CriticalMass 1 CriticalMassBulletin Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association
Volume 40 (1) http://cbsm-asa.org/ Spring 2015
2014-2015 Section Officers Message from the Chair Chair James M. Jasper James M. Jasper
Chair-Elect CBSM Section Chair Belinda Robnett Professor of Sociology
Past Chair The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Edwin Amenta
Secretary/Treasurer Instead of the usual kind of chair’s message, I would like to take this opportunity Sarah Sobieraj to pursue one of my pet goals of making US sociologists more aware of the rest of the world. Like our fellow citizens, two thirds of whom do not even have passports, Council Lee Ann Banaszak we do not speak enough languages, spend enough time abroad, or follow Elizabeth Borland intellectual trends elsewhere. So, as painful as it is for any scholar to relinquish Catherine Corrigall-Brown publishable real estate, I have asked several scholars to share recent developments Manisha Desai Drew Halfmann in their countries with us. Unfairly, I requested that they do this in a mere 500-600 Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum words. Full Bibliographies that accompany these essays can be found at http://cbsm-asa.org/critical-mass/ Committees Nominations Chair: Ashley Currier In This Issue Kathleen M. Fallon David Nicholas Pettinicchio Message from the Chair…………………………………………….... Publications 1 Co-Chair: Marc D. Dixon Global Symposium Reports: Australia, the Netherlands, France, Co-Chair: Grace Yukich China, India, and Russia…………………………………………..…. 1 Lyndi N. Hewitt Recent Publications………………….………………………………. 8 Workshops 2015 Job Market Candidates………………….……………………... 12 James M. Jasper Calls for Papers & Other Opportunities……………………...... 14 Brayden King CBSM Workshop 2015 Program…………………………………….. Sandra R. Levitsky 15 Michelle Marie Proctor Details on CBSM-Related Events at ASA…………………………... 16 Wayne Santoro
Mentoring (appointed) Chair: José A. Muñoz many new works focus on familiar themes because Steven A. Boutcher Tanya Saunders Recent they continue to dominate in discussions of equity, Australian change and nation. A new offering that synthesizes Webmaster key issues today is Greg Martin’s forthcoming book Alex Hanna Research Understanding Social Movements (Routledge 2015). Newsletter Editors An edited collection that does similar work is James Kelly Birch Maginot By Catriona Roberts, Goodman and Jonathan Marshall’s Crisis, Movement, Michelle Smirnova University of Sydney Management: Globalising Dynamics (Taylor and Please send all your ideas, Francis 2014). Both texts highlight the principal new feedback, and submissions to Social Movement themes and theories of the 21st century. Goodman is [email protected] research in Australia well-known for his work on social movements in the has a long tradition and context of globalization, and is one of the authors of 3 CriticalMass the impressive book Justice Globalism: Ideology, people engage in processes of social change. As with Crises, Policy (Sage 2012). This technical and densely Goodman’s work, Vromen and her co-authors, move argued book works through key issues associated with beyond the sometimes sneering reduction of young the Global Justice Movement and its ideology. It people’s engagements as nothing more than defends the GJM from criticism that is incoherent and “clicktivism.” just “anti” everything. Bibliography at http://cbsm-asa.org/critical-mass/ The previous Australian government introduced a National Disability Insurance Scheme in 2013, which for the first time brought issues of disability to the fore Imagine: the state is your ally…* for many citizens. Helen Meekosha (UNSW), a disability movement scholar, has been working in the By Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam area for decades. She contributed a strong chapter to the collection edited by Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes, Conspicuously absent from Dutch approaches to Lennard Davis Disability and Social Theory: New social movements is the so-called New Social Developments and Directions (Palgrave, 2012), on the Movement Approach of influential figures such as interplay between space, gender and disability. Co- Alain Touraine and Alberto Melucci. Even though writing with Carolyn Frohmader (Executive Director, some have argued that the NSM approach was the Women with Disabilities Australia), the authors “European contribution” to the field of social explore intersectionality – disability and gender in movements par excellence, most Dutch scholars particular - but also the tensions between national and contributed instead to Anglo-Saxon traditions. One international aims within organizations. Anita Ghai’s can speculate why certain approaches resonate so interesting chapter, in this mostly British focused strongly in some countries and less in others. Here, I book, brings together issues of disability and want to hypothesize that the Dutch political culture of postcolonialism in a discussion that sits neatly with openness toward protest and protestors has been local Australian arguments. mirrored in the popularity of scholarly approaches that emphasize the importance of political opportunities A focus on intersectionality is now common in social and resources. It is not that the Netherlands have been movement research more generally. Intersectionality less influenced by “May 68,” by the huge cultural and Social Change (2014), edited by Lynne Woehrle, transformations of the 1960s and the 1970s that would has a fine chapter by Emma Partridge and Sarah explain the absence of the NSM-approach in the Maddison on gender, race and violence in the context Netherlands. On the contrary, the Dutch “new” social of the Australian feminist movement. These authors movements have been far stronger than their French suggest that using intersectional frameworks for and the Italian counterparts. The literature shows, imagining collective identity allows us to recognize however, that these huge cultural changes have been the complexity of Indigenous women’s identities. possible due to rather specific political conditions. It is Other chapters explore intersectionality in a variety of this specificity of the Dutch political context – the North American, South American and European openness to and the “absorption” of social movements contexts, creating a detailed picture of the field. by and in the Dutch state- that explains the popularity of paradigms that focus on (perceptions of) The impact of social media in social movements is, not opportunities. surprisingly, an expanding area of research. Ariadne Vromen (University of Sydney) is a key figure in this However, this openness, in which “the state” often field. Her work on young people and political activism positions itself more as an ally than an adversary, has explained some of the new ways community fuelled one of the main criticisms of an overly transformation is imagined and performed in virtual structuralist Political Process Approach for positing a worlds. The Networked Young Citizen, co-edited with rigid distinction between states/ governments and Bryan Loader and Michael Xenos (Routledge 2014), social movements. Studies of many Dutch social is a collection of thoughtful pieces on how young movements, such as the women’s and the LGBT CriticalMass 4 movement, point to large intersections between states configurational thought of Norbert Elias, and movements and the implications of these Bourdieusian critical sociology, and the expanding intersections for theorizing political opportunity dominance of an interactionist paradigm in research on structures. In more recent work, scholars at the activism, lent some originality to current research. University of Amsterdam (Broer & Duyvendak 2009, 2011; De Graaff & Broer 2012; Grootegoed, Broer & The lion’s share of the last twenty years of Duyvendak 2013) have further challenged core publications in social movement studies has been assumptions of the structuralist PPA, inspired by the dedicated to three domains. work of American scholars who have emphasized the importance of emotions and culture in social First, the diversity of repertories of action, signalling movement research (Jasper 2011). In their work, these the critical importance of Charles Tilly’s legacy. For UvA researchers show how in the policymaking example, on demonstrations (Fillieule and process itself political subjectivities are formed that Tartakowsky 2013), hunger strikes (Siméant 1998), enable people to fight precisely those policies. Often, squats (Péchu 2006), rent strikes (Hmed 2006), public however, it is no so much dissonance that is the meetings (Cossart 2013) or ethical consumption outcome of the political process but resonance: (Dubuisson-Quellier, 2009; Balsiger 2010). Research policymakers and people have the same definition of also examined modes of resistance to authority, the situation and no mobilization occurs. Or something associated with the initiative to import social else happens, as Robert Davidson (also UvA) shows in movement theory in research on the MENA region his recent work on the LGBT-movement: the Dutch (Bennani-Chraïbi, Fillieule 2003, 2012; Zaki 2005; government – both national and local- mobilizes Vairel 2014), on Turkey (Gourisse 2014) on Latin together with social movement organizations in order America (e.g. Massal 2005) and on black Africa to change public opinion to become (even more) (Siméant 2014). favorable regarding homosexuality. In such a context, “the state” as an enemy just doesn’t make sense. To Second, and apart some developments in gendered understand protest and social change, we rather “break social movements and feminist protests (Fillieule and the state down” (Duyvendak & Jasper 2015) and look Roux, 2009; Bereni research has mainly focussed on at the precise forms of cooperation and conflict that the “new struggles” of the day. For example develop regarding concrete topics in highly peculiar humanitarian commitments (Dauvin and Siméant settings. 2002; Collovald et al. 2002); the struggles of the most deprived populations – the homeless, unemployed, * This short essay draws heavily on Jan Willem and others (Pierru 2003; Dunezat 2004; Péchu 2006; Duyvendak, Conny Roggeband and Jacquelien van Mathieu 2006, 2014; Chabanet and Faniel 2013); anti Stekelenburg “Politics and People: Understanding AIDS activism (Pinell and al 2002; Broqua 2005; the Dutch Research on Social Movements”, Voegtli 2009), associations connected with forthcoming 2016. immigration (Siméant 1998; Hamidi 2006; Hmed 2006), and antiglobalization (Agrikoliansky and al. Bibliography at http://cbsm-asa.org/critical-mass/ 2005; and Sommier, and al. 2008; Sommier and Fillieule 2013). Also, “68” began to interest university researchers (Pagis 2014), long after Sommier Social Movement Studies in published her pathbreaking Ph.D. devoted to this issue France: A Short Overview from the perspective of a comparative analysis of France and Italy (Sommier 1998).
