The following announcement might be of some interest for some people in the list. Apologies for multiple copies. --Moses A. Boudourides Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Patras 265 00 Rio-Patras Greece Tel.: +30-2610-996318 Fax: +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS CONTEMPORARY ANTI-WAR MOBILIZATIONS Agonistic Engagement Within Social Movement Networks A two day workshop to be held in Corfu, Greece, November 6-7, 2003 The network perspective is often discussed in relation to social movements and collective action. Key elements of the latter, such as actors, agencies, organizations, institutions etc. witnessing, participating, confronting or allying with social movements, can be studied in their networked entanglements - consensual or conflictual, deliberative or agonistic - at any level of collective action - local, national or global. This international workshop seeks to explore a particular form of contemporary social movements: anti-war mobilizations and peace movements, increasingly connected with networked forms of collective action in the era of globalization. In particular, we seek papers addressing one or more of the following questions: * How are national, subnational and transnational mobilizations articulated to each other specially when they put forward distant issues an in the case of the contemporary anti-war movements? * What sort of networked patterns or organizational forms emerge from such movements and how these expanded network structures are configuring or are configured within broader political processes and global information flows? * Do the recent episodes of anti-war collective action cluster in emerging cycles and waves of protest? Is their diffusion affected by the geographic scale or on any other underlying heterogeneities? * What kind of data or/and ethnomethodological work could properly map the anti-war movement? * What sort of causal models or agent-based simulations of evolving dynamic and self-organizing networks could describe the dynamics of these mobilizations? * How do policies and politics over anti-war mobilizations relate to each other? What is the response of the authorities or the state to this type of contentious action? What is the interaction between anti-war protest and repression? * How is globalization connected with the upsurge of global terrorism together with many other types of violence (state, racial, ethnic, cultural or gender-based)? * How do the modern states of emergency and risk society react against the threads or accidents of network vulnerabilities, failures or collapses? * Could modern movements as global anti-war protests be viewed as a particular instance of reflexive remodernization? * How public deliberation and pluralist democracy can foster inside the radical agonistics against globalization? * Can the democratization of science or the idea that 'another science is possible' be advanced and sustained within these mobilizations? The Workshop will be organized by Dr Iosif Botetzagias (iosif_botetzagias@yahoo.co.uk) and Prof Moses Boudourides (mboudour@upatras.gr), University of Patras, Greece. There are no registration fees and delegates interested in participating will soon receive information about hotels in Corfu and traveling within Greece. Abstracts up to 250 words should be sent by email to one of the organizers by July 15, 2003.