International Conference on Cross Movement Mobilization 05 – 08 April 2017, Bochum
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Location: ISB
16:10 Entrance 16:40-17:30 Welcome Address Stefan Berger (ISB/ RUB), Sabrina Zajak (ISB/RUB), Geoffrey Pleyers (ISA 47), Simon Teune (IPB), Jens Becker(HBS) 17:30-19:30 Opening Discussion Cross-Movement Mobilization as a Conceptual and Practical Challenge Donatella della Porta, Centre of Social Movements Studies; Scuola Normale Superior Florence Dieter Rucht, Protest and social Movement Research Institute; Berlin Social Science Center Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley; Watson Institute for International Studies and Public Affairs, Brown University
19:30- 20:00 Reception 20:00- open end Drink and think: Poster Session
Thursday, April 6, 2017 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum / HIC
08:30-10:00 Morning plenary
Theorizing cross movement alliances: social movement, labour and postcolonial studies in dialogue Klaus Dörre, University of Jena, Germany Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy Janet M. Conway, Canada research Chair in Social Justice, Brock University, Canada Chair: Geoffrey Pleyers, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Panel Slot A
Room: Panel 9.1. Cross-Movement Convergences: The Urban as Opportunity or Limitation? IC 03/604 Organizers: Margit Mayer, David Scheller Chair/Discussant: Margit Mayer 1. Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam): The urban vortex. Connections across cities and movements 2. Nina Fraeser (Hafen-City Uni Hamburg): Commoning as solidarity practice: the social-spatial reproduction of urban social movements 3. David Scheller (FH Potsdam): Beyond housing movements? Convergences of urban social movements in Berlin and New York Room: Panel 7.1: The Next Polanyian Movement? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism. IC 03/606 Organizers: Saskia Freye, Sascha Münnich 1. Michael Brie (IFG, Berlin): From the “Double Movement” to a Space of Alternatives 2. Sascha Münnich (University of Göttingen): The non-liberal origins of (neo) liberalism
Room: Panel 2.1: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America: Inter-movement IC 03/610 Dynamics in Struggles Against Extractivism 10:30- Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira Discussant: Johanna Leinius 1. Sebastián Smart (UCL Institute of the Americas): Latin-American Social Movements against Extractivism 12:00 2. Johanna Leinius (Goethe University Frankfurt): Mobilizing Across Different Worlds: Creating Counter-Hegemonic Alternatives from the Margins in Peru 3. Eva Kalny (University of Hannover): Transciendo movimientos: la lucha contra el neoliberalismo en el Petén, Guatemala Room: Panel 13.1: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity Mobilization, IC 03/647 Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas 1. Oscar Garcia Agustin (Aalborg University, Denmark) Anti-austerity movements interconnected: discourse, dialogism and translation 2. Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London): A strange alliance: precarious movements, poor people movements and declining middle class protest in anti-austerity struggles. 3. Angelos Loukakis (University of Crete): Anti-austerity protests and new forms of solidarity: one movement?
Room: Panel: 6: Alliances as Co-Optation. Social Movements between Professionalisation and Depolitisation. HIC Organizers: Shelley Feldman, Eva Gerharz (Auditorium) 1. Antje Daniel (Bayreuth University) Organizing change – changing organization: The women’s movement in Kenya and the influence of the development nexus 2. Fabrício Mello ( Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro): Co-optation or Asymmetry? Development and Contention in the Transnational Alliance of a South African Social Movement 3. Cleve Kevin Robert V. Arguelles (Central European University, Budapest) Neoliberal absorption or deliberative capacity building? Assessing social movement participation in participatory interventions
4. Sabrina Zajak & Sigrid Quack (Ruhr Uni Bochum & University Duisburg Essen): (Un-)holy Alliances between social movements and business_ cooperation as economization Room: Panel 8.1: Transnational Cross-Movement Alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics of Labour, IC 03/649 Organizers: Marissa Brookes, Sabrina Zajak Comment: Britta Rehder
1. Stefan R. Siebel (RMIT University, Australia): Transnational workplace democracies as a catalyst for strategic alliances between new social movements and traditional labour politics 2. Cassandra Engeman (University of California): Unpacking Union Power Resources: How Organized Labor Contributes to Cross-movement Campaigns for U.S. Paid Sick Leave 3. Melanie Kryst (Philipps Universität Marburg): How to target banana companies: Complementary strategies of labour unions and NGOs in the agricultural sector 4. Giulia Gortanutti , Johanna Lauber , Ana-Maria Nikolas und Sabrina Zajak (RUB): Talking about the same but different? Alliances and cooperation in social movement and industrial relations theory.
