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International Conference on Cross-movement Mobilization

April 5-7, 2017, Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)

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In joint cooperation between the Institute for Social Movements (ISB), Bochum, the Institute for Protest and Social Movement Research (IPB), Berlin, and the ISA's Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47).

The international conference aims to bring together experts and early-career scientists to promote a research area that is highly relevant for social movement studies and for society as a whole, and which has not received sufficient attention in current scholarship: cross-movement mobilization.

This concept describes the joint mobilization and formation of alliances across different social movements and organizations with different constituencies In moving away from single movement approaches literature has begun to progressively shift its interest to the interactions that social movements have between each other and with other actors. Studies have explored examples of this on a wide range and scale, starting from cooperation at the local level, such as urban resistance in cities and communities, to cooperation on issues such as climate change, energy transition, alternative economy, and the relation between the global South and the global North. At the same time, cross-movement alliances cannot be taken for granted, as the different groups and actors are separated by different ideological positions, a diverse history and development, and are also partially subject to competitive relations. How such cleavages and differences are overcome is a key question with which the conference will deal.

The international conference aims to provide a platform to present and discuss research on the conditions under which movement alliances evolve, on the success and failure of cross-movement mobilizations at different levels - from local to global - as well as on various topics such as ecology, labor, economy, and urbanization. The conference will bring together fields of research in sociology, political sciences, and history. Particular prominence will be given to social movement studies, industrial relations, international relations, political economy, and social history, in order to sharpen our understanding of internal modes of cooperation, tensions, synergies, and effects of interaction in cross-movement mobilization.

Key questions which are going to be discussed during the international conference:

Conditions and processes of cross-movement mobilizations and their comparison:
  • Which subject areas and environmental conditions make cross-movement mobilization more likely?
  • Are there social movements that are particularly resistant to cross-movement mobilization?
  • How do progressive cross-movement activities distance themselves from right-wing movements?
  • When and under which conditions do cross-movement campaigns or protest activities become stable networks?

Internal cleavages and clashes:
  • Which issues, ideological differences, and power struggles can be observed in cross-movement mobilization?
  • Is cross-movement mobilization weakening the internal cohesion of movements?
  • How do they achieve synergy?
  • Are there certain environmental conditions or strategic contradictions that hinder synergetic effects?

Multilevel dynamics:
  • Is cross-movement mobilization more likely on the local or global level?
  • Is cross-movement action especially effective in mobilizing several levels at the same time?

Historical embeddedness:
  • What kind of historical precursors can be found for cross-movement mobilization?
  • What are their differences when compared to present forms?

Meta- theoretical reflection:
  • Does cross-movement mobilization eventually result in a singular social movement?
  • What is the relationship between the concept of cross-movement mobilization and other, potentially related concepts such as movement spill-over, frame bridging, movement alliances, etc.?
  • To what extend does the idea of cross-movement mobilization represent a conceptual overstretch?

Specifically, participants can target their interest at the following panels:

Panels

I. Joint Actions against the Radical Right

Session organizers: Jenny Jansson & Katrin Uba (Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden)

There has been a recent increase in cross-movement mobilization against radical right wing groups in Europe and beyond. One of the movements which have become increasingly active is the labor movement, and this panel is interested in how labor movements in different countries mobilize, cooperate and build alliances with other movements in order to fight the growth of radical right activism. Which kinds of strategies are used in such cross-movement mobilizations? Which kinds of movements are the labor movement cooperating with? What are the political and movement related consequences of these kinds of mobilizations? How does the counter-mobilization of the radical right influence the sustainability of such cross-movement cooperation? The panel welcomes empirical and theoretical contributions, comparative or single country studies and encourages the application of wide set of methodological tools.

II. Engaging Difference – Lessons from Cross-Movement Mobilizations in Latin America

Session organizers: Johanna Leinius (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/ipb), Eva Kalny (University of Hannover) & Marco Antonio Teixeira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

In the last decades, social mobilization in Latin America has been transformed as with the increasing politicization of diversity: from the Zapatista uprising to the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encounters and the World Social Forum, building cross-movement alliances has been at the forefront of mobilization strategies and internal reflections for social movements in Latin America. Recognizing the knowledge and valuing the experiences of marginalized communities has been a central concern not only for decolonial approaches in academia, but also for indigenous, afro-Latin, women’s, and peasant movements. Popular education approaches and feminist pedagogies have needed to rethink the revolutionary subject their approaches are directed at and are continuously reformed to fit contemporary Latin American realities. This panel focuses on movement experiences with cross-movement mobilization in Latin America. Its particular focus are the experiences, knowledges, and practices of emancipatory social movements striving to challenge Latin American coloniality. The panel asks: How does cross-movement mobilization play out in Latin America? What role do popular education methodologies and feminist approaches play in the alliance-building approaches between heterogeneous social movements? How are actors from the global North implicated in these processes?

III. Panel: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Large-Scale Mining

Session organizers: Bettina Engels & Melanie Müller (Freie Universität Berlin)

Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global South. The current mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: over labour relations, over territorial control and access to water and land resources, over the effects on local livelihoods, on gender relations and ecological systems, and over the distribution of profits and tax revenues. Hence, in many cases, mining projects are highly contested and trigger protests on the local, national, and transnational scale. Mobilization against the expansion of industrial mining occur in all world regions. Increasingly, resistance is also organized in transnational and transregional ways.

