Sub-theme 58: Organizational Practices of Social Movements: The Power of Organizing from Below
Convenors:
Maria Ceci Misoczky, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Steffen Boehm, University of Essex, UK
Guilherme Dornelas Camara, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, B2
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Chair: Maria Ceci Misoczky
Nesrine Bouguerra
Algeria: An anomalous case of the Arab Spring
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Amal Nazzal, Lindsay Stringfellow & Mairi Maclean; Celal Cahit Agar
Amal Nazzal, Lindsay Stringfellow and Mairi Maclean
Exploring the mechanisms and dynamics of politically-motivated youth movements in Palestine: A Bourdieusian perspective
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nesrine Bouguerra; Celal Cahit Agar
Celal Agar
What a Marxist theory of ‘social’ movements might (not) look like?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nesrine Bouguerra; Amal Nazzal, Lindsay Stringfellow & Mairi Maclean
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, B2
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Chair: Steffen Böhm
Yousra Rahmouni Elidrissi
Habitus and protest performances: Embodying climate disobedience at cop21 and after
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Clarice Oliveira & Rafael Kruter Flores; Paulo Abdala & Maria Ceci Misoczky
María José Zapata Campos and Patrik Zapata
The power of commoning. Citizen-driven environmental initiatives and social change
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Clarice Oliveira & Rafael Kruter Flores; Paulo Abdala & Maria Ceci Misoczky
Paulo Abdala and Maria Ceci Misoczky
Lanceiros Negros fighting for the right to housing: Urban squatting at Porto Alegre, Brazil
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Yousra Rahmouni Elidrissi; María José Zapata Campos & Patrik Zapata
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, B2
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Chair: Steffen Böhm
José Francisco Puello-Socarrás
Communal govern-abilities. Territorial forms of government from below in Colombia
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Simy Joy & Latha Poonamallee; Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes
Simy Joy and Latha Poonamallee
Dialogics as a theoretical framework for organising from below: Case of a radical social movement
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): José Francisco Puello-Socarrás; Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes
Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes
Building ‘conscious communities’ based on circulation of life
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): José Francisco Puello-Socarrás; Simy Joy & Latha Poonamallee
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, B2
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Chair: Guilherme Dornelas Camara
Héla Yousfi
Tunisian revolution: Narratives of UGTT (Tunisian General Labour Union)
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Emil Husted & Ursula Plesner; Vincent Pasquier, Thibault Daudigeos & Marcos Barros
Vincent Pasquier, Thibault Daudigeos and Marcos Barros
The Flashmob logic of unionism
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Héla Yousfi; Emil Husted & Ursula Plesner
Emil Husted and Ursula Plesner
The spaces of open-source politics: Political organizing between imagination and affirmation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Héla Yousfi; Vincent Pasquier, Thibault Daudigeos & Marcos Barros
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, B2
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Chair: Maria Ceci Misoczky
Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen and Vesa Puhakka
Empowerment by oppression: Managing poverty by creation of an entrepreneurial self
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Prateek Shah, George Kandathil & Anvika Kapoor; Guilherme Dornelas Camara
Guilherme Dornelas Camara
Reflections on the everyday life of the women in Ilha Grande dos Marinheiros: Towards a critical perspective
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Prateek Shah, George Kandathil & Anvika Kapoor; Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen & Vesa Puhakka
Prateek Shah, George Kandathil and Anