1913 Lockout Memorial Scholarship

1913 Lockout Memorial scholarship

NUIM MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism

Deadline Monday, July 1st - please circulate

 
A scholarship covering full course fees for the MA CEESA at Maynooth, awarded on the basis of practitioner excellence in community education, action for equality and / or social movements.

The MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at NUI Maynooth has now completed three very successful years in the course of which we have worked with a wide range of social movement activists and community educators who are using the course to reflect on their own experience, develop their practice and build links across movements with others committed to equality and social justice. 

To mark this, and in keeping with the course’s own commitment to equality, we are offering a scholarship for one student entering the course this autumn. The scholarship is named after the Dublin Lockout of 1913, which marks a historical moment in the encounter between social movements and Irish society, and a landmark in struggles for equality. It has also become a key reference point in community education and popular culture. 

The 1913 Lockout Memorial scholarship is innovative in form, representing the course’s status as a practitioner course and the University’s commitment to community engagement. Rather than duplicate the various scholarships based on academic criteria, this scholarship is awarded on the basis of practitioner excellence in the field and by a committee comprising both practitioners and scholars in the area.
 
Terms and Conditions of the Scholarship

Award: The scholarship award provides full course fees for full-time study on the MA Community Education, Equality and Social Activism programme commencing in September 2013. It is not open to students who are in full-time employment during the period of the course.
 
Eligibility: Any EU applicants who satisfy the course entry criteria may apply. A 2.1 grade minimum in an undergraduate Bachelor’s degree is required. 

Award criteria: The scholarship will be awarded for overall practitioner excellence in community education, action for equality or social movements. This is assessed on the basis of a personal statement (of NO MORE than 1,500 words). 

Contact details of two referees who may be contacted for verification are requested.

The statement may be in any format but should include specific examples of your practice in community education and / or social activism and evidence of your commitment to the broader picture of equality and social justice.

Applications may come from any area within the three fields of practice mentioned above. The scholarship is not restricted to the movements associated with the Lockout (or to Dublin). Length of practice / experience is not a criterion; rather the award will be made on the basis of excellence relative to an applicant’s level of experience.

Deadline and submission: The deadline for receipt of submissions is Monday, July 1st. Applications are confidential and can be sent to Graduate Studies Office, 3^rd Floor John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.  

Scholarship Committee: The scholarship committee will include the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Dean of Social Sciences, one team member from the Department of Sociology and the Department of Adult and Community Education, a leading practitioner in the field and one past student. The Graduate Studies Office will check the eligibility of candidates before submitting to the Scholarship committee for consideration and approval.  

Assessment

The award will be made to the best applicant, based on the following criteria:

1                     Overall practitioner excellence in community education, action for equality or social activism relative to level of experience (50 marks)

2                     Evidence of commitment to the broader picture of equality and social justice (50 marks)

Application Process

Application forms may be downloaded in word format from the Graduate Studies website: http://graduatestudies.nuim.ie/scholarship; via email: graduatestudies@nuim.ie or tel. 01-7086018.

Submitting an application

All applications must be submitted in hard copy to the Graduate Studies Office, 3^rd Floor John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.  All required fields must be completed. 

Payment of Scholarships

The award will be announced in August 2013.The decision will be posted on the Graduate Studies and Departmental websites and a confirmation letter will be sent to the successful applicant. The fees will be paid following registration in September 2013. 

Deferrals and Acceptance

The Award cannot be deferred.

Where an applicant does not, in fact, achieve the results required for admission to the programme, the applicant will not be eligible to receive the Award. If an awardee does not take up a place or accept the award then the award may be made available to the next ranked candidate at the discretion of the Scholarship Committee.  

Closing Date

Completed and signed applications should be submitted by post or by hand in hard paper copy only to the Graduate Studies Office no later than 5pm on the 1st July 2013.

Late applications will not be accepted.