IV. Cross-Movement Mobilisation in Conflicts over Migration and Asylum

Session organizers: Priska Daphi (University of Frankfurt), Lorenzo Zamponi, (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence) & Leslie Gauditz (University of Bremen)

In the last few years, an increasing number of migrants sought asylum in Europe. This development triggered a series of events and processes. Among them, various episodes of collective action took place in different countries: grassroots actions and initiatives in solidarity with refugees, self-organised protests led by refugees at the borders or in camps, transnational campaigns demanding changes in European policies, as well as radical right and nationalist protests against the presence of refugees in some communities.
This panel explores the construction of coalitions between different actors involved in such issues and actions. Which alliances are established both inside and outside social movements? Which actors are most likely to participate and to seek cross-movement cooperation? How do such coalitions affect the dynamic of mobilisation as well as the outcome? We intend to contribute in answering these questions through the analyses of cross-movement mobilisation between all sorts of actors including left-wing and right-wing movements and parties, civic actors, volunteers’ associations, trade unions, NGOs, and religious organisations.

V. Protest waves or cross-movement mobilizations? How do Movements Influence other Movement’ Mobilizations?

Session organizer: Sebastian Haunss (Universität Bremen) & Jochen Roose (Universität Wrocław)

Social movements interact in various ways. They can develop in direct response to other movements, as counter-movements, or as competing movements in the same issue area - the idea of movement sectors and movement industries draws on this notion. Movements in one country can also influence the development of movements in other countries - leading to weak or strong forms of transnationalization of protest. They can also replace earlier movements as successors after an earlier movement has de facto dissolved - as expressed in the concept of separate waves of one movement. And they can also interact more indirectly, building on an increased willingness to protest created by other movements - an idea that lies behind the more general notion of protest waves. In this panel we invite empirical studies and theoretical papers that explicitly address these forms of interaction between different movements. A special focus shall be placed on interactions between movements addressing different issues.

VI. Alliances as Co-Optation. Social Movements between Professionalisation and Depolitizisation

Session organizer: Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University Bochum) & Shelley Feldman (Cornell University)

The literature suggests that If social movement actors expect to benefit from cooperation with international partners ,they need to present themselves as professional actors and/or enter into alliances with more established and more powerful movement actors. Such co-optations go along with the necessity to make concessions when it comes to the institutionalisation of certain procedures and this entails the danger of de-politization. This panel invites papers which investigate such processes from an empirical perspective, with a focus on social movements and their coalitions across the North/South divide, as well as the wider societal ramifications of this phenomenon.

VII. The Next Polanyian Moment? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism

Session organizer: Saskia Freye (Ruhr University Bochum) & Sascha Münnich (University of Göttingen)

This panel aims to explore the analytical power and boundaries of Polanyi’s concept of the countermovement in the era of a globalized capitalism. Intensification of economic integration on a global scale and the increasing financialization and marketization of business, politics, and the everyday life has undermined the post-war settlement in many (Western) countries, producing what might be called the next Polanyian moment. These developments advance forcefully and (re-)expose ever more parts of society to the market, thereby undermining its social, environmental, and economic preconditions. By re-integrating economy and society, Polanyi’s concept is a powerful tool to analyze social movements and political re-regulation on different levels (from local to cross-national) and in different forms (reactionary, nationalistic, progressive), inventory and analytical boundaries, systematization of counter-movements and historic advancement, successes and reactions.

VIII. Transnational Cross-Movement alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics of Labor

Session organizer: Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr-University Bochum) & Marissa Brookes (University of California, Riverside)

The intensification of global economic integration, the consolidation of power in multinational enterprises, and the increase in the financialization and marketization of politics and of everyday life put severe pressure on labor worldwide and undermine the social, environmental, and economic preconditions of their societies. One assumption is that when social movements and trade unions join forces they are able to challenge the current practices of production, organization, and consumption. This panel explores the most promising opportunities but also obstacles hindering cross movement alliance building between “old” and new” social movements. It looks for papers exploring attempts to develop new sources of cooperation, mechanisms of group interest alignment, and outcomes of transnational cross-movement alliances. In what ways is coalitional power build built?? Under which conditions does it lead to synergies and new ways to leverage or build transnational institutions to improve working conditions and organize workers?

IX. Cross-Movement Convergences - the Urban as Opportunity or Limitation?

Session organizer: Margit Mayer (FU-Berlin) & David Scheller (FH Potsdam)

The city and the urban life have become a nodal point for various protests in recent years. The right to the city, coined by Henri Lefebvre, and its revival in the late 2000s has become a common framework for critical urban scholars and also for a number of urban protest movements. This supports and increasing collaboration of heterogeneous actors in fragmented protests fields. The theoretical debate concerning urban social movements oscillates between potential access points for transformative critics of capitalistic hegemony and an existing limitations for translocal mobilizations. This panel aims to discuss the possibilities and limitations of the urban nexus as a reference point for social movements. We would like to consider both theoretical and empirical findings in the current discourse about cross-movement convergences between, for example, housing movements, refugee movements and environmental movements.

X. Cross-Movement Mobilisation against TTIP

Session organizer: Giulia Gortanutti (Ruhr-University Bochum), Jan Orbie (Universiteit Ghent) & Aukje van Loon (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Public interest in Free Trade Agreements has traditionally been low, mainly due to the technical difficulties of the subject. This changed in June 2013, with the start of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. This has created a unique point of convergence for different social movements and trade unions. In the context of the unopposed neoliberal theories guiding trade regulation policies, the role of transnational alliances capable of collective action seems one of the only counterforces. This panel explores transnational cooperation between different civil society actors against TTIP. How is the mobilisation coordinated? Which networks, coalitions, and alliances are involved in the protest? How does cross-movement mobilisation include actors which are not traditionally involved in such actions, such as Small and Medium Enterprises? Is the mobilisation against TTIP a (more or less) cohesive European phenomenon, or the sum of different national experiences? How are different strategy aims mediated within the many organisations participating in the mobilisation?

