[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Anti-imperialist conference, Mumbai, December

[Patrick Bond]

(From: Alf Gunvald Nilsen)

Dear all; please take a few minutes to read the call for papers below.
It's for a session I'm organizing at the 5th International Conference of
Critical Geography in Mumbai. Please consider whether it is of interest
to you or someone you know - and feel free to forward and distribute
through apposite mailing lists:

Fifth International Conference of Critical Geography

Imperialism and Resultant Disorder:
Imperatives for Social Justice

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India - December 3-7 2007

Conference Session: "Social Movements, Resource Control and the Politics
of Social Justice"

Neoliberalism entails "accumulation by dispossession" - the usurpation
of means of production, subsistence and reproduction that are not
mediated by the market and their insertion into the orbits of the
expanded reproduction of capital. Across the global North and South
social movements vigorously oppose these modern-day enclosures of the
commons and in the process develop forms of resource control and new
conceptions of social justice. This session invites empirically grounded
explorations of popular challenges to accumulation by dispossession, the
ways in which subaltern communities reclaim and reinvent resource
control, and how movements of the dispossessed link their contention
over resource control to the politics of social justice across the
global South and North.

Abstracts (200 words) to be sent to: alf.nilsen at nottingham.ac.uk
Deadline: June 30




Dr. Alf Gunvald Nilsen
RCUK Fellow, Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, School
of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/research/research_CSSGJ.php