[Air-L] CALL FOR PAPERS: Asia’s Civil Spheres: New Media, Urban Public Space, Social Movements

[Wu Di 吴迪]

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Asia’s Civil Spheres: New Media, Urban Public Space, Social Movements (Deadline: 1 June 2011)



Date:     29 Sep 2011 - 30 Sep 2011

Venue:  National University of Singapore



This workshop aims to revisit the 
ever-shifting spatialities and connections between political 
participation and social change in urban Asia and to explore 
re-imaginings of what ‘political action’, ‘public space’, 
‘place-making’, and ‘social movements’ mean in our globally networked 
societies. The workshop brings together young scholars and leading 
experts working on empirical urban realities, in different cultural and 
national contexts, to discuss how political transformation is initiated,
 negotiated, and resisted, in order to advance our understanding of the 
challenges that precede and follow highly visible insurgencies and the 
ways in which new media are deployed by various actors to either 
strengthen or stifle these processes. We invite submission of papers 
pertaining to cutting edge research at the nexus of new media, social 
activism and movements, and public space.



For further information, please visit:



http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1160