideological conventions.
  

Topics for inquiry

Promising areas for papers include:

• The dissolution of the Soviet system. The roles played by relative economic decline, military competition, social and cultural change, the Western media. Comparison with the trajectory of ‘communism’ elsewhere: China, North Korea, Cuba etc.
• Revolution and social change. The question of the ‘revolutionary’ nature of the events of 1989. Comparative revolutions and pseudo-revolutions. The contribution of social movement theories to analysing processes of mobilisation etc. in 1989. The history of dissident, resistance and reform movements.
• Post-1989 transitions.

Geopolitical: Russia and the West; E.U. enlargement; 


Geo-economic: Central and Eastern Europe’s changing location within the global division of labour; labour migration.


Geo-ideological: what has become of the Cold War mentality?; the repositioning (‘othering’?) of Central/Eastern Europe within Western discourse.


Economic: neoliberal reform; ‘shock therapy’; comparative economic policy.


‘Bringing labour back in’: working-class recomposition and industrial relations.


Political and social: expansion and privatisation of the public sphere; the restructuring of social power ; elite continuities and discontinuities; democratisation and ‘managed democracy’; the evolution of Communist parties and of pre-1989 currents of dissidence and resistance; changing gender roles and relations; old and new nationalisms (including the break-up of Yugoslavia); the environment, transport and climate change.


Anthropological: cultures of everyday life; the ethnography of societies in ‘transition’; new forms of division and exclusion; 


Cultural: new freedom, new censorship; the changing role of the artist; developments in cinema, literature, art and music; the creation of collective memories and narratives of the pre-1989 era.


Historiography of post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: assessing the debates and breakthroughs; identifying gaps and silences in the scholarly literature.

Papers and panel proposals

Submission of a panel proposal: The proposal should be no longer than 500 words, and should include the panel convenor’s full name and e-mail address, as well names and e-mail addresses of at least two other panel participants.

Contacts

For updates go to http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0965156X.asp

Questions, as well as submissions of panel proposals and abstracts, should be directed to Gareth Dale,

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology Calls for Papers

Of possible interest to CNSIMC members:

Research Committee on Sociology of Migration RC31

Details here:  http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc31.htm

Anyone interested in presenting a paper at a session organized by this Research Committee should contact a session organizer (with copy to programme coordinator) before January 1, 2010

Proposed Sessions

Part 1 - Migration patterns and policies

1: International migration and the decision making system of the states

2: Return migration to the homeland
3: Temporary foreign workers, guestworkers
Part 2 - Migration and development

4: Migration and development in comparative perspective
Part 3 - Transnationalism

5: Diversity of transnational families
Part 4 - Incorporation

7: Group boundaries and immigrant integration
8: Modes of incorporation of the protracted refugees
9: Survival strategies of irregular migrants: Survey and ethnographic evidence
10: The differential incoporation modes of second generation immigrants
11: Migrant associations: Incorporation to civil society
12: Migrant’s trust in institutions
13: Migration and citizenship
Part 5 - Migration and culture

14: The"ground-level"  impact of immigrants and their offspring on culture (symbolic and material) and social relations of host and/or home societies
Part 6 - New development in migration studies

15: Moving the migration frontier:  Recent research based on the U.S. New Immigrant Survey
16: New theories of ethnicity in migration and post-migration situations
17: Migration, leisure and community cohesion

Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change RC48

Details here: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc48.htm

Call for Papers

Collective action in the context of globalization: 

Between the construction of social movements and the mobilization’s outcomes

Deadlines and procedures
If you wish to present a paper, please email your proposal with a title and a short description (150 to 250 words) to the Program Coordinator Benjamín Tejerina, b.tejerina@ehu.es, by October 15, 2009.  Be sure to include in your proposal your name, complete affiliation, email and contact information.

Paper proposals that do not fit to the topic of the call for papers may be submitted to the RC48 Program Coordinator for integration in additional sessions or alternative arrangements.

