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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008


Research Committee on
Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management RC10

Main theme
Subordinate vs. emancipatory modes of participation in a globalizing world


Program Chair
Heinz Suenker, University of Wuppertal, Germany, suenker@uni-wuppertal.de

Program Coordinator
Julia Rozanova, University of Alberta, Canada, rozanova@ualberta.ca

Venue of RC10 sessions:

Faculty of Geography and History
University of Barcelona
Montalegre, 6
08001 Barcelona, Spain, map

Page last updated: May 19, 2008

Session 1: Participation, self-management and organizational democracy in the public and in the private sphere: changes/decline and their root causes

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Co-organizers: Francesco Garibaldo, Fondazione Istituto per il Lavoro, Italy, fgaribaldo@gmail.com; Isabel Da Costa, Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi Le Descartes I, France, dacosta@mail.enpc.fr; and Vera Vratusa-Zunjic, University of Belgrade, Serbia, vvratusa@sezampro.yu

Session 2: Participation, self-management, democracy and their challenge(r)s in international perspective

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Organizer: Azril Bacal, Uppsala University, Sweden, bazril@gmail.com

Session 3: Participation reconsidered: Its conceptual meaning, ideology and practice under a new light. Part I

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Organizer: Litsa Nicolau-Smokoviti, University of Piraeus, Greece lnicola@otenet.gr
Co-organizer/discussant: Prof. Dr. Demosthenis Daskalakis, Greece

Session 4: Participation reconsidered: Its conceptual meaning, ideology and practice under a new light. Part II

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Organizer: Litsa Nicolau-Smokoviti, University of Piraeus, Greece lnicola@otenet.gr

Joint Session 1: Children and young people - participation or object of concern?

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self Management and RC53 Sociology of Childhood
Organizer: Heinz Suenker University of Wuppertal, Germany, suenker@uni-wuppertal.de

Joint Session 2: Representation, accountability and sustainable futures

Part I
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self Management and RC51 Socio-cybernetics

Part II
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Organizer: Janet McIntyre, Flinders University, Australia, janet.mcintyre@flinders.edu.au

Joint Session 3: Reflections on the World Social Forum

Friday, September 5, 2008, 15:30-17:30
RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self Management and RC36 Alienation Theory and Research
Organizer: Azril Bacal, Uppsala University, Sweden, bazril@gmail.com

Joint Session 4: The Challenges of women's participation/exclusion in public and private contexts

RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self Management and RC32 Women in Society
Part I
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Faculty of Philology, University of Barcelona
Chair: Esther Ngan-ling Chow, American University, USA, echow@american.edu

Part II
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Faculty of Philology, University of Barcelona
Chair: Michal Palgi, The Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel, palgi@yvc.ac.il

Joint Session 5: Aging, social exclusion, and social participation in a globalizing world

Part I
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History, University of Barcelona

Part II
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History, University of Barcelona
RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self Management and RC11 Sociology of Aging
Co-organizers: Julia Rozanova, University of Alberta, Canada, rozanova@ualberta.ca and Andreas Hoff, University of Oxford, UK, andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk

Joint Session 6: Overcoming alienation; democratic mobilizations in a global age

Friday, September 5, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History, University of Barcelona
Joint session of RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management, RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change and RC36 Alienation Theory and Research
Organiser: Knud Jensen, Danish University of Education, Denmark, knud@dpu.dk