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SUMMARY:A Masterclass with Professor Diana Mitlin - 'Understanding social
  movement strategies: Contention\, collaboration and subversion
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DESCRIPTION:IDPM's State-Society Relations research group and the Effecti
 ve States and Inclusive Development research centre are convening this m
 asterclass for staff and doctoral researchers interested in reflecting o
 n these themes and the further issues raised by the paper that Diana wil
 l present as a springboard for discussion:\n \n"This paper explores the 
 strategies of social movement organizations working in towns and cities 
 of the Global South. Drawing on research from towns and cities in Asia a
 nd Africa\, I argue that social movements follow three main strategies: 
 collaboration\, contention and subversion. In their collaboration\, soci
 al movements are not simply moving along a continuum of public protest a
 nd negotiation with governments. In many cases\, they go beyond negotiat
 ion with a willingness to have a direct co-productive engagement in the 
 provision of services.  Hence practices of contentious politics are only
  one strategy followed by urban social movements.  Movement leaders also
  recognise and frequently nurture the importance of more hidden forms of
  resistance. To improve their quality of life and well-being\, groups pu
 rsue a number of forms of subversion (or encroachment)\, challenging loc
 al outcomes with acts of collective subversion.\n\nThe discussion challe
 nges the dominance on contentious politics within the social movement li
 terature and in the second half of the masterclass I wish to explore wha
 t might be the consequences of this emphasis for the ways in which pract
 ices of resistance have been understood and represented. How\, for examp
 le\, has this emphasis influenced the ways in which movements are encour
 aged to understand themselves and their work?  How have such representat
 ions influenced how others observe and understand their work\, including
  the extent to which their contributions are viewed as legitimate\, and 
 by whom they are seen as legitimate?  As ever\, representations are not 
 neutral."\n\nStaff and doctoral researchers can book their place by emai
 ling kat.bethell@manchester.ac.uk by Monday 30 March
STATUS:TENTATIVE
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G.035/36\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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