Enquiries

Enquiries regarding the scholarship and the Masters programme can be sent by email to sociology.department@nuim.ie or graduatestudies@nuim.ie

"Understanding European movements" in Europe

Understanding European movements (details here) is getting no fewer than three European launches in June. One is by Prof. James Jasper (CUNY), a leading figure in social movements research, as a semi-plenary session the annual Conference of Europeanists in Amsterdam. The second and third are in Milan, one for a network of urban sociologists (with talks by Andrea Membretti, Anna Casaglia and Laurence Cox) at the University of Milan-Bicocca and one at the PianoTerra social centre (details here). 

ECB blockaded

Remarkable stuff happening at Blockupy Frankfurt, in the belly of the beast. Nice to know we're not alone!

Defend the Centre for Studies in Social Justice

We need your support! The University of Windsor administration has determined that it will close the Centre for Studies in Social Justice this July 1st, 2013. This decision must be reversed as the Centre is a unique, vital and vibrant hub for social justice research, knowledge dissemination, exchange, and advocacy in Canada. You can learn more about the great work that has been done at the Centre by visiting their webpage:
http://www.uwindsor.ca/socialjustice

A petition has been created to stop the closure of the Centre and to send a strong message to the University president and administration that the Centre matters to the University and the community. Please consider adding your signature and sharing it with your friends and allies.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_our_Centre_for_Studies_in_Social_Justice/?pv=0

We also invite you to write an email to administration. You can find a sample here: http://savecssj.org/en/top/letter/   The email can be sent to:
President Wildeman ( wildeman@uwindsor.ca ) and CCed to Provost Leo Groarke
( groarke@uwindsor.ca), VP Research, KW Michael Siu ( kwmsiu@uwindsor.ca ),
Dean Robert Orr ( rrorr@uwindsor.ca ) and Tanya Basok, Director, Centre for
Studies in Social Justice ( basok@uwindsor.ca ).

Please join us an action on June 3, 2013 at 1:30 at Sunset Ave. in front of Chrysler Hall Tower at the University of Windsor.
Please wear black
Flowers optional
Rain or shine event


Please share far and wide and help us demonstrate our continued passion
and commitment to social justice at the University of Windsor.

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Save our Centre for Studies in Social Justice http://savecssj.org/

New book: "Understanding European movements: new social movements, global justice struggles, anti-austerity protest"

See below for details of a new book on social movements in Europe, co-edited by MA CEESA co-director Laurence Cox and Marie Curie fellow Cristina Flesher Fominaya, who will be based at Maynooth for the next two years comparing Irish and Spanish responses to austerity.
 

Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox, eds. (2013) Understanding European Movements: New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest. London: Routledge (Advances in Sociology series).

304 pp. hardback, ISBN 978-0-415-63879-1.
List price $143 / £80; discount $114.40 / £64 (order via www.routledge.com using discount code ERJ67*).
Release date 21 May 2013.

European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial literatures in languages such as French, German, Spanish or Italian – and by the increasing global dominance of English in the production of news and other forms of media. As a result, while anti-austerity and Indignados movements have become key actors on the European stage, much public commentary is deeply restricted in its understanding and analysis. This book sets out to take the European social movement experience seriously on its own terms, including:

- the European tradition of social movement theorising – particularly in its attempt to understand movement development from the 1960s onwards

- the extent to which European movements between 1968 and 1999 became precursors for the contemporary anti-globalisation movement

- the construction of the anti-capitalist "movement of movements" within the European setting

- the new anti-austerity protests in Iceland, Greece, Spain (15- M/Indignados), and elsewhere.

The book represents a collaborative project by participants in the Council for European Studies’ social movements research network. Its 15 chapters include authors based in 11 countries whose analyses are all grounded in ethnographic and historical research on these movements – in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Spain and the UK as well as transnational relationships – and in keeping with the traditions of European movement research many are active, critical participants in the movements they analyse.

This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on the key European social movements in the past forty years and sets present-day struggles in their longer-term national, historical and political contexts. It will be of interest for students and scholars of politics and international relations, sociology, history, European studies and social theory.

