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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008


Research Committee on
Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change RC48

Main theme
Making things public: Social movements and public debates


Programme Coordinator
Benjamín Tejerina Montaña, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, cjptemob@lg.ehu.es

Social movements have performed an important role in pointing out those aspects that are failing in society, in the denouncing of injust situations or in the claiming for the approaching of new social and political challenges. In these processes it is important to define the problem, to frame the claimings and to give new meanings to aspects of public concern. Debates turn into wars of paper, words and images in the attempt to define the matters at issue among social movements, political agents and civil society.

To frame objectives, setting them up against those of other opponents, and to transmit them to society, with the help of different means of communication, are some of the multiple endeavours in the process of making things public. The central objective of the sessions is to think about these aspects in relation to situations for which contemporary social movements posed questions to the public sphere.

Venue of RC48 sessions:

Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History
University of Barcelona
Montalegre, 6
08001 Barcelona, Spain, map

Session 1: Cognitive framing, discourses and narratives in social movements

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Benjamín Tejerina, University of the Basque Country, Spain, b.tejerina@ehu.es

Session 2: Urban conditions, processes of exclusion and social movements

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Tova Benski, College of Management Studies, Israel, benski@colman.ac.il

Session 3: Democratization, political institutions and social movements in Latin America. Part I

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Benjamín Tejerina, University of the Basque Country, Spain, b.tejerina@ehu.es

Session 4: Democratization, political institutions and social movements in Latin America. Part II

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Benjamín Tejerina, University of the Basque Country, Spain, b.tejerina@ehu.es

Session 5: Debates and mass media in public arena

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, James.Goodman@uts.edu.au

Session 6: New media, social movements and democracy

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint Session RC07 Futures Research with RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change
Chair: Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, markus.schulz@nyu.edu and Benjamín Tejerina, University of the Basque Country, Spain, b.tejerina@ehu.es

Session 7: Traditional and new forms and arenas of social mobilization I

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: María Luz Morán, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, mlmoran@cps.ucm.es

Session 8: Traditional and new forms and arenas of social mobilization II

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Debal K. Singharoy, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India, debal_singharoy@yahoo.co.in

Session 9: Social movements: vision, persuasion, and power

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Joint Session RC07 Futures Research and RC48 Social Movements, Collective action, and Social Change
Chair: Mark Herkenrath, U. Zurich, Switzerland, herky@access.unizh.ch, and Hannah Neumann, Berlin, Germany, hannah.neumann@googlemail.com

Session 10: Overcoming alienation: democratic mobilizations in a global age

Friday, September 5, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Joint session RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management, RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change and RC36 Alienation Theory and Research
Organiser: Knud Jensen, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark, knud@dpu.dk