BISA working group on historical sociology and Manchester Centre for International Politics

BISA working group on historical sociology and Manchester Centre for
International Politics

One day workshop: 'The historical sociology of domination and resistance'
Centre for International Politics, Manchester University Wednesday September
11th 2008

This workshop builds on long-standing work in historical sociology which
focuses on processes of domination and resistance - and it asks what an
international perspective can add to that work. Since the publication of
Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy some forty
years ago, much research in historical sociology has centred on diverse
forms of rulership and how these are challenged, successfully or otherwise,
by forms of collective action. Yet Barrington Moore was famously criticized
for failing to theorise the international side of the struggles which he
analysed. As such, this workshop aims to interrogate both past and
contemporary processes of continuity and change, with special reference to:

- ways of conceptualising and interrogating modes of domination and
hierarchy in world politics;
- the role played in challenging forms of domination by diverse forms of
resistance such as social movements, revolutionary groups and other such actors;
- how relations of domination and resistance have intersected in ways that
challenge us to develop the international side of the historical
sociological imagination.

Workshop attendance is free, but places are limited. Thanks to a recent
award from BISA, travel expenses will be provided for research students and
paper givers. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided on the day itself.

Those interested in presenting papers should send abstracts to George Lawson
(g.lawson@lse.ac.uk ) Stuart Shields (Stuart.Shields@manchester.ac.uk) and
Justin Rosenberg (j.p.rosenberg@sussex.ac.uk) by August 11th 2008.

Those who want to register for the workshop should email the three
organisers as soon as possible