12:00-13:00 Lunchbreak
Panel Slot B Room: Panel 3: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Large-Scale Mining. IC 03/604 Organizers: Bettina Engels, Melanie Müller 1. Kristina Dietz (FU Berlin): Protest and democracy: citizens' initiatives against mining projects in Latin America 2. Sorina Cristina Soare (University of Florence): Environmental mobilization after accession: the case of Rosia Montana 13:00- 3. Bettina Engels (FU Berlin): First food, then morals? Claims, actors, and resources in protest against gold mining in Burkina Faso 14:30 4. Melanie Müller (SWP Berlin): Coal kills - kill coal. Conflicts over coal mining in South Africa. Room: Panel 7.2: The Next Polanyian Movement? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism. IC 03/606 Organizers: Saskia Freye, Sascha Münnich
1. Heide Haas & Katharina Leganke (University of Göttingen): Connecting with the First or the Third World?: Two Paths Toward the Cross - National Movement Mobilization in the Japanese Global Sixties 2. Hugo Dias (University of Coimbra): „Labour, solidarity and the self-protection of society“ 3. Martin Seeliger (University of Jena): Ambivalences in the Countermovement – Does re- embedding take place as a general move towards more equity?
Room: Panel 2.2: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America: The Relations IC 03/610 Between Labor and Other Movements Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira
1. Juliana Ramos Luiz & Marco Antonio Teixeira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): Cross- movement mobilizations in Latin America: lessons from the MERCOSUR Confederation of the Family Farmer Producer 2. María Maneiro (Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET): Itinerarios diferenciales y articulaciones en la movilización organizaciones de trabajadores desocupados (2009-2012) 3. Kai A. Heidemann (University College, Maastricht University): When schools become sites of protest and mobilization: A look at the rise of community-based schooling in Argentina (and beyond) Room: Panel 13.2: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity Mobilization, IC 03/647 Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas
1. Martín Portos G. & Tiago Carvalho (Cosmos, Scuola Normale Superiore & University of Cambridge): Alliance Building and eventful performances against austerity: Spanish and Portuguese trajectories of mobilization in the shadow of Great Recession, 2008-2014 2. Carolina Alves Vestena (University Kassel): Anti-Austerity protests in Portugal and France: between opportunities and strategies 3. Andrea Felicetti (European University Institute): Handling cross-movement mobilization: ‘convergence des luttes’ and deliberation in the nuit debout movement. 4. Ana-Maria Nikolas (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Networks in the anti-austerity protests. Measuring anti-austerity cooperation through events. Room: Panel 9.2: Cross-Movement Convergences: The Urban as Opportunity or Limitation? Organizers: Margit Mayer, David Scheller
IC 03/649 1. Esin Ileri (EHESS, Paris): Social Movements in Istanbul 2. Inés Morales Bernardos (ISEC, University of Córdoba) & Mamen Cuéllar Padilla (ISEC, University of Córdoba) : Athens, cross-movement convergences to reconstruct urban food autonomy in times of crisis 3. Sebastián Ibarra González (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research): Urban Struggles in Santiago de Chile. Between local-territorial embeddedness and fragmentation of claims 14:30 – 15:00 Break
Panel Slot C (Long) Room: Panel 8.2: Transnational Cross-Movement Alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics of Labour, IC 03/604 Session 2 Organizers: Marissa Brookes, Sabrina Zajak Comment: Klaus Dörre
1. Zach McKenny (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): The State of the Union? Commodity Chains and Labor Organizing Outcomes at Volkswagen Group of North America2. 2. Stefan Rother (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Social movement unionism in Asia 3. Manfred Wannöffel (Ruhr Universität Bochum): Networking and a two-track strategy : perspectives of international trade union activities in India 4. Jan Niggemeier (Freie Universität Berlin): Going Global, but How? Diversity in Transnationalisation Processes of Labour Activism in Japan 5. Peter Waterman (Erasmus Universität Rotterdam): Global Labour Charter Movement
