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Mobilization of Rights: Uses and Legal Strategies of Collective Actors and Social Movements
Mobilization of Rights: Uses and Legal Strategies of Collective Actors and Social Movements
Abstract Submissions Closed
Thursday, 25 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
In this session, organized with the support of the Institute for Rights and Social Movements - IPDMS, Brazil - we want to promote the debate on the perspectives of mobilization of rights and legal strategies by social movements. More specifically, we want to discuss how collective actors mobilize rights, use legal strategies, advocacy, and strategic litigation in order to foster their demands, to politicize social question or to influence the shaping of public policies. Proposals regarding concrete experiences and theoretical reflections on different types of social movements (such as popular, feminist, environmental, LGBT and queer, black, or urban/rural movements are especially welcome). At the same time, we also would like to open space for proposals which deal with the oppressive aspect of the law, it means, which analyses forms of criminalization and control of social movements, e.g., labeling then as “terrorist groups”, or also forms of legal persecution against activists which support migrants and other social movements. Both theoretical works and empirical research are welcome.
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