Session proposals are welcome too and must include a title, a brief description of the topic, chair's name and contact information, and a list of four to five speakers. Session proposals may be in any of the ISA's official languages, English, Spanish, or French.

We welcome papers which address four main issues:

1. conceptual and theoretical thinking about the outcomes of social movements and protest activities, including refining existing definitions and typologies, conceptualizing the links between different types of effects, and theorizing about mechanisms leading to movement outcomes;
2. methodological reflections about how to deal with the subject matter and how to avoid the obstacles that have hindered previous research;
3. empirical analysis of social movement outcomes in different social, cultural, and political settings, in particular comparative studies encompassing different movements and/or countries;
4. unintended outcomes and papers addressing movement outcomes in non-Western contexts, papers looking at the impact of political violence tactics, and papers analyzing outcomes of transnational movements and protests would be also welcome.

Proposed sessions

 1: Social movements and the future
 2:  Society on the move(ments)   

Research Committee on  Social Classes and Social Movements RC47

Details here: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc47.htm

Call for Papers

Anyone interested in presenting a paper at a session organized by this Research Committee should contact a session organizer before

October 31, 2009.

Main Theme
Globalization, Risk, Crisis and Subjectivity 

The aim of the RC47 scientific program at the ISA World Congress in Gotenburg Sweden in 2010 is to creatively and innovatively explore theories of collective action in the context of the current global crisis. We seek questions that articulate the current crisis - in its global, integrated and systemic form - to the question of subjectivity and the role of the subject in these momentous changes. The question we now ask in these transformative times: what are the likely outcomes and future of this turbulence in terms of our understanding of collective action and the future of globalization processes. 

Proposed Sessions

1: Globalization, risk, crisis and subjectivity (Plenary session)
2: The Social construction of risks and citizens' movement

3: The Eastern community versus Westernindividuality? Rethinking subjectivity

4: The IT revolution, solidarity and social movements 

5: Memory, democracy and collective action

6:  Collective action and the legitimacy crisis of democracy within a fragile and interconnected world
7: Effects of the current crisis on social practices

8: Effects of the current crisis on theoretical production

10: The subject and crisis  

11: Social movements and crisis 
12: Movements and conflicts. Theoretical perspectives
13: Grammars of global public spheres 

14: United we stand? Social movements in Eastern and Western Europe

Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution RC01

Details here: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc01.htm

Call for Papers

Anyone interested in presenting a paper at a session organized by this Research Committee should contact a session organizer before September 30, 2009.

Proposed Sessions

1: Methodological problems in the study of the military
2: Building and sustaining peace

3: Asymmetric warfare: The West answer
4: Prolonged, frozen and new conflicts
5: Armed Forces and globalization

6: Military leadership and irregular threats: Empirical evidence and an emerging theoretical basis
7: Recruitment and retention
8: Constructing warriors in films and videogames
9: Managing military organizations: Theory and practice 

10: Soldier’s profession, gender and private life: Trade-offs and support needs in military families
11: Peacekeeping operations and multinational cooperation

12: Public opinion and the military in a glocalized world
13: Round Table on war and violence (Special session on the Congress theme)

Thematic Group on Human Rights and Global Justice TG03

Details here:  http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/tg/tg03.htm

Proposed Sessions

1: The sociology of human rights: Origins and prospects
2: Social movements, NGOs, and human rights

3. Sociology and global governance
4. Universal rights or cultural rights?

For the entire Call for Papers: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/ 

New article on collective action

Pascale Dufour. 2009. “From Protest to Partisan Politics:When and How Collective Actors Cross the Line? Sociological Perspective on Québec Solidaire.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 34, 2: 55-82

Abstract: This article presents an analytical framework tracing the birth of Québec Solidaire (QS), a self-proclaimed left political party founded in February 2006. We explore the issue by taking into account the internal dynamics of organizations as well as the global political dynamics that have coursed through Quebec in the last 10 years. We propose a sociological reading emphasizing the changes in the balance of power among the main political and social actors. At each of the poles of political representation (electoral democracy pole, participative democracy pole, social democracy pole and protest democracy pole), a disruption in the balance of power between the actors concerned is at the origin of the emergence of Québec Solidaire. Thus, the history of QS is a strong indicator of social and political transformations of Quebec society since the mid nineties.  