XI. Moving Boundaries – Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement?

Session organizer: Jana Bosse (Freie Universität Berlin), Romina Ranke (Leibniz Universität Hannover) & Sebastian Krätzig (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Since the last years, we witness a new wave of network building within environmental movements. Environmental movements not only establish new and stronger ties on different levels - local, regional, national and transnational – but also across issues. They increasingly build bridges to other movements and emphasize the interrelationship of policy fields like climate change, environmental protection, economy, agriculture and health. Additionally, the environmental frame is, for instance, frequently used in strategic manner by local interests groups. These developments give reason for a number of questions: How and why does cross-movement mobilization and network building occur? For instance, is cross-movement mobilization more likely on the local or global level? What are motivations and strategies of the involved actors and how effective are these strategies in different circumstances? What challenges are involved in these shifting levels and issues? And finally, facing a growing diversification and complexity, how can we define the core characteristics of environmental and climate movements?

XII. The global justice movement today: what lessons learned?

Session organizer: Johanna Lauber (Ruhr-University Bochum) & Geoffrey Pleyers (Université de Louvain, UCL)

The Global Justice Movement has not only gained attention due to the transnational orientation but also due to the cooperation between New Social Movements and trade unions. If we look at the Social Forums, fostering exchange of ideas, bridging national divides, and cooperation has been an explicit aim of the movement. However, it seems like the Global Justice Movement has had its peaks with the Protests against WTO in Seattle 1999 and the first Social Forums in the beginning of 2000. Some evaluate the GJM as great success without which current mobilization e.g. against austerity politics or trade agreements would not have been possible. Others argue that in particular social forums were a waste of time, energy and resources. For this panel we want to ask: What is left of the cooperation established in the forums and protests of the Global Justice Movement? What are long term consequences and continuities? Did it enable new coalitions or did it increase doubts about the actual prospects and possibilities fro cross-movement cooperation? The panel seeks to contribute to the debate on cross-movement-cooperation taking into account the multiplicity of long-term effects on movement building, and individual and organizational development.

XIII. Joint actions against Austerity politics: discourse and strategies in the anti-austerity mobilization

Session organizer: Ana-Maria Nikolas (Ruhr-University Bochum), Maria Kousis (University of Crete) & Rubén Díez García (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

The anti- austerity protests that spread around Europe in the wake of the EU - debts crises and neoliberal austerity politics, was expressed in various way in different countries both directly affected by the measurements or not. Ranging from local initiatives and national strikes up to transnational events like the European week of action against austerity, the struggles against neoliberal crises management reveals many different strategies and became manifested in different movements like the Indignados and Euromarches, or in solidarity initiatives and networks but also institutionalised in the elective success of political parties like Syriza and Podemos. This panel focuses on the different levels, countries and strategies, this struggle is taking place and takes also a look on the struggle over discourse when it comes to austerity. The panel asks: Which barriers, ideological differences, and power struggles have to be overcome in cross-movement mobilization against austerity? How do struggles in different countries and on different levels vary? How do they achieve synergy and collaborations across movements? What does the emergence of anti-austerity movements mean in terms of Civil Society Europeanization and democratic deepening of the EU? How do these protests connect with the current wave of global mobilization?

XIV. Mediated Collaborations

Session organizer: Simon Teune (TU-Berlin) & Armin Scholl (University Münster)

Collaborations of social movements are intrinsically linked to the use of media. First, media can be seen as arenas of public exchange. Media sympathetic to movements as well as activist media help bridging different realities in movements. Second, media are part and parcel of organizing processes. Email-Lists and social media, for instance, are used to connect heterogeneous activists and to uphold contacts despite different priorities and agendas in everyday politics. While it is obvious that social movement collaboration relies on the mediated exchange of information and arguments, mediated discourse in a wider public sphere adds another layer that might also hamper collaboration. When addressing a wider public, activists follow logics different from those in internal debates. Their public statements tend to bring out and overemphasize differences. The panel invites contributions in this understudied field that either look into the role of specific media outlets or media technologies in cross-movement
mobilization or present generalizing, comparative or theory-based approaches.

XV. From local to global and back. Energy initiatives and protests

Session organizer: Jana Bosse (Freie Universität Berlin), Romina Ranke (Leibniz Universität Hannover) & Sebastian Krätzig (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Throughout Germany, local initiatives have mushroomed since Angela Merkel announced the Energiewende and a nationwide project of restructuring the German energy system has begun. Some have sought to use the new opportunities by becoming their own renewable energy producers and by investing into community energy projects. Others have established protest campaigns against wind parks, biogas plants and new power lines. Although many of these initiatives are rooted in local contexts, they have established networks to other campaigns to gain leverage. Remarkably, we see those examples of network building happening on very different levels (regional, national and even EU-wide) and towards a variety of actors from grassroots movements, NGOs to political parties and corporations. At the same time, many climate activists have re-oriented their struggles from the international to the national and local level. They repeatedly organize large protests against coal mining and fracking and build diverse coalitions. These new developments of local protests, networking and scale-shifting lead us to raise a number of questions: How and why do local protest initiatives start to build networks? How do they choose their allies? How might network building change local initiatives and grassroots movements? And what triggers scale-shifting processes from the global and transnational level to national and local activism?

