Social Movements in the 2010s
ISA47/48 Preconference. Vienna, July 9th 2016
Limited space – please register till 15 June 2016 by sending an e-mail at rc47.isa@gmail.com
Free entrance for members of RC47.
9:00-9:20am: Welcome words, Priska Daphi & Geoffrey Pleyers (RC47) & Tova Benski (RC48)
9:20-11:00am: Plenary panel: Social movements, refugees and borders
Chair: Priska Daphi, University of Frankfurt, RC47
Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna)
Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore Florence)
Shalini Randeria (Institute for Human Sciences Vienna)
Jeff Goodwin (New York University)
11:15-12.45: Plenary panel: Social movements and change.
Chair: Geoffrey Pleyers, University of Louvain, RC 47.
Markus Schulz (New School for Social Research, ISA)
Chris Rootes (University of Kent)
Colin Barker (University of Manchester)
James Jasper (City University New York)
12:45-2:30pm: Socializing session and lunch in thematic groups
 Refugees and movements
 Digital technology, media and social movements
 Continuities and outcomes of movements
 Environmentalist movements
 Movements for democracy
 Right wing and conservative movements
 Women and feminist movements
 Unions and movements around (precarious) work
 Social movements and repression
2:45-4:30pm: Plenary discussion 3: Cultural Perspectives on Social Movements
Chair: Tova Benski, College of Management Studies, Israel, RC48
Breno Bringel (State University of Rio de Janeiro)
Priska Daphi (University of Frankfurt)
Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London)
Eji Hamanishi (Notre Dame Seishin University)
Geoffrey Pleyers (Université de Louvain & Coll. Etudes Mondiales)
Benjamin Tejerina (University of the Basque Country)
4:45-5:15 pm: ISA47&RC48: program in Vienna, forthcoming activities and publications
5:15-6pm: Second socializing session (thematic groups as above)
6-8pm: Special session:
Sociologists under threats. Repression and violence against social movement scholars
Maha Abdelrahman (University of Cambridge) on the situation in Egypt
Buket Turkmen (University of Galatasaray, Turkey) on the situation in Turkey
Margaret Abraham (Hofstra University, ISA President)
Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut, ISA Human Rights Committee)
Pre-conference organizers: Priska Daphi, Geoffrey Pleyers, Tova Benski
ISA47 Program at the 3d ISA Forum, Vienna
July 10 – 15 2016
Sunday, 10 July 2016
09:00-10:30
Joint Opening Session RC47 & RC 48: Social movements in the mid-2010s
Session Organizers: B. TEJERINA, B. BRINGEL, T. BENSKI & G. PLEYERS
Social movements and social theory
Saskia SASSEN, Columbia University, New York
Like House of Cards": Social Movements, Time Intensity and Eventful Democracy
Donatella DELLA PORTA, Scuola normale superiore, Firenze
Movements and their Allies: The Curious Case of Scholar Activism
Maha ABDEALRAHMAN, University of Cambridge:
10:45-12:15
Social Movements As Sites of Social Development
Chairs: Colin BARKER & John KRINSKY
Social Movement Schools: Movement Resource in Performative Challenges for Change
Larry ISAAC1, Anna JACOBS1, Jaime KUCINSKAS2 and Allison MCGRATH1,
(1)Vanderbilt University, USA, (2)Hamilton College, USA
Linking Types of Protest Tactics and Structural Conflicts: Some Key Points from the
Study of the Social Form of the Protest in the Basque Country
Arkaitz LETAMENDIA, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Niue
New Molecular Intellectuals and the Making Sense of Action in Social Movements
Francesco ANTONELLI, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy
Strategy, Performance, and Gender: An Interactionist Understanding of the Italian
Lgbtq Movement and the Catholic Countermovement
Anna LAVIZZARI, University of Kent, United Kingdom
12:30-14:00
Social Movements, Sociology and Climate Change
Session Organizers/ Chairs: Jackie SMITH and Esin ILERI
Confronting Climate Change: Environmental Movements, NGOs and Others in
England.
