Urban Sociology and Social Movements. the Case of Palestine in the Way Modern Resistance 'develops'.

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 14:00
Location: SJES006 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Oral Presentation
Nefeli SIOZOU, Phd Candidate, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
The development and the impact of social movements is a fundamental element and a key feature of economic, political and social changes. Social reality and social systems themselves are dialectically intertwined with the historical and social examination process, redefining social reality and overturning existing political and socio-economic correlations.

The theory of social movements and their relation to Palestine should not be seen or understood as an empirical examination of political, social, class and geopolitical contradictions within the frame of space. Rather, it is through the actual flowing reality and the analysis of existing spatial, political, economic and social conditions as well as the mechanisms through which movement predispositions are transformed into realities that they must be understood.

The study of social movements, in the context of a broader field of conflict politics, and its wider connection with war in general, is a constituent branch of both political sociology, political geography and radical theories of space. The case of Palestine, the history of this place and its relation to war, is in itself very special and specific, with diverse and different characteristics that influence and shape its uprising and modes of resistance over time.

Palestine, as a field of spatial-social conflict and as a spatial-social link, can highlight the dynamics of social movements in general and their importance in the way the war is conducted and its final outcome. The current form and development of claims and counterclaims in Palestine is therefore based on the conceptual formation and relation of space and subjects within the framework of a historical - geographical materialism.