• RC 36 President: Reminder of Call for Paper: ISA Forum 2012 in Buenos Aires
  
  RC36 and RC38 Interim Conference

• "Beyond Alienation and Integration: Social Issues and Movements" in Curitiba/ Brazil (24 -25.07.2011)
• Practical Information: Hotel Altarregia
• Program (incl. Business meeting agenda)
• Presenters

• RC 36 Officers and Board Members

SECOND ISA FORUM

"Social Justice and Democratization”
(Buenos Aires/ Argentinia – 01. – 04.08.2012)
http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/

The RC36 at the ISA intends to take an active part in the work of the Second ISA Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1-4-August 2012. RC36 invites interested members and researchers to submit proposals for sessions dealing with questions of theoretical and empirical significance for the field.

The proposal should include the name and the contact information of the session organizer, a session title, and an abstract of approximately 200 words that clarifies the session’s theme and the type of research interests which it in particular will address.

Please send your proposals as soon as possible to:

• Vessela
• Dirk Michel-­Schertges
• Miriam Adelman

Our RC must submit the final list of Forum sessions to the ISA by July 15, 2011.
Regards, Vessela Misheva

Proposals for sessions which deal with the interpretation of classical perspectives, encourage the discussion of modern forms of alienation, or offer cross-­national and comparative perspectives on the varieties and forms of alienation on personal, organizational, and societal levels in the contemporary world are equally welcomed. Also of interest are proposals for joint sessions to be held in cooperation with another ISA Research Committee. Please note that if your proposal is approved you are expected to organize the session and serve as its convener and chair. According to regulations, a session chairperson cannot present a paper at the session s/he is chairing. Session proposals are to be submitted by 12 July 2011. Please send your session proposal by e-­mail (address given below) to Vessela Misheva (Vessela.Misheva@soc.uu.se) who will serve as RC36 Program Coordinator for the 2012 ISA Forum and Cc to and Dirk Michel-­Schertges (dimi@dpu.dk). Please note that if your proposal is approved you are expected to organize the session and serve as its convener and chair. According to regulations, a session chairperson cannot present a paper at the session s/he is chairing.

Vessela  Misheva,
President  RC36

This interim conference aims to bring together scholars from the two Committees who systematically deal with the modern challenges which research on alienation and social movements face today, including points of intersection between the two fields.

Contact person:
Paula Gimenes, Events department, Hotel Altareggia; email: eventos@altareggia.com.br

Price for one night:
BR real $112,50 per night (USD 67.57 at today's exchange rates, same rate for single or double room, with breakfast included)

Our conference will immediately precede the Brazilian conference, which runs from the 26th to the 29th of July. More information concerning the Brazilian Congress, the topic of which   is Changes, Permanencies and Sociological Challenges, can be found at http://www.sbs2011.sbsociologia.com.br/. This site is available in Portuguese, Spanish, and English The link below provides a glimpse of the beauty of the conference venue: http://www.curitiba-­parana.net/brazil/pictures.htm.

RC36 and RC48 at the ISA  
Interim Conference in Curitiba, Brazil - 24-­25 July 2011
Beyond Alienation and Integration: Social Issues and Movements

24 July 2011

09:00-09:15		Conference Opening
09:15-­10:00		Keynote: Lauren Langman and Devorah Kalekin-­Fishman: Alienation and Social Movements. Discussant: Tova  Benski
10:00-­10:15		Coffee break
10:15-­12:15		Session 1: Culture, Gender, and Alienation Moderator: Marvin Prosono, Missouri State University, USA
10:15-­10:45		Miriam Adelman, Women's Subjectivities and Corporealities - Deconstructing  "Alienated Femininity Equestrian Practices.
10:45-­11:15		Bila Sorj, Gender and the New Paradigm of Public Policies in Brazil.
11:15-­11:45		David G. Embrick, Exporting Diversity Ideology: Transnational Corporations and Maintaining White Male Solidarity in a Globalized Economy.
11:45-­12:15		Richard Miskolci, Brothers and Machos: An Ethnography of the Closet in Online Male Homoerotic Relations.
12:15-­13:30		Lunch
13:30-­15:30		Session 2: Alienation and Globalization. Moderator: Vessela Misheva, Skövde University & Uppsala University, Sweden
13:30-­14:00		Marvin Prosono, Brazil in the Cinematic Imagination: An Instance in the Global Extradition of Alienation.
14:00-­14:30		Alvaro N. Calara, Urbanization and Ethnicity: A Global-­Local Dialectic.
14:30-­15:00		Lauren Langman,  Globalization  from  Below.
15:00-­15:30		Andrew Blasko, Is  Alienation  an  Inalienable  Human  Right?
15:30-16:00		Coffee break
16:00-­18:00		Session 3: Alienation and Democracy Moderator: Andrew  Blasko,  Uppsala  University,  Uppsala,  Sweden
16:00-­16:30		Lennita Ruggi and Rosimeire Barboza da Silva, Questioning Democracy: Violence against Homeless People in Brazil.
16:30-­17:00		Dirk Michel-­Schertges, The Knowledge Society-Progress and Property vs. Human Development.
17:00-­17:30		Tova Benski, Alienation as "Emotional  Liberation" among Women Peace Activists in Israeli Society.
17:30-­18:00		Karori Signh, Tamil Ethnic Alienation and Secessionist Movement in the Post-Colonial Sri Lanka: Dynamics of Democratization and Scope for Reconciliation.
18:15-­19:00		RC36 Board Meeting
19:30		RC36 Dinner

