ECPR GENERAL CONFERENCE
POTSDAM
10-12 SEPTEMBER 2009
SECTION: PROTEST POLITICS
PANEL: THE VISUAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSION OF PROTEST
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 1 FEBRUARY 2009
Whether at the local level or within an increasingly transnational
field of collective action, the cultural and visual politics of protest
continue to be an underresearched and all the more relevant field for
protest and symbolic action. The proposed panel invites social and
political scientists interested in the cultural and symbolic politics
of protest, both in the European context, in other regional areas and
in transnational and global arenas of protest. What is the relationship
between identity, strategy and the cultural and visual encoding of
protest? Radical social movements as well as established policy makers
or right wing political parties use cultural tactics, symbolic action
or visual images to mobilise solidarity, reach out for social change or
defend the status quo. Protesters perform culture in street
demonstrations and carnivals, direct action or in emerging internet
communication platforms, and with this try to reimagine cultural
practices and collective identities. Through internet communication
technologies, activists increasingly diffuse their alternative visual
images and symbols to mobilise solidarity and target policy maker at
multiple territorial layers. Papers could address the following
questions: How, when and by which means do protesters or radical actors
use public sphere as a cultural sphere to target policy makers? What is
the impact of symbolic action on mainstream actors of the political and
economic system and in the culture production? Under which contextual
conditions and through which tactics do protesters succeed or fail in
reaching their target groups? What is the roles of images and symbols
as possible lingua franca, tool for translation or trigger for
contention in a Europeanised, global and transnational political space?
By which means do radical cultural and visual politics created and
diffuse a collective identity within movements or produce contention in
a broader environment?
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Alice Mattoni
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute
Badia Fiesolana
Via dei Roccettini 9
I-50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
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