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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Special issue of Critical Public Health</b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>‘Public health activism in changing times: Re-locating collective agency’
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for abstracts, deadline 1 May 2019. </b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The special issue will examine emerging new forms of public health activism, and associated novel sources of collective agency, that are evolving in the fight for health-enabling conditions. Attention to structural forms of power, and the
strengths and weaknesses of individual agency have long been cornerstones of critical public health, rooted in a long-established structure-agency binary. We seek to disrupt this binary by calling for papers that draw attention to alternative, distributed,
networked, disruptive, prefigurative or bottom-up sources of agency that characterise emerging new forms of activism.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">New and resurgent social movements include attention to issues of anti-austerity, disability rights, new feminisms, defence of public services, housing justice, urban regeneration, anti-racism and advocacy targeting commercial determinants
of health. Alternative forms of health-enhancing agency ‘in the cracks’ are evident in the form of ‘wilful subjectivities’ (e.g. transgender and queer politics), non-human agency (e.g. communication technologies, built environment), distributed agency (e.g.
emergence of common causes, new networks, emergent protest), occupation of space, evidence-based activisms and artistic expressions. Evident too are efforts to connect grassroots collective agency to traditional axes of power, e.g. social enterprises using
capitalist business models, or grassroots party political activism. Papers on any of these, or other, locations of collective agency with potential for innovative public health activism would all be suited to the special issue.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite papers from the full range of public health disciplines, exploring the possibilities of public health activism in contemporary conditions, especially papers with strong empirical bases in studies of recent/contemporary activism.
Creative responses to crisis are most often generated in practice rather than theory, and we particularly welcome papers rooted in activist and collaborative praxis.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A two-round review process will take place:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please submit abstracts (250-300 words) to Flora Cornish (<a href="mailto:f.cornish@lse.ac.uk" target="_blank">f.cornish@lse.ac.uk</a>).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstract submission deadline: May 1, 2019<u></u><u></u></p>
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