Cultures in Resistance

Cultures in Resistance

18 - 20 March 2008
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/dpr/

Conference Stream: Social justice and communities: responses to dominant
discourses

The income gap between rich and poor in the UK means we live in an
increasingly divided society. Disadvantaged groups and communities
within society are further marginalised by dominant cultural discourses
that promote particular ideals and behaviours while stigmatizing the
behaviours and cultures of others, thus justifying their continued
social, political and economic exclusion. The amplification of dominant
cultural discourses can create 'silences', where groups/ communities
feel unable to speak out, or are denied a voice. Other groups/
communities are more successful, and create their own resistant
dialogues, which although often unheard outside their communities,
challenge the dominant discourses.

We are seeking empirical and/ or theoretical papers that consider the
nature of dominance, silences and resistance by groups and communities,
and the possibilities for social justice in the twenty first century.

Please send abstracts to Jude Robinson, at j.e.robinson@liverpool.ac.uk
marked 'Social Justice and Communities' by 31 January 2008. Abstracts
should be in Word format, no more than 200 words.

Dr Jude Robinson
Deputy Director of the Health and Community Care Research Unit,
Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences

HaCCRU,
Thompson Yates Building,
The Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill,
University of Liverpool.
L69 3GB

Telephone: +44 (0) 151 794 5288/ 5503
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Email: j.e.robinson@liverpool.ac.uk