By Olivier Fillieule, University of Lausanne Finally, French researchers have explored at length the In the 1990s social movement studies in France question of activism and the process of commitment, witnessed an exponential growth, resulting in a especially with reference to an interactionist model of significant accumulation of knowledge. The combined careers (Fillieule 2001, 2010). Consequently, contrary influence of Marxist concepts, the socio-genetic and to the North American academic field, where 5 CriticalMass researchers specializing in the subfield of studies of www.cnki.net. I searched for several Chinese phrases socialization have kept their distance from the denoting social movements and collective action on sociology of activism, the French have considered March 20, 2015 in “abstract” rather than “full-text.” If socialization studies pivotal. Ethnographic qualitative a keyword like “mass incidents” appears in the approaches have proven best able to analyse activist abstract of an article, chances are the article is about work and its social divisions (Fillieule 2005; Pagis some form of contentious politics (“mass incidents” 2008; Joshua 2015). being an official term for designating social protests). The results show an increasing number of articles in Two other French specificities deserve mention. First, the past decade: unlike the United States, where the success of social movement studies has produced an effect of closing Mass Social Collective Internet off the field, its exponential development in France incidents movements action events has, on the contrary, translated into an invasive (qunti (shehui (jiti (wangluo spreading of its instruments and issues into a great xing yundong) xingdong) shijian) number of academic domains. There is an important shijian) point of convergence with the increasingly voiced 2004 16 63 53 7 ambition across the Atlantic to reposition the study of 2005 31 86 79 6 2006 54 102 111 13 protest activities in the context of the political, 2007 61 125 147 15 economic and social relations which surround them, 2008 81 148 157 45 taking into account the multiplicity of actors involved 2009 177 143 179 52 and their strategies. 2010 196 148 209 84 2011 226 179 211 88 Second, in terms of methods, the French usually 2012 237 207 264 69 exercise caution with respect to undue simplifications 2013 195 211 252 84 of a stratospheric comparativism, arguing that we 2014 176 225 236 67 learn more about the dynamic of protests and collective action from in-depth case studies than in The second trend is that much of the work focuses on compiling vast data bases that risk stripping the internet-related activism and protest and in this, explanatory factors chosen of all meaning. It offers a scholars of journalism and communication, not genuine means of investigating many paths outlined in sociologists, seem to be taking the lead. Many articles theory but still unexplored in practice, due to the lack on “mass incidents” deal with “internet mass of adequate methodological tools: the logic of activist incidents,” which is the official term for internet- trajectories; emotions and affects (Latté 2008; Traïni triggered protest. Another euphemistic term for 2009, 2011); the dynamics of events; and the face to internet protest is internet events or new media events. face interactions which comprise the texture of protest. Bibliography at http://cbsm-asa.org/critical-mass/ Considering the frequency of popular protest in China, online and offline, it is not surprising that Chinese scholars are producing more research on it. Indeed, the Studies of Contentious Politics in Chinese government provides some support through China its social science funding mechanisms, since government leaders themselves want to better By Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania understand popular protest, if only in order to contain it more effectively. The large amount of research on Confining my discussion to Chinese-language contentious politics has generated many insightful publications only, I see three trends in the scholarship analyses of contemporary protest activities. With on contentious politics in China. The first is the rapidly major works by Charles Tilly, Doug McAdam, Sidney growing quantity of academic journal articles in these Tarrow, Alain Touraine and many others all translated areas. This is clear from a quick keyword search of the into Chinese, and with a younger generation of major Chinese academic journals database Chinese scholars fully competent in reading and using CriticalMass 6
English-language scholarship, Western social exploitation and also for the articulation of new movement theories and concepts have become identities. Many of these movements have retained standard references in these studies. their historical legacies despite reorientations over the time. Considering that many Chinese scholars emphasize the importance of developing indigenous concepts and Historically India has witnessed numerous religious theories for analyzing Chinese realities, however, reform movements and revolts of the peasants and significant theoretical or conceptual breakthroughs tribal people against the rulers. During British rule remain few and far between. One exception is perhaps starting from the early 19th century, tribal revolts a book on rural protest by the sociologist Xing Ying. surfaced in the eastern, central and northeastern parts First published in Chinese in 2011, the book came out of the country. India has also seen the phenomenal in English in 2013 titled A Study of the Stability of participation of the tribes and peasants in the Contemporary Rural Chinese Society. It attracted Independence movements and also the proliferation of attention in China because it uses a concept from autonomous peasant and workers movements since the traditional Chinese philosophy to explain why Chinese first quarter of the twentieth century. There have also villagers protest. Called qi, the concept is translated as been trade union movements, caste and ethnic “vigor” in the English version and as “emotion” in the movements like that of the Rajbansi movements in the English title of the original Chinese edition. Neither northern parts of Bengal and the Anti Brahmin translation is accurate, but roughly speaking, qi movements in the southern part of the country. resembles the notion of “moral grammar” in Axel Honneth’s book The Struggle for Recognition: The After Independence many of the previous movements Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts. Ying’s purpose continued, and India experienced an outburst of new in using qi to explain popular protest is similar to that peasant movements like the Tebhaga of Honneth and many others in the social movement movements1946-47, Telangana Movements 1948-52, field, which is to try to overcome the dichotomy of and thereafter the radical Naxalite movements in reason and emotion in understanding the motivations 1970s. It has also seen the proliferation of workers for