A-Infos (en) Portugal, Lisbon, Call for papers for anarchist historiography panel at Feb. 27 2008 European Conference

From Wednesday, February 27 up to and including Saturday March 1, 2008, 
the European Social Sciences History Conference will take place in 
Lisbon, Portugal at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. 
We plan to organize a panel on new ways to research anarchism and 
revolutionary syndicalism and herewith invite researchers to 
participate. Traditionally, the historiography of anarchism has focused 
on the history of ideas, individual protagonists, and organizations. The 
class composition of anarchism and syndicalism has occupied a central 
place, as has the geography of the movement. Some authors have paid 
attention to gender and race, or to a cultural analysis of the movement. 
Much of the research has been sympathetic, many stressing the importance 
of movements in the past, and/or their relevance for the present.

Nonetheless, methodological issues have received limited explicit 
attention. Of particular interest are the following issues :

- linking socio-economic, political, ideological, and cultural approaches ;
- the role of local, regional and transnational factors ;
- social and economic factors that facilitate or constrain anarchist and 
syndicalist movements ;
- and, finally, the relevance of other literatures, such as > social 
movement theory, network analysis and discourse analysis.

The proposed panel will look at these issues, focusing less on accounts 
of anarchist and syndicalist movements, than on the means to study them.

Before February 27, 2007 synopses of papers should be sent to:

Bert Altena
Faculty of History, Arts and Media
Erasmus University Rotterdam
altena [at] fhk.eur.nl

Lucien van der Walt
Department of Sociology
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
vanderwaltl [at] social.wits.ac.za
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