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Learning from the Brics Countries: Social Movement Theories and Cross-Cultural Comparison
Learning from the Brics Countries: Social Movement Theories and Cross-Cultural Comparison
Abstract Submissions Closed
Saturday, 27 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
This panel invite submissions that present empirical research on protest and social movements in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and, more general, in the Global South, as well as state responses to them. The main goal is to highlight if (and how) these processes can contribute to a renovation of the conceptual apparatus of Western social movements studies. We especially welcome papers that discuss cases from more than one BRICS country, and those that feature a productive engagement with existing approaches to cross-cultural comparison, such as Philip McMichael’s notion of ‘incorporated comparison’, Gillian Hart’s ‘relational comparison’, the multi-sited ethnography developed by Michael Burawoy and others, or the comparative cultural sociology of critique fleshed out by Laurent Thévenot, Michèle Lamont and others.
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