protest. In this sense, Ying’s book initiates an movements in the growing urban areas of the country interesting conversation between Chinese and Western in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Since the mid 1970s India has concepts and for that reason, merits the attention of experienced women’s movements, environmental scholars outside of China. movements like Chipko (hugging the tree), movements against big dams (Narmada Bachaao I should add, however, that more and more scholars in Andolon), regional autonomy (separate statehood with China are now publishing in English-language Indian Union) movements like the Telangana, journals outside of China, including high-impact Vidharva, Kamptapuri ,Gorkhaland, Uttaranchal, international journals. Due to space limits, Jharkhand, Bodoland movements, rich farmers’ unfortunately, I have to leave out their works. movements in the agriculturally developed states, movements for the assertions of caste identity like the Bibliography at: http://cbsm-asa.org/critical-mass/ Dalit Panther Party , Bahujan Samaj Party, Pro- Mandal Commission Movements (movements in favor of reservations for the socially and economically backward classes in government jobs and in Social Movements in India education), the radical Maoist movements since mid 1980s in the agriculturally backwards parts of the By Debal K. SinghaRoy, Indira Gandhi National Open country. In recent years, movements against big hydro University and thermal projects and dams, movements against nuclear and defense projects (e.g. Anti-Missiles Base Societies in India have long been the breeding grounds movement in Baliapal, Orissa, Anti Nuclear Power for varieties of social movements as collective agency Project in Haripur, West Bengal, movement against to protest against socio-economic dominations and Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Maharashtra), Anna 7 CriticalMass
Hazare’s movement against corruption, Movement for spontaneous mass protests against electoral fraud right to Information, Movements of agriculturalists’ (known as the “Movement for Fair Elections”). against land acquisition, civil liberty and human rights, Publications appeared as early as January 2012 (one gay rights, children’s rights, and numerous localized month after the first protests), when sociologists and social movements for employment, livelihood security anthropologists made their first and rather descriptive of the poor, safety and dignify of women, tribes, low attempts to make sense of the unexpected mass castes, religious minority groups have surfaced in mobilization. The “Rallies Research Institute” (NII many parts of the country. Mitingov) in Moscow and the PS-Lab (Public Sociology Laboratory) in St. Petersburg and other Despite India’s new social movements, the old social Russian cities collected data on the protesters’ movements persist, although in new forms, as the old demographics and demands, struggling to find issues are yet to be resolved. However in the wake of adequate methods to capture the “new” reality of mass economic globalization, penetration of ICTs and protests. communication networks, increased migration and social mobility, a high concentration of youth in the The deeper analysis of these events followed later. population, most of these social movements are now One of the best contributions so far is the book The nationally and internationally connected, attract Politics of the Apolitical (Politika apolitichnykh) supporters across the geographical space, and published by the PS-Lab collective in 2014. The book predominantly adopt strategies of non violence (except focuses on the “paradoxicality” of mobilization in the for the Maoists), and reforms rather than political and ideological context of depoliticization of transformation. Many movements are in the process of the Russian society, and looks for the conditions of getting transformed into political parties, getting co- political subjectivization. Several chapters are opted by the state, or are aspiring for realignment with dedicated to later mobilizations (such as volunteering varieties of social forces. in areas of natural disaster, local level activism) that allowed the “political subjects” formed during the Many Indians are vulnerable, due to the contradictions anti-electoral protests to stay active. between economic prosperity and livelihood insecurity, legal enactment and political commitment, The upsurge of mobilization research in 2012-2013 the culture of inclusion and the politics of can leave a false impression of the absence of social subordination. Despite being routinised and movements and social movements research before reformative, social movements have remained 2011, and both the media and some of the researchers inseparable parts of social progress to create space for referred to the “Movement for the Fair Elections” as collective contestation against these insecurities and the first mobilization since 1993. However, social vulnerabilities and to reorient collective identities for movements existed during the “cursed nineties” and self expression and fulfilment. “stable” 2000s, and researchers have examined mobilization around urban problems (housing Bibliography at: http://cbsm-asa.org/critical-mass/ conditions, heritage protection), labor and social security issues, and the women’s and environmental movement. Tilly’s political process theory, Melucci’s Social Movements Research in collective identity theory, and framing theory are Russia: Sociology of the ignored popular frameworks for research. One significant contribution is the 2010 book From average people to activism activists (Carine Clement, Olga Miryasova and Andrei Demidov), an encyclopedia of social activism in By Anna Zhelnina, CUNY Graduate Center Russia in 2000s.
Social movement studies in Russia gained momentum Generally, movement-state relations are the center of after the 2011-2012 protest wave, as new research scholars’ attention. Elena Zdravomyslova in her work groups emerged to conduct empirical studies of the on the organization “Soldiers’ mothers” analyzes the CriticalMass 8 identity politics and the tactics of collective action legitimation under hostile state conditions. Natalia Recent Publications Danilova (in research on the disabled war veterans’ New Books movement) and Milyausha Zakirova (on urban protest) look at movements’ search for mobilizing Alimi, Eitan Y., Chares Demetriou, and frames that allow them not to appear too Lorenzo Bosi. 2015. The Dynamics of “oppositional.” Scholars such as Elena Belokurova Radicalization: A Relational and and Ivan Klimov pay attention to the organizational Comparative Perspective. Oxford dimension of movements. Boris Gladarev in his work University Press. (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the- on the heritage protection movement is interested in a dynamics-of-radicalization- broader issue of the formation of the public, mostly 9780199937707?cc=il&lang=en) based on Laurent Thévenot’s “moral sociology”.