XVI. Effects of Cross-Movement Mobilization on Protest Repertoires

Session organizers: Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Dr. Priska Daphi & Felix Anderl (all: University of Frankfurt)

While repertoires are a common concept in social movement studies, little is known about how changes in repertoires occur. Cross-movement mobilization can be expected to have a considerable impact on this as interactions with allies and rivals have been found to crucially affect social movements’ repertoires. This panel aims to bring together insights about the effects of cross-movement mobilization on tactical choices and changes. It explores how cooperation between different movements as well as between movements and other political actors influences protest repertoires. In how far do such interactions affect tactical choices? Does this effect differ depending on the kind of group movements cooperate with? What happens when a former opponent becomes an ally – as, for example, in the case of the global feminist movement cooperating with international organizations in the 1990s? And how helpful is the concept of diffusion in analyzing this dynamic? We invite both empirical as well as conceptual contributions that explore the various effects of cross-movement mobilizations on protest repertoires.

XVII. New Social Movements and the Labor Movement: Cross-movement Mobilization since 1968

Session organizers: Ulf Teichmann and Christian Wicke (Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-University Bochum)

The New Social Movements (NSM) of the 1970s and 1980s have been portrayed as primary examples for cross-movement mobilization. Contemporary scholars have perceived the peace-, women’s- and environmental movements as one unit. Borne by an alternative ‘milieu’ and motivated by common norms and values, they have shared organizational and communication structures. While there is a growing research interest in the history of NSM, the focus has hardly been on the specifics of the relations amongst the particular movements. A more detailed perspective on the history of cross-movement mobilization shall provide further understanding of the degree of diversification and cooperation between the particular movements, especially the relations between the ‘old’ labor movement and the ‘new’ social movements: how accurate is the picture of a closely connected movement-family that has been drawn by research of the NSM? What are the most effective ways of studying the history of cross-movement mobilization since 1968 at the local, national and transnational levels? And finally, how helpful is ‘cross-movement mobilization’ and its associated conceptual tools from the social sciences— such as ‘movement spill-over’, ‘frame bridging’ and ‘movement alliances’—for historical studies of the new and old social movements since 1968?

XVIII. Cross movement mobilisation of women’s movements/gender movements and progressive social movements

Session organizer: Ilse Lenz (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Women’s and gender movements have engaged deeply in social and ecological issues such as work, environment, migration and sexual rights. They have developed independent feminist analyses and strategies on these issues. On this basis, they reach out to public debate and to other social movements. However, women also make up a large portion of the membership of other social movements and many of these women are open or interested to develop gender discourses and strategies inside these movements. Due to various obstacles, women or queers may be in subordinate positions within these movements and may aim to change them. In such endeavours, they may rely on feminist and intra-movement discourses.
Therefore, cross movement mobilisations around women and gender issues show tensions, mutual receptions and translations between the movements with diverse trajectories. The panels will discuss questions such as:

  • Mutual exchange, tensions and changes in cross movement mobilisation of women’s movements/gender movements and progressive social movements (taking up gender perspectives, balanced gender composition of leadership etc.)
  • Blockades and internal clashes around gender, class and migration in cross movement mobilisations in an intersectional perspective
  • Cross-movement mobilization and multilevel dynamics along the local, national and global.

XIX. Actors or tactics? Dynamics of Broad Coalitions and Reportoires of Contention for political transformation

Session organzier: Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop,Zentrum für Demokratieforschung (ZDEMO), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg & Jan-Philipp Vatthauer, Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

The recent series of uprisings across Northern Africa exemplified the wide range of protest and resistance tactics diverse actors use in times of and for political change. Besides the so called “Arab uprising”, movements pushing for democratization occurred across Latin America and Eastern Europe, as well as in Western Africa and Southeast Asia over the last years. Despite conflicting interests, actors form (temporal) strategic coalitions to put pressure on ruling elites. The social movements’ set of actions - ranging from signing petitions to civil disobedience - is influenced by external and internal dynamics that occasionally stand in conflict. Depending on the theoretical perspective of the literature strands, social movement scholars judge resources, political opportunities, eventful junctures, well-placed framing as decisive for protests to have an outcome. Particularly cross-movement mobilization seems significant during eventful transitions to affect the political responsiveness. Currently debated is the availability of new forms of communication as another powerful tool to the protester’s repertoires. The panel shall evaluate the role and interplay of cross-movement mobilization and their tactics in promoting democratization.

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Conference Committee:

  • Dr. Britta Baumgarten, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL), Portugal (IPB)
  • Prof Dr. Stefan Berger, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (ISB)
  • Prof Dr. Marissa Brookes, University of California, Riverside, USA
  • Dr. Priska Daphi, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany (IPB&ISA47)
  • Prof. Dr. Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy (IPB)
  • Prof. Dr. Margit Mayer, Freie University Berlin (IPB)
  • Prof. Dr. Ilse Lenz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (ISB)
  • Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Pleyers, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (ISA47)
  • Prof. Dr. Britta Rehder, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (ISB)
  • Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Germany (IPB)
  • Prof. Dr. Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations, USA
  • Prof. Dr. Maria Kousis, University of Crete, Greece
  • Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (ISB&IPB)
  • Prof. Dr. Jochen Roose, Willy Brandt Zentrum Wrocław (Breslau) , Universität Wrocław (IPB)


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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Location: ISB

16:10 Entrance
16:40 - 17:30 Welcome Address

Sabrina Zajak (ISB/RUB), Geoffrey Pleyers (ISA 47), Simon Teune (IPB), Jens Becker(HBS)
17:30 - 19:30

ISB
in: Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets, Clemensstraße 17-19
Opening Discussion

Cross-Movement Mobilization as a Conceptual and Practical Challenge


Dieter Rucht, Protest and social Movement Research Institute; Berlin Social Science Center
Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley; Watson Institute for International Studies and Public Affairs, Brown University
19:30 - 20:00 Reception
20:00 - open end Drink and think: Poster Session

Thursday, April 6, 2017 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum / HIC

8:30 - 10:00 Morning plenary

Theorizing cross movement alliances: social movement, labour and postcolonial studies in dialogue

Klaus Dörre, University of Jena, Germany
Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy
Janet M. Conway, Canada research Chair in Social Justice, Brock University, Canada
Chair: Geoffrey Pleyers, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Panel Slot A 10:30 - 12:00

Room:
IC 03/604
Panel 9.1. Cross-Movement Convergences: The Urban as Opportunity or Limitation?

