Labnet: Call for Papers Amsterdam Symposium Cost Action A34 - March 2009

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From: SECRETARIAT COST ACTION A34 [mailto:costactiona34 at ub.edu] 



Dear friends,

 

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the Fifth Symposium of the Action: Social Movements and Well-Being (Amsterdam, 5th -7th March 2009), we inform you that the deadline for the call for papers has been postponed until the 22nd of January. For a complete version of the original Call for Papers and a form for submission, please see below.

 

In order to ensure a coherent programme of papers, we would like to ask already everyone who wishes to take part to prepare a short abstract (400 words) containing the title of his/her paper and a summary of its main aims and objectives.  

 

The Organizing Committee will have to make a choice of papers as we would like to work in plenary sessions to facilitate interdisciplinary and international discussion. In the selection of papers, we will particularly consider discussions addressing the issues within a national and perhaps international context. Finally, we will give equal representation to participating states to the symposium as the COST policies require.  Selection of abstracts will be communicated to authors in March 2008. Paper givers should send their papers no later than 30th January, 2009.

 

Funds for this symposium are limited and, while we are hopeful of being able to meet the travel and accommodation costs of as many participants as possible, we may not be able to do this in all cases. It would therefore be very helpful if you could provide an estimate of your likely travel costs, together with an indication of any additional resources on which you may be able to call. We will construct our own estimate of accommodation costs based on standard COST allowances.

 

When submitting an abstract, please enter the text into the attached form ProposalForm.doc) and rename the document so that it can be easily identified by the name or names of the author or authors (so, for example, Antonella Picchio's abstract can be identified as picchio-abstract5thsymposium.doc (or txt, or pdf)).

 

Please send your abstract by e-mail to:

Marcel van der Linden:  mvl at iisg.nl

With copy to the secretariat: costactiona34 at ub.edu 

 

Conchi Villar

SECRETARIAT COST ACTION A-34 

costactiona34 at ub.edu

Gender and Well-Being: Work, Family and Public Policies

http://www.ub.es/tig/GWBNet/

Department of Contemporary History

Faculty of Geography and History

University of Barcelona

c/Montalegre 6-8 08001 Barcelona

SPAIN

 

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Call for paper

Symposium 5th

Social Movements and Well-Being

 

International Institute of Social History

Amsterdam, 5th -7th March 2009

 

The network "Gender and Well-Being: Work, Family and Public Policies" (COST Action A-34) is preparing a symposium on "Social Movements and Well-Being". The symposium will focus on the conception and cultural and ethical perceptions of well- being as understood and contested by social movements. It will explore the causes and consequences of collective social pressure to affect well-being. What are the implications of gender for social movements aimed at improving the quality of life, be it the feminist and women's movement or other social movements and social protest? Mainstream notions of what social protest and involvement entail have frequently led to mobilization of other groups being marginalized or 'hidden from history'.

 

The approach

Social movements have historically had a role in affecting well being, for instance in strengthening capabilities (see Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum). The capability to participate and affect public life is a fundamental aspect of well-being often denied women and men in part due to the gendered definitions and structures of political and social action. Social mobilization as here understood is based on three necessary conditions: (1) a social group's dissatisfaction with certain social, economic, political or cultural circumstances; (2) the availability of material and symbolic resources, including organizational means and a cognitive frame; and (3) the opportunity structure (class relations, state interventions, social norms, etc.) enabling, restraining or steering forms of mobilization. In combination the three preconditions produce (4) a capacity for social action, which - under certain conditions, to be specified - results in (5) collective action as such (movements, protests) and leads to certain (6) outcomes, including material results, new cognitive frames and larger (or sometimes smaller) capabilities during the life-course. These outcomes influence in turn the original conditions of mobilization (level and content of dissatisfaction, etc.) and may stimulate further social mobilization.

 

Papers

We encourage theoretically informed historical and contemporary case studies of social mobilization as well as papers of a more conceptual nature. Contributions should explore the issues raised by the approach outlined above. 

Questions include:

In what ways gender has been important in the definition of the ideas and goals of social movements and social pressure as well as in the organization and forms of movements and the outcomes in terms of empowerment, recognition, policy and access to well-being? 

Why, how and to what extent has social mobilization contributed to or detracted from the development of well-being for men and women? 

 

Papers answering these questions while treating diverse social movements and actions (enduring or short-term; well-organized or spontaneous; women's, sexuality, ethnic, religious, health, labour, environment, peace, etc.) are welcome. 

 

All papers will be pre-circulated through a closed website, which is only accessible to conference participants. A publication in the series of the COST project is anticipated.

 

Organizing Committee: Chair: Marcel van der Linden and Jean Michel Bonvin, David Green, Mercè Renom, Alison Woodward.

 

Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail no later than 8th January, 2008 to:  

Marcel van der Linden:  mvl at iisg.nl

 

A copy of the e-mail should be sent to the Secretariat:

Concepción Villar: costactiona34 at ub.edu

 

Decisions on acceptance will be communicated to authors in March 2008. Paper givers must submit their papers no later than 30th January, 2009.

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To submit an abstract (written in English), please, fill up this form and send it by e-mail (as an attached document) to the leads of the Symposium 

 

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For more information see: http://www.ub.es/tig/GWBNet/

 

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