Christopher ROOTES, School of Social Policy, Sociology & Social Research, University
of Kent, CANTERBURY, United Kingdom
How Environmental Movements Shape the Global
Geoffrey PLEYERS, FNRS-University of Louvain & College d'Etudes Mondiales,
Belgium
Broadening Local Mobilizations: Exploring the Possibilities of Linking "Northern
Forest Defense" in Turkey to Climate Change
Baran Alp UNCU, Marmara University, Turkey
What Is Political Ecology ? a Conceptuel Approach
Fabrice FLIPO, Telecom-EM, France
Distributed papers:
Transnationalizing Dynamics of Social Movements : Using the Integral Approach of
Social Movement Theories
Yosuke TATSUNO, Sophia University, Japan
Demanding Policy Change, Taking Direct Action, or Promoting Alternatives:
Explaining Differential Participation in the International Climate Change Movement
Joost DE MOOR, University of Antwerp, Belgium
14:15-15:45
Social Movements in Latin America: Contributing to a North-South Dialogue
Session Organizers: Renata MOTTA and Pablo LAPEGNA
Chair: Angela PAIVA
La Sociología De Alain Touraine y El Movimiento De Pobladores Chileno
Alexis CORTES MORALES, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile
Movimientos Societales Indígenas y Resistencias Comunitarias En América Del Sur:,
Una Mirada Desde Una ‘Epistemología Del Sur', Pabel LOPEZ FLORES, CIDES-UMSA,
Bolivia
Social Actors and Latin American Social Thought: Contributions for Decentring Social
Movement Studies
Breno BRINGEL, Institute of Social and Political Studies, Universidade Estado do Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
La Investigación Acción Participativa y La Construcción De Una Sociología Global
Miguel Antonio BORJA ALARCON, Escuela Superior de Administracion PublicaESAP, Colombia
For an Analysis of the Global Reality
Antimo Luigi FARRO, Sapienza University Of Rome, Italy
The State and the Agrarian Public Sphere in Venezuela
Simeon NEWMAN, Sociology, University of Michigan, USA and Laura ENRIQUEZ,
Sociology, University of California-Berkeley, USA
Monday, 11 July 2016
09:00-10:30
Roundatable session I: Social Movements in the Global Age.
Session Organizer: Priska DAPHI
Roundtable 1 Movements in Latin America
Chair: Sergio TAMAYO, UAM, Mexico
"This Is My Dream, That's Why I Fight". Love, Law and Solidarity: Stories of a
Brazilian Young Activist Pro-MST
Fernando NOBRE CAVALCANTE and Dilson ALEXANDRE, Faculdade 7 de Setembro,
Brazil
Understanding Protest Outcomes: Indigenous Movements, Demand Making and the
State in Latin America
Anna KRAUSOVA, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Derechos Humanos Como Mito Movilizador: Mujeres y Poblaciones Originarias En
Perú, Narda HENRIQUEZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
Individual Determinants That Trigger Protest Participation: The Case of Mexico City
Roberto CARRILLO SAENZ, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Roundtable 2 Environmental movements
Chair: Dorismilda FLORES, ITESO, Mexico
Urban Community Gardens in Hungary: Part of a Social and Environmental
Movement?
