One day workshop
BISA working group on historical sociology and Manchester Centre for International Politics
One day workshop: 'The historical sociology of domination and resistance'
Centre for International Politics, Manchester University Wednesday September 11th 2008
This workshop builds on long-standing work in historical sociology which focuses on processes of domination and resistance - and it asks what an international perspective can add to that work. Since the publication of Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy some forty years ago, much research in historical sociology has centred on diverse forms of rulership and how these are challenged, successfully or otherwise, by forms of collective action. Yet Barrington Moore was famously criticized for failing to theorise the international side of the struggles which he analysed. As such, this workshop aims to interrogate both past and contemporary processes of continuity and change, with special reference to:
- ways of conceptualising and interrogating modes of domination and hierarchy in world politics;
- the role played in challenging forms of domination by diverse forms of resistance such as social movements, revolutionary groups and other such actors;
- how relations of domination and resistance have intersected in ways that challenge us to develop the international side of the historical sociological imagination.
Workshop attendance is free, but places are limited. Thanks to a recent award from BISA, travel expenses will be provided for research students and paper givers. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided on the day itself.
Those interested in presenting papers should send abstracts to George Lawson (g.lawson@lse.ac.uk ) Stuart Shields (stuart.shields@manchester.ac.uk) and Justin Rosenberg (j.p.rosenberg@sussex.ac.uk) by August 11th 2008.
Those who want to register for the workshop should email the three organisers as soon as possible.