Conference

2004 Social Action and Social Movements

The 3rd annual Social Movements and Social Action conference. Helen Meekosha (UNSW) and James Goodman (UTS), and thirty-five papers from students researching social movements. Co-hosted by the RIIA and the School of Social Work, UNSW.

Keynote speaker, Prof Marc Williams, UNSW. Jointly hosted by the School of Social Work, UNSW, and the Research Initiative on International Activism, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS.

PAPERS - PDF-Download

Bandyopadhyay, Indrani - Feminism in India

Blake, Erin - NIMBYs: Self-interest groups or actors for genuine social change?

Brock , T. - Music in social action: The Inspiration for Social Action

Burford, Elizabeth - Collective Identity and Nationalism

Chan, Beatrice. - Reclaim the night

Clark, Georgina - Human Rights Violation versus Rite of Passage: The Fight against Female Genital Mutilation

Cloughessy, Michelle - The role of collective action in improving the weak bargaining position of sole parent in social policy

Fok, Shrila - Squatting: A cheaper alternative?

Gilet, Anna - Women Together: Lesbian Social Action In Africa

Harvey, Annie - The Harbour Bridge March for Reconciliation: Massive Collective Mobilization, why? and where did it go?

Haugen, Erlend A. - The Ogoni Struggle and Mann’s Four Sources of Social Power

Kuffer, Anna - Political Violence as Social Action: an Analysis of Violence in Political Protests

Lawson, Xanthe - Resisting Biopiracy: a Question of Fluidarity or Solidarity

Leach, Verity - Maori ‘self determination’ Movement in New Zealand

Maher, Sharon - Case In Point: Continuing Resistance at Sandon Point

McClellamd, Caroline - Virtual Mobilisation: The Impact of Internet on New Social Movements

McCallum, Joanne - Via Campesina – A transnational social movement within the neo-Marxist paradigm

McDonald, Sarah - Eco-feminism and Collective Identity

Moss, Emily - Culture, Solidarity and the Asylum Seeker Debate: Being un-Australian

Sadler, R. - Are NGOs too powerful?

Rowan Savage - Third Sex or Self-Owners?: The political use of biological vs. cultural models of homosexuality

Stubbs, Dannielle - Children Out of Detention: ChilOut

Wong, K. - Stifling Dissent. the Legal Way

Yusef, Anna - Analysing Social Movement Outcomes