Fanni BARSONY, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Engaging Climate Change in Transnational Spheres: Cosmopolitan Concerns, Local
Mobilization and Environmental Civil Society in Turkey
Hande PAKER, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanca University, Turkey
Digital Activism, Physical Activism: Malta's Front Harsien Odz
Michael BRIGUGLIO, University of Malta, Malta
Media Strategies of Movement Actors in Times of Increasing Mass Media (Self)Control: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement Since the 2011 Fukushima
Disaster, Anna WIEMANN, University of Hamburg, Germany
Roundtable 3 Precarious Work
Precarious Workers' Collective Actions in Italy: Between Silos and Synergies in the
Fragmentation of the Working and Social Life
Daniele DI NUNZIO, Fondazione Di Vittorio, Italy
The Fragmentation of Social Conflicts in Western Europe. a Typology of NonInstitutionalized Labor Protests
Steffen LIEBIG, Friedrich Schiller-University Jena, Institute of Sociology, Germany
and Stefan SCHMALZ, Friedrich Schiller-University, Germany
Precarious Work and "Middle Class" Struggles
Elisio ESTANQUE, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Roundtable 4 What’s left of 2011
Chair: Lorenzo ZAMPONI
The Transformative Impact of the Gezi Protests on New Social Movements in Turkey
Baran Alp UNCU, Marmara University, Turkey
Was It a Hopeless Battle? Consequences of the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey
Hayriye OZEN, Atilim University, Turkey
From the Indignados Movement to "Barcelona En Comú": Continuities, Identities and
Challenges
Viviana ASARA, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria and Anna
SUBIRATS, European University Institute, Italy
The 15M (indignados) Take Power: The Case of the City of Madrid.
Antonio ALVAREZ-BENAVIDES, Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologique
(CADIS-EHESS), France
10:45-12:15
Roundtable session 2: Social Movements in the Global Age. Part II
Session Organizer: Paolo GERBAUDO
Roundtable 1 Social Media
Chair: Emiliano TRERE, Universidad de Queretaro, Mexico
Mafia Apps: Assembling Alternative Geographies of Protest
Christina JERNE, Aarhus University, Denmark
Beyond Network Structuralism: Weaving Webs of Publis in ART-Activism.
Alberto COSSU, University of Milan, Italy and Maria Francesca MURRU, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano, Italy
When Police Hijacked #Blockupy Frankfurt: A Critical Analysis of Activists' Social
Media Tactics
Christina NEUMAYER, Luca ROSSI and Bjorn KARLSSON, IT University of
Copenhagen, Denmark
Activation Trajectories: Tracing the Role of Social Media in Civic Mobilizations in
Bulgaria and Canada
Maria BAKARDJIEVA, University of Calgary, Canada and Delia DUMITRICA, Erasmus
University, Netherlands
The Role of Independent and Alternative Media As Base of a Social Movement and
International Solidarity: The Ayotzinapa Affair in Mexico and Europe.
Rosa Esther ROSANO RODRIGUEZ, CIMEOS - Universite de Bourgogne, France
Roundtable 2 Youth activism and the Future they Want
Chair: Yavuz YILDIRIM
Not the Future, Not the Past Only the Present… the Case Study of Young Activists in
Turkey
Demet LUKUSLU, Yeditepe University, Turkey
“We Still Have Walls Where to Paint”. From Two Young Actors' Initiative to a Global
Graffiti Movement. Case Study of “Zwewla” (“Miserables”)
Sofia LAINE, Finnish Youth Research Network, Finland
Capuling during and after Gezi - the Formation of a New Identity of a Young
Liberalized Generation in Turkey,
Claudia SCHUETZ, University of Innsbruck, Austria
14:15-15:45
What's Left of 2011? Continuities and Outcomes of the 2011 Protests
Session Organizers: Lorenzo ZAMPONI and Priska DAPHI
Chair: Priska DAPHI
Treatment for Democracy? the Case of Social Clinics in Greece
Haris MALAMIDIS, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
The Indignant Citizen: From the Politics of Autonomy to the Politics of Radical
Citizenship
Paolo GERBAUDO, Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London,
London, United Kingdom
From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Sandy: Socio-Technical Infrastructures As Social
Movement Outcomes
Anastasia KAVADA, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
14:15-15:45
The Lasting Influences of Social Mobilization. the Effects of the 2011/ 2012 Romanian
Anti-Austerity Protests on Subsequent Movements.