Room: Panel 19: Actors or Tactics? Dynamics of Broad Coalitions and Repertoires of Contention for Political IC 03/606 Transformation. Organizers: Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop, Jan Philipp Vatthauer
1. Jannis Grimm (Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies / FU Berlin): Contentious Dynamics and Evolving Repertoires in Post-Coup Egypt 15:00- 2. Jan-Erik Refle (Universität Lausanne): Combining networks and framing - How a Tunisian civil society coalition frames pro democratic claims 17:00 3. Andrea Noll & Jan Budniok (Universität Hamburg): Cross-movement mobilization, cooperation and segmentation among social movements in Ghana Room: Panel 2.3: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America: Feminist and IC 03/610 Decolonial Pedagogic Approaches to Inter-Movement Encounters Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira Discussants: Eva Kalny and Johanna Leinius
1. Janet Conway & Anabel Paulos (Brock University): Popular feminism, cross-movement mobilization and the decolonial challenge 2. Mar Daza (Programa Democracia y Transformación Global, Peru): Los nuevos saberes feministas desde nuestros cuerpos-territorios-vida 3. Ivette Hernández (UCL Institute of Education): Territorial assemblies and cross-movement mobilisation in the 2011 Chilean student movement 4. Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes (IESP- UERJ, Rio de Janeiro) Culture against narcoviolence: Lessons from popular mobilizations in Brazil and México Room: Panel 13.3: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity Mobilization, IC 03/647 Workshop Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas
Robert MacDonald, Maite Aurrekoetxea Casaus & Martin Zuñiga de Loizaga & Jone Goirigolzarri Garaizar , Arturo Rodríguez Sáez & Silvia Semenzin, Pedro Ibarra & Ariel Sribman, Bernd Bonfert Room: Panel 14: Mediated Collaborations IC 03/649 Organizers: Simon Teune, Armin Scholl
1. Amoshaun Toft (University of Washington): From civil rights to the occupy movement: Talking across issues in activist media 2. Asli Polatdemir (Universität Bremen): Vitrines of Women's Movements in Turkey: Empowerment and Websites 3. Niamatullah Ibrahimi (Australian National University): Rumours and Gossips and Contentious Politics in Afghanistan, 2001-2016 4. Armin Scholl & Julia Völker (Universität Münster): Activistsʼ Use of Twitter in the Conflict at the Oranienplatz (Berlin) 17:00-17:30 Break
17:30- 19:00 Evening session: Bridging the activist-academic divide
Discussants: Cristina Flesher Fominaya University of Aberdeen, UK ; Geoffrey Pleyers Université de Louvain, Belgium , Alissa Starodub (Activist and Ruhr-University Bochum), Janis Klusman (Activist, trade union for education and science, Germany) Session moderation: Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University) 19:30 Dinner on campus Friday, April 7, 2017 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum / HIC
Room:IC 03/604 (08:00 - 10:00) Meeting of the Group Gender Movements at the IS Panel Slot D Room: Panel 18.1: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive Social IC 03/604 Movements. 10:00- Organizers: Ilse Lenz
11:30 1. Ilse Lenz (Emeritus Prof. Ruhr-University Bochum ): Challenges for research on crossmobilisation of gender movements 2. Beatrice Halsaa ( University of Oslo) : National and transnational mobilization of indigenous women in Norway and Sápm 3. Friederike Apelt (Leibniz University Hanover) : Mobilization of Women in the West German Solidarity Movement with Nicaragua Room: Panel 5.1: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other Movements' IC 03/606 Mobilizations? Session 1: Theoretical Perspectives Organizers: Britta Baumgarten, Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose
1. Kevin Gillan (University of Manchester): What's Wrong with Waves or Sequences? Understanding Temporality in Social Movement Research 2. Lisa Villioth (University of Siegen): Protest Professionals? Is it the protest that spreads or is it the protestor that travels? 3. Jochen Roose (University of Wroclaw): Mobilization by Example Room: Panel 10.1: Cross-Movement Mobilization against TTIP. IC 03/610 Organizers: Giulia Gortanutti, Jan Orbie, Aukje van Loon