25 July 2011

9:00-11:00		Session 4: Alienation and Community Life Moderator: Miriam Adelman, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
9:00-9:30		Luis Berrucuecos, Alienation, Lifestyle and Healthcare in an Indian Community in Mexico.
9:30-­10:00		P. Balan, Making Democracy Work: Community Participation in the Local Governance in Kerala.
10:00-10:30		Daniela Sant Ana, Collective Action on Natural Resources: The Participation of Rural Communities  in the Management Council for the Environmental Protection Area of Guaratuba, Parana.
10:30-­11:00		Akbar Valadbigi, Studying the Elements of Work Alienation in the Orumiyeh White Cement Factory.
11:00-­11:15		Coffee Break
11:15-­13:15		Session 5: New Theoretical Approaches to Alienation Moderator: Dirk Michel-­Schertges, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
11:15-­11:45		Tanya Jukkala, Suicide: An Interpretation of Alienation from a Luhmannian Perspective.
11:45-­12:15		Vessela Misheva, Alienation from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective.
12:15-­12:45		Gabriel Peters, The Theory of Action in Light (and in the Shadow) of Schizophrenic Alienation: An Essay in Insane Epistemology.
12:45-­13:15		Lennart Räterlink, The Neighbor and the Art of the Impossible: On the Zizekian Political Act.
13:15-­14:00		Lunch
14:00-­16:30		Session 6: Alienation, (Dis)integration, and Modern Political Life Moderator: Tova Benski, College of Management, Rishon Lezion, Israel
14:00-14:30		Annie Dymetman, From Mediation to Transmediation: Perceptions of Alienation.
14:30-­15:00		Ong Beng Kok, A Marxian Form of Work Alienation: A Critical Examination of its Relevance from a Case of Sales Workers
15:00-­15:30		Shannon Walsh, "Radical Chic" and the Demise of Collective Power in Contemporary South Africa.
15:30-­16:00		Luke Sinwell, The Role of Opposition Political Parties in Social Movement  Struggles in Soweto,   Johannesburg: Unlikely Partners, Strategic Outcomes.
16:00-­16:30		Latif Norov, Increasing Social and Economic Mobility to Promote Broad-­Based Economic Growth.
16:30-­16:40		Conference Closing
16:40-­17:15		Coffee break
17:15-­18:15		RC36 Business Meeting
		Opening and Welcome by the President Interim Conferences - Second ISA Forum of Sociology 1-­4 August 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina Report of the Secretary - membership situation/newsletter Board members' report Financial report Travel grants for young scholars RC36 publications and discussion forums (Facebook, Linkedin?) World Congress of Sociology Other business - from the floor

• Akbar Valadbigi
  Yerevan  State  University,  Armenia,  and  Higher  Education  Center,  Sanandaj, Iran
• Alvaro Calara
  Department  Behavioral  Sciences,  College  of  Liberal  Arts,  De  La  Salle University, Manila
• Annie Dymetman
  Faculdade  de  Direito  (Faculty  of  Law),  Universidade  São  Judas  Tadeu, São  Paulo,  Brazil
• Andrew Blask
  Uppsala  University,  Sweden
• Bila Sorj
  Department  of  Sociology,  Universidade  Federal  de  Rio  de  Janeiro,  Brazil
• Daniela Sant Ana
  Management  Council  for  the  Environmental  Protection  Area  of  Guaratuba
• David G. Embrick
  Loyola  University,  Chicago
• Devorah Kalekin-­Fishman
  Faculty  of  Education,  University  of  Haifa,  Israel
• Dirk Michel-­Schertges
  Department  of  Pedagogy,  Aarhus  University,  Denmark
• Gabriel Peters
  Institute of Social and Political Studies, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Argentina
• Karori Signh
  South Asia Studies Centre, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, INDIA
• Latif Norov
  Center for Economic Research, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• Lauren Langman
  Department of Sociology, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
• Lennart Räterlink
  Department of Sociology, Gävle, Sweden
• Lennita Ruggi
  Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil
• Luis Berrucuecos
  Department of Social Relations, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Metropolitan   Autonomous University, Mexico City
• Luke Sinwell
  Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Markus Schulz
  New York University, USA
• Marvin Prosono
  Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, Missouri  State University, Springfield,  Missouri
• Miriam Adelman
  Universidade Federal do Parana, Programa Pos-­Graduacao em Sociologia, Curitiba, Brazil

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