Henry RAMMELT, Sciences Po Paris/ Sciences Po Lyon (Triangle), France
Roundtable session 3: Social movements & the Future they want
New Directions on Social Movements & Futures Research (Joint RC7/47)
Session organizer: Geoffrey PLEYERS
Table A: Social movements producing the Future
Chair: Eiji HAMANISHI
What Kind of Future Do We Want? Power Dynamics and Negotiation Processes in
Transnational Social Movements,
Marika GEREKE, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Against the Airport and Its World". Autonomies at the Zad Notre-Dame-Des-Landes,
Margot VERDIER, Universite Nanterre Paris-Ouest, France
The Image of Ideal Future for Ukraine Introducing By Euromaidan Movement
Participants in Kyiv Public Space – What Visual Documents Analysis Can Tell Us?.
Mariia GRYSHCHENKO, Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv, Ukraine
An Anarchist Squat in Northeastern Paris : A Future Here and Now ?
Colin ROBINEAU, Université Paris 2-Assas, France
Table B: Digital activism
Imagination/Action: Making Sense of Future in Online Public Expression By Local
Activist Groups
Dorismilda FLORES, ITESO Guadalajara, Mexico
Everyday Activism in Different Socio-Political Context: Cases of Estonia and Finland,
Airi-Alina ALLASTE, Tallinn University, Estonia & Kari SAARI, University of Kuopio,
Finland
From Disaster to Opportunity: Social Movement Organizations As Hope Agents.
Anna WIEMANN, University of Hamburg, Germany
Activism As a Means of Empowerment and Change. Experiences of the Changing
Nature of Civic Organising,
Michael HAMMER, INTRAC, United Kingdom
Table C: Prefigurative activism & environmental challenges
Chair: Nathalie BERNY, Université de Bordeaux, France.
Rethinking the Common of the People through Social Movements: Turkish Cases.
Yavuz YILDIRIM, Nigde University, Turkey
Grassroots Mobilisations and the Democracy They Want: Renewable Energy and AntiFracking.
Anna SZOLUCHA, University of Bergen, Norway
Social Technologies for Trust, Transparency and Conflict Resolution and the
Imagining of Peaceful Futures: The Engagement of Tamera Ecovillage with Peace
Activism in Israel/Palestine.
Ana Margarida ESTEVES, ISCTE - IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Novelty, Strategy and Timing in Social Movements Research: Prefiguring the Futures
We Want? .
Luke YATES, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Economic Practices and Role Models of the Transition Movement: From Market
Societies Towards New Modes of Provisioning?
Silke OETSCH, Department of Sociology, Austria
Table D: Right Wing Movements.
Chair: Emanuele TOSCANO, University of Rome
The Discursive Trajectory of Street Demonstrations in Brazil (2013-2015).
Celi Regina PINTO, UFRGS, Brazil
Mass Mobilizations, Contestations and the Contingent Future in a Plural Polity.
Rajesh MISRA, University of Lucknow, India
Present Futures: Utopia, Prefiguration and Their Meaning in the Refugee Struggle.
Leslie GAUDITZ, University of Bremen, Germany
Table E: Young activists and the future they want
Chair: Sofia LAINE, University of Helsinki
Politics Is Our Daily Bread: New Youth Political Subjectivity in Latin America .
Darcie VANDEGRIFT, Drake University, USA
Politics and the Conduct of Life - a Weberian Perspective on Young Antiracist Activists
in Germany.
Linus WESTHEUSER, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Post-Crisis Utopias? - Future Orientation and Sociological Imagination.
