Summer Schools As Emergent Sites of Knowledge Production In the Sociology of Social Movements

For the past four years, RC48 on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change of the International Sociological Association has been organizing summer schools that bring together sociologists from across the world to exchange research in progress and developing research agendas on, with, and about social movements. Through these gatherings, new research networks, collaborative publications, conference presentations, and shared methodological approaches have taken shape.

This panel examines summer schools as alternative and generative spaces for sociological knowledge production — and as methodological experiments through which engagement with social movements unfolds beyond the formal institutional dynamics of conventional academic settings. More broadly, it reflects on alternative forms of knowledge and collaborative ways of working that challenge the boundaries of traditional academic exchange.

Drawing on the experience of organizing and participating in these schools, and engaging with diverse perspectives in the sociology of knowledge, the presentations in this panel explore the methodological, epistemological, and theoretical scope and limitations of this experiment. They also ask: to what extent can summer schools enable new forms of intellectual exchange, mentorship, and collective knowledge production that differ meaningfully from those found in traditional conference panels or large disciplinary gatherings?

Session Organizers:

Camila PONCE LARA, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, camila.ponce@aau.at
Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ, The University of Huddersfield , United Kingdom, camilotamayogomez@gmail.com
Héctor Eloy RIVAS-SÁNCHEZ, Athabasca University, Canada, hrivassanchez@athabascau.ca

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