Tuesday 12, 9am : Session with and around Alain Touraine.

with A. Touraine, K. McDonald, T. Benski & other leading scholars

Wednesday 13, 4pm  RC47 General assembly

Saskia SASSEN, Columbia University, New York

Like House of Cards”: Social Movements, Time Intensity and Eventful Democracy

Donatella DELLA PORTA, Scuola normale superiore, Firenze

Caught between cunning States and international Organisations: Social Movements as Norm Setters

Shalini RANDERIA, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

Linking Types of Protest Tactics and Structural Conflicts: Some Key Points from the Study of the Social Form of the Protest in the Basque Country

Arkaitz LETAMENDIA, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Niue

New Molecular Intellectuals and the Making Sense of Action in Social Movements

Francesco ANTONELLI, Università degli Studi “Roma Tre”, Italy

Strategy, Performance, and Gender: An Interactionist Understanding of  the Italian Lgbtq Movement and the Catholic Countermovement
Anna LAVIZZARI, University of Kent, United Kingdom

Geoffrey PLEYERS, FNRS-University of Louvain & College d’Etudes Mondiales, Belgium

Broadening Local Mobilizations: Exploring the Possibilities of Linking “Northern Forest Defense” in Turkey to Climate Change

Baran Alp UNCU, Marmara University, Turkey

What Is Political Ecology ? a Conceptuel Approach

Fabrice FLIPO, Telecom-EM, France

Distributed papers:

Transnationalizing Dynamics of Social Movements : Using the Integral Approach of Social Movement Theories
Yosuke TATSUNO, Sophia University, Japan

Demanding Policy Change, Taking Direct Action, or Promoting Alternatives: Explaining Differential Participation in the International Climate Change Movement

Joost DE MOOR, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Alexis CORTES MORALES, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile

Movimientos Societales Indígenas y Resistencias Comunitarias En América Del Sur:, Una Mirada Desde Una ‘Epistemología Del Sur’, Pabel LOPEZ FLORES, CIDES-UMSA, Bolivia

Social Actors and Latin American Social Thought: Contributions for Decentring Social Movement Studies

Breno BRINGEL, Institute of Social and Political Studies, Universidade Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

La Investigación Acción Participativa y La Construcción De Una Sociología Global, Miguel Antonio BORJA ALARCON, Escuela Superior de Administracion Publica-ESAP, Colombia

For an Analysis of the Global Reality

Antimo Luigi FARRO, Sapienza University Of Rome, Italy

The State and the Agrarian Public Sphere in Venezuela

Simeon NEWMAN, Sociology, University of Michigan, USA and Laura ENRIQUEZ, Sociology, University of California-Berkeley, USA

Chair: Sergio TAMAYO, UAM, Mexico

“This Is My Dream, That’s Why I Fight”. Love, Law and Solidarity: Stories of a Brazilian Young Activist Pro-MST

Fernando NOBRE CAVALCANTE and Dilson ALEXANDRE, Faculdade 7 de Setembro, Brazil

Understanding Protest Outcomes: Indigenous Movements, Demand Making and the State in Latin America

Anna KRAUSOVA, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Derechos Humanos Como Mito Movilizador: Mujeres y Poblaciones Originarias En Perú,

Narda HENRIQUEZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru

Individual Determinants That Trigger Protest Participation: The Case of Mexico City

Roberto CARRILLO SAENZ, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Roundtable 2 Environmental movements

Chair: Dorismilda FLORES, ITESO, Mexico

Urban Community Gardens in Hungary: Part of a Social and Environmental Movement?

Fanni BARSONY, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Engaging Climate Change in Transnational Spheres: Cosmopolitan Concerns, Local Mobilization and Environmental Civil Society in Turkey
Hande PAKER, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanca University, Turkey

Digital Activism, Physical Activism: Malta’s Front Harsien Odz

Michael BRIGUGLIO, University of Malta, Malta

Media Strategies of Movement Actors in Times of Increasing Mass Media (Self)-Control: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement Since the 2011 Fukushima Disaster, Anna WIEMANN, University of Hamburg, Germany

Roundtable 3 Precarious Work

Chair: Sabrina ZAJAK, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in Italy: Between Silos and Synergies in the Fragmentation of the Working and Social Life

Daniele DI NUNZIO, Fondazione Di Vittorio, Italy

The Fragmentation of Social Conflicts in Western Europe. a Typology of Non-Institutionalized Labor Protests

Steffen LIEBIG, Friedrich Schiller-University Jena, Institute of Sociology,

Germany and Stefan SCHMALZ, Friedrich Schiller-University, Germany

Precarious Work and “Middle Class” Struggles

Elisio ESTANQUE, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Roundtable 4 What’s left of 2011

Chair: Lorenzo ZAMPONI

The Transformative Impact of the Gezi Protests on New Social Movements in Turkey

Baran Alp UNCU, Marmara University, Turkey

Was It a Hopeless Battle? Consequences of the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey

Hayriye OZEN, Atilim University, Turkey

From the Indignados Movement to “Barcelona En Comú”: Continuities, Identities and Challenges

Viviana ASARA, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria and Anna SUBIRATS, European University Institute, Italy

The 15M (indignados) Take Power: The Case of the City of Madrid.

