[oberlist] UK* cfp: Protests as Events / Events as Protests

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Protests as Events / Events as Protests
Leeds, UK, 12 June 2013

A one day symposium for academics and activists will be organised by the
International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality
(ICRETH) and Leeds Metropolitan University in Leeds, UK. The symposium
entitled Protests as Events / Events as Protests will be held on 12 June
2013.

The organizers take as their starting point Paul Chatterton's argument
that "acknowledging that protest encounters are emotionally laden,
relational, hybrid, corporeal and contingent, possibilities open up for
breaking the silences that divide us and overcoming ontological divisions
such as activist and non-activist." This symposium aims to involve
conversations between activists and non-activists, as well as academics as
activists in order to explore the complex construction of protests as
events / events as protests. They propose an innovative coming together of
activists and academics to build bridges, initiate debate and develop
future research agendas.

The conceptualisation of protests as events and vice versa involves
consideration of the temporalities of protests as well as the mobilities
that are enacted to bring together an assemblage that may be on the move
or fixed at a still point. Thus Protests as Events / Events as Protests
also builds upon the workshop held at the University of Leicester in June
2012 entitled (Re)thinking Protest Camps: governance, spatiality, affect
and media.

This call thus seeks papers that focus on one or more of the following
topics:
Conceptualisations of protests as events
The academic/activist interface
Timings and rhythms of protests
Discursive constructions of protests
Protest and political tourism
Mobile assemblages and protests
Embodiments of protest events
Sustaining protests in the face of cultural changes
Protests and sports events
Critical hospitality and protests
Governance and the governmentalities of protest events

The organizers are seeking proposals for papers, abstracts of no more than
300 words should be emailed to d.carl at leedsmet.ac.uk by 10 March 2013.
For further information please visit the symposium's blog at
protestsandevents.wordpress.com or contact Daniela Carl on +44 (0) 113
-812 8541 or Dr Ian Lamond on +44 (0)113 -812 3816

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