Full Text: PDF

New book reviews of interest to CNSIMC (some by members)

Peter Baehr, Caesarism, Charisma and Fate: Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber reviewed by Jefferson D Pooley  PDF

Siniša Malešević and Mark Haugaard, eds. Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought reviewed by James Kennedy  PDF

Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr, eds., Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge reviewed by  Philippe Couton  PDF

Badie, Brauman, Decaux, Devin, and Wenden, eds., Pour un autre regard sur les migrations. Construire une gouvernance mondiale; Rea and Tripier, Sociologie de l'immigration reviewed by Stéphanie Garneau  PDF

Humanism and realism in International Humanitarian Law (Review Essay on Patricia Marchak, No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity, and Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Global Justice: The Politics of War Crimes Trials by Augustine Brannigan  PDF

Fuyuki Kurasawa, The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices reviewed by Elizabeth M. Bruch  PDF

Jeffrey Juris, Networking Futures: The Movement Against Corporate Globalization reviewed by Lesley Wood  PDF

Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers and Rachel Einwohner, eds. Identity Work In Social Movements reviewed by  Amy Lang  PDF

Ryan Edwardson, Canadian Content: Culture and the Quest for Nationhood reviewed by Jim Cosgrave  PDF

… and more besides. See the current issue’s table of contents: http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/issue/current 

Call for Papers for the Comparative/Historical Mini-Conference

"Comparing Past and Present"
August 12th, 2009, Berkeley

In addition to our line-up of invited speakers (see
http://www2.asanet.org/sectionchs/chsprogram.pdf), we will accept open submissions for possible inclusion in the CHS Mini-conference. Papers should compare past and present in some way. We are particularly interested in papers that deal with the following topics: theory, methods, economy, immigration, collective action, religion, empires, gender, states, and class.

Papers will be selected for the conference on the basis of quality and fit with the agenda of the mini-conference.

Papers submitted by May 15th, 2009 to Rebecca Jean Emigh (emigh@soc.ucla.edu) will receive full consideration. Any questions, email emigh@soc.ucla.edu.

Call for Papers ISA World Congress 2010

Call for Papers: ISA World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010 (Futures Research)

The International Sociological Association is organizing its XVII World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010. The Research Committee Futures Research (RC 07) invites proposals for papers and sessions.
Deadline: October 15, 2009
Program Coordinator: Markus S. Schulz, ISA-RC07, email: isarc07@gmail.com

Planned Sessions

The Future of State and Insurgent Terrorism
Organizer: Jeff Goodwin (New York University, USA)

Political violence against "innocent" civilians has generated a great deal of discussion and debate in recent years. What explains past episodes of state and/or insurgent terrorism? Are the two linked? How has the rhetoric of "terrorism" been used by political actors? Will we see more or less--or different kinds of--terrorism in the future? Papers on any of these concerns are encouraged.

Social Movements and the Future
Joint Session of Research Committees on Future Research (RC07) and Social
Movements, Collective Action and Social Change (RC48)
Organizers: Markus S. Schulz (UIUC, USA) and Benjamin
Tejerina Montaña (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain)

The Research Committees on Future Research (RC07) and on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change (RC48) are planning one or more Joint Sessions on contentious politics and on how social movements shape futures. Questions may include (but are not limited to): How do social movements create, debate, disseminate, and attempt to implement projects and visions of the future? How do social movements invent new practices? How do social movements relate to old and new media? What factors influence the outcomes of social movement struggles?

