Calls for papers

Dear colleagues,

Several potential contributors to this special issue proposal for the Revue française de science politique on revolts and revolutions in the Arab world have expressed their difficulty to respect the very short deadline that we have imposed on ourselves. We have therefore decided to extend the deadline from November 30 to December 20 2011.

We remind you that papers can be sent in English or French.

Cher.e.s collègues, plusieurs contributrices et contributeurs potentiels à la proposition de numéro pour la Revue française de science politique sur révoltes et révolutions dans le monde arabe ayant exprimé leur difficulté à tenir les délais très courts que nous nous étions imposés, nous avons décidé pour ne pas brusquer les choses et assurer de ce fait une meilleurs qualité des soumissions d’étendre le délai du 30 novembre au 20 décembre 2011.

Nous vous rappelons par ailleurs que les papiers peuvent être rédigés en français comme en anglais.

Révoltes et révolutions dans le monde arabe

Les dynamiques protestataires qui secouent le monde arabe depuis décembre 2010 invitent à poser à nouveau frais la question des phénomènes révolutionnaires, de leurs causes, dynamiques et effets à court et moyen terme. Si la littérature en sciences sociales est plutôt prolixe sur les causes et les conséquences des révoltes et révolutions, elle l’est beaucoup moins sur les processus révolutionnaires eux-mêmes. C’est à ces processus tels qu’ils s’observent aujourd’hui dans le monde arabe que l’on projette de s’intéresser, autour d’un numéro thématique qui sera proposé à la Revue française de science politique.

Les contributions doivent impérativement reposer sur du matériau de première main et sur une enquête in situ. Deux axes non exclusifs l’un de l’autre sont privilégiés. La dynamique des mobilisations, d’une part, soit les configurations dans lesquelles organisations et acteurs individuels « apprennent à être révolutionnaire », pour paraphraser Timothy Tackett ; l’historicité des situations de conflit, d’autre part, soit l’attention au niveau des champs multi organisationnels, à l’épaisseur historique des réseaux de mobilisations activés ou créés dans cette dynamique et au niveau des individus, aux formes de socialisation politique et aux transmissions intergénérationnelles.

Les propositions d’articles, d’un maximum de 70.000 signes, bibliographie/annexes comprises, doivent parvenir par courrier électronique avant le 30 novembre 2011 aux coordinateurs, Mounia Bennani Chraïbi et Olivier Fillieule. Chaque proposition doit s’accompagner d’un encadré faisant état des sources utilisées et des modes de recueil des données ainsi que d’une courte note biographique.

Les papiers en langue anglaise sont éligibles et feront l’objet d’une traduction s’ils sont retenus.

Les propositions retenues par les coordinateurs seront dans un second temps soumises à la revue pour évaluation.

mounia.bennani@unil.ch; olivier.fillieule@unil.ch

The protest dynamics that have hit the Arab world since late 2010 invite researchers to re-question revolutionary phenomena – their causes, dynamics, and effects in the short and long term. While there is a large social science literature concerning causes and consequences of revolts and revolutions, there is considerably less attention on revolutionary processes themselves. This call for papers, which will lead to a proposal for a thematic issue of the Revue française de science politique, focuses on revolutionary processes.

Contributions must use original primary empirical data and build on in situ fieldwork. Two non-exclusionary axes are privileged. The dynamics of mobilization on the one hand – that is the configurations in which organisations and individual actors learn how to “be revolutionaries”, to paraphrase Timothy Tackett. On the other hand the historicity of situations of conflict, that is, an attention on multi-organisational fields, on historically situated mobilization networks activated or created in this dynamic, and on individual actors, their political socialization and intergenerational transmissions.

Article proposals of maximum 70 000 signs (references and notes included) must be sent electronically before November 30 2011 to the two coordinators, Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi and Olivier Fillieule. Each proposition must be accompanied by a short note explaining the sources and methods of data collection, as well as a short biographical notice.

Papers written in English can be proposed and will be translated into French if they are selected.

After a first evaluation by the coordinators, the retained papers will be proposed to the journal for evaluation.

Papers should be sent to mounia.bennani-at-unil.ch and olivier.fillieule-at-unil.ch

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Call for submissions: New Feminisms in Europe. A special issue of Social Movement Studies edited by Kristin Aune (University of Derby) and Jonathan Dean (University of Leeds)

What is the state of feminist social movements in 21^st century Europe?

European second-wave feminism – loosely denoting the emergence of feminist activism in the 1960s and 1970s – has been extensively studied, but there is very little work on new and emerging feminist mobilisations.
Several decades on from second-wave feminism, European societies have changed in significant ways, many of them gendered, and many of which might be said to have arisen in response to feminist social movements. Recent years have seen the redrawing of national boundaries, the fall of communism and rise of capitalism in Eastern Europe, the increasing influence of neoliberalism, the development of new information technologies, and the feminization and increasing precarity of the labour market. Although there is now a substantial literature on the gendered aspects of these transformations and the impact of feminism on state institutions, there is little research on how contemporary feminist activist movements respond to, and engage with, these profound transformations in the gender regimes of European societies.