Danny OTTO, University of Rostock, Germany
16:00-17:30
Social Movements and the Future They Want (Joint session RC07/47)
Session Organizer: Markus Schulz & Geoffrey Pleyers
Chair: Ionel SAVA, University of Bucharest
Session on Terrorism: Against Radicalization
Jeffrey GOODWIN, New York University, USA
#Radicalisation: Social Media and the Mutation of Humanitarianism
Kevin MCDONALD, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex Univesity,
London, United Kingdom
Mobilizations and Social Movements in the Contentious Brazilian Public Sphere
Angela PAIVA, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Citizenship Projects for a Better Future: The Struggle for Education in Mexico
Guadalupe OLIVIER, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico & Sergio TAMAYO,
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
16:00-17:30
Moving Refugees? Mobilisation and Outcomes of Refugee Movements, Solidarity
Groups, and Anti-Asylum Activities
Session Organizers: Ilker ATAC and Sieglinde ROSENBERGER
Volunteering for Refugees - Sources for Transnational Solidarity
Serhat KARAKAYALI, Berlin Institute for Migration Research, Humboldt University,
Germany
Anti-Deportation Protest in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
Nina MERHAUT, Universität Wien, Austria and Didier RUEDIN, University of
Neuchâtel, Switzerland; University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Same Same but Different? Challenging Dublin-Deportations in Austria and Germany
Helen SCHWENKEN, University of Osnabruck, Germany, Maren KIRCHHOFF,
University of Osnabrückck, Germany and Verena STERN, University of Vienna,
Austria
Saving Deportees: Dynamics of Mobilizations Against Deportation in Switzerland
Johanna PROBST, SFM Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland and Dina BADER, SFM Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Mobilizing within Networks of Solidarity: Resource Mobilization and Embeddedness
of Refugee Activists in Local Solidarity Networks in Berlin, Germany
Elias STEINHILPER, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
09:00-10:30
SPECIAL SESSION WITH AND AROUND ALAIN TOURAINE
The Sociology of Social Movements As a General Sociology. (Joint RC47/48 event)
Session Organizer: Kevin MCDONALD
Chair: Benjamin TEJERINA
From social movements to subjectivation
Alain TOURAINE, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Alain Touraine's Sociology of the Subject
Kevin MCDONALD, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex Univesity,
London, United Kingdom
Between Subjectivation and Dignity. Homage to Alain Touraine
Tova BENSKI, Social Sciences, College of Management Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel
10:45-12:15
Comments and short interventions by Mickael Burawoy (University of Berkeley),
Markus Schulz (New School NY) & Eiji Hamanishi (Notre Dame Seishin University,
Japan)
Environmental Movements in the Age of Climate Change
Session Organizer & Chair: Christopher ROOTES
Big Ask: An Exercise in Effective Policy Entrepreneurship
Neil CARTER, University of York, United Kingdom and Mike CHILDS, Friends of the
Earth, United Kingdom
Times of Change, Times for Change: The Environmental NGOs in the 'brussels Bubble'
Nathalie BERNY, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France
It's All Local? Climate Change Adaptation Policies, Climate Action Groups and U.S.
Local Governments
Cecelia WALSH-RUSSO, Hardwick College, USA and Mary WALSH, St. John Fisher
College, USA
Learning from Failure: Local Climate Activism from Success to Stasis
Marc HUDSON, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, United
Kingdom
Demanding Policy Change, Taking Direct Action, or Promoting Alternatives:
Explaining Differences and Overlaps in Strategic Preferences within the Climate
