Black Dagger
14th January 2008, 03:32
Call for Papers for Panels/Publication on "Re-Imagining Revolution"
>
> 1st Anarchist Studies Network Conference
>
> 4th-6th September, 2008 (Confirmed)
>
> Department of Politics, IR, and European Studies, Loughborough
> University,
> UK
>
>
>
> What is the meaning of revolution today? From the French Revolution
> through
> much of the twentieth century, both the theory and practice of
> revolution
> was dominated by the assumption that the violent seizure of state
> power was
> the defining characteristic of revolutionary change. In recent years,
> this
> assumption has increasingly been called into question by a wide range
> of
> thinkers and activists from across the radical political spectrum. Yet
> only
> a small minority appear to recognise the extent to which recent
> developments
> were anticipated by the words and deeds of certain anarchist
> revolutionaries
> over a century ago. As a result, a rich and diverse corpus of anarchist
> revolutionary experience has been neglected, and its relevance to the
> contemporary world overlooked.
>
> By way of contribution to the process of remedying this historical
> amnesia
> and generating fresh ideas rooted in critical reflection on the past,
> we
> invite paper proposals for a series of Anarchist Studies Network
> conference
> panels on the theme of "Re-Imagining Revolution". More specifically,
> the aim
> of the panels is to creatively re-imagine the concept of revolution in
> ways
> relevant to the times in which we live, with a particular emphasis on
> the
> distinctive contributions and limitations of anarchism - both
> classical and
> contemporary - and anarchist(ic) variants of contemporary
> counter-cultural
> social movements.
>
> While there is no restriction on possible paper topics, proposals
> informed
> by feminist, anti-racist, ecological, pacifist, utopian, romantic, and
> non-Western anarchist perspectives are particularly welcome. So, too,
> are
> papers that promise to illuminate the relationship between the
> "personal"
> and the "political" aspects of revolutionary change; its joyous, witty,
> sensuous, playful, and aesthetic dimensions; the possibilities for
> combining
> revolutionary spontaneity and organisation; the conception of
> revolution as
> a process unfolding over time rather than a singular cataclysmic
> event; and
> the roles of direct action, prefigurative politics, non-violent
> struggle and
> organised non-cooperation, countercultural communal experiments and
> alternative lifestyles, affinity groups and networks, social centres
> and
> co-operatives, skill sharing and the practice of mutual aid, utopian
> imagination, Luddism, and the qualitative transformation of work in
> generating radically open-ended, popular, organic, constructive, and
> creative forms of revolutionary change.
>
> Some of the speakers confirmed as of January 2008 include Ruth Kinna,
> current editor of the journal *Anarchist Studies*; David Graeber,
> author of
> *Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology*; Sasha Roseneil, author of
> *Common
> Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham*; Saul
> Newman,
> author of *From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the
> Dislocation
> of Power*; and John Jordan, co-editor of *We Are Everywhere: The
> Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism* and co-founder of the
> Clandestine Rebel Insurgent Clown Army.
>
> Selected papers from the conference will be revised for publication
> either
> in the form of a special journal issue or as an edited volume.
>
> If you are interested in contributing to the panels, please send an
> email to
> Laurence Davis (the convenor, at [email protected]) by 26th March
> 2008
> including a paper title, 200-300 word proposal, and contact details.
> Alternatively, if you wish to propose a complete three-person panel,
> please
> send a panel title, brief synopsis of the panel, and names and contact
> details of all contributors, indicating after each name whether
> participation has been confirmed. Informal inquiries about alternative
> panel
> or workshop arrangements are very welcome.
>
> For further information about the conference, see
> http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/HomePage.
>
>
>
> 1st Anarchist Studies Network Conference
>
> 4th-6th September, 2008 (Confirmed)
>
> Department of Politics, IR, and European Studies, Loughborough
> University,
> UK
>
>
>
> What is the meaning of revolution today? From the French Revolution
> through
> much of the twentieth century, both the theory and practice of
> revolution
> was dominated by the assumption that the violent seizure of state
> power was
> the defining characteristic of revolutionary change. In recent years,
> this
> assumption has increasingly been called into question by a wide range
> of
> thinkers and activists from across the radical political spectrum. Yet
> only
> a small minority appear to recognise the extent to which recent
> developments
> were anticipated by the words and deeds of certain anarchist
> revolutionaries
> over a century ago. As a result, a rich and diverse corpus of anarchist
> revolutionary experience has been neglected, and its relevance to the
> contemporary world overlooked.
>
> By way of contribution to the process of remedying this historical
> amnesia
> and generating fresh ideas rooted in critical reflection on the past,
> we
> invite paper proposals for a series of Anarchist Studies Network
> conference
> panels on the theme of "Re-Imagining Revolution". More specifically,
> the aim
> of the panels is to creatively re-imagine the concept of revolution in
> ways
> relevant to the times in which we live, with a particular emphasis on
> the
> distinctive contributions and limitations of anarchism - both
> classical and
> contemporary - and anarchist(ic) variants of contemporary
> counter-cultural
> social movements.
>
> While there is no restriction on possible paper topics, proposals
> informed
> by feminist, anti-racist, ecological, pacifist, utopian, romantic, and
> non-Western anarchist perspectives are particularly welcome. So, too,
> are
> papers that promise to illuminate the relationship between the
> "personal"
> and the "political" aspects of revolutionary change; its joyous, witty,
> sensuous, playful, and aesthetic dimensions; the possibilities for
> combining
> revolutionary spontaneity and organisation; the conception of
> revolution as
> a process unfolding over time rather than a singular cataclysmic
> event; and
> the roles of direct action, prefigurative politics, non-violent
> struggle and
> organised non-cooperation, countercultural communal experiments and
> alternative lifestyles, affinity groups and networks, social centres
> and
> co-operatives, skill sharing and the practice of mutual aid, utopian
> imagination, Luddism, and the qualitative transformation of work in
> generating radically open-ended, popular, organic, constructive, and
> creative forms of revolutionary change.
>
> Some of the speakers confirmed as of January 2008 include Ruth Kinna,
> current editor of the journal *Anarchist Studies*; David Graeber,
> author of
> *Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology*; Sasha Roseneil, author of
> *Common
> Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham*; Saul
> Newman,
> author of *From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the
> Dislocation
> of Power*; and John Jordan, co-editor of *We Are Everywhere: The
> Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism* and co-founder of the
> Clandestine Rebel Insurgent Clown Army.
>
> Selected papers from the conference will be revised for publication
> either
> in the form of a special journal issue or as an edited volume.
>
> If you are interested in contributing to the panels, please send an
> email to
> Laurence Davis (the convenor, at [email protected]) by 26th March
> 2008
> including a paper title, 200-300 word proposal, and contact details.
> Alternatively, if you wish to propose a complete three-person panel,
> please
> send a panel title, brief synopsis of the panel, and names and contact
> details of all contributors, indicating after each name whether
> participation has been confirmed. Informal inquiries about alternative
> panel
> or workshop arrangements are very welcome.
>
> For further information about the conference, see
> http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/HomePage.
>
>