Current interest is growing in conservative and right Bail, Christopher. 2014. Terrified: How wing mobilization, although the future of those studies Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations is questionable, since the state has become hostile not Became Mainstream. Princeton only to the activism, but also to research about it. University Press. (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10395.html)
Question: did the emergence of the fair election movement change how scholars thought about Bush, Melanie E. L. and Roderick D. movements, at the theoretical level? I think, it Bush. 2015. Tensions in the American promoted the topic and it became more popular after Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie, or Reality. the movement, and maybe just more people started Temple University Press. “theorizing” about its origins. But it still is discussed (http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1975_r either from the point of view of political philosophy or eg.html) political science in the narrow sense, social movements studies in the strict sense did not become extremely popular. Chang, Paul Y. 2015. Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Bibliography at: http://cbsm-asa.org/critical-mass/ Korea’s Democracy Movement, 1970- 1979. Stanford University Press. (http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23124)
Deadline for the Duyvendak, Jan Willem and James M. Fall 2015 Issue of Jasper, eds. 2015. Breaking Down the CriticalMass Bulletin: State: Protestors Engaged. Amsterdam th University Press. October 15 , 2015 (http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089647597- breaking-down-the-state.html)
Fisher, Dana R., Erika S. Svendsen, and James J. T. Connolly. 2015. Urban Environmental Stewardship and Civic Engagement: How Planting Trees Strengthens the Roots of Democracy. Routledge Press. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780 415723633/) 9 CriticalMass
Goodwin, Jeff and James M. Jasper, Lee, Caroline W., Michael McQuarrie, eds. 2015. The Social Movements and Edward T. Walker, eds. 2015. Reader: Cases and Concepts. 3rd Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas edition. Wiley-Blackwell. (http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle of the New Public Participation. New /productCd-111872979X,subjectCd- York University Press. SO20.html) (http://nyupress.org/books/9781479883363/)
Gould-Wartofsky, Michael A. 2015. McGarry, Aidan and James M. Jasper, The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 eds. 2015. The Identity Dilemma: Social Percent Movement. Oxford University Movements and Collective Identity. Press. Temple University Press. (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the- (http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2364_r occupiers-9780199313914?cc=us&lang=en&) eg.html)
Messner, Michael A., Max A. Heaney, Michael T. and Fabio Greenberg, and Tal Peretz. 2015. Some Rojas. 2015. Party in the Street: The Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement Antiwar Movement and the Democratic to End Violence Against Women. Party after 9/11. Cambridge University Oxford University Press. (http://www.somemen.org/) Press. (http://www.cambridge.org/9781107448803)
Ramos, Howard and Kathleen Rodgers, Kalberg, Stephen. 2014. Searching for eds. 2015. Protest and Politics: The the Spirit of American Democracy: Max Promise of Social Movement Societies. Weber’s Analysis of a Unique Political University of British Columbia press. Culture, Past, Present, and Future. (http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp? Paradigm Publishers. BookID=299174788) (https://paradigm.presswarehouse.com/books/ BookDetail.aspx?productID=367821) Ritter, Daniel P. 2015. The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Kennedy, Michael D. 2014. Globalizing Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle Knowledge: Intellectuals, Universities East and North Africa. Oxford and Publics in Transformation. University Press. Stanford University Press. (http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/97801996 58329.do) (http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24607) Rohlinger, Deana A. 2015. Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Lee, Caroline W. 2015. Do-It-Yourself Movements in America. Cambridge Democracy: The Rise of the Public University Press. Engagement Industry. Oxford (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/so University Press. ciology/political-sociology/abortion-politics-mass- media-and-social-movements-america?format=HB) (http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/97801999 87269.do)
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Journal For and About Social Movements, 7(1), forthcoming. Shayne, Julie, ed. 2015. Taking Risks:
Feminist Activism and Research in the Eidlin, Barry. 2015. “Class vs. Special Interest: Labor, Americas. SUNY Press. (http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5884-taking- Power, and Politics in the United States and Canada in risks.aspx) the Twentieth Century.” Politics and Society, 1–31 (OnlineFirst edition). doi:10.1177/0032329215571280
St. Pierre, Maurice. 2015. Eric Williams Engeman, Cassandra. 2014. “Social Movement and the Anticolonial Tradition: The Unionism in Practice: Organizational Dimensions of Making of a Diasporan Intellectual. Union Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant University of Virginia Press. Rights Marches.” Work, Employment & Society, (http://books.upress.virginia.edu/title/4621) doi:10.1177/0950017014552027.
Esparza, Louis Edgar and Rhiannan Price. 2015. “Convergence Repertoires: Anti-capitalist Protest at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.” Other Publications Contemporary Justice Review, 18(1): 22-41. Barnhardt, Cassie L. 2015. “Campus Educational
Contexts and Civic Participation: Organizational Hammond, John L. 2015. “The Anarchism of Occupy Links to Collective Action.” The Journal of Higher Wall Street.” Science and Society, 79(2): 288-313. Education, 86(1): 38-70.
Kearney, Matthew. 2015. “Are We Married Yet?” The Chang, Paul Y. and Andrea Kim Cavicchi. 2015. Progressive, 79(4): 16-20. “Claiming Rights: Organizational and Discursive Strategies of the Adoptee and Unwed Mothers Kearney, Matthew. 2015. “A Fundamental Question in Movement.” Korea Observer, 46(1): 145-180. U.W. Debate: Will it be Pursuit of Knowledge or
Simply Employable Skills?” Op-ed. Milwaukee Chiarello, Elizabeth. 2015. “The War on Drugs Comes Journal-Sentinel. to the Pharmacy Counter: Frontline Work in the Shadow of Discrepant Institutional Logics.” Law & Krishnan, Preethi and Mangala Subramaniam. Social Inquiry, 40(1): 86-122. “Understanding the State: Right to Food Campaign in
India.” The Global South, forthcoming. Chiarello, Elizabeth. 2014. “Medical Versus Fiscal
Gatekeeping: Navigating Professional Contingencies Luft, Aliza. 2015. “Toward a Dynamic Theory of at the Pharmacy Counter.” Law, Medicine & Action at the Micro-Level of Genocide: Killing, Ethics, 42(4): 518-534. Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda.”
Sociological Theory, 33(2), forthcoming. Corcoran, Katie, David Pettinicchio, and Jacob
Young. 2015. “Perceptions of Structural Injustice and Manski, Ben. 2015. “The Democratic Turn of the Efficacy: Participation in Low/Moderate/High-Cost Century: Learning from the U.S. Democracy Forms of Collective Action.” Sociological Inquiry, Movement.” Socialism and Democracy, 29(1): 2-16. published online before print. doi:10.1111/soin.12082 doi:10.1080/08854300.2015.1006392
Cortese, Daniel K. 2015. “I’m a ‘Good’ Activist, Myers, Justin Sean and Joshua Sbicca. 2015. You’re a ‘Bad’ Activist, and Everything I Do Is “Bridging Good Food and Good Jobs: From Secession Activism: Parsing the Different Types of ‘Activist’ to Confrontation within Alternative Food Movement Identities in LGBTQ Organizing.” Interface: A Politics.” Geoforum, 61: 17-26. 11 CriticalMass
Williford, Beth and Mangala Subramaniam. 2015. Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Violence and Democracy in “Transnational Field and Frames: Organizations in South Africa’s Community Protests.” Review of Ecuador and the US.” Research in Social Movements, African Political Economy, 42(143): 107-123. Conflicts, and Change, forthcoming.
Ring-Ramirez, Misty, Heidi Reynolds-Stenson, and Yukich, Grace and Ruth Braunstein. 2014. Jennifer Earl. 2014. “Culturally Constrained “Encounters at the Religious Edge: Variation in Contention: Mapping the Meaning Structure of the Religious Expression across Interfaith Advocacy and Repertoire of Contention.” Mobilization, 19(4): 405- Social Movement Spaces.” Journal for the Scientific 419. Study of Religion, 53(4): 791-807.
