Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements

Program Coordinators: Prof. Emanuele TOSCANO, PhD (Università degli Studi "Guglielmo Marconi", Italy) and Simin FADAEE (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Temporality and Social Movement Strategy
Session Organizer: Lesley WOOD
Chair: Lesley WOOD

11:00-12:45

Buttressing the Labor Movement: The Meaning of Mobilizing Immigrant Workers
Session Organizer: Nobuyuki YAMADA

13:00-14:45

Feminist Responses to Anti-Gender Movements
Session Organizers: Magdalena MUSZEL and Grzegorz PIOTROWSKI
Chair: Grzegorz PIOTROWSKI

Sociological Conversations on Palestine - 1
Session Organizer: Simin FADAEE
Chair: Simin FADAEE

15:00-16:45

Social Movements As Producers of Knowledge and Concepts for the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Geoffrey PLEYERS
Chair: Geoffrey PLEYERS

The Cultural Turn of the Far Right. the Battle for Hegemony with Words, Thoughts and Deeds
Session Organizer: Andrea GRIPPO
Chair: Mr. Antonio ALVAREZ-BENAVIDES, PhD

19:00-20:30

The Trajectories of Contemporary Religious Social Movements
Session Organizer: Dipti Ranjan SAHU
Chair: Dipti Ranjan SAHU

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Environmental and Climate Justice Movements in the Anthropocene - 1
Session Organizers: Marco Antonio DOS SANTOS TEIXEIRA and Simone GOMES
Chair: Marco Antonio DOS SANTOS TEIXEIRA

11:00-12:45

Environmental and Climate Justice Movements in the Anthropocene - 2
Session Organizers: Marco Antonio DOS SANTOS TEIXEIRA and Simone GOMES
Chair: Simone GOMES

Strategies, Generations and Temporalities
Session Organizer: Lesley WOOD
Chair: Lesley WOOD

13:00-14:45

Immigration and Changing Perceptions of Justice: Social Class Perspectives
Session Organizers: Magdalena NOWICKA and Elke WINTER

Labour and Other Social Movements: Collective Elaboration and Collective Actions in the Evolution of the Modern Age
Session Organizers: Daniele DI NUNZIO and Guglielmo MEARDI
Chair: Guglielmo MEARDI

15:00-16:45

Activism, Strategies and Collective Action
Session Organizer: Prof. Emanuele TOSCANO, PhD

The Global South Counter-Invasion: The Uprising of Ancestrality, Community, and the New Winds of Justice
Session Organizers: Olivia PIRES COELHO, Alexandre MARTINS and Rafael MORAES LIMONGELLI
Chair: Olivia PIRES COELHO

19:00-20:30

Justice in (and Beyond) the Anthropocene: Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Social Movement Studies
Session Organizers: Sabrina ZAJAK and Prof. Breno BRINGEL, PhD
Chairs: Sabrina ZAJAK and Prof. Breno BRINGEL, PhD

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Sociological Conversations on Palestine - 2
Session Organizer: Kaan AGARTAN
Chair: Rima MAJED

Taking Collective Action Strategies Seriously - 1
Session Organizers: Kevin GILLAN, Luke YATES and Simin FADAEE
Chair: Kevin GILLAN

11:00-12:45

Futures of the Anthropocene: Social Movements and Political Imagination (Part I)
Session Organizers: Markus S. SCHULZ and Camila PONCE LARA

Taking Collective Action Strategies Seriously - 2
Session Organizers: Kevin GILLAN, Luke YATES and Simin FADAEE
Chair: Luke YATES

13:00-14:45

Mobilisations Et Luttes Écologistes Face Aux Inégalités Environnementales (Part 2)
Session Organizer: Charif ELALAOUI

15:00-16:45

Continuities and Transformations of Labor Conflict: A New Scenario for Mobilization, Resistance, and Organization in the Workplace.
Session Organizers: Francisco FERNÁNDEZ-TRUJILLO MOARES, Ana SANTAMARINA GUERRERO and Minhyoung KANG
Chair: Minhyoung KANG

New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance (Part 3)
Session Organizer: Chris TILLY

19:00-20:30

New Post-Colonial and Regional Movements
Session Organizers: Simone MADDANU and Rachid ID YASSINE
Chair: Simone MADDANU

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Mobilisations Et Luttes Écologistes Face Aux Inégalités Environnementales (Part I)
Session Organizers: Charif ELALAOUI and Benchekor LINA

Social Movements and the (Contentious) Politics of Socioecological Transitions
Session Organizers: Paolo GERBAUDO and Prof. Breno BRINGEL, PhD
Chair: Prof. Breno BRINGEL, PhD

11:00-12:45

The Far Right As the “New” Normal: New and Old Challenges for Social Movements and the Counter-Mobilization Against the Far Right
Session Organizers: Prof. Emanuele TOSCANO, PhD and Sabrina ZAJAK
Chair: Sabrina ZAJAK

13:00-14:45

Religion and Politics in Democratic Societies
Session Organizer: Janine BENDOROVICZ TREVISAN

Sociological Conversations on Palestine - 3
Session Organizer: Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ

15:00-16:45

RC47 Business Meeting

Sociological Conversations on Palestine - 4
Session Organizers: Abeer MUSLEH, Aide ESU and Rana SUKARIEH
Chair: Rana SUKARIEH

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Emotions in Social Movements: New Approaches and Methodological Innovations
Session Organizers: Cecile VAN DE VELDE and Karla HENRIQUEZ OJEDA

11:00-12:45

Counting on the Dispossessed: Recovering Life and Land.
Session Organizer: Ratiba HADJ-MOUSSA
Chair: Rana SUKARIEH

Youth Activism: Continuities, Ruptures, Innovations, and New Engagements
Session Organizers: Gomer BETANCOR NUEZ, Jorge BENEDICTO and Mr. Antonio ALVAREZ-BENAVIDES, PhD
Chair: Gomer BETANCOR NUEZ

13:00-14:45

Democratic Backsliding and the Social Movements
Session Organizer: Didem TURKOGLU
Chair: Didem TURKOGLU

15:00-16:45

Future Creates Present: Power of Imaginations in Social Movements and Social Change
Session Organizer: Daishiro NOMIYA
Chair: Daishiro NOMIYA