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RC48, Research Committee on Social Movements and Collective Action, of the International Sociological Association

Supported by:
the Transforming Cultures Research Centre, www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au

Many proclaim this the global age - one world power, one world market, one world order. Yet many other worlds find new and fertile ground, flourishing against the norm. Social movements set new agendas, inspire participation and crystalise solidarity. At the centre of contestation, they can create emancipatory knowledges - knowledges for change. How do social movements generate new ways of being, new subjectivities, or modes of existence? What is the role of affective meaning, of symbolic action and collective conscience? What is the place of reflective action, and the dynamic of praxis? What is the dialectic between power and counter-power? What is the role of strategic conflict and dialogue? What are the sources of revolutionary and transformative change? What is the praxis of counter-globalism?

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Supported by: Research Committee on Social Movements and Collective Action, of the International Sociological Association http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/cforp280.htm, ‘Globalism Project’, Canada, http://www.ualberta.ca/GLOBALISM/
Hosted by the Research Initiative on International Activism, University of Technology Sydney

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