Social Action and Social Change 2007
A conference hosted by the Social Inquiry Program and supported by the Research Initiative on International Activism, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS and the Social Work Program, School of Social Science and International Relations UNSW
Saturday 2nd June 2007 9:00 a.m. to 5.30p.m.
Venue: UTS Broadway, Building 2, Level 4. Room 422
The 6th Social Movements and Social Change conference will be held at UTS with 26 discussion papers in social movement studies from UNSW and UTS. Sessions on 'Civil rights movements', 'Movements, democracy and the state', 'Space and Social Movements'ments ', 'Indigenous movements and reconciliation', 'Feminism and anti-violence campaigns', 'Virtual Far Right movements' and 'Religion and social movements'.
Please download the list of abstracts for this conference (doc, 75kb).
Draft program below.
Papers from previous Social Movements in Action conferences are on the web at: www.international.activism.hss.uts.edu.au
Entry by donation. Disabled Access. The conference will be held at UTS Broadway Campus. Building 2, level 4, room 422. Details of the location are on the web at: http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/citymap.html
Further Info and Registration: Research Initiative on International Activism, James Goodman, James.Goodman@uts.edu.au tel: 9514 2714,
PROGRAM
9.00 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 10.00 Welcome to Country
Welcome: Dr. James Goodman, Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS
Leanne Dowse, Social Work UNSW
Keynote Speaker: Amanda Tattersall, Executive Director, Working NSW
(A research-driven campaign centre established by Unions NSW).
Coalition Unionism: With the advent of 'Work Choices' we are in the midst of a major labour movement mobilisation. Amanda Tattersall discusses how trade unions work in coalition to achieve broad-based social change, drawing from her research on coalitions in Australia and internationally. She has just completed a PhD on Coalition Unionism, comparing coalition practice in the USA, Canada and Australia.
10.00 – 11.30 SESSION 1
Panel 1: Civil rights movements
Phy Vann, Emotions and Social Action: The case of SIEV X.
Emma Borg, The Success of Social Movements in Australia: the problem of mobilisation and participation.
Amanda Thompson, Analysing Same Sex Relationship Rights Campaigns in NSW
Kate Appleby, Amnesty International and the Anti-Death Penalty Movement
Panel 2: Movements, democracy and the state
Etheon Parkes, Taking Action on Lesbian Health in NSW: Lost in government bureaucratic translation,
Michelle Thomas, Contemporary student political activism,
Kate Henwood, Social movement theory and the 9/11 Truth Movement
11.30-11.45 Tea + Coffee Break
11.45 – 12.30 SESSION 2
Panel 3: Space and Social Movements
Kell Derrig-Hall, Communities or consumers? The role of public space in encouraging community interaction and action,
Anna Noonan, Surfbeach Sovereignty – localism and the Bra Boys,
Jane Macnamara, Sovereignty and Social Change: Social Movements in Taiwan,
Panel 4: Diasporic movements
Abdul Hekmat, Pakistani muslim diaspora and Islamic collective identities,
Jessica Stead, The Chinese Cultural Freedom Movement: Social movement and the Chinese Diaspora.
12.30-1.00 LUNCH
1.00-3.00 SESSION 3
Panel 5: Indigenous movements and reconciliation
Kate Aubrey-Poiner, Changes in the reconciliation movements: From a state-sponsored initiative to a 'peoples movement''
Amy Luschwitz, Support, Opposition, or Apathy? Exploring the relationship between non-Indigenous people, the media and the Reconciliation movement,
Rebecca Sinclair, Indigenous Empowerment: Fighting for their Land Rights
Panel 6: Feminism and anti-violence campaigns
Jackie Kerr ‘To violence against women, the government says mmmm’: The ineffectiveness of Australia’s domestic violence campaign
Laura Coady, Reclaiming the night: A history of public demonstration within Sydney's feminist anti-violence movement
Elsa Koleth, Engendering International Law: Women's Movements and the Quest for Gender Justice
3.00-3.15 Tea + Coffee Break
3.15-5.15 SESSION 4
Panel 7: Virtual Far Right movements
Louise Chandler, New media and the changing rhetoric of white supremacist movements.
Jasmine Richardson, Cyberspace as a political tool: "Second Life" and the French extreme right
Panel 8: Religion and social movements
Jacqueline Pham, Resistance Identity: Jews for Jesus and Left Behind
Emily O’Donnell, Bearing Witness: Repertoires of contention accessed by the anti-war activities of the Plowshares movement
Bryn Hutchinson, The impact of gay and lesbian activism on the social and political environment
Panel 9: Climate change campaigns and corporate power
Cee Egan, Mapping climate change movements: International, national and local actions Matthew Sander, Accepting Climate Change
Amy Tyler, CSR and the corporate welfare bum
5.15-5.30 SUMMING-UP
James Goodman, UTS, and Leanne Dowse, UNSW