Rohlinger, Deana A., Jesse Klein, Tara Stamm, and Additional Announcements Kyle Rogers. 2015. “Constricting Boundaries: Almeida, Paul, University of California-Merced, Collective Identity in the Tea Party Movement.” Pp. received the 2015 Distinguished Scholarship Award 177-205 in Border Politics, Social Movements and from the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) for Globalization, edited by N. Naples and J. Bickham- his book, Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Mendez. New York University Press. Citizen Protest (Johns Hopkins University Press,
2014). The Award was presented April 3, 2015, at the Said, Atef. 2014. “We Ought to Be Here: Historicizing 78th annual PSA Conference in Long Beach, CA. Space and Mobilization in Tahrir
Square." International Sociology, published online Dr. Almeida also received a Fulbright Scholar before print, December 19. Fellowship from 2015 to 2017 in Honduras for his doi: 10.1177/0268580914551306 project entitled “Nongovernmental Organizations and
Community Well-Being.” Sbicca, Joshua. 2015. “Food Labor, Economic
Inequality and the Imperfect Politics of Process in the Winter/Spring 2015 issue of Journal of World- Alternative Food Movement.” Agriculture and Human Systems Research (JWSR)--Special issue on States Values. doi:10.1007/s10460-015-9582-2 and Social Movements in the Modern World-
System, edited by Mangala Subramaniam. Sbicca, Joshua. 2015. “Farming while confronting the other: The production and maintenance of boundaries This issue contains a series of articles rich in empirical in the borderlands.” Journal of Rural Studies, 39: 1- and theoretical analysis that interrogate state 10. institutions and translocal social movement struggles
against dispossession in the global south. In the Latin Smirnova, Michelle. 2014. What is the Shortest American region, Paul Almeida documents the rise of Russian Joke? Communism. Russian Cultural “social movement partyism” in Central America, Consciousness Expressed through Soviet Humor. and Kathleen Schwartzman shows how China’s Qualitative Sociology 37(3): 323-343. economic rise destabilizes Mexico’s trade relations
with the United States. Pablo Lapegna highlights the Smith, Jackie. 2015 “Defending the Global novel mobilization of agri-business sectors in Knowledge Commons.” Opendemocracy.net Open Argentina’s post-neoliberal context. For the African Movements Series, March 21 continent, Foud Makki shows how the complex role of (https://www.opendemocracy.net/jackie- post-colonial Africa in the world economy defies easy smith/defending-global-knowledge-commons). categorization and is profoundly reconfiguring the
social universe of Africa’s primary producers. Tope, Daniel, Justin Pickett, and Ted Chiricos. 2015.
“Anti-Minority Attitudes and Tea Party This edition also draws on cutting-edge research by Membership.” Social Science Research, 51: 322-337. Indian scholars who illuminate pressing social
struggles in the South Asian subcontinent. K. Kalpana CriticalMass 12 details the complex interplay between women’s contributions of labor unions to social policy, the resistance and neoliberal micro-credit programs that research design combines quantitative event history synthesize state welfare and informal labor. Devparna analysis of U.S. state-level data and qualitative case Roy explores social movement and state mobilization analysis comparing two states: California, which has against GMO seeds, and Scott Frey uses a world- above average union density and the most generous systems framework to enhance understanding of the leave policies in the country and Pennsylvania, which adverse consequences of “ship breaking” (recycling also has above average union density but no workplace core-based ships for steel and other materials). Also, leave policy. Preliminary findings suggest an in addition to our normal complement of salient book important role for unions. They contribute expertise, reviews, we also have a special symposium on the financial resources, and relationships with lawmakers. intellectual legacy of Andre Gunder Frank. By However, the extent to which labor unions prioritize critically engaging with Gunder Frank’s thought, workplace leave policy issues is shaped by their prominent world-systems scholars revisit and assessments of state-level political and economic complicate central questions of world-systems conditions, their stance the role of unions outside of theories such as the role of trade relations in shaping industrial relations, and their view of workplace leave world-systems. You can also find the JWSR on as a worker’s issue or women’s issue. Findings also Facebook support political mediation models that emphasize the (http://www.facebook.com/groups/PEWSJWSR). important role of governmental allies, particularly those with veto power, in shaping policy outcomes and bring attention to how weak state economies can 2015 Job Market Candidates inhibit campaigns for social policies that govern the workplace. This dissertation engages fundamental Cassandra Engeman, University of California Santa questions about the broader role of labor unions in Barbara ([email protected]) shaping working conditions. To date, labor research has largely focused on union influence in industrial Dissertation Title: “Unions and Family Values: relations in which the target of union mobilization is Workplace Leave Policy in the United States” economic (i.e., business or industry). This dissertation brings attention to union influence in social policy, Abstract: The United States is one of only three contributing a more comprehensive understanding of countries in the world that does not provide paid how labor unions shape working conditions for all maternity leave to workers. It also lags behind other workers regardless of membership. countries with respect to other types of leave, such as parental leave and sick days. The Family and Medical Alex Hanna, University of Wisconsin-Madison Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 is the only federal policy ([email protected]) that provides job-protected workplace leave in the United States. However, FMLA leave is unpaid, and Dissertation Title: “Automated Coding of Protest restrictive eligibility requirements prohibit over 40 Event Data: Development and Applications” percent of the workforce from taking advantage of this law. When caregiving needs arise, many U.S. workers Abstract: Scholars and policy makers recognize the must find individualized solutions to manage tensions need for better and timelier data about contentious in work and family obligations often at the expense to collective action, both the peaceful protests that are their economic security and personal and family understood as part of democracy and the violent events health. Within this dearth of federal policy, twelve that are threats to it. News media provide the only states have passed their own leave laws since 1993, consistent source of information available outside offering paid leave, covering more workers, government intelligence agencies and are thus the lengthening leave durations, or expanding definitions focus of all scholarly efforts to improve collective of “family” for the purposes of caregiving leave. Using action data. Human coding of news sources is time- a mixed method approach, this dissertation asks: Why consuming and thus can never be timely and is did some states pass workplace leave legislation necessarily limited to a small number of sources, a quicker than other states? Focusing on the 13 CriticalMass small time interval, or a limited set of protest “issues” as captured by particular keywords. There have been a Aliza Luft, University of Wisconsin-Madison number of attempts to address this need through ([email protected]) machine coding of electronic versions of news media, Website: http://www.alizaluft.com but approaches so far remain less than optimal. The goal of this dissertation is to outline the steps needed Dissertation Title: “Behavioral Variation during the to build, test and validate an open-source system, the Holocaust: The Case of the French Catholic Church” Machine-learning Protest Event Data System (or MPEDS) for coding protest events from any Abstract: My dissertation is about individuals who electronically available news source using advances endorse state violence at one point in time during a from natural language processing and machine genocide but who choose to withdraw their support in learning. Such a system should have the effect of order to save victimized civilians at other moments. increasing the speed and reducing the labor costs The focus is on Catholic bishops in Vichy, France. In associated with identifying and coding collective August 1940, as the authoritarian Vichy regime came actions in news sources, thus increasing the timeliness to power and Nazis occupied half of France, French of protest data and reducing biases due to excessive bishops met and decided to formally endorse legal reliance on too few news sources. The system will also Vichy anti-Semitism. Two years later, a subset of be open, available for replication, and extendable by bishops defected from this stance; they publicly future social movement researchers, and social and protested on behalf of Jews and encouraged computational scientists. The rest of the dissertation constituents to mobilize and help save them despite the applies this system to extant research problems within risks that bishops’ protest would pose to the church the social movements literature. and