Organizers: Margit Mayer, David Scheller

Chair/Discussant: Margit Mayer

1. Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam): The urban vortex. Connections across cities and movements

2. Nina Fraeser (Hafen-City Uni Hamburg): Commoning as solidarity practice: the social-spatial reproduction of urban social movements

3. David Scheller (FH Potsdam): Beyond housing movements? Convergences of urban social movements in Berlin and New York
Room:
IC 03/606
Panel 7.1: The Next Polanyian Movement? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism.

Organizers: Saskia Freye, Sascha Münnich

1. Michael Brie (IFG, Berlin): From the “Double Movement” to a Space of Alternatives. Reframing Karl Polanyi

Sascha Münnich (University of Göttingen): The non-liberal origins of (neo) liberalism. Polyani's blind spot?
Room:
IC 03/610
Panel 2.1: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America: Inter-movement Dynamics in Struggles Against Extractivism

Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira

Discussant: Johanna Leinius

1. Sebastián Smart (UCL Institute of the Americas): Latin-American Social Movements against Extractivism

2. Johanna Leinius (Goethe University Frankfurt): Mobilizing Across Different Worlds: Creating Counter-Hegemonic Alternatives from the Margins in Peru

3. Eva Kalny (University of Hannover): Transciendo movimientos: la lucha contra el neoliberalismo en el Petén, Guatemala
Room:
IC 03/647
Panel 8.1: Transnational Cross-Movement Alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics of Labour,

Organizers: Marissa Brookes, Sabrina Zajak
Discussant: Britta Rehder

1. Giulia Gortanutti , Johanna Lauber , Ana-Maria Nikolas und Sabrina Zajak (RUB): Talking about the same but different? Alliances and cooperation in social movement and industrial relations theory.

2. Stefan R. Siebel (RMIT University, Australia): Transnational workplace democracies as a catalyst for strategic alliances between new social movements and traditional labour politics

3. Cassandra Engeman (University of California): Unpacking Union Power Resources: How Organized Labor Contributes to Cross-movement Campaigns for U.S. Paid Sick Leave

4. Melanie Kryst (Philipps Universität Marburg): How to target banana companies: Complementary strategies of labour unions and NGOs in the agricultural sector

4.
Room:
HIC (Auditorium)
Panel 6: Alliances as Co-Optation. Social Movements between Professionalisation and Depolitisation.

Organizers: Shelley Feldman, Eva Gerharz

1. Antje Daniel (Bayreuth University) Organizing change – changing organization: The women’s movement in Kenya and the influence of the development nexus

2. Fabrício Mello (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro): Co-optation or Asymmetry? Development and Contention in the Transnational Alliance of a South African Social Movement

3. Cleve Kevin Robert V. Arguelles (Central European University, Budapest) Neoliberal absorption or deliberative capacity building? Assessing social movement participation in participatory interventions

4. Sabrina Zajak & Sigrid Quack (Ruhr Uni Bochum & University Duisburg Essen): (Un-)holy Alliances between social movements and business_ cooperation as economization
Room:
IC 03/649
Panel 17.1: New Social Movements and the Labour Movement: Cross-Movement Mobilization since 1968.

Organizers: Ulf Teichmann, Christian Wicke

Comment: Jan Kellershohn

1. Marica Tolomelli (Universitá di Bologna): Encounters. Capital, labor and culture in 1968

2. David Templin (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte Hamburg): The hidden presence of working class youth protests in the West German Jugendzentrumsbewegung of the 1970s

3. Christian Wicke (Utrecht University): Workers initiatives and urban movements in the Ruhr and Sydney
12:00 - 13:00 Lunchbreak

Panel Slot B 13:00 - 14:30

Room:
IC 03/604
Panel 3: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Large-Scale Mining.

Organizers: Bettina Engels, Melanie Müller

1. Kristina Dietz (FU Berlin): Protest and democracy: citizens' initiatives against mining projects in Latin America

2. Sorina Cristina Soare (University of Florence): Environmental mobilization after accession: the case of Rosia Montana

3. Bettina Engels (FU Berlin): First food, then morals? Claims, actors, and resources in protest against gold mining in Burkina Faso

4. Melanie Müller (SWP Berlin): Coal kills - kill coal. Conflicts over coal mining in South Africa.
Room:
IC 03/606
Panel 7.2: The Next Polanyian Movement? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism.

