Apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR PAPERS - Asia’s Civil Spheres: New Media, Urban Public Space, Social Movements (Deadline: 1 June 2011) Date: 29 Sep 2011 - 30 Sep 2011 Venue: National University of Singapore This workshop aims to revisit the ever-shifting spatialities and connections between political participation and social change in urban Asia and to explore re-imaginings of what ‘political action’, ‘public space’, ‘place-making’, and ‘social movements’ mean in our globally networked societies. The workshop brings together young scholars and leading experts working on empirical urban realities, in different cultural and national contexts, to discuss how political transformation is initiated, negotiated, and resisted, in order to advance our understanding of the challenges that precede and follow highly visible insurgencies and the ways in which new media are deployed by various actors to either strengthen or stifle these processes. We invite submission of papers pertaining to cutting edge research at the nexus of new media, social activism and movements, and public space. For further information, please visit: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=11...