Power, Politics, Publics: Sociological Experiences
Organizers: Raquel Sosa (UNAM, Mexico) and Markus
S. Schulz (UIUC, USA)

How does sociology relate to policy, power, and publics? How do sociologists contribute to social projects and alternative views? What is the experience of sociologists who engage in "critical" or "public" modes of doing sociology, including collaboration with social movements or public service? What can we learn from comparisons between different national experiences and different disciplines? What lessons can be learned from recent experiences in Latin America or other sites of the Global South? What is to be done to make sociology and the sociological imagination more relevant?

Open Themes
Organizer: tba (contact: )

Deadlines and Procedures:
If you wish to present a paper, please email by October 15, 2009 your proposal with a title and a concise description (150 to 200 words) to the organizer(s) of your session and to the repository at . A submission form is available for download at http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc07.htm. (The form is backwards compatible with the free Adobe Reader 7.0 or later.) Be sure to include in your proposal your name and contact information. Paper proposals that do not fit to the topic of any of the planned sessions may be submitted to the RC07 Program Coordinator for integration in additional sessions or alternative arrangements.

Some general hints: Please make your proposal as informative and specific as possible. Check whether your abstract provides the reviewers with answers to fundamental questions such as:
• What question or problem does your paper address?
• Why does this question or problem matter?
• How you do you approach this question or problem (theoretical perspective, method, data set, body of literature, and the like)?
• What are your findings/research/arguments results?
• What are the implications of these findings/research results/arguments?

Session proposals are welcome too and shall include a title, a brief description of the topic, chair's name and contact information, and a list of four to five speakers. Session proposals may be in any of the ISA's official languages, English, Spanish, or French.

Notifications of papers accepted for presentation instructions will be sent to participants by the end of January 2010 along with more detailed instructions and practical tips on travel and logistics. It is anticipated that online registration opens in early 2010. May 1, 2010 is the anticipated deadline for pre-registration and submission of accepted abstracts to Cambridge Sociological Abstracts (CSA) for inclusion in the congress catalogue.

Other Practical Information:
Travel: Gothenburg has two major airports, the Göteborg Landvetter Airport (GOT, 25km to the East) and Göteborg City Airport (GSE, 15km North-West from the centre). Both airports are well connected to the city by bus. There seems to be some competition, so you may wish to compare air fares for both.

Climate: Gothenburg has an Oceanic climate that is relatively mild when considering its Northern latitude. July is mostly sunny and dry with only moderate precipitation. July temperatures average with lows of 13 and highs of 20 degrees Celsius (55 to 68 Fahrenheit), though on some it could go up to 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit).

Visas: Sweden is one of the twenty-five signatory countries of the Schengen agreement. Nationals from the Schengen zone do not need a visa; nationals from the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, Australia, Israel and the United States can currently remain in Sweden as tourists for 90 days without a visa. Others may need a visa. Keep in mind that current regulations can change. You can obtain further information from the Swedish embassy and consulates in your country.

Further practical information: One useful multilingual website to search for travel-related information seems to be Gothenburg official tourism site at URL: < http://www.goteborg.com>.

Calls for Papers

Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging
ISA Research Committee on Regional and Urban Development, RC21
Sao Paulo, Brazil
August 23-25, 2009
Abstracts: May 15, 2009

Identity and Lifestyles Transformations
Workshop at Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association
Geneva, Switzerland
September 7-9, 2009
Submissions: April 30, 2009

Contested identities, contested cultures and contested rights.
Change and challenges in the Northern European periphery
Conference and PhD Course
University of Tromsø, Norway
September 23-25, 2009
Abstracts: May 15, 2009

Papers at CNSIMC CSA Sessions

CSA036. Social Movements: Emerging Scholarship
Tuesday May 26, 13:30

1. Nadia Hausfather "Why Bolivians put their foot down, but didn’t kick out the state"
2. Mike Mowbray "Blogging the Greek riots: the construction of a contentious ‘event'"
3. Krista D. Shackleford "Lobbying for "The Public Good": framing processes, mobilizing structures, and nonprofit lobbying in Alberta"

