RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change

Program Coordinators:

Kaan AGARTAN, Framingham State University, USA, kagartan@framingham.edu

Camila PONCE LARA, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, camila.ponce@aau.at


Sessions:


A Public Sociology of Systemic Movements and the Next System

Beyond Intentionality: Rethinking Resistance, Agency, and Collective Action across Human and More-Than-Human Worlds

Categories In Question: Concepts and Frameworks for Social Movements and Collective Action In Turbulent Times

Complex Geopolitics and Relevance of Social Movements: A Sociological Perspective from the Global South

Creative Imaginaries and Action: Performing Dissent In Contemporary Social Movements

Datafied Dissent: Activism and Resistance In the Digital Society

Disruption and Mobilization In Turbulent Times: Future Imagination

Emotions In Contention: Affective Repertoires, Moral Shocks and Collective Action

Feminisms In Dispute: Youth Politics and New Right-Wing Mobilizations

From Anti-Colonial Struggles to Contemporary Mobilizations: Social Movements and the Making of the Nation

Methods In Question: Researching Social Movements and Collective Action between Conflict and Process

New Social Movements and Community Based Resilience In Turbulent Times: A Global Sociological Perspective

On the Generational Threads of Social Critique: Global Gen-Z and Claims of Democracy

Platformed Contention: Digital Cultures, AI, and the Reconfiguration of Collective Action for the Global Majority

Reconfiguring the Subject–Object Relation: Grassroots and Civil Society Organizations In Participatory Research

Rethinking Prosocial Activism In Contemporary Mobilisations

Revisiting Charles Tilly, Twenty Years on

Safeguarding Academic Freedom Against Transnational Repression: Exploring Researchers' and Educators’ Experiences, and Identifying How Institutions and Professional Networks Could Support Scholars and Students at Risk.

Social Movements and Fields of Power: Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation

Social Movements and the Politics of Time In Turbulent Times

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

The Cultural Turn of the Far Right: Symbolic Power, Affective Politics, and Everyday Extremism

The Political-Personal Nexus In Social Activism: Relational Adversity, Affective Solidarities and Everyday Protection

The Politics of Ageing: Later-Life Activism and Political Agency In Grassroots Movements

The Role of PEACE Movements In Turbulent Times: A Global Sociological Perspective

Uprisings, Revolts, and Revolutions: Global Perspectives

With Palestine In Mind. What Erasure Reveals about Political Violence: Reflecting on the Relationship between Erasure and (Modes of) Presence

With Palestine In Mind: Imperialism and Social Movements In the Twenty First Century

With Palestine In Mind: Popular Resistances to the American- Israeli Wars on West Asia

Youth Politicisation In Times of Polycrisis: New Activisms, Political Subjectivities and Collective Action