{"id":600,"date":"2015-09-03T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=600"},"modified":"2015-09-03T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:10:44","slug":"changeresistance-and-collective-action-in-southern-italy-a-multidisciplinary-symposium-4-sept-2015-university-of-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2015\/09\/03\/changeresistance-and-collective-action-in-southern-italy-a-multidisciplinary-symposium-4-sept-2015-university-of-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Change, Resistance, and Collective Action in Southern Italy: A Multidisciplinary Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Change, Resistance, and Collective Action in Southern Italy
\nA Multidisciplinary Symposium
\n4 September, 2015
\nUniversity of Kent
\nKeynes Lecture Theatre 4
\nhttp:\/\/inspr.eu\/event-info\/sisymposium\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This symposium reopens the debate on the Italian \u2018Southern Question\u2019 through a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives. Challenging conventional narratives of the retrograde South in opposition to the \u2018civic\u2019 North (Schneider, 1992), this symposium is the first to foreground the Mezzogiorno as an important arena for defining processes of cultural signification both at the national and transnational level.<\/p>\n

This approach sheds new light on the Southern Italian regions as areas where dynamics of change, resistance, and collective action are constantly at play. It brings together for the first time a wide-ranging set of contributions from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives including postcolonial studies, social psychology, sociology, history, politics and medicine. The cross-disciplinary angle places Italy\u2019s \u2018Southern Question\u2019 at the intersection of a number of situated historicities that consider traditional cultural essentialisms alongside contemporary marginal and subversive discourses.<\/p>\n

By establishing a productive dialogue between past and present, this symposium will posit the South of Italy as a paradigmatic example of how potential dynamics of collective actions can promote a better understanding of the social, cultural and political disparities affecting subaltern societies.<\/p>\n

Confirmed speakers are:<\/p>\n

Professor James Newell, (University of Salford): \u2018To What Extent is There Still a Southern Question in Italy?\u2019<\/p>\n

Professor Iain Chambers (Universit\u00e0 L\u2019Orientale): \u2018The Southern Question\u2019…. Again!\u2019<\/p>\n

Professor John A Davis (University of Connecticut): \u2018Beyond the \u201cPassive Revolution\u201d \u2013 Re-reading Gramsci on the Southern Question\u2019<\/p>\n

Professor Franco Cassano (Universit\u00e0 di Bari): \u2018Rethinking Southern Thought\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Felia Allum (University of Bath): \u2018Enablers, Sponsors and Helpers: The Hidden Face of Italian Mafias\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Giovanni A. Travaglino (University of Kent): \u2018Culture, Passivity, and Resistance: Towards a Social Psychology of Omert\u00e0\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Maria Ridda (University of Kent): \u2018Not the Italy You Expect: The Case of Postcolonial Naples\u2019<\/p>\n

Professor Victoria Goddard, (Goldsmiths University): \u2018Gender, Generation and Enduring Precarities in the Global South\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Saverio Stranges (Luxembourg Institute of Health): \u2018Italy\u2019s Southern Question: Impact on Health Outcomes and Wellbeing, a Public Health Perspective\u2019<\/p>\n

Sponsors
\nThe Symposium is sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology<\/a> and by the Interdisciplinary Network for Social Protest Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Organising Committee<\/p>\n

Dr Giovanni A. Travaglino, School of Psychology, University of Kent
\nDr Maria Ridda, School of English, University of Kent, and Birkbeck College, University of London
\nBenjamin Abrams, Department of Sociology University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

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