Contents

“Introduction”. Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox

Part I: European theory / European movements

11       “European social movements and social theory: a richer narrative?” Laurence Cox and Cristina Flesher Fominaya

Part II: European precursors to the global justice movement

22       “The Italian anomaly: place and history in the global justice movement”. Michal Osterweil

33       “The emergence and development of the ‘no global’ movement in France: a genealogical approach”. Isabelle Sommier and Olivier Fillieule

44       “The continuity of transnational protest: the anti-nuclear movement as a precursor to the global justice movement”. Emmanuel Rivat

55       “Where global meets local: Italian social centres and the alterglobalization movement”. Andrea Membretti and Pierpaolo Mudu

66       “Constructing a new identity for the alterglobalization movement: the French Confédération Paysanne as anti-capitalist ‘peasant’ movement”. Edouard Morena

77       “Movement culture continuity: the British anti-roads movement as precursor to the global justice movement”. Cristina Flesher Fominaya

Part III. Culture and identity in the construction of the European ‘movement of movements’

88       “Europe as contagious space: cross-border diffusion through EuroMayday and climate justice movements”. Christian Scholl

99       “The shifting meaning of ‘autonomy’ in the East European diffusion of the alterglobalization movement: Hungarian and Romanian experiences”. Agnes Gagyi

110   “Collective identity across borders: bridging local and transnational memories in the Italian and German global justice movements”. Priska Daphi

111   “At home in the movement: constructing an oppositional identity through activist travel across European squats”. Linus Owens, Ask Katseff, Elisabeth Lorenzi and Baptiste Colin

Part IV. Understanding the new ‘European Spring’: anti-austerity, 15-M, Indignados

112   “The roots of the Saucepan Revolution in Iceland”. Árni Daníel Júlíusson and Magnús Sveinn Helgason

113   “Collective learning processes within social movements: some insights into the Spanish 15M / Indignados movement”. Eduardo Romanos

114   “Think globally, act locally? Symbolic memory and global repertoires in the Tunisian uprising and the Greek anti-austerity mobilizations”. Vittorio Sergi and Markos Vogiatzoglou

115   “Fighting for a voice: the Spanish 15-M / Indignados movement”. Kerman Calvo

“Conclusion: anti-austerity protests in European and global context – future agendas for research”. Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox

About the editors

Cristina Flesher Fominaya has a PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley and works at the University of Aberdeen. Laurence Cox co-directs the MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. They are founding co-editors of the social movements journal Interface and co-chairs of the Council for European Studies’ social movements research network.

Further details at http://tinyurl.com/euro-movements or  http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415638791/.

Interface 5(1) now out. Struggles, strategies and analysis of anticolonial and postcolonial social movements

Issue 5(1) of Interface: a journal for and about social movements is now available at http://interfacejournal.net on the theme “Struggles, strategies and analysis of anticolonial and postcolonial social movements”.

Like all issues of Interface, this issue is free and open-access. You can download articles individually or a complete PDF of the issue (7.44 MB). Please note that you can also subscribe (free) on the right-hand side of the webpage to get email notification each time a new issue or call for papers is out. This issue of Interface includes 388 pages and 21 pieces, by authors writing from / about Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, India, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, the UK and the US among other countries.

Interface is based in the Dept. of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Late applications welcome

Just to reassure concerned applicants that although the official deadline for applications is April 30th, we will be taking late applications for the MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism. We cannot guarantee as quick a response in terms of acceptance or not but we will nevertheless do our best.

For full details on how to apply as well as funding information, see this page and this one.

Two exhibitions at Maynooth

There are two interesting exhibitions currently running in Maynooth.

One is "Silence would be treason", an exhibition of letters from Nigerian ecological, indigenous and pro-democracy campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa to Irish solidarity activist Majella McCarron in the months before his execution by the military regime.

The second is "Encountering Buddhist Asia", an exhibition documenting Ireland's encounter with the far end of the Eurasian continent from the sixth century on.