Antonio ALVAREZ-BENAVIDES, Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologique (CADIS-EHESS), France

Mafia Apps: Assembling Alternative Geographies of Protest

Christina JERNE, Aarhus University, Denmark

Beyond Network Structuralism: Weaving Webs of Publis in ART-Activism.

Alberto COSSU, University of Milan, Italy and Maria Francesca MURRU, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano, Italy

When Police Hijacked #Blockupy Frankfurt: A Critical Analysis of Activists’ Social Media Tactics

Christina NEUMAYER, Luca ROSSI and Bjorn KARLSSON, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Activation Trajectories: Tracing the Role of Social Media in Civic Mobilizations in Bulgaria and Canada

Maria BAKARDJIEVA, University of Calgary, Canada and Delia DUMITRICA, Erasmus University, Netherlands

The Role of Independent and Alternative Media As Base of a Social Movement and International Solidarity: The Ayotzinapa Affair in Mexico and Europe.

Rosa Esther ROSANO RODRIGUEZ, CIMEOS – Universite de Bourgogne, France

Roundtable 2 Youth activism and the Future they Want

Chair: Yavuz YILDIRIM

Not the Future, Not the Past Only the Present… the Case Study of Young Activists in Turkey

Demet LUKUSLU, Yeditepe University, Turkey

“We Still Have Walls Where to Paint”. From Two Young Actors’ Initiative to a Global Graffiti Movement. Case Study of “Zwewla” (“Miserables”)

Sofia LAINE, Finnish Youth Research Network, Finland

Capuling during and after Gezi – the Formation of a New Identity of a Young Liberalized Generation in Turkey,

Claudia SCHUETZ, University of Innsbruck, Austria

The Indignant Citizen: From the Politics of Autonomy to the Politics of Radical Citizenship

Paolo GERBAUDO, Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Sandy: Socio-Technical Infrastructures As Social Movement Outcomes

Anastasia KAVADA, University of Westminster, United Kingdom

The Lasting Influences of Social Mobilization. the Effects of the 2011/ 2012 Romanian Anti-Austerity Protests on Subsequent Movements.

Henry RAMMELT, Sciences Po Paris/ Sciences Po Lyon (Triangle), France

Table A: Social movements producing the Future

Chair: Eiji HAMANISHI

What Kind of Future Do We Want? Power Dynamics and Negotiation Processes in Transnational Social Movements,

Marika GEREKE, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Against the Airport and Its World”. Autonomies at the Zad Notre-Dame-Des-Landes,

Margot VERDIER, Universite Nanterre Paris-Ouest, France

The Image of Ideal Future for Ukraine Introducing By Euromaidan Movement Participants in Kyiv Public Space – What Visual Documents Analysis Can Tell Us?. Mariia GRYSHCHENKO, Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv, Ukraine

An Anarchist Squat in Northeastern Paris : A Future Here and Now ?

Colin ROBINEAU, Université Paris 2-Assas, France

Table B: Digital activism

Imagination/Action: Making Sense of Future in Online Public Expression By Local Activist Groups

Dorismilda FLORES, ITESO Guadalajara, Mexico

Everyday Activism in Different Socio-Political Context: Cases of Estonia and Finland,

Airi-Alina ALLASTE, Tallinn University, Estonia & Kari SAARI, University of Kuopio, Finland

From Disaster to Opportunity: Social Movement Organizations As Hope Agents.

Anna WIEMANN, University of Hamburg, Germany

Activism As a Means of Empowerment and Change. Experiences of the Changing Nature of Civic Organising,

Michael HAMMER, INTRAC, United Kingdom

Table C: Prefigurative activism & environmental challenges

Chair: Nathalie BERNY, Université de Bordeaux, France.

Rethinking the Common of the People through Social Movements: Turkish Cases.

Yavuz YILDIRIM, Nigde University, Turkey

Grassroots Mobilisations and the Democracy They Want: Renewable Energy and Anti-Fracking.