their own livelihoods. What, then, motivated bishops’ defections, and what can their behavioral Jerome M. Hendricks, University of Illinois at variation throughout the course of the Holocaust in Chicago ([email protected]) France teach us about mobilization processes in contexts of extreme violence more generally? Dissertation Title: “A Vinyl Revival: Processes of Qualification and Change in Intermediary Markets” Scholarship on political violence overwhelmingly tends to focus on positive cases: times when Abstract: My dissertation explores the actions of individuals do kill, or do join in armed conflict. intermediary firms in periods of rapid technological Increasingly, scholarship has turned to examine change. By asking how new developments in listening variation in motives for participation (i.e. Bosi and to and owning music have changed the music retail Della Porta 2012), and recent research compares industry, I offer the independent record store as a case participation in genocide with saving behaviors among of such an intermediary. Through a longitudinal similarly situated individuals (i.e. Braun 2014). multimethod content analysis of media and industry However, rarely is behavioral variation that considers documents, I investigate patterns of composition and non-participation, or desistance among the same group understandings in the field arguing that the survival of of actors, a systematic focus of study (but see these firms suggests a complex of meaning not readily Ermakoff 2012). By contrast, this research looks at evident in general accounts of industry change. I find a behavioral variation among the same individuals refashioned approach to the role of independent record within a single violent episode in order to probe how stores has become central in the resurgence of vinyl individuals make decisions about how to act record consumption. Through localized, cooperative throughout the course of a genocide. Drawing on a meaning-making and collaborative leadership, new wide range of historical sources collected from 15 perspectives on music consumption situate many archives 10 cities and in 3 countries (France, USA, stores as curators of music culture. This illustrates how Israel), I combine process-tracing methods with a reciprocity among invested local actors and consumers network analysis and a prosopography to explain what can collectively alter the meaning of goods and motivated French bishops’ support for Vichy anti- services to enable survival and alter market trajectory. Semitism, as well as their defections from this stance CriticalMass 14 to save Jews two years later. The theoretical findings disappearance has been an integral strategy of state so far call attention to critical events that triggered a repression. The project contributes to our shift in how French bishops’ thought about the war, to understandings of how people contest violence within networks both inside and outside the Church that authoritarian states and focuses on the central role of provided information and ideas about how to respond the family in this process. to unfolding events, and to the personal backgrounds of bishops who understood transformations in French political life through a lens shaped by their previous Calls for Papers and Other experiences. Through this research, I am to develop a Opportunities theory of high-risk political defection that will be extended and tested in future work with comparative cases of behavioral variation in genocide. Calls for Papers
, University of Texas at Austin Amina Zarrugh CALL FOR PAPERS – Social Movements and the ([email protected]) Economy Workshop, October 23-25, 2015
Dissertation Title: “‘Only God Knows’: The We invite submissions for a workshop on the Emergence of a Family Movement Against State intersection of social movements and the economy, to Violence in Libya” be held at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management from Friday, October 23, to Sunday, Abstract: This dissertation investigates how people October 25, 2015. organize and protest in the context of an authoritarian state. I examine mobilizations against state violence in In recent years, we have seen the rise of a vibrant Libya in the years prior to the 2011 uprising by literature engaging with questions of how social focusing on the case of the “Association of the movements challenge firms, support the rise of new Families of the Martyrs of the Abu Salim Prison industries, and engender field change in a variety of Massacre.” This association of families formed in domains of economic activity. A growing amount of 2008 to seek knowledge of disappeared and attention has also been devoted to the ways that actors imprisoned relatives who are believed to be victims in with vested interests in particular types of economic a contested prison massacre at Abu Salim Prison in activity may resist, co-opt, imitate, or partner with 1996. For years, families visited the prison, bringing activist groups challenging their practices. On the care packages of food and clothing, in the hopes of whole, there is now substantial evidence of a variety visiting their relatives. Their persistence, from seeking of ways that social movements effectively influence knowledge of their relatives’ whereabouts at the economy. government offices to eventually organizing public demonstrations, constituted an unprecedented public And yet there has been less recent attention paid to the resistance to the regime in Libya. Through inverse relationship: classic questions related to how ethnographic fieldwork in Tripoli, I conduct economic forces – and the broader dynamics of interviews with men and women in this association to capitalism – shape social movements. This is all the trace how the organization emerged in Libya, where more remarkable given the major economic shifts that collective action and public demonstration were have taken place in the U.S. and abroad over the past strictly prohibited by law and punishable by decade, including economic crises, disruptions imprisonment or death. This case illustrates the ways associated with financialization and changing by which an important form of collective mobilizing corporate supply chains, the struggles of organized rests in the context of the family, which I term “family labor, and transformations linked to new technologies. movements,” and how it is an important mode of These changes have major implications for both the collective action in authoritarian states cross- theory and practice of social movement funding, nationally. This analysis has implications for many claims-making, strategic decision-making, and the sites, especially in Latin America, where very targeting of states, firms, and other institutions 15 CriticalMass for change. Environmental Health Sciences. This conference will bring together scholars, government agency This workshop seeks to bring together these two professionals, and community-based organizations questions in order to engage in a thorough working at the intersections of social science and reconsideration of both the economic sources and the environmental health. Case studies will include economic outcomes of social movements, with careful scholars and government agency professionals attention to how states intermediate each of these collaborating on: biomonitoring, fracking, the BP oil processes. spill, and reproductive outcomes of contamination. Government regulatory and research The keynote speaker will be John McCarthy, agencies will also talk about the role of social science Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania in their work. There will be workshops on practical State University. applications of social science/environmental health collaborations, on working with environmental justice The workshop is planned to start with a dinner in the groups, and on developing curriculum for cross- evening on Friday 10/23, to conclude with morning training. Alternatives for Community and sessions on Sunday 10/25. Invited guests will be Environment (Boston) and the Environmental Justice provided with domestic travel and accommodation League of Rhode Island are partnering in the support. conference.
Submissions (PDF or DOC) should include: In addition to regular speakers, there will be A cover sheet with title, name and affiliation, workshops and discussion groups, some of which will and email addresses for all authors be set up in response to desires indicated by attendees An abstract of 200-300 words that describes in the months leading up to the conference. the motivation, research questions, methods, and connection to the workshop theme There will be no cost for registration, but participants Include the attachment in an email with the are asked to pay $50 in advance for breakfast and subject “Social Movements and the Economy” lunch on both days, by check to Northeastern University. Catering will consist of excellent locally- Please send abstracts to [email protected] and b- grown and environmentally-friendly food from the [email protected] by May 15, 2015. community-based caterers Haley House. A limited Notification of acceptance will occur on or number of travel grants will be available for students around June 15. Contact Brayden King (b- and postdocs; those interested will be asked to fill out [email protected]) or Edward Walker a brief form about their experience and interest in ([email protected]) for more information. attending. Child care and disability services will be available by prior arrangement.
