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

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

Program Coordinators: Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ (The University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom) and Kaan AGARTAN (Framingham State University, USA)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

From Revolutions to New Causes. Redefining Activism, Reframing Change.
Session Organizers: Laura RUIZ DE ELVIRA CARRASCAL and Christoph SCHWARZ

Sociology of Resistance: Palestinian Society As a Case Study
Session Organizer: Dalal BAJES
Chair: Dalal BAJES

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

11:00-12:45

Intersectionality and Social Movements
Session Organizer: Soma CHAUDHURI
Chair: Soma CHAUDHURI

Knowledge about Organizations That Every Sociologist Needs
Session Organizer: Michael GROTHE-HAMMER

13:00-14:45

Exploring the Role of Civil Society in Contentious Politics: The Bystanders and Implicated Subjects
Session Organizer: Sandra RIOS OYOLA, PhD
Chair: Sandra RIOS OYOLA, PhD

Social Movements and the Positionality of the Researcher-Activist
Session Organizers: Marian ORJUELA and Karla HENRIQUEZ OJEDA

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

15:00-16:45

Raising Voices, Raising Emotions: The Emotional Infrastructure of Social Movements
Session Organizer: Aliye KELESOGLU
Chair: Aliye KELESOGLU

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

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Ethnographing Access to Rights in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Lauriane DOS SANTOS and Leila DRIF

Indigenous Movements and Ecosocial Struggles in Latin America
Session Organizers: Ana Paula DELGADO and Cristina Tereza GAULIA

Researcher's Intersectionality and Reflexivity in Conflict Contexts
Session Organizer: Marian ORJUELA
Chair: Marian ORJUELA

11:00-12:45

Author Meets Critic: Gezi the Making of a New Political Community in Turkey
Session Organizer: Sandra RIOS OYOLA, PhD

Emerging Voices: Feminist Activism before and after the Pandemic
Session Organizers: Camila PONCE LARA and Marcela MENESES REYES
Chair: Camila PONCE LARA

Transforming Collective Action: From Digital Activism to Datafied Movements (Part I)
Session Organizers: Anabel QUAN-HAASE and Jared WRIGHT
Chair: Jared WRIGHT

13:00-14:45

Recognition and Redistribution. Two Faces of Contemporary Injustice and Inequalities
Session Organizers: Piotr KULAS and Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ
Chair: Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ

Transforming Collective Action: From Digital Activism to Datafied Movements (Part II)
Session Organizers: Anabel QUAN-HAASE and Jared WRIGHT
Chair: Anabel QUAN-HAASE

15:00-16:45

Exploring Memory and Necropolitics
Session Organizers: Natalia MAYSTOROVICH CHULIO and Ailsa PEATE
Chair: Natalia MAYSTOROVICH CHULIO

Is a Sociology of Resilience Possible?
Session Organizer: Peter ROGERS

Movements, Associations and NGOs in Support of Return Migrants: Militant and/or Solidarity Action?
Session Organizers: Liana Maria DAHER, Umberto DI MAGGIO and Anna Maria LEONORA
Chair: Liana Maria DAHER

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Securing Land and Water in Times of Climate Change through Natural Ecosystem Management: A Global Perspective
Session Organizer: Sampat KALE
Chair: Arvinder A. ANSARI

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

11:00-12:45

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

Labor Action, Strikes, and Beyond (Part I)
Session Organizers: Katia PILATI, Pablo PEREZ-AHUMADA and Natalia MIRANDA

Reimagining Radical Democracy and Social Movements in the XXI Century
Session Organizer: Kaan AGARTAN
Chair: Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ

13:00-14:45

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

Social Movements, Socio-Ecological Practices and Climate Change (Part I)
Session Organizer: Benjamin TEJERINA
Chair: Liana Maria DAHER

Understanding Contemporary Mass Social Unrest
Session Organizers: Rima MAJED and Cesar GUZMAN-CONCHA
Chair: Cesar GUZMAN-CONCHA

15:00-16:45

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

Social Movements and the Future of Democracy in Latin America
Session Organizer: Ligia TAVERA FENOLLOSA

Social Movements, Socio-Ecological Practices and Climate Change (Part II)
Session Organizer: Benjamin TEJERINA

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Consecuencias Biográficas Del Activismo En América Latina/Biographical Consequences of Activism in Latin America
Session Organizer: Ligia TAVERA FENOLLOSA

Labor Action, Strikes, and Beyond (Part II)
Session Organizers: Katia PILATI, Pablo PEREZ-AHUMADA and Natalia MIRANDA

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

11:00-12:45

Studying Our Own Uprisings: Positionalities, Methods and Baggage of History
Session Organizers: Rima MAJED and Atef SAID

Theatre, Public Sphere and Collective Action
Session Organizer: Ilaria RICCIONI

13:00-14:45

Global Marxism. Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics.
Session Organizer: Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ

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

15:00-16:45

Fragmented Generations: Studying Young People in a Situation of Polycrisis
Session Organizers: Paola REBUGHINI and Lidia LO SCHIAVO
Chair: Paola REBUGHINI

Learning in/through Movements for Gender Justice in Contexts of Armed Conflict and Mass Violence
Session Organizers: Marian ORJUELA and Elizabeth MABER
Chair: Elizabeth MABER

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

19:00-20:30

RC48 Business Meeting

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Climate Activism Beyond the Global North: Strategies and Tactics
Session Organizers: Dobroslawa WIKTOR-MACH and Baris Gencer BAYKAN

Religious Revivals and Far-Right Resurgences: Unpacking the Intersection of Politics and Faith in Contemporary Times
Session Organizers: Ignacia PERUGORRÍA and Joseba GARCIA MARTIN
Chair: Joseba GARCIA MARTIN

11:00-12:45

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

Labor Action, Strikes, and Beyond (Part III)
Session Organizers: Natalia MIRANDA, Katia PILATI and Pablo PEREZ-AHUMADA

Violent and Non-Violent Radical Climate Mobilisation Tactics
Session Organizers: Liana Maria DAHER, Benjamin TEJERINA and Giorgia MAVICA
Chair: Benjamin TEJERINA

13:00-14:45

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

Transformations and Challenges in Contentious Politics in Mediterranean Countries: A Comparative Perspective
Session Organizers: Gomer BETANCOR NUEZ and Benjamin TEJERINA
Chair: Gomer BETANCOR NUEZ

15:00-16:45

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

Student Camps in Solidarity with Palestine. Protest Against the International Order in Light of a Genocide
Session Organizers: Marcela MENESES REYES and Camila PONCE LARA
Chair: Olga Alejandra SABIDO RAMOS