1. Patricia Goff (Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs): Cross-Movement Mobilization in Canada and the United States: The Dog that Didn’t Bark? 2. Tereza Novotna (Université libre de Bruxelles): From Cross-Movement Mobilisation to Public Discourse: TTIP and its Potential Failure across the Atlantic 3. Paolo Roberto Graziano (University of Padova): Europeanization and Social Movements: The Case of the Stop- TTIP campaign Room: Panel 11.1: Moving Boundaries - Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement, Session 1 IC 03/647 Organizers: Jana Bosse, Romina Ranke
1. Mundo Yang (Universität Siegen): Innovations of Green Participation In- and Outside Environmental Movements 2. Francesca Colli (University of Leuven): Green consumption groups: mobilization between individuals and institutions 3. Jana Bosse (Freie Universität Berlin) Projects Instead of Protest – The Example of a Transition Town Initiative Room: Panel 4: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Migration and Asylum. IC 03/649 Organizers: Priska Daphi, Leslie Gauditz, Lorenzo Zamponi
1. Elias Steinhilper (Scuola Normale Superiore): Mobilizing within precarious networks of solidarity: The case of self- organized refugee-activism in Berlin, Germany 2. Jiří Navrátil (Masaryk University, Czech Republic): Fear and Loathing in the Czech Republic: Political Elites - Civil Society Interaction in the Public Discourse on the Refugee Crisis 3. Nicole Dörr (University of Copenhagen): LGBT and Gender Coalition Work as a Critical Political Translation Practice: the Danish and German Refugee Solidarity Movements in Comparison 4. Chiara Milan (Scuola Normale Superiore): Solidarity with migrants across the so-called “Western Balkan route" 11:30 -12:00 Break Panel Slot E Panel 18.2: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive Social 12:00-13:30 Room: IC 03/604 Movements. Organizers: Ilse Lenz
First session (1): LGBTI and intimate/local citizenship 1. Francesca Romana Ammaturo (University of Roehampton, London): The Italian Debate on “Gestational Surrogacy” and the Tensions inside the Italian LGBT Movement Second Session (2): Sex Work and crossmovements contentions 1. Trine Rogg Korsvik (Universität Olso): "The Great Nordic War over Sexual Morality": Feminist and other social movements’ mobilization against prostitution 2. Joana Hofstetter (Universität Freiburg): The Contemporary Sex Worker Movement in Europe in the Context of Neo-Abolitionism and Repressive Policies
Room: Panel 5.2: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other Movements' IC 03/606 Mobilizations? Session 2: Case Studies Organizers: Britta Baumgarten, Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose
1. Baran Alp Uncu (Marmara University, Istanbul): Impact of ‘eventful protests’ on cross-movement alliances: Solidarity across movements after the Gezi protests 2. Annette Freyberg-Inan (University of Amsterdam) & Christian Scholl (University of Maastricht): “We are the University!” Connecting Protest on Europe’s Campuses 3. Jed Alegado (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The Global in the Local: The Role of Social Movements in Food Sovereignty Diffusion in the Philippines 4. Jana Günther (Technische Universität Dresden): “Fragile Solidarity” – Relations between issues of gender and class as a factor of mobilization in early feminist movements Room: Panel 10.2: Cross-Movement Mobilization against TTIP. IC 03/610 Organizers: Giulia Gortanutti, Jan Orbie, Aukje von Loon
1. Kees Hudig (Independent researcher): From MAI to TTIP: Globalization, protest-movements, and the brave new world of NGO’s 2. Aukje van Loon (Ruhr University Bochum): Diverging German and British Governmental Trade Policy Preferences in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Negotiations Room: Panel 11.2: Moving Boundaries - Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement. IC 03/647 Organizers: Jana Bosse, Romina Ranke
1. Renata Motta (Freie Universität Berlin): Bridging Environments 2. Bleta Arifi & Georg Winkel (Universität Freiburg): The contestation of wind energy in Germany and the production of a conservationist ‘people’s movement’: Analysing local conflicts about wind energy use 3. Anna Wiemann (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien): Network-Building in Movement Waves: The Japanese Anti- Nuclear Movement since Fukushima 4. Romina Ranke: Room: Panel 17.1: New Social Movements and the Labour Movement: Cross-Movement Mobilization since 1968. IC 03/649 Organizers: Ulf Teichmann, Christian Wicke Comment: Stefan Berger 1. Marica Tolomelli (Universitá di Bologna): Encounters. Capital, labor and culture in 1968 2. David Templin (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte Hamburg): The hidden presence of working class youth protests in the West German Jugendzentrumsbewegung of the 1970s 3. Christian Wicke (Utrecht University): Workers initiatives and urban movements in the Ruhr and Sydney 13:30-14:30 Lunchbreak Panel Slot F Room: Panel 18.3: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive Social IC 03/604 Movements. Organizer: Ilse Lenz