Change Movement
Joost DE MOOR, University of Antwerp, Belgium
14:15-15:45
Democracy in the Squares: Global Resistence Movements and Women
(Joint session RC47/48)
Session Organizers/ Chairs: Nilufer GOLE and Buket TURKMEN
The Colour of the Resistance; Is It Red, Purple or Green? the Grassroots of the EcoFeminism in Gezi Resistance
Hande COSKAN, Crossways Cultural Narratives Master Student, Turkey
Feminist Struggles over Social Reproduction: In the Squares and Beyond
Janet CONWAY and Elise THORBURN, Brock University, Canada
16:00-17:30
The "Standing Man" As a Performative Creation of Immediate Collectivities and
Counter-Public Spaces
Ozge DERMAN, EHESS Paris (CRAL), Turkey
From Indymedia to #Occupywallstreet and Anti-Austerity Protests in Europe:
Three Generations of Digital Activism Logics
Session Organizers: Tod WOLFSON, Emiliano TRERE, Peter FUNKE and Paolo
GERBAUDO
Social Movements, Digital Activism and Patterns of Global Contestation
Breno BRINGEL and Livia ALCANTARA, Universidade Estado do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, Brazil
The Rhizomatic Epoch of Contention: From the Zapatistas to the European AntiAusterity Protests
Peter FUNKE, University of South Florida, USA and Tod WOLFSON, Todd Wolfson
Rutgers University, USA
Anti-Austerity Social Movement Repertoires of Communication: A Diachronic
Analysis of Protest Media Legacies in Southern Europe
Emiliano TRERE1,2, Sandra JEPPESEN2 and Alice MATTONI3, (1)Communication and
Journalism, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico, (2)Lakehead
University, Canada, (3)European University Institute, Italy
Digital Activism and Censorship in the Post-Gezi Era
Perrin OGUN EMRE, Kadir Has University, Turkey and Gulum SENER, Arel
University, Turkey
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
09:00-10:30
Far Right Movements and Social Research
Session Organizers: Chikako MORI and Emanuele TOSCANO
Chair: Emanuele TOSCANO
Rapport, Respect, and Dissonance: Studying the White POWER Movement in the
United States, Lisa WALDNER, University of St. Thomas, USA and Betty DOBRATZ,
Iowa State University, USA
Social Media-Based Far Right Movements in Thailand
Wolfram SCHAFFAR, University of Vienna, Austria
When All Roles Are Reversed: Studying Nationalist Youth in Gezi Resistance
Derya GOCER AKDER and Kubra OAYUZ, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
The Complex Political Context of Conservative Mobilization in Japan: Utilizing the
Event Data from Periodicals
Yoojin KOO, The University of Tokyo, Japan
10:45-12:15
Popular Dissent in Sub-Saharan Africa
Session Organizer: Marcelle DAWSON
The Structure of Urban Struggles: Insights from South Africa and Britain
Mario DIANI, University of Trento, Italy, Henrik ERNSTSON, African Center for Cities,
UCT, South Africa and Lorien JASNY, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Mobilization – Organization – Instituionalization Students As Political Actors in Kenya
Anna DEUTSCHMANN, Universität Wien, Austria
14:15-15:45
The Network of Peasant and Agricultural Producers' Organizations of West Africa
(ROPPA) and the Global Food Sovereignty Movement
Nora MCKEON, Rome 3 University, Italy
Young Activists, Subjectivity and "the Future They Want" Joint session RC34/47
Chair: Carmen LECCARDI, University of Milano
The Youth and the Perception of the Future. Between New Values, Transnational
Orientations, and the Reinvention of Politics
Andrea PIRNI and Luca RAFFINI, University of Genoa, Italy
Civil Marriage, Not Civil War!” Anti-Sectarian Activism in Post-War Lebanon
Alexandra KASSIR, EHESS, France
Youth Mobilizing in the City of Jerusalem on a Cross Road: Changing and Teaching
Ourselves
Abeer MUSLEH, Bethlehem University, Palestine
Young Middle-Class Activists in Lima, Peru: Hopes, Fears, and Civic Subjectivities.