Organizers: Saskia Freye, Sascha Münnich

1. Heide Haas & Katharina Leganke (University of Göttingen): Connecting with the First or the Third World?: Two Paths Toward the Cross - National Movement Mobilization in the Japanese Global Sixties

2. Hugo Dias (University of Coimbra): „Labour, solidarity and the self-protection of society“

3. Martin Seeliger (University of Jena): Ambivalences in the Countermovement – Does re-embedding take place as a general move towards more equity?
Room:
IC 03/610
Panel 2.2: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America: The Relations Between Labor and Other Movements

Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira

1. Juliana Ramos Luiz & Marco Antonio Teixeira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): Cross-movement mobilizations in Latin America: lessons from the MERCOSUR Confederation of the Family Farmer Producer

2. María Maneiro (Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET): Itinerarios diferenciales y articulaciones en la movilización organizaciones de trabajadores desocupados (2009-2012)
Room:
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Panel 13.1: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity Mobilization,

Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas, Maria Kousis,

1. Oscar Garcia Agustin (Aalborg University, Denmark) Anti-austerity movements interconnected: discourse, dialogism and translation

2. Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London): A strange alliance: precarious movements, poor people movements and declining middle class protest in anti-austerity struggles.

3. Angelos Loukakis (University of Crete): Anti-austerity protests and new forms of solidarity: one movement?

Room:
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Panel 9.2: Cross-Movement Convergences: The Urban as Opportunity or Limitation?

Organizers: Margit Mayer, David Scheller

1. Esin Ileri (EHESS, Paris): Social Movements in Istanbul

2. Inés Morales Bernardos (ISEC, University of Córdoba) & Mamen Cuéllar Padilla (ISEC, University of Córdoba): Athens, cross-movement convergences to reconstruct urban food autonomy in times of crisis

4. Sebastián Ibarra González (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research): Urban Struggles in Santiago de Chile. Between local-territorial embeddedness and fragmentation of claims
14:30 - 15:00 Break

Panel Slot C (Long) 15:00 - 17:00

Room:
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Panel 17.2: New Social Movements and the Labour Movement: Cross-Movement Mobilization since 1968.

Organizers: Ulf Teichmann, Christian Wicke

Comment: Jan Kellershohn

1. Charles Roemer (Université libre de Bruxelles): The boycott dilemma: Anti-apartheid actions and Western European trade unions in the 1970s and 80s

2. Ulf Teichmann (Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Bochum): Protests for ‚work and peace‘. Trade unions, the peace movement and peace initiatives on a plant level in West-Germany in the 1980s
Room:
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Panel: 19: Actors or Tactics? Dynamics of Broad Coalitions and Repertoires of Contention for Political Transformation.

Organizers: Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop, Jan Philipp Vatthauer

1. Jannis Grimm (Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies / FU Berlin): Contentious Dynamics and Evolving Repertoires in Post-Coup Egypt

2. Jan-Erik Refle (Universität Lausanne): Combining networks and framing - How a Tunisian civil society coalition frames pro democratic claims

3. Andrea Noll & Jan Budniok (Universität Hamburg): Cross-movement mobilization, cooperation and segmentation among social movements in Ghana
Room:
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Panel 2.3: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America: Feminist and Decolonial Pedagogic Approaches to Inter-Movement Encounters

Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira

Discussants: Eva Kalny and Johanna Leinius

1. Janet Conway & Anabel Paulos (Brock University): Popular feminism, cross-movement mobilization and the decolonial challenge

2. Mar Daza (Programa Democracia y Transformación Global, Peru): Los nuevos saberes feministas desde nuestros cuerpos-territorios-vida

3. Ivette Hernández (UCL Institute of Education): Territorial assemblies and cross-movement mobilisation in the 2011 Chilean student movement

4. Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes (IESP- UERJ, Rio de Janeiro) Culture against narcoviolence: Lessons from popular mobilizations in Brazil and México
Room:
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Panel 13.3: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity Mobilization, Workshop

Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas, Maria Kousis

Robert MacDonald, Maite Aurrekoetxea Casaus & Martin Zuñiga de Loizaga & Jone Goirigolzarri Garaizar , Arturo Rodríguez Sáez & Silvia Semenzin, Pedro Ibarra & Ariel Sribman, Bernd Bonfert
Room:
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Panel 14: Mediated Collaborations

Organizers: Simon Teune, Armin Scholl

1. Amoshaun Toft (University of Washington): From civil rights to the occupy movement: Talking across issues in activist media

2. Asli Polatdemir (Universität Bremen): Vitrines of Women's Movements in Turkey: Empowerment and Websites

3. Niamatullah Ibrahimi (Australian National University): Rumours and Gossips and Contentious Politics in Afghanistan, 2001-201

4. Armin Scholl & Julia Völker (Universität Münster): Activistsʼ Use of Twitter in the Conflict at the Oranienplatz (Berlin)
17:00 - 17:30 Break
17:30- 19:00 Evening session: Bridging the activist-academic divide

Discussants:
Cristina Flesher Fominaya University of Aberdeen, UK
Geoffrey Pleyers Université de Louvain, Belgium
Alissa Starodub Activist and Ruhr-University Bochum
Janis Klusman Activist, trade union for education and science, Germany

Session moderation: Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University Bochum)
19:30 Dinner on Campus

Friday, April 7, 2017 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum / HIC

Room:
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9:00-9:45
Cross-Movement Mobilization as a Conceptual and Practical Challenge

Donatella della Porta, Centre of Social Movements Studies; Scuola Normale Superior Florence

Panel Slot D 10:00 - 11:30

Room:
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Panel 18.1: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive Social Movements.

Organizers: Ilse Lenz

1. Ilse Lenz (Emeritus Prof. Ruhr-University Bochum ): Challenges for research on crossmobilisation of gender movements

2. Beatrice Halsaa ( University of Oslo) : National and transnational mobilization of indigenous women in Norway and Sápm

3. Friederike Apelt (Leibniz University Hanover) : Mobilization of Women in the West German Solidarity Movement with Nicaragua
Room:
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Panel: 5.1: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other Movements' Mobilizations?
Session 1: Theoretical Perspectives

Organizers: Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose, Britta Baumgarten

1. Kevin Gillan (University of Manchester): What's Wrong with Waves or Sequences? Understanding Temporality in Social Movement Research

2. Lisa Villioth (University of Siegen): Protest Professionals? Is it the protest that spreads or is it the protestor that travels?