Additionally, many academic and social commentators have said that feminist movements are no longer as vibrant and radical as they once were and that young people are disconnected from feminism and social movement activism more broadly. But it is evident that feminism continues to be a significant social and political force, albeit often in ways that depart from traditional models of movement activism and cut across generational boundaries.

Against this backdrop, the special issue asks: how have 21^st century feminisms responded to the changing gendered realities of contemporary Europe? Is European feminist activism in decline, or is it taking on a renewed visibility and significance? And in what ways do the demands and practices of European feminists converge and diverge in different contexts?

Questions to be explored include, but are not limited to, the following:

• What are the key demands and foci of contemporary feminist activisms, and how do they vary across contexts?
• What kinds of strategies, tactics and organisational structures characterise new feminist activisms in Europe?
• What is the cultural and political reach of “third wave” feminism? To what extent is a wave-based generational metaphor appropriate for making sense of the histories of feminism in different contexts? What are the main (dis)connections between contemporary feminist activism, and earlier waves/generations?
• Is feminism still a women’s movement? What is the place of men and queer, intersex and transgendered people in these new feminist groups?
• How do diasporic communities and the politics of migration interact with the new feminisms?
• What role do new information technologies play within the new feminisms?
• What are the connections between feminist social movements and left-wing politics? What role does feminism play in student protest and activism against austerity measures across Europe?
• In what ways do new feminist movements reflect and contest their different national landscapes? In what ways have democratic transitions (including those from fascism and communism) impacted upon feminist movements? Or is the distinctiveness of nation for feminist movements increasingly eroded in a digitally-mediated world? How do European feminists engage with globalization? Is what ways is the local (e.g. the city, neighbourhood or place) still significant?
• How do social movements relate to the institutionalisation of feminism in national and international politics (e.g. through the EU)? What are the different ways in which feminist movements engage with political parties?
• How do new feminist movements address intersectionality in relation to ethnicity, class, sexuality, health, disability and other related areas?
• How are new feminisms engaging with the changing religious realities, including secularization and the rise of fundamentalisms, of countries in Europe?

The call is open and competitive. Each submission will be subject to the usual (blind) review process. Deadline for submission of articles (maximum 8,000 words including bibliography and notes) is Friday 13^th July 2012. Articles should be formatted according to the Social Movement Studies style guide and submitted to both K.Aune(at)derby.ac.uk and ipijde(at)leeds.ac.uk, to whom any queries should be directed.

It is anticipated that the special issue will be published in early 2014.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change has issued a call for papers for Volume 35, on the visual analysis of social movements. More information can be found here.

The volume will be co-edited by Nicole Doerr, Alice Mattoni, and Simon Teune. Deadline for papers is February 1 2012.

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Révoltes et révolutions dans le monde arabe

Les dynamiques protestataires qui secouent le monde arabe depuis décembre 2010 invitent à poser à nouveau frais la question des phénomènes révolutionnaires, de leurs causes, dynamiques et effets à court et moyen terme. Si la littérature en sciences sociales est plutôt prolixe sur les causes et les conséquences des révoltes et révolutions, elle l’est beaucoup moins sur les processus révolutionnaires eux-mêmes. C’est à ces processus tels qu’ils s’observent aujourd’hui dans le monde arabe que l’on projette de s’intéresser, autour d’un numéro thématique qui sera proposé à la Revue française de science politique.

Les contributions doivent impérativement reposer sur du matériau de première main et sur une enquête in situ. Deux axes non exclusifs l’un de l’autre sont privilégiés. La dynamique des mobilisations, d’une part, soit les configurations dans lesquelles organisations et acteurs individuels « apprennent à être révolutionnaire », pour paraphraser Timothy Tackett ; l’historicité des situations de conflit, d’autre part, soit l’attention au niveau des champs multi organisationnels, à l’épaisseur historique des réseaux de mobilisations activés ou créés dans cette dynamique et au niveau des individus, aux formes de socialisation politique et aux transmissions intergénérationnelles.

Les propositions d’articles, d’un maximum de 70.000 signes, bibliographie/annexes comprises, doivent parvenir par courrier électronique avant le 30 novembre 2011 aux coordinateurs, Mounia Bennani Chraïbi et Olivier Fillieule. Chaque proposition doit s’accompagner d’un encadré faisant état des sources utilisées et des modes de recueil des données ainsi que d’une courte note biographique.

Les papiers en langue anglaise sont éligibles et feront l’objet d’une traduction s’ils sont retenus.

Les propositions retenues par les coordinateurs seront dans un second temps soumises à la revue pour évaluation.

mounia.bennani@unil.ch; olivier.fillieule@unil.ch

The protest dynamics that have hit the Arab world since late 2010 invite researchers to re-question revolutionary phenomena – their causes, dynamics, and effects in the short and long term. While there is a large social science literature concerning causes and consequences of revolts and revolutions, there is considerably less attention on revolutionary processes themselves. This call for papers, which will lead to a proposal for a thematic issue of the Revue française de science politique, focuses on revolutionary processes.

