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SUMMARY:Sociology seminar series: Em Temple-Malt & Luke Yates
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DESCRIPTION:Em Temple-Malt: 'Encounters with acquaintances and strangers:
  civil partnership and relational displays'\n\nLuke Yates: 'Everyday Pol
 itics\, Social Practices and Movement Networks: Daily Life in Barcelona’
 s Social Centres'\n\nThe relations between everyday life and political p
 articipation are of interest for much contemporary social science theory
 . Yet studies of social movement protest still pay disproportionate atte
 ntion to moments of mobilisation\, and to movements with clear organisat
 ional boundaries\, tactics and goals. Exceptions have explored movements
 ’ collective identity\, their ‘free spaces’ and prefigurative politics\,
  but such processes are framed as important only in accounting for movem
 ents in ‘abeyance’\, or in explaining movement persistence. This present
 ation focuses on the social practices taking place in and around social 
 movement spaces\, showing that political meanings\, knowledge and altern
 ative forms of social organisation are continually being developed and c
 ultivated. Social centres in Barcelona\, Spain\, autonomous political sp
 aces hosting cultural and educational events\, protest campaigns and alt
 ernative living arrangements\, are used as empirical case studies. Daily
  practices of food provisioning\, distributing space and dividing labour
  are politicised and politicising as they unfold and develop over time a
 nd through diverse networks around social centres. Following Alberto Mel
 ucci\, such latent processes set the conditions for social movements and
  mobilisation to occur. However\, they not only underpin mobilisation\, 
 but are themselves politically expressive and prefigurative\, with multi
 ple layers of latency and visibility identifiable in performances of pra
 ctices. The variety of political forms – adversarial\, expressive\, theo
 retical\, and routinised everyday practices\, allow diverse identities\,
  materialities and meanings to overlap in movement spaces\, and help exp
 lain networks of mutual support between loosely knit networks of activis
 ts and non-activists. An approach which focuses on practices and network
 s rather than mobilisation and collective actors\, it is argued\, helps 
 show how everyday life and political protest are mutually constitutive. 
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LOCATION:Room G.019 \, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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