3. Jochen Roose (University of Wroclaw): Mobilization by Example
Room:
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Panel 10.1: Cross-Movement Mobilization against TTIP.

Organizers: Giulia Gortanutti, Jan Orbie, Aukje van Loon

1. Patricia Goff (Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs): Cross-Movement Mobilization in Canada and the United States: The Dog that Didn’t Bark?

2. Tereza Novotna (Université libre de Bruxelles): From Cross-Movement Mobilisation to Public Discourse: TTIP and its Potential Failure across the Atlantic

3. Paolo Roberto Graziano (University of Padova): Europeanization and Social Movements: The Case of the Stop-TTIP campaign
Room:
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Panel 11.1: Moving Boundaries - Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement, Session 1

Organizers: Jana Bosse, Romina Ranke

1. Mundo Yang (Universität Siegen): Innovations of Green Participation In- and Outside Environmental Movements

2. Francesca Colli (University of Leuven): Green consumption groups: mobilization between individuals and institutions

3. Jana Bosse (Freie Universität Berlin) Projects Instead of Protest – The Example of a Transition Town Initiative
Room:
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Panel 4: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Migration and Asylum.

Organizers: Priska Daphi, Leslie Gauditz, Lorenzo Zamponi

1. Elias Steinhilper (Scuola Normale Superiore): Mobilizing within precarious networks of solidarity: The case of self-organized refugee-activism in Berlin, Germany

2. Jiří Navrátil (Masaryk University, Czech Republic): Fear and Loathing in the Czech Republic: Political Elites - Civil Society Interaction in the Public Discourse on the Refugee Crisis

3. Nicole Dörr (University of Copenhagen): LGBT and Gender Coalition Work as a Critical Political Translation Practice: the Danish and German Refugee Solidarity Movements in Comparison

4. Chiara Milan (Scuola Normale Superiore): Solidarity with migrants across the so-called “Western Balkan route"
11:30 - 12:00 Break

Panel Slot E 12:00 - 13:30

Room:
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Panel 18.2: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive Social Movements.

Organizers: Ilse Lenz

First session (1): LGBTI and intimate/local citizenship

1. Francesca Romana Ammaturo (University of Roehampton, London): The Italian Debate on “Gestational Surrogacy” and the Tensions inside the Italian LGBT Movement

Second Session (2): Sex Work and crossmovements contentions

1. Trine Rogg Korsvik (Universität Olso): "The Great Nordic War over Sexual Morality": Feminist and other social movements’ mobilization against prostitution

2. Joana Hofstetter (Universität Freiburg): The Contemporary Sex Worker Movement in Europe in the Context of Neo-Abolitionism and Repressive Policies
Room:
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Panel: 5.2: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other Movements' Mobilizations?

Session 2: Case Studies

Organizers: Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose, Britta Baumgarten

1. Baran Alp Uncu (Marmara University, Istanbul): Impact of ‘eventful protests’ on cross-movement alliances: Solidarity across movements after the Gezi protests

2. Annette Freyberg-Inan (University of Amsterdam) & Christian Scholl (University of Maastricht): “We are the University!” Connecting Protest on Europe’s Campuses

3. Jed Alegado (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The Global in the Local: The Role of Social Movements in Food Sovereignty Diffusion in the Philippines

4. Jana Günther (Technische Universität Dresden): “Fragile Solidarity” – Relations between issues of gender and class as a factor of mobilization in early feminist movements
Room:
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Panel 10.2: Cross-Movement Mobilization against TTIP.

Organizers: Giulia Gortanutti, Jan Orbie, Aukje von Loon

1. Kees Hudig (Independent researcher): From MAI to TTIP: Globalization, protest-movements, and the brave new world of NGO’s

2. Aukje van Loon (Ruhr University Bochum): Diverging German and British Governmental Trade Policy Preferences in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Negotiations
Room:
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Panel 11.2: Moving Boundaries - Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement.

Organizers: Jana Bosse, Romina Ranke

1. Renata Motta (Freie Universität Berlin): Bridging Environments

2. Bleta Arifi & Georg Winkel (Universität Freiburg): The contestation of wind energy in Germany and the production of a conservationist ‘people’s movement’: Analysing local conflicts about wind energy use

3. Anna Wiemann (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien): Network-Building in Movement Waves: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement since Fukushima

4. Romina Ranke (Leibniz Universität Hannover): Challenging established structures in global activism. The case of transnational climate networks
Room:
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Panel 13.2: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity Mobilization,

Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas, Maria Kousis

1. Martín Portos G. & Tiago Carvalho (Cosmos, Scuola Normale Superiore & University of Cambridge): Alliance Building and eventful performances against austerity: Spanish and Portuguese trajectories of mobilization in the shadow of Great Recession, 2008-2014

2. Carolina Alves Vestena (University Kassel): Anti-Austerity protests in Portugal and France: between opportunities and strategies

3. Andrea Felicetti (European University Institute): Handling cross-movement mobilization: ‘convergence des luttes’ and deliberation in the nuit debout movement.

4. Ana-Maria Nikolas (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Networks in the anti-austerity protests. Measuring anti-austerity cooperation through events.
13:30 - 14:30
Lunchbreak

Panel Slot F 14:30 - 16:00

Room:
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Panel 18.3: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive Social Movements.

