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