Social Movements As Producers of Knowledge and Concepts for the Anthropocene

Monday, 7 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: SJES001 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

Language: English

Social movements play a key role in producing knowledge and using this knowledge to promote justice. This panel will be focusing on two main axes:

1. Social movements as producers of concepts. A significant number of concepts now used in the social sciences have emerged at the intersection of social struggles and academia. Examples include concepts of intersectionality, care, gender and postcolonialism.

2. Social movements as producers of meaning. Social movements redefine meaning of the "good life". They question the central values of societies and redefine the meaning of democracy, justice, dignity, human rights and nature, and the relationship between them.

Session Organizer:
Geoffrey PLEYERS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Chair:
Geoffrey PLEYERS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Oral Presentations
Right to the City and Housing in Chile's Constitutional Processes (2020-2023)
Alexis CORTES MORALES, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile
Post-Anthropocentric Movements: Rethinking Agency, Justice and Social Change Beyond the Human
Prof. Breno BRINGEL, PhD, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sabrina ZAJAK, German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin & Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Decolonial Epistemological Revisions: Recontextualizing Concepts of Democracy and Protest
Shruti TAMBE, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Solidarity Economy : From Local Initiatives to International Networks a Movement for Social and Ecological Justice
Jean-Louis LAVILLE, Collège d'Etudes Mondiales, France
Activists As Theorists: Theorizing Race and Class in South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement
Marcel PARET, University of Utah, USA; Zachary LEVENSON, Florida International University, United States
The Concrete Experiences of the Subject of Social Injustice: Engendering Knowledge, Empowerment, and Collective Resistance
Bethania ASSY, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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