Alternative Media Global Project
Alternative Media Global Project’s Map
This worldmap seeks to graphically display the location of any alternative, radical, citizen, participatory, community (etc.) media project in the world. The purpose of this work is to create an interactive chart of the world of alternative media.
This project is a part of the Alternative Media Global Project (http://www.ourmedianetwork.org/wiki/ ). Contact : amgp@riseup.net
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS
abstracts due by Monday 2nd March 2009
From 1995 to 2008, Manchester Metropolitan University hosted a series of very successful annual international conferences on ‘ALTERNATIVE FUTURES and POPULAR PROTEST’.
We’re very happy to announce that the Fourteenth AF&PP Conference will be held, between Wednesday 15th April and Friday 17th April 2009.
The Conference rubric remains as in previous years. The aim is to explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas which animate their activists and supporters and which contribute to shaping their fate.
Reflecting the inherent cross-disciplinary nature of the issues, previous participants (from over 50 countries) have come from such specialisms as sociology, politics, cultural studies, social psychology, economics, history and geography. The Manchester conferences have also been notable for discovering a fruitful and friendly meeting ground between activism and academia.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite offers of papers relevant to the conference themes. Papers should address such matters as:
* contemporary and historical social movements and popular protests
* social movement theory
* utopias and experiments
* ideologies of collective action
* etc.
To offer a paper, please contact either of the conference convenors with a brief abstract:
EITHER Colin Barker, Dept. of Sociology
OR Mike Tyldesley, Dept. of Politics and Philosophy
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West
Manchester M15 6LL, England
email: c.barker@mmu.ac.uk
Tel: M. Tyldesley 0161 247 6718
email: m.tyldesley@mmu.ac.uk
Fax: 0161 247 6769 (+44 161 247 6769)
(Wherever possible, please use email, especially as Colin Barker is now a retired gent. Surface mail and faxes should only be addressed to Mike Tyldesley)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Those giving papers are asked to supply them in advance, for inclusion on a CD of the complete papers which will be available from the conference opening.
* Preferred method: send the paper to Colin Barker as an email attachment in MS Word. Any separate illustrations etc. should be placed at the end of the paper, in .jpg format.
* if this is impossible, post a copy of the text to Mike Tyldesley on a CD disk in MS Word format
* Final date for receipt of abstracts: Monday 2nd March 2009
* Final date for receipt of actual papers: Monday 23rd March 2009
CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS AND COSTS
The conference will run from lunch-time Wednesday 15th April to lunch-time on Friday 17th April 2009.
Cost, inclusive of three lunches, teas/coffees and copies of the Proceedings on CD, will be £130 (students and unwaged £80).
Bed and Breakfast accommodation in student bedrooms can be booked through the conference organizers at nearby University of Manchester accommodation, at £35 per night. It is possible, in principle, to book these rooms on the nights immediately preceding and following the conference. Delegates preferring hotel accommodation should make their own bookings. The most convenient hotel is IBIS, Charles Street, Manchester M1 7DG (tel 0161 272 5000).
Conference participants will be invited to dine together at two local (and not too expensive) restaurants on the two conference evenings. Payment for dinners should not be made in advance, but directly to the restaurants on the night.
BOOKING FORM
ALTERNATIVE FUTURES and POPULAR PROTEST XIV
15th April to 17th April 2009
Name __________________________________
Address _________________________________
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Conference fee 130.00 ………….
Student fee
(post- & under-grad) 80.00 ………….
Bed and Breakfast
Wednesday night 35.00 ………….
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Cheques should be made payable to “Manchester Metropolitan University”
Credit or Debit Card payment (Visa and Mastercard only)
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Please let us know of any dietary or other requirements.
Please return the Booking Form by email to Colin Barker (c.barker@mmu.ac.uk), or by email, fax or post to Mike Tyldesley (m.tyldesley@mmu.ac.uk; fax +44 161 247 6312; Dept of Philosophy and Politics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester M15 6LL, England)
Our college Jeff Juris just published a new book on the global justice movement!!!!
The book provides an ethnographic account of the cultural practice and politics of transnational networking among anti-corporate globalization activists based in Barcelona with a particular focus on the links between digital technologies, new forms of organization, and emerging political imaginaries. It also explores network organizing, performative protest, and violence during mass direct actions.
For more information, to see images, and/or to order the book, go to:
The book can also be ordered from www.dukeupress.edu or www.amazon.com.
Blurb from the Publisher:
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)— including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun. Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and the broader World Social Forum process.
In 2001 and 2002, the anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris participated in the Barcelona-based Movement for Global Resistance, one of the most influential anti–corporate globalization networks in Europe. Juris took part in hundreds of meetings, gatherings, protests, and online discussions. Those experiences form the basis of Networking Futures, an innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking within the movements against corporate globalization. In an account full of activist voices and on-the-ground detail, he explains how activists are not only responding to growing poverty, inequality, and environmental devastation but also building social laboratories for the production of alternative values, discourses, and practices.
Praise for the Book:
“Networking Futures is one of the very first books to map in detail the multiple networks that are challenging corporate globalization. Taking as a point of departure an exemplary case—the Catalan anti–globalization movements of the past decade—Jeffrey S. Juris moves on to chronicle the collective struggles to construct not only an alternative vision of possible worlds but the means to bring them about. Networking Futures is a compelling portrait of the spirit of innovation that lies behind an array of progressive mobilizations, from anarchist movements and street protests to the World Social Forum. Based on a well-developed notion of collaborative ethnography, it is also a wonderful example of engaged scholarship: a much-needed alternative to academic work as usual.”
-Arturo Escobar, author of Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
“Jeffrey S. Juris gives us an illuminating model for how to study networks from below using the tools of ethnography. And in the process he reveals the extraordinary power (as well as the challenges) of network organizing for social movements today.”
-Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude
“Networking Futures is a terrific, deeply informed ethnographic account of the origins and activities of the anti–corporate globalization movement. Jeffrey S. Juris’s identity is as much that of an activist who happens to be doing first-rate anthropology as vice versa, and there is much for anthropologists to reflect on in the way that this work is set up and narrated through these dual identities.”
-George E. Marcus, co-author of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
About the Author:
Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. He is a co-author of Global Democracy and the World Social Forums and has published numerous articles in both scholarly journals and activist research forums. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Resistance Studies Magazine and has taken part in numerous direct action-oriented groups and networks, including the Movement for Global Resistance in Barcelona. His new fieldwork explores the relationship between grassroots media activism and autonomy in Mexico City.
Review on the Networked Politics discussions in the light of the reflection on the WSF strategy.
Some voices claim that the World Social Forum (WSF) is in crisis, while for many the Social Forum experience is a good resource with which to reflect on the challenges for political organization in the XXI century and also a concrete experience in creating new types of institutions. The WSF has been present directly or indirectly in the Networked P olitics seminars. A collection of the reflections around or relevant to, the WSF produced through the NP process was facilitated by Anastasia Kavada and sent to the debate about the future of the WSF at International Committee meeting in March 2008.
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I thought it might be useful to present the approach of the P2P Foundation concerning networked politics, through a few of the basic texts on the topic.
- the basic formulation of the emergence of peer production, governance and property formats were published in CTheory.
- In Re-public, there is a more specific formulation of the political aspects of this approach: P2P politics, the state, and the renewal of the emancipatory traditions.
- This companion article discusses through proprietary owned platforms
If all the above sounds to boring, then a good and more lively summary in the form of a conversation is available here at
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/interview-on-peer-to-peer-politics-with-cosma-orsi/2008/04/10