CSA043 The Creation, Maintenance, Expansion and Crisis of Nation States
Wednesday May 27, 9:00

1. Peter Fragiskatos “Democracy Promotion in the Middle East Since 11 September 2001”
2. Garry Barron and Nathan Turley “The Israel - Palestine Conflict: Discourse and Rhetoric in Documentary Films”
3. Trevor W. Harrison “Political Economy and Islamic Fundamentalism as a Nationalist Response to Neo-Colonialism”

CSA054 Nation-State and Everyday Life
Wednesday May 27, 10:45

1. Kim de Laat "Canadian voices, Canadian choices? The implications of music funding and multiculturalism as forms of Canadian nation-state building"
2. Paulina García del Moral. "Women’s Reproductive Rights in Ireland"
3. Kate Bezanson "Social Reproduction, Choice and Strategic Neoliberalism in a Theo-Conservative Canada"

CSA074 Author meets Critics: Miriam Smith Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada
Wednesday May 27, 13:30

Commentators:  Barry Adam; Tina Fetner; Judy Taylor

CSA084 Hegemonic Nationalism
Thursday May 28, 9:00

1. Ivanka Knezevic "In the Wake of a Captured State"
2. James Kennedy and Lilliana Riga “Constructing 'ethnic capacities' in American multiethnic nation-building”
3. Slobodan Drakulic "Academic Nationalism"

CSA095 Contentious Nationalism
Thursday May 28, 10:45

1. Samuel Gurupatham "Globalization, Economic Liberalization, and Ethnic Conflict in Post-colonial Sri Lanka"
2. Peter Fragiskatos"Berberism and the Future of Algeria"
3. Mark Lajoie "Accommodating Nation: Pluralism, Democracy and National Identity in 21st Century Quebec"

CSA096 Social Movements: Canadian Case Studies
Thursday May 28, 10:45

1. "Neo-liberalism, workers’ compensation and injured workers in Ontario"
2. Denyse Côté et Étienne Simard "Mouvements sociaux dans le Québec contemporain"
3. Marika Morris “Organizing through obstacles: The co-op housing movement in Ontario”

CSA132 Social Movements: International Case Studies
Friday May 29, 10:45

1. Kathleen Rodgers "The Consequences of Funding Patterns for the Infrastructure of the Human Rights Network in the Global South"
2. José G. Vargas-Hernndez "Historical Social and Indigenous Ecology Approach to Social Movements in Mexico and Latin America"
3. C. Bader Araj and Robert J. Brym "Opportunity, Culture, and Agency: Influences on Fatah and Hamas Strategy during the Second Intifada"

CNSIMC at CSA meetings, at a glance

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Masters in Nationalism Studies at Edinburgh University

The MSc in Nationalism Studies programme at Edinburgh has been re-launched this year with a new and improved website and a related blog. We are also offering two £1,000 scholarships for which all successful applications received by 29 May will be considered.

MSc Nationalism Studies website:
www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/taught_programmes/msc_nationalism_studies

Nationalism Studies blog: http://nationalismstudies.wordpress.com/

Tilly & Wood, Social Movements: 1768-2008, Second Edition released

Publisher's blurb: "This expanded second edition of Tilly’s widely acclaimed 2004 book brings this analytical history of social movements fully up to date. Tilly and Wood cover such recent topics as immigrants’ rights, new media technologies, anti-Olympic organizing in China, new mobilizations against the Iraq War, and the role of bloggers and Facebook in social movement activities. Coverage of these and other recent events serve to expand further the book’s seminal theorizing and conceptualization of how social movements grew from eighteenth-century Europe to eventually fuel popular movements all over the world."

More here

"Fall of the Wall" session on again

"The Fall of the Wall Twenty Years Later" is now being held under the auspices of the Society for Socialist Studies. The Call for Papers is here.