Other Opportunities Registration details and list of speakers and panels are available at the Social Science Environmental Health Social Science-Environmental Health Research Institute website: Interdisciplinary Collaborations Conference - http://www.northeastern.edu/environmentalhealth/ Northeastern University, May 21-22, 2015
The Social Science Environmental Health Research CBSM Workshop 2015 Program Institute, Silent Spring Institute, and the Puerto Rico Test Site for Exploring Contamination Threats The CBSM Workshop, Protesters and their Targets, will be (PROTECT - Northeastern's Superfund Research held August 20-21 at the Kellogg School of Management at Program) will hold a first-ever conference at Northwestern University. All events will take place at Northeastern University on “Social Science- Wieboldt Hall (340 E. Superior St., Chicago, IL). Environmental Health Interdisciplinary Registration for the workshop will close at 5:00 p.m. on Collaborations,” funded by the National Institute of Tuesday, August 18, 2015. Please visit CriticalMass 16 http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news- events/conference/cbsm-workshop.aspx for more Saturday, August 22 information. 8:30 to 10:10 AM Social Movements and the Politics of Reproductive CBSM Workshop Plenaries Justice Panel 1: Introduction: Protestors and their Targets in Session Organizer & Presider: Zakiya T. Luna (University Motion (1.5 hours) of California-Santa Barbara) James M. Jasper Players, Arenas, and Strategic Emily S. Mann (University of South Carolina) Engagement. Sujatha Jesudason (University of California-San Frances Fox Piven. Unpacking Disruption. Francisco and CoreAlign) Edwin Amenta, “How Targets Influence the Dorothy E. Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) Influence of Movements." Zakiya T. Luna (University of California-Santa Barbara) Panel 2: Shifting Fields Hank Johnston. Taking the Target Seriously: The Student Forum Paper Session. Identity, Meaning Field of Play in Social Movement Mobilization. Making, and Movement Gay Seidman. Demanding citizenship: The Session Organizers: Nicole MacInnis (University of dynamics of ‘service-delivery protests.’ Manitoba) and Maria D. Duenas (University of South Florida) Panel 3: Targeting Corporations from inside and out Presider: Pangri Mehta (University of South Florida) Sarah Soule Taking Aim: Corporate Opportunity “Identity and Repertoires: From Sources to Structures and Contentious Targeting by Social Resources” - Scott Beck (New School for Social Activists. Research) Kim Voss. Been Down So Long, It Looks like Up “Migration as a distinct system: Intersectionality to Me: Shifting Targets, Changing Repertories in of wife abuse in the Chinese migration context” the U.S. Labor Movement. - Tuen Yi Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Brayden King and Laura Nelson. Moving targets: Kong) An analysis of tactics and target selection in the “Our Own Way: Determinants of New forms of environmental movement. Social Protest among College Students” - Jerome M Hendricks (University of Panel 4: Engaging the Law Illinois at Chicago); Anna Colaner (University of Graeme Hayes. Collective Identity as Situated Illinois at Chicago); Jenny Calero (University of Identity. Illinois at Chicago); Rosemarie Dominguez Holly McCammon and Allison McGrath. (University of Illinois at Chicago); Sherren Lewis Targeting the Judicial Arena: U.S. Feminist (University of Illinois at Chicago) Movement Litigation Strategy. “What is Science? Exploring middle school perceptions of the Nature of Science and Science Identity” - Kayla D Smith (University of CBSM-Related Events at ASA Nebraska-Lincoln); Patricia Wonch Hill (University Nebraska - Lincoln) 2015 10:30 to 11:30 AM This selection of events represents the best efforts of the Section on Political Sociology Roundtables (one-hour). CriticalMass editors to locate all of the CBSM section Table 01. Social Movements events as well as other events and sessions of interest to Table Presider: Defne Over (Cornell University) scholars of social movements and collective behavior at the “Clustering Opposition: A Data Driven Analysis 2015 ASA meetings in Chicago by browsing the preliminary of Gezi Park Protestors” - Defne Over (Cornell ASA schedule as of May 2015. We apologize for any errors University); Ceyhun Eksin (University of or omissions. To view the complete program, visit Pennsylvania) http://www.asanet.org/AM2015/preliminary_program- “Tunisia's Arab Spring: The Local Process of 2.cfm. Revolution” - Nicholas E. Reith (University of Texas at Austin)
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12:30 to 2:10 PM Vending Network” - Evelyn Sanchez (University Plenary Session. The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage: of Illinois Chicago); Maria Juarez (University of Public Opinion and the Courts Illinois Chicago); Samantha Almanza (University Session Organizer & Presider: Paula England (New York of Illinois Chicago) University) “Survey of Post-Relationship Diaspora In Regards Panelists to the BDSM/Kink Community Practitioners and Gregory B. Lewis (Georgia State University) Newcomers” - Ryan Huntington Nordness (The Brian Powell (Indiana University) University of Alabama at Verta A. Taylor (University of California-Santa Birmingham); Elizabeth Helene Baker (University Barbara) of Alabama at Birmingham) Michael C. Dorf (Cornell University) Open Refereed Roundtable Session I. Table 10. 2:30 to 3:30 PM Environmental Sociology Section on Community and Urban Roundtables (one- Table Presider: Jessica Eckhardt (University of Utah) hour). Table 10. Civic Associations and Civil Life “Environmental Inequality in ‘Fracking’ Table Presider: Michael McQuarrie (London School of Communities: Socioeconomic and Racial Economics) Disparities in Unconventional Gas Drilling “Collaborative Counties: Questioning the Role of Communities” - Jessica Eckhardt (University of Civil Society” - Joseph T. Campbell (The Ohio Utah) State University); Linda Lobao (The Ohio State “Seeing and Believing: The Emergent Nature of University) Extreme Weather “The Differential Impact of Civic Associations’ Perceptions” - Matthew John Cutler (University of Strategies on the Well-Being of Neighborhoods New Hampshire) and Cities” - Bryant Crubaugh (University of “The Keystone XL Pipeline and At-Risk Notre Dame) Communities in “White Resistance to School Choice: Racial Nebraska” - James Patrick Ordner (University of Alliance and Conflict in Community Movements Kansas) for Neighborhood “Environmental Participation as a Gateway to Schools” - Hava Rachel Gordon (University of Civic Engagement? The Case of the Watershed Denver) Stewards Academies” - William Adam Yagatich “Cultivating Collective Action: Using (University of Maryland, College Deliberative Democratic Tactics and Constructing Park); Dana R. Fisher (University of Maryland); a Collective Identity” - Dagoberto Cortez Anya Mikael Galli (University of Maryland (University of Wisconsin-Madison_ College Park)
