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Protest Politics in Times of Crisis: Comparative Perspectives from the Global South
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Protest Politics in Times of Crisis: Comparative Perspectives from the Global South
Convenors:
Jojo Nem Singh, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Isamu Okada, Nagoya University Japan
The contemporary politics of protests should be understood in relation to the rise of conservative forces, right-wing national populism, and the retreat of progressive politics in tackling issues such as poverty, inequality and difference. In Latin America, we have witnessed the return of the Right, whose electoral legitimacy was based on the failure of centre-left policies to sustain economic growth. In Asia, populist nationalists like Rodrigo Duterte have campaigned to promote public security and rule of law, oftentimes at the expense of civil liberties and human rights promotion. This session aims to explore the conditions, processes, and limits of protest politics as well as their consequences to democracy and development. We are interested in theoretically-driven and empirically grounded papers that offer comparative and cross-regional perspectives on protest politics, social movements, and their relationship with states to explore any of the following themes:
- New forms of protests and social movements in response to changing political contexts
- Identifying macro-political, meso-, and micro-level factors that explain the causes and consequences of collective action
- Regional and country-level cases examining multiple forms of contentious politics
- Social justice, activist, and alternative framings to analyse contemporary global challenges
- The limits of protest politics in the face of conservative politics
- Theoretical and methodological papers to push frontiers of social movements research
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