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Research
Committee on
Social Classes and Social Movements RC47
Programme Coordinators
Henri Lustiger Thaler, Ramapo College, USA, lustigerthaler@aol.com
Antimo Farro, University Roma "La Sapienza", Italy, antimoluigi.farro@uniroma1.it
Venue
Campus Linné
Each session, group or committee is allocated in the same venue throughout the Congress, except for few occasions such as joint sessions. This is a preliminary venue and can be subject to minor changes. The final schedule will be presented in June.
Main Theme
Globalization, Risk, Crisis and Subjectivity
The aim of the RC47 scientific program at the ISA World Congress in Gotenburg Sweden in 2010 is to creatively and innovatively explore theories of collective action in the context of the current global crisis. We seek questions that articulate the current crisis - in its global, integrated and systemic form - to the question of subjectivity and the role of the subject in these momentous changes. The question we now ask in these transformative times: what are the likely outcomes and future of this turbulence in terms of our understanding of collective action and the future of globalization processes.
Sessions
For exact date/time schedule of each session, please contact directly session chair.
Session 1: Migration, culture and crisis
Chair Yvon Le Bot, EHESS, France,
ylebot@gmail.com
Session 2: Social movements and crisis
Chair: Antimo F. Farro, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy,
Antimoluigi.Farro@uniroma1.it
Session 3: Democracy within a fragile and interconnected world
Chair: Pierre Hamel, Université de Montréal, Canada, pierre.hamel@umontreal.ca
Session 4: Embodiment and action
Chair: Kevin McDonald, Goldsmiths College, UK, mcdonald.k@gmail.com
Session 5: Social construction of risks, citizens' movement and reflexive modernization
Chair: Han Sang Jin, Seoul National University, Korea, hansjin@snu.ac.kr
Session 6: Global social movements: Asia and beyond
Chairs: Daishiro Nomiya dainom@nifty.com and Shujiro Yazawa, Seijo University, Tokyo, Japan syazawa@seijo.ac.jp
Session 7: Individual, crisis and cultural struggles
Chair: Emanuele Toscano, Editor, Journal New Cultural Frontiers, Italy, emanuele.toscano@libero.it
Session 8: Sociological intervention
Chair: Michel Wieviorka, MSH, Paris, France, wiev@msh-paris.fr
Session 9: Social movements in Latin America: effects of the current crisis on social practices
Chairs: Maria da Gloria Gohn, Brazil, mgohn@uol.com.br
and Breno Bringel, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain, brenobringel@hotmail.com
Session 10: Social movements in Latin America: effects of the current crisis on theoretical production
Chairs: Maria da Gloria Gohn, Brazil, mgohn@uol.com.br
and Breno Bringel, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain, brenobringel@hotmail.com
Session 11: Business Meeting
Session 12: United we stand? Social movements in Eastern and Western EuropeOrganizer: TransNet Research Group: Christoph Haug, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany, haug@wzb.eu,
Kerstin Jacobsson, Södertörn University, Sweden and
Adrienne Sörbom, Stockholm University, Sweden
The session focuses on social movements in Eastern and Western Europe. It has often been argued that civil society functions differently in countries of the former Soviet block and Western Europe, and that the conditions for social movement mobilization and collective action differ in these regions. How does that express itself in the workings and the culture of different movements in this current period of crisis? And, to what extent are these differences relevant for newer transnationalized movements, such as the global justice movements? How does a transnational movement working various national contexts? We especially invite papers with empirical findings and/or a comparative perspective. We also invite papers about processes of transnational networking and coalition-building involving East and West.
Session 13: Towards a dialogue between scientists, civic groups and social movements. Part III
Joint session of RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology, RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements [host committee] and RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change
Session 14: Suffering and Politics : New Sociological Perspectives?. Part I
Organizer: Marie Cristine Doran, Université d'Ottawa, Canada, Marie-Christine.Doran@uottawa.ca
Coming across problematics of violence, rights, domination/emancipation et religion, the scope of social suffering is the object of diverse representations, narratives and social claims. On one hand, themes such as poverty, violence, humanitarian catastrophes and human rights are among the most important for institutionalized political actors, which seek to reorganize suffering and present it in such a way that there can be a precise solution to it. On the other hand, the expression of suffering itself is often quite “disorganizing” for these political logics, and categories such as “victims”, “beneficiaries”, “poor and indigent” are then questioned by social subjects. Sociology is therefore summoned to analyze the new intersections between concrete expressions of social suffering and their political translations, in different fields: how do the logics of politics, that are based on the segmentation of suffering such as “demands”, “political mediation”, or the political use of “reconciliation” articulate with the social expression of suffering, that often come “from below”, such as “Memory”, “collective expression” and “healing”? Where does the politization of suffering take place in these encounters that are often confrontations? We shall give a special attention to the emergence of the Politics of Emotion in Latin America –and elsewhere- since it offers a new context where phenomena such as the influence of religions of emotion (Pentecostalism in particular), civil violence, social movements against impunity, political action of Indigenous movements and populist tendencies define new relations between social suffering and Politics.
Session 15: Suffering and Politics : New Sociological Perspectives?. Part II
Organizer: Marie Cristine Doran, Université d'Ottawa, Canada, Marie-Christine.Doran@uottawa.ca
Session 16: Grassroots movements for sustainable, local and convivial consumption. Part I
Joint session of RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food and RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements [host committee]
Joint sessions hosted by other RC
Joint session: Grassroots movements for sustainable, local and convivial consumption. Part II
Joint session of RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food [host committee] and RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements
Joint session: Towards a dialogue between scientists, civic groups and social movements. Part I
Joint session of RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology [host committee], RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements, and RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change
Joint session: Towards a dialogue between scientists, civic groups and social movements. Part II
Joint session of RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology [host committee], RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements, and RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change
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Integrative session 2: Globalization, subjects and crisis
Tuesday, July 13, 08:30-10:30
Integrative session of Research Committees RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food, RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements and RC48 Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social
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