2:30 to 4:10 PM Special Session. No Fracking Way! Risk, Resistance, Student Forum Roundtable Session. Table 04. and the Mobilization of Protest against Hydraulic Community and Institutional Action Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions Table Presider: Maria D. Duenas (University of South Session Organizer & Presider: Anthony E. Ladd (Loyola Florida) University New Orleans) “Who Shall Win? Let Founding Team Make “Power in Knowledge: The Politics of Citizen It!” - Lei Xu (Texas Tech University) Water Monitoring in the Marcellus Shale Gas “At the Heart of the Revolution: Political Love as Field” - Abby J. Kinchy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Paradigm Shift” - Hillary Lazar (University of Institute) Pittsburgh) “Mobilizing Against Fracking: The Origins and “How Much Is Too Much? Debunking the Effects Maintenance of Marcellus Shale Protest in of Parental Over-Involvement at Pittsburgh” - Suzanne Staggenborg (University of Home” - Angran Li (University of Pittsburgh); Matthew D. Hemphill (University of Connecticut); Heidi Obach (University of Pittsburgh) Connecticut); Simon Cheng (University of “Fracking as a Double-Edged Sword: Differential Connecticut) Responses to Unconventional Energy “Struggles and Barriers of Undocumented Street Development in the Haynesville and Tuscaloosa Vendors: An Analysis of Chicago’s Street CriticalMass 18
Shale Communities” - Anthony E. Ladd (Loyola “Doing Well by Doing Good and the Rhetorical University New Orleans) Accomplishment of Social “Fracking on Public Lands: Trickle-Down Enterprise” - Curtis D. Child (Brigham Young Neoliberalism in the Utica Shale University) Region” - Sherry Cable (University of Tennessee) “For Good Measure: The Role of Valuation 4:30 to 6:10 PM Devices in Institutional Regular Session. Arab Refugees and Political Change” - Emily A. Barman (Boston Participation University); Matthew Hall (London School of Session Organizer: Kristine J. Ajrouch (Eastern Michigan Economics); Yuval Millo (University of University) Leicester) Presider: Rita Stephan (US Department of State) “Logical Transformation: The Organizational “A Health Profile of Iraqi Refugees in Michigan” - Florence J Dallo (Oakland Development of Institutional Entrepreneurship University); Andrew Kurecka (Oakland and Social Skill in Kerala’s Kudumbashree University); Julie Ruterbusch (Wayne State Movement” - Matthew Block (University of New University); Kendra Schwartz (Wayne State York) University); Madiha Tariq (ACCESS); Melissa Reznar (Oakland University) 10:30 AM to 12:10 PM “Racialized moral boundary constructions of Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work (un)deserving Iraqi refugees among US Paper Session. Power, Professions, and Movements resettlement bureaucrats” - Fatima Sattar (Boston Session Organizers: Heather A. Haveman (UC Berkeley) & College) Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota) “The Arab Spring and Change in Willingness to Presider: Sarah A. Soule (Stanford University) Participate in Political Action in the Middle “Stamps of Power and Conflict: Imprinting and East” - Anne M. Price (Valdosta State Influence in the U.S. Senate, 1973-2009” University); Katherine Meyer (The Ohio State - Sameer Srivastava (University of California- University); Helen M. Rizzo (American Berkeley); Christopher C. Liu (University of University in Cairo) “‘Only God Knows’: Family Movement Politics Toronto) Against State Violence in “The Importance of Countervailing Role Pressure Libya” - Amina Zarrugh (University of Texas at and Reflective Engagement for Implementing Austin) Army Mental Healthcare Reform” - Julia DiBenigno (M.I.T.) Sunday, August 23 “Complying With Commensuration: How Rankings Coordinate Resource Allocations in 8:30 to 10:10 AM Higher Education” - Craig Tutterow (University Regular Session. Organizations: Institutional Change & of Chicago) Entrepreneurship “Professions as politics: the deregulation of Session Organizer: Emily A. Barman (Boston University) Presider: Paul-Brian McInerney (University of Illinois at medicine in the United States, 1790- Chicago) Discussant: Paul-Brian McInerney (University of 1860” - Jacob Habinek (University of California- Illinois at Chicago) Berkeley); Heather A. Haveman (UC Berkeley) Discussant: Paul-Brian McInerney (University of Illinois at “Astroturfing the Field: Elites, Reputations, and Chicago) the Effects of Covert Corporate Advocacy on “Acquiescent Defiance: Tuscan Wineries’ Partial Public Trust” - Edward T. Walker (University of Reactivity to the Italian Government’s Quality California-Los Angeles) Regulation System” - Taeyoung Yoo (Hankuk University of Foreign 12:30 to 1:30 PM Studies); Reinhard Bachmann (SOAS, University Section on Environment and Technology Roundtables of London); Oliver Schilke (The University of (one-hour). Table 13. Social Movements Arizona) 19 CriticalMass
Session Organizer: Kenneth Alan Gould (City University Irvine); David S. Meyer (University of California- of New York-Brooklyn College) Irvine) Table Presider: Eric C. Johnson “Witnessing Political Protest on Civic “NGO Strategies in an Authoritarian State: Engagement and Political Attitudes: A Natural Chinese ENGOs, Tactical Cooperation and Personal Networks” - Carolyn L. Hsu (Colgate Experiment” - Han Zhang (Princeton University) University); Nicholas Jing Yuan (Microsoft “The Changing Pattern of the Chinese Public’s Research Asia); Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Environmental Concern and its Link with Pro- Asia) environmental Behavior” - Feng Hao 2:30 to 3:30 PM (Washington State University) Table 05. Varieties of Social Movements In “We Are (Not) Who We Were: Irish Cultural Event: Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology Nationalism and the Battle over Roundtables (one-hour) Tara” - Julia Miller Cantzler (University of San Session Organizer: Bruce G. Carruthers (Northwestern Diego) University) “Mobilization in Defense of Local Water Table Presider: Andrew Boardman Jaeger (University of California-Berkeley) Resources: Technology Movements, Rights-Based “Postfigurative politics: how the past helps change Ordinances, and Framing” - Cliff Brown the future” - Daniel Jaster (University of Texas) (University of New Hampshire) “Sorting out Environmental Politics: Lessons “Culture and Resilience Following the BP Oil from Recycling” - Andrew Boardman Jaeger Spill: A Theory of Cultural (University of California-Berkeley) Resilience” - Hannah Clarke (University of “Virtuous Desires? Ethical Consumers in Turn-of- Arizona); Brian Mayer (University of Arizona) the-Twentieth-Century England and the United 12:30 to 2:10 PM States” - Tad P. Skotnicki (University of Regular Session. Media and Social Movements California-San Diego) Session Organizer & Presider: Alison Dahl Crossley (Stanford University, Clayman Institute for Gender 2:30 to 4:10 PM Research) Thematic Session. HIV/AIDS, Politics, and Social Discussant: Alexander Hanna (University of Wisconsin- Movements Madison) Session Organizer: Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes “Strategies, Stories, and the Quality of News (Northwestern University) Coverage of the Civil Rights Movement” Presider & Discussant: Deborah B. Gould (University of California-Santa Cruz) - Edwin Amenta (University of California- Panelists Irvine); Thomas Alan Elliott (University of Trevor Alexander Hoppe (University of California-Irvine); Nicole Clorinda Shortt California-Irvine) (University of California- Benita Roth (Binghamton University) Irvine); Amber Celina Tierney (University of Shari Lee Dworkin (UCSF) California-Irvine); Didem Turkoglu (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill); Burrel James Vann Regular Session. Historical Sociology 2. Changing (University of California-Irvine) China: Political Upheaval and Societal “Paul Revere, the Tea Party and Digital Activism: Transformations in the 19th and 20th Century Session Organizer: Marc W. Steinberg (Smith College) How Political Ideology Shapes Online Collective Presider & Discussant: Thomas B. Gold (University of Action” - Jen Schradie (Institute for Advanced California) Study in Toulouse) “A Class Revolution to Bridge Empire and “Raising and Sustaining Public Attention: Tea Nation-State” - Luyang Zhou (McGill University) Party and Occupy Protest Mobilization and Agenda Setting” - Megan Brooker (UC CriticalMass 20