Franka WINTER, Maynooth University, Ireland
16:00-18:00
19:00
Youth Support for an Authoritarian Future. Imagining a Pro-Putin Future in
Contemporary Russia
Felix KRAWATZEK, University of Oxford (Nuffield College & Department of Politics),
United Kingdom
RC47 Business Meeting
RC47 Dinner in honour of Alain Touraine
Thursday, 14 July 2016
09:00-10:30
Cultural Signification: Making Sense of Action in Social Movements
Session Organizer / Chair: Daishiro NOMIYA
Co-Creating Movement Symbols: The Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong
Kin-man CHAN, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
From Democracy to Welfare State: The Evolution of a Cultural Theme in Korean Social
Movements
Jin-Wook SHIN, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Emancipative Movements, Emancipative Agency: Framing New Conceptualizations
Paola REBUGHINI, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
The Subjectivation of Collective Movements
Antimo Luigi FARRO, Sapienza University Of Rome, Italy; Cadis (Ehess-Cnrs)-Paris,
France
Acciones Colectivas De LOS Destechados Colombianos Desde La Subjetividad Y La
Raz"N
Maria NARANJO BOTERO, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
10:45-12:15
Social Movements in the Arab World
Session Organizer / Chair: Maha ABDELRAHMAN
Egyptian Civil Society and (Political) Education: Opportunities for Resilient
Authoritarianism, or Prospects for a “Radical” Educational Movement?
Nadim MIRSHAK, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
ISIL As a Transnational Social Movement
Jeffrey GOODWIN, New York University, USA
14:15-15:45
Egyptian RURAL Protests Between the Urban Imaginary Construct and State Politics
Malak ROUCHDY, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Genesis of the New Social Movements in the Global South
Session Organizers/ Chairs: Simin FADAEE and Breno BRINGEL
Contextualizing the Iranian Environmental Movement
Simin FADAEE, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Being in-Between – the Women's Movements in Kenya
Antje DANIEL, University of Bayreuth, Germany
From Inequalities to Liberties: The Rise of New Social Movements in Contemporary
Turkey
Esin ILERI, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, Turkey
Rights-Based or Anti-Systemic? Environmental Protest Movements in Turkey
Hayriye OZEN, Atilim University, Turkey and Sukru OZEN, Yildirim Beyazit
University, Turkey
Leftwing Politics, Social Movements and Marijuana Legalization in Uruguay: A
Peripheral Democracy Challenges the Transnational Drug Policy Paradigm.
Sebastian AGUIAR, Universidad de la República, Uruguay and Gabriel CHOUHY,
University of Pittsburgh, USA
16:00-17:30
Silos or Synergies? Can Labor Build Effective Alliances with Other Global Social
Movements Joint session RC44/47
Session Organizers: Peter EVANS and Daniele DI NUNZIO
Chair: Chris TILLY
‘European Trade Unions and Their Links with NGOs and New Social Movements: How
to Explain Differences Between Countries?'
Rebecca GUMBRELL-MCCORMICK, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Union Activists in Collective Action Fields: A Comparative Exploration
Mario DIANI, University of Trento, Italy
When and Why Do Synergies Work? Comparing Synergistic Movements to Stop “Free
Trade” to Synergies Between Transnational Labor and Feminist Movements
Peter EVANS, Watson Institute for International Studies, USA; Sociology, University
of California-Berkeley, CA, USA
Parallel Government, Privatization, Soft Law, Jobber's Contract, Union Power, and/or
Ngo Leverage?: The Many Meanings of Progress after the Rana Plaza Disaster.
Robert J.S. ROSS, Clark University, USA
Increasing Power Resources By Cross-Border, Cross-Organizational Cooperation?
Synergies and Trade-Offs of Transnational Alliance Between Trade Unions and Social
Movements. the Case of Bangladesh
Sabrina ZAJAK and Saida RESSEL, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
The Position of Labor in Civil Activism: The Labor Movement and the Classness of the
Bersih Movement in Malaysia
Nobuyuki YAMADA, Department of Sociology, Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan
Distributed papers
Laboring Against Human Trafficking: INGOs, Unions, and Anti-Trafficking Responses
Stephanie LIMONCELLI, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Are Alliances Possible Between Workers and Consumers?
Patricia VENDRAMIN, University of Louvain-la-Neuve & Fondation TravailUniversité, Belgium
Social Movement Unionism: from the IWW to Wisconsin and the World
Heather BLAKEY and Graeme CHESTERS, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
19:00
RC47 Informal extended board meeting & dinner