1. Asli Polatdemir (Universität Bremen): Vitrines of Women's Movements in Turkey: Empowerment and Websites 2. Corinna Trogisch (Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung): Socialist feminism in Turkey between mass organisation and small networks 3. Barbara Stefan (Universität Wien): Masculinity as precondition of “the political” Room: Panel 5.3: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other Movements' 14:30- IC 03/606 Mobilizations? Session 3: Country Comparisons Organizers: Britta Baumgarten, Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose 16:00 1. Jan Jämte, Måns Lundstedt & Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörns University, Stockholm): Radical Left-Libertarian Protests. Transnational diffusion between three Northern European countries 2. Rubén Díez Garcia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): The Historical and Cultural Roots of the Current Wave of Indignation 3. Magdalena Tendera (Jagiellonen-Universität): Student Protest and the Left. The Cross-movement Mobilization in the Balkans 4. Kei Takata (University of Duisburg-Essen): Connecting with the First or the Third World? Two Paths Toward the Cross-National Movement Mobilization in the Japanese Global Sixties Room: Panel 16: Changes in Protest Repertoires Reconsidered: Effects of Cross-Movement Mobilization. Organizers: Felix Anderl, Priska Daphi, Nicole Deitelhoff IC 03/610 1. Deniz Günce Demirhisar (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, CADIS): Living Together In A Protest Camp: Repertoire Of Gezi Park Occupation 2. Christian Scholl (University of Maastricht): The Political Grammar Of Summit Protest As Transnational Repertoire Of Action 3. Grzegorz Piotrowski (European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk): Beyond Internal Division Of Labor: Alliances With Radical Social Movements Room: Panel 12: The Global Justice Movement Today: What Lessons Learned? IC 03/647 Organizers: Johanna Lauber, Geoffrey Pleyers
1. Geoffrey Pleyers (Catholic University of Louvain): "From the World Social Forum to Trump. What have we failed? A critical balance of the alter-globalization movement and social movement studies" 2. Benjamin Bunk (University of Erfurt): “The World Social Forum as space for (self-)formation processes. Or: Individuals as structure of cross-movement mobilization?” 3. Cristina Flesher Fominaya (University of Aberdeen): “The role of the Global Justice Movement in setting the basis for the 15-M movement in Spain” 4. Britta Baumgarten (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL): “The Legacies of the Global Justice Movement in the Portuguese Anti-Austerity Protests” Room: Panel 17.2: New Social Movements and the Labour Movement: Cross-Movement Mobilization since 1968. IC 03/649 Organizers: Ulf Teichmann, Christian Wicke Comment: Stefan Berger 1. Charles Roemer (Université libre de Bruxelles): The boycott dilemma: Anti-apartheid actions and Western European trade unions in the 1970s and 80s 2. Ulf Teichmann (Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Bochum): Protests for ‚work and peace‘. Trade unions, the peace movement and peace initiatives on a plant level in West-Germany in the 1980s 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-17:00 Meet the Editor With following journals: social movement studies, moving the social, global labour journal Evening session Cross-movement mobilization: a cure to desolidarisation and rising populism? 17:30-19:00 Discussant: Shelley Feldman, Cornell University, USA Daniele Di Nunzio Fondazione Di Vittorio, Italy Barbara Geier, Education and Science Workers’ Union, Germany activist tbc Moderators: Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr-University Bochum) 19:30 Dinner in Town
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Morning10:00 Industrial heritage in the Ruhr-region. Visit of the biggest mining museum in Germany (including visiting a mine underground) http://www.bergbaumuseum.de/en/visitor-information