Cartoon

via xkcd

Again, just trying to prime the pump with posting possibilities.
Jim

CNSIMC sessions at 2009 CSA meetings

Here are the approved sessions for the Canadian Sociological Association meetings in Ottawa in May 2009, as they appear on the CSA website. Click on the link for the Call for Papers on the CSA website.

The Creation, Maintenance, Expansion and Crisis of Nation States - Organiser: Karen Stanbridge, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland èCSA043

The Nation-State and Everyday Life - Organiser: Trevor Harrison, Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge èCSA054

Hegemonic Nationalism - Organiser: Slobodan Drakulic, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University èCSA084

Contentious Nationalism - Organiser: James Kennedy, School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh University èCSA095

Social Movements - Case Studies - Organizer: Philippe Couton, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa èCSA096

Author meets Critic: Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (Routledge, 2008)  - Author: Miriam Smith, School of Public Policy and Administration, York UniversityèCSA074

Exploring Social Movement Theory - Organizer - Jim Conley, Department of Sociology, Trent University èCSA132

new book on political protest

Although its focus is American, and its author is a legal scholar, this new book looks interesting for those of us researching public political protest. (I'm posting this in part to show the variety of content that might appear here). Jim

Timothy Zick, Speech Out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 362 pp. $US 29.99 paper (978-0-521-73196-6), $US 90.00 hardcover (978-0-521-51730-0)
Publisher's blurb: Even in an age characterized by increasing virtual presence and communication, speakers still need physical places in which to exercise First Amendment liberties. This book examines the critical intersection of public speech and spatiality. Through a tour of various places on what the author calls the “expressive topography,” the book considers a variety of public speech activities including sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics, residential picketing, protesting near funerals, assembling and speaking on college campuses, and participating in public rallies and demonstrations at political conventions and other critical democratic events. This examination of public liberties, or speech out of doors, shows that place can be as important to one’s expressive experience as voice, sight, and auditory function. Speakers derive a host of benefits, such as proximity, immediacy, symbolic function, and solidarity, from message placement. Unfortunately, for several decades the ground beneath speakers’ feet has been steadily eroding. The causes of this erosion are varied and complex; they include privatization and other loss of public space, legal restrictions on public assembly and expression, methods of policing public speech activity, and general public apathy. To counter these forces and reverse at least some of their effects will require a focused and sustained effort – by public officials, courts, and of course, the people themselves.

Welcome to Network Members from Karen

Hi everyone - 

You're accustomed to hearing from me through mass e-mails to the entire membership. I'll still be forwarding the occasional item from time to time, but announcements and links previously distributed to your inbox will be posted here or on the website, in addition to Congress information and other items of interest. As well, I hope that we can all use this as a virtual meeting place for discussions of whatever interests us - contention, politics, bureaucratic inefficiencies...we'll see how it develops!

Karen 

Modified CNSIMC session proposals accepted

Some misunderstandings between the network and the CSA have been cleared up, and most of the proposed sessions have been approved, in modified form. Details will appear here soon.

CNSIMC session proposals rejected!

The CSA organizing committee has not accepted the CNSIMC sessions for the meetings in June, and has asked instead for general topics. The proposals are being reformulated and will be posted here as soon as possible. Comments are welcomed.

CNSIMC CALL FOR PAPERS 

CANADIAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL MEETING 2009
CARLETON UNIVERSITY
OTTAWA, ON
26-29 MAY 2009

The following sessions have been proposed to the Canadian Sociological Association. They have not yet been approved.

The CNSIMC proposes that regular sessions will normally consist of three papers and a commentary by a discussant. Only completed papers that have passed a peer-review process will be featured in the regular sessions. Other deserving papers will be placed in mediated round tables of up to four presenters.

Please send your abstracts and papers to the session organiser.

Special Session

Regular Sessions: Nations and Nationalism

Regular Sessions: Social Movements

Roundtables

Author Meets Critics