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Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and thestudy of Social Movements by Sebastian Budgen 05 February 2002 00:15 UTC |
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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING Conference Second Call for Papers Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the study of Social Movements June 26-28, 2002, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, England Conference Sponsors The Social Movements Research Group, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, The London Socialist Historians Group, The Socialist History Society, Historical Materialism Confirmed Plenary Speakers Dorothy Thompson Brian Manning Bryan D Palmer Ellen Wood Confirmed Speakers Trevor Bark Crime Becomes Custom Custom Becomes Crime David Camfield, York University, Toronto ²Thompsonian² Theory, the Working Class and Modern Social Movements Laurence Cox, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Thinking ³the social movement² Neil Davidson Regional Peasant Revolt and Religious Radicalism during the Scottish Bourgeois Revolution James Green, Professor of History and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements Lesley Hardy History,Politics and Tradition James Holstun, SUNY, Buffalo Brian Manning and the Dialectics of Revolt Philip Hunter Class, Agency and Struggle in British Marxist Historiography: Some Lessons for the study of Social Movements Alan Johnson, Edge Hill College, England Leadership and Class Formation: Christopher Hill and the English Revolution Geoff Kennedy, York University, Toronto Digger Radicalism and Agrarian Capitalism Wade Matthews, University of Strathclyde The Poverty of Strategy: Socialism and the British Marxists Professor John Mcilroy and Professor Alan Campbell, University of Manchester The Communist Party Historians Group and Problems in Communist Party historiography Viv Mackay, University of Southampton Labour Disputes as Contentious Politics:Refiguring the 1928 Garment Workers Strike at the London ³Rego² Factory Antonio Negro, State University of Campinas, Brazil A Limited Number of Ideas for an Unlimited Social History. Notes on Brazilian Trends Alf Nilsen, University of Bergen, Norway Marxist and Postmodern Perspectives on Social Movements Mi Park, London School of Economics Ideology and Lived Experience: A case study of Revolutionary Movements in South Korea,1980-1995Ή Dave Renton, TUC Education English Experiences: The problem of Nationalism in the Work of the British Marxist Historians Anneke Ribberink, History Dept, Free University, Amsterdam Leading Ladies and Cause Minders: The Silent Generation and the Second Feminist Movements Jess Rigelhaupt, University of Michigan ²The Paradox of a Jim Crow Navy²: The Post Chicago Mutiny, The Communist Party, and the California Civil Rights Movement Richard Romain and Edur Valasco, Associate Professor, University of Toronto and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Continental Integration,Neoliberalism and the Mexican Working Class Sean Scalmer, Macquarie University, Australia The Problem of Decline:Demobilisation and Fracturing of Working Class Politics Hira Singh, Department of Sociology, York University Anti-Fuedal, Anti-Colonial Protests in India: Structure, Tradition, Ideology Roger Spalding, Edge Hill College of Higher Education EP Thompson and the Popular Front Stephen Woodhams, Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck College New wine in old bottles:the transformation of a generation Conference Themes How might the extraordinary body of historical writing produced by the British Marxist historiansΉ - Edward Thompson, Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, Eric Hobsbawm, Victor Kiernan, DonaTorr, John Saville, Dorothy Thompson, George Rudι and others - enable scholars and activists to better understand the making of social movements? This is a timely moment to examine their legacy. Many social movement scholars are pushing beyond the static modelsΉ drawn from rational-choice theory and the crude and reductive newmovementΉ/Ήold movementΉ dichotomies developed by European social theory. What can social movement scholars and activists learn from a critical engagement with the historiography of movement and protest in the writings of the British Marxist historians? And from the theoretical and conceptual innovations developed through their history writing? What might be learnt from the sensibility and style of the British Marxist historians, from their committedΉ social and political relation to their subject, to their writing of history from the bottom upΉ? And what can social movement studies - now in an exciting period of sustained growth, connected to the rebirth of popular protest, and a locus for fruitful academic-activist dialogue - bring to this exchange? We invite proposals for papers, which explore any aspect of the legacy of the British Marxist historians for the study of popular protest and social movements. Themes include: Theorising social movements Class, gender, raceΉ and social movement The cultural and moral mediation of protest and movement, Agency and the individual-in-the-movement, Ideology, discourse and the study of social movements The PeopleΉ and protest Protest as ethic The leadership of social movements Revolutions and social movements The primitive rebelΉ Using sources to study social movements Literature and the study of protest Marxism and the British Marxist Historians Offers of Papers FINAL DEADLINE FOR 400 WORD PROPOSALS: MARCH 1 2002 Email offers of papers to the conference organiser johnsona@edgehill.ac.uk or write to Alan Johnson, Social Movements Research Group, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L394QP. Offers of papers should not be more than 400 words long and should be submitted by 1 March 2002. Full papers, maximum length 8,000 words, must be submitted by 6 May 2002 to enable their advance distribution to conference participants. The conference organiser will actively pursue publication of a selection of conference papers. Conference Arrangements Edge Hill College of Higher Education is situated just outside the market town of Ormskirk, 30 miles from Liverpool and Manchester, and twenty minutes from the seaside resort of Southport. From Manchester Airport, a train can be taken to Ormskirk Station, changing at Preston Station. The cost of the full conference package will be £130 (en suite room) or £100 (standard room), which will include accommodation, conference fees, conference papers, refreshments, lunches, evening meals. Further details of costs are listed on the attached downloadable booking form. Please return the booking form and payment to Marcy McNally,Secretary to the Social Movements Research Group, Centre for the Study of the Social Sciences, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England L39 4QP. On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee Matthew Beaumont Pembroke College, Oxford University and Historical Materialism Journal Keith Flett London Socialist Historians Group Alan Johnson Edge Hill College of Higher Education Social Movements Research Group and Historical Materialism Journal (conference organiser) Stephen Woodhams Socialist History Society BOOKING FORM Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the study of social movements A Conference at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, June 26-28, 2002 Name Address. Telephone E-mail.. I would like to attend the Making Social MovementsΉ Conference. Tariffs - Full Conference Fee (en-suite room) £130 - Full Conference Fee (standard room) £100 Fee includes Conference fee, accommodation, lunches (26,27,28 June) evening meal (26,27 June) refreshments, conference papers. Total Cost - . Payment - Cheque is enclosed yes/no (to "Edge Hill Enterprises Limited") - Please Issue an Invoice yes/no Return this booking form to: Marcy McNally, Secretary to the Social Movements Research Group, Centre for the Study of the Social Sciences, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England L39 4QP or return as an attachment to mcnallym@edgehill.ac.uk
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