Contributions must use original primary empirical data and build on in situ fieldwork. Two non-exclusionary axes are privileged. The dynamics of mobilization on the one hand – that is the configurations in which organisations and individual actors learn how to « be revolutionaries », to paraphrase Timothy Tackett. On the other hand the historicity of situations of conflict, that is, an attention on multi-organisational fields, on historically situated mobilization networks activated or created in this dynamic, and on individual actors, their political socialization and intergenerational transmissions.

Article proposals of maximum 70 000 signs (references and notes included) must be sent electronically before November 30 2011 to the two coordinators, Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi and Olivier Fillieule. Each proposition must be accompanied by a short note explaining the sources and methods of data collection, as well as a short biographical notice.

Papers written in English can be proposed and will be translated into French if they are selected.

After a first evaluation by the coordinators, the retained papers will be proposed to the journal for evaluation.

Papers should be sent to mounia.bennani-at-unil.ch and olivier.fillieule-at-unil.ch

Mobilization, the leading scholarly journal in social movement studies, plans a special issue on Middle East Protest, to be published in December 2012 (Volume 17, Number 4). Original research articles from any discipline are welcome, with special emphasis on papers that use vernacular-language empirical material to speak to the field of social movement studies as a whole. Maximum length is 40 pages, not including figures and tables. Please submit papers to the editor of the special issue, Charles Kurzman , by January 1, 2012.

The journal Lien politique et social has issued a call for papers on the topic of radicalisation (in French). For more information, click on the link below.

Radicalisation-appel de texte – LSP

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, a peer-reviewed volume published by Emerald Group Publishing, encourages submissions for Volume 34 of the series.

This volume will have a thematic focus on nonviolent civil resistance and will be guest edited by Lester Kurtz (George Mason University) and Sharon Erickson Nepstad (University of New Mexico). We encourage submissions on the following topics: variations of nonviolent strategies, the effects of repression on nonviolent movements, reasons for the recent rise of nonviolent revolutions, factors shaping the outcome of nonviolent struggles, and the international diffusion of nonviolent methods.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is a fully peer-reviewed series of original research that has been published annually for over 30 years. We continue to publish the work of many of the leading scholars in social movements, social change, and peace and conflict studies. Although RSMCC enjoys a wide library subscription base for the book versions, all volumes are now published both in book form and are also available online to subscribing libraries through Emerald Insight. This ensures wider distribution and easier online access to your scholarship while maintaining the esteemed book series at the same time.

RSMCC boasts quick turn-around times, generally communicating peer reviewed-informed decisions within 10-12 weeks of receipt of submissions.

Submission guidelines

To be considered for inclusion in Volume 34, papers should arrive by October 1, 2011.

Send submissions as a WORD document attached to an email to BOTH Lester Kurtz and Sharon Erickson Nepstad, guest RSMCC editors for Volume 34, at lkurtz(at)gmu.edu and nepstad(at)unm.edu. Remove all self-references (in text and in bibliography) save for on the title page, which should include full contact information for all authors.

• Include the paper’s title and the abstract on the first page of the text itself.
• For initial submissions, any standard social science in-text citation and bibliographic system is acceptable.

For more information, please visit the RSMCC homepage.

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For the 6th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis, a panel on « the appropriations of public policies by citizens » is organised by Lorenzo Barrault and Nazli Nozarian, University Paris I.

Deadline for proposals is January 31st. Find a description of the panel and information on the submission procedure here.

The call for papers of the political sociology network from the European Sociological Association has been launched. It welcomes submissions to a number of streams. Find detailed information in the pdf esa political sociology.

Deadline for submissions in February 25th

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, a peer-reviewed volume published by Emerald Group Publishing/JAI Press, encourages submissions for Volume 33 of the series. This volume will have both thematic and open-submission sections and will be guest edited by Jennifer Earl (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Deana Rohlinger (Florida State University). For the open-submission/non-thematic section, submissions appropriate to any of the three broad foci reflected in the series title will be considered.

The special section of Volume 33 will focus on „new“ and „old“ media in social movements, conflicts, and change. We encourage submissions on the relationship between older media (e.g., newspapers, books, music, radio and network and cable television) and social movements, conflicts, or change, or between „new“ media (e.g., the Web) and social movements, conflicts, or change.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is a fully peer-reviewed series of original research that has been published annually for over 30 years. We continue to publish the work of many of the leading scholars in social movements, social change, and peace and conflict studies. Although RSMCC enjoys a wide library subscription base for the book versions, all volumes are now published both in book form and are also available online to subscribing libraries through Emerald Insight. This ensures wider distribution and easier online access to your scholarship while maintaining the esteemed book series at the same time.

To be considered for inclusion in Volume 33, papers should arrive by May 16, 2011.

Send submissions as a WORD document attached to an email to BOTH Jennifer Earl and Dena Rohlinger, guest RSMCC editors for Volume 33, at jearl(at)soc.ucsb.edu and drohling(at)fsu.edu.

Remove all self-references (in text and in bibliography) save for on the title page, which should include full contact information for all authors. Include the paper’s title and the abstract on the first page of the text itself. For initial submissions, any standard social science in-text citation and bibliographic system is acceptable.

RSCC website