Organizer: Ilse Lenz

1. Asli Polatdemir (Universität Bremen): Vitrines of Women's Movements in Turkey: Empowerment and Websites

2. Corinna Trogisch (Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung): Socialist feminism in Turkey between mass organisation and small networks

3. Barbara Stefan (Universität Wien): Masculinity as precondition of “the political”
Room:
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Panel 5.3: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other Movements' Mobilizations?
Session 3: Country Comparisons

Organizers: Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose, Britta Baumgarten

1. Jan Jämte, Måns Lundstedt & Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörns University, Stockholm): Radical Left-Libertarian Protests. Transnational diffusion between three Northern European countries

2. Rubén Díez Garcia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): The Historical and Cultural Roots of the Current Wave of Indignation

3. Magdalena Tendera (Jagiellonen-Universität): Student Protest and the Left. The Cross-movement Mobilization in the Balkans

4. Kei Takata (University of Duisburg-Essen): Connecting with the First or the Third World? Two Paths Toward the Cross-National Movement Mobilization in the Japanese Global Sixties
Room:
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Panel 16: Changes in Protest Repertoires Reconsidered: Effects of Cross-Movement Mobilization.

Organizers: Felix Anderl, Priska Daphi, Nicole Deitelhoff

1. Deniz Günce Demirhisar (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, CADIS): Living Together In A Protest Camp: Repertoire Of Gezi Park Occupation

2. Christian Scholl (University of Maastricht): The Political Grammar Of Summit Protest As Transnational Repertoire Of Action

3. Grzegorz Piotrowski (European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk): Beyond Internal Division Of Labor: Alliances With Radical Social Movements
Room:
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Panel 12: The Global Justice Movement Today: What Lessons Learned?

Organizers: Johanna Lauber, Geoffrey Pleyers

1. Geoffrey Pleyers (Catholic University of Louvain): "From the World Social Forum to Trump. What have we failed? A critical balance of the alter-globalization movement and social movement studies"

2. Benjamin Bunk (University of Erfurt): “The World Social Forum as space for (self-)formation processes. Or: Individuals as structure of cross-movement mobilization?”

3. Cristina Flesher Fominaya (University of Aberdeen): “The role of the Global Justice Movement in setting the basis for the 15-M movement in Spain”

4. Britta Baumgarten (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL): “The Legacies of the Global Justice Movement in the Portuguese Anti-Austerity Protests”
Room:
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Panel 8.2: Transnational Cross-Movement Alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics of Labour, Session 2

Organizers: Marissa Brookes, Sabrina Zajak

1. Zach McKenny (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): The State of the Union? Commodity Chains and Labor Organizing Outcomes at Volkswagen Group of North America2.

2. Stefan Rother (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Social movement unionism in Asia

3. Manfred Wannöffel (Ruhr Universität Bochum): Networking and a two-track strategy : perspectives of international trade union activities in India

4. Jan Niggemeier (Freie Universität Berlin): Going Global, but How? Diversity in Transnationalisation Processes of Labour Activism in Japan

5. Peter Waterman (Erasmus Universität Rotterdam): Global Labour Charter Movement

16:00 - 16:30

IC 06/610
Institute for Protest and Social Movement Research (IPB) meeting of working groups and those who would like to join https://protestinstitut.eu/
16:30-16:45 Break/Transfer to the ISB
(Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets, Clemensstraße 17-19, 44789 Bochum)
16:45-17:30

ISB
in: Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets, Clemensstraße 17-19
Meet the Editor

With following journals:
social movement studies, moving the social, Interface
17:30-19:00

ISB
in: Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets, Clemensstraße 17-19
Evening session
Cross-movement mobilization: a cure to desolidarisation and rising populism?

Discussants: Shelley Feldman, Cornell University, USA
Daniele Di Nunzio Fondazione Di Vittorio, Italy
Barbara Geier, Education and Science Workers’ Union, Germany

Hugo Braun, Attac, Germany
Margit Mayer, FU Berlin, Germany

Moderatorin: Sabrina Zajak (ISB, Ruhr-University Bochum)
19:30 Dinner in town

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Morning
10:00
Industrial heritage in the Ruhr-region. Visit of the biggest mining museum in Germany (including visiting a mine underground)

http://www.bergbaumuseum.de/en/visitor-information

Practical Information

Conference location

The conference will take place at the Institute for Social Movements directions link here. And the Ruhr-University Bochum / HC map

Conference registration

Submitting abstracts is no longer possible. However, there are some spaces left for participating without presenting. If you are interested, please register as participation without presentation, using the following link: registration link

Paper deadline

Papers are due until 17 March to the conference email address (cross-movement-mobilization@rub.de). We will make all contributions available on March 20th.

Publications and Conference blog postings

We would also like to invite you to share your most relevant empirical insights on this topic on the blog OpenMovements Link to the blog The blog has a broad international audience and will have a special section on the conference theme. You find the publication guidelines here:
Link to the guidelines If you are interested in making a short contribution, please send it to Breno Bringel, brenobringel@iesp.uerj.bror to us until March 20th. The entries will also appear at the German Protest and Social Movement blog Link to the blog Furthermore, there are two special issues planed, which shall be published in moving the social and social movement studies. The editors will approach potential contributors based on their submitted papers.

Accommodation

List of hotels in walking distance to the ISB and metro station (starting from the most expensive to the cheapest):
Art Hotel Tucholsky
Ibis Style
Kolpinghaus
LSI (close to campus)

This conference was supported by the Ruhr-University Research School PLUS, funded by Germany’s Excellence Initiative [DFG GSC 98/3] and the Hans-Böckler Foundation.

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