Social movements as embodied collective acts

Saturday, August 4, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

OB 38 (Faculty of Economics)

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee)

Session Organizer:

Tova BENSKI, Colman, Israel

Chair:

Tova BENSKI, Colman, Israel

720.1

Being the change: Performative acts in social movements (Oral Presentation)
Lois Ruskai MELINA, Union Institute & University, USA

720.2

'Fuck middle class... burning and looting tonight!': Forging the activist's body in contemporary Germany (Oral Presentation)
Bob KURIK, Charles University, Czech Republic; Malte STIEBER, University of Bremen, Germany

720.3

Talking bodies in public: Embodied activism and strategies for protest (Oral Presentation)
Begonya ENGUIX, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain

720.4

Fat. Hairy. Sexy. Contesting standards of beauty and sexuality in the gay community (Oral Presentation)
Nathaniel PYLE, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

720 Social movements as embodied collective acts