Anna SZOLUCHA, University of Bergen, Norway

Social Technologies for Trust, Transparency and Conflict Resolution and the Imagining of Peaceful Futures: The Engagement of Tamera Ecovillage with Peace Activism in Israel/Palestine.

Ana Margarida ESTEVES, ISCTE – IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

Novelty, Strategy and Timing in Social Movements Research: Prefiguring the Futures We Want? .

Luke YATES, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Economic Practices and Role Models of the Transition Movement: From Market Societies Towards New Modes of Provisioning?

Silke OETSCH, Department of Sociology, Austria

Table D: Right Wing Movements.

Chair: Emanuele TOSCANO, University of Rome

Mass Mobilizations, Contestations and the Contingent Future in a Plural Polity.

Rajesh MISRA, University of Lucknow, India

The Discursive Trajectory of Street Demonstrations in Brazil (2013-2015).

Celi Regina PINTO, UFRGS, Brazil

Present Futures: Utopia, Prefiguration and Their Meaning in the Refugee Struggle. Leslie GAUDITZ, University of Bremen, Germany

Towards an Illiberal Future. Polish War on Gender in a Transnational Perspective,

Elżbieta KOROLCZUK, Södertörn University, Sweden

Table E: Young activists and the future they want

Chair: Sofia LAINE, University of Helsinki

Politics Is Our Daily Bread: New Youth Political Subjectivity in Latin America .

Darcie VANDEGRIFT, Drake University, USA

Politics and the Conduct of Life – a Weberian Perspective on Young Antiracist Activists in Germany.

Linus WESTHEUSER, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Post-Crisis Utopias? – Future Orientation and Sociological Imagination.

Danny OTTO, University of Rostock, Germany

Jeffrey GOODWIN, New York University, USA

#Radicalisation: Social Media and the Mutation of Humanitarianism

Kevin MCDONALD, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex Univesity, London, United Kingdom

Mobilizations and Social Movements in the Contentious Brazilian Public Sphere

Angela PAIVA, PUC-Rio, Brazil

Citizenship Projects for a Better Future: The Struggle for Education in Mexico

Guadalupe OLIVIER, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico & Sergio TAMAYO, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico

Anti-Deportation Protest in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

Nina MERHAUT, Universität Wien, Austria and Didier RUEDIN, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Same Same but Different? Challenging Dublin-Deportations in Austria and Germany

Helen SCHWENKEN, University of Osnabruck, Germany, Maren KIRCHHOFF, University of Osnabrückck, Germany and Verena STERN, University of Vienna, Austria

Saving Deportees: Dynamics of Mobilizations Against Deportation in Switzerland

Johanna PROBST, SFM Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland and Dina BADER, SFM – Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Mobilizing within Networks of Solidarity: Resource Mobilization and Embeddedness of Refugee Activists in Local Solidarity Networks in Berlin, Germany

Elias STEINHILPER, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

Alain TOURAINE, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Alain Touraine’s Sociology of the Subject

Kevin MCDONALD, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex Univesity, London, United Kingdom

Between Subjectivation and Dignity. Homage to Alain Touraine

Tova BENSKI, Social Sciences, College of Management Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel

Comments and short interventions by Markus Schulz (New School NY) & Eiji Hamanishi (Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan),  Alexis Cortes (UAH, Chile) & Buket Turkmen (Galatasaray University)

Nathalie BERNY, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France

It’s All Local? Climate Change Adaptation Policies, Climate Action Groups and U.S. Local Governments

Cecelia WALSH-RUSSO, Hardwick College, USA and Mary WALSH, St. John Fisher College, USA

Learning from Failure: Local Climate Activism from Success to Stasis

Marc HUDSON, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Demanding Policy Change, Taking Direct Action, or Promoting Alternatives: Explaining Differences and Overlaps in Strategic Preferences within the Climate Change Movement

Joost DE MOOR, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Feminist Struggles over Social Reproduction: In the Squares and Beyond

Janet CONWAY and Elise THORBURN, Brock University, Canada

The “Standing Man” As a Performative Creation of Immediate Collectivities and Counter-Public Spaces

Ozge DERMAN, EHESS Paris (CRAL), Turkey

The Rhizomatic Epoch of Contention: From the Zapatistas to the European Anti-Austerity Protests

Peter FUNKE, University of South Florida, USA and Tod WOLFSON, Todd Wolfson Rutgers University, USA

Anti-Austerity Social Movement Repertoires of Communication: A Diachronic Analysis of Protest Media Legacies in Southern Europe

Emiliano TRERE^1,2, Sandra JEPPESEN² and Alice MATTONI³, (1)Communication and Journalism, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico, (2)Lakehead University, Canada, (3)European University Institute, Italy

Digital Activism and Censorship in the Post-Gezi Era

Perrin OGUN EMRE, Kadir Has University, Turkey and Gulum SENER, Arel University, Turkey

Social Media-Based Far Right Movements in Thailand

Wolfram SCHAFFAR, University of Vienna, Austria

When All Roles Are Reversed: Studying Nationalist Youth in Gezi Resistance

Derya GOCER AKDER and Kubra OAYUZ, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

The Complex Political Context of Conservative Mobilization in Japan: Utilizing the Event Data from Periodicals

Yoojin KOO, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Mobilization – Organization – Instituionalization Students As Political Actors in Kenya

Anna DEUTSCHMANN, Universität Wien, Austria

The Network of Peasant and Agricultural Producers’ Organizations of West Africa (ROPPA) and the Global Food Sovereignty Movement

Nora MCKEON, Rome 3 University, Italy

Andrea PIRNI and Luca RAFFINI, University of Genoa, Italy

Civil Marriage, Not Civil War!” Anti-Sectarian Activism in Post-War Lebanon

Alexandra KASSIR, EHESS, France

Youth Mobilizing in the City of Jerusalem on a Cross Road: Changing and Teaching Ourselves

Abeer MUSLEH, Bethlehem University, Palestine

Young Middle-Class Activists in Lima, Peru: Hopes, Fears, and Civic Subjectivities.

Franka WINTER, Maynooth University, Ireland

Youth Support for an Authoritarian Future. Imagining a Pro-Putin Future in Contemporary Russia

Felix KRAWATZEK, University of Oxford (Nuffield College & Department of Politics), United Kingdom

Jin-Wook SHIN, Chung-Ang University, South Korea

Emancipative Movements, Emancipative Agency: Framing New Conceptualizations

Paola REBUGHINI, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

The Subjectivation of Collective Movements

Antimo Luigi FARRO, Sapienza University Of Rome, Italy; Cadis (Ehess-Cnrs)-Paris, France

Acciones Colectivas De LOS Destechados Colombianos Desde La Subjetividad Y La Raz”N

Maria NARANJO BOTERO, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

ISIL As a Transnational Social Movement

Jeffrey GOODWIN, New York University, USA

Egyptian RURAL Protests Between the Urban Imaginary Construct and State Politics

Malak ROUCHDY, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Being in-Between – the Women’s Movements in Kenya

Antje DANIEL, University of Bayreuth, Germany

From Inequalities to Liberties: The Rise of New Social Movements in Contemporary Turkey

Esin ILERI, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, Turkey

Rights-Based or Anti-Systemic? Environmental Protest Movements in Turkey

Hayriye OZEN, Atilim University, Turkey and Sukru OZEN, Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey

Leftwing Politics, Social Movements and Marijuana Legalization in Uruguay: A Peripheral Democracy Challenges the Transnational Drug Policy Paradigm.

Sebastian AGUIAR, Universidad de la República, Uruguay and Gabriel CHOUHY, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Rebecca GUMBRELL-MCCORMICK, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

Union Activists in Collective Action Fields: A Comparative Exploration

Mario DIANI, University of Trento, Italy

When and Why Do Synergies Work? Comparing Synergistic Movements to Stop “Free Trade” to Synergies Between Transnational Labor and Feminist Movements

Peter EVANS, Watson Institute for International Studies, USA; Sociology, University of California-Berkeley, CA, USA

Parallel Government, Privatization, Soft Law, Jobber’s Contract, Union Power, and/or Ngo Leverage?: The Many Meanings of Progress after the Rana Plaza Disaster.

Robert J.S. ROSS, Clark University, USA

Increasing Power Resources By Cross-Border, Cross-Organizational Cooperation? Synergies and Trade-Offs of Transnational Alliance Between Trade Unions and Social Movements. the Case of Bangladesh

Sabrina ZAJAK and Saida RESSEL, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

The Position of Labor in Civil Activism: The Labor Movement and the Classness of the Bersih Movement in Malaysia

Nobuyuki YAMADA, Department of Sociology, Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan

Distributed papers

Laboring Against Human Trafficking: INGOs, Unions, and Anti-Trafficking Responses

Stephanie LIMONCELLI, Loyola Marymount University, USA

Are Alliances Possible Between Workers and Consumers?

Patricia VENDRAMIN, University of Louvain-la-Neuve & Fondation Travail-Université, Belgium

Social Movement Unionism: from the IWW to Wisconsin and the World

Heather BLAKEY and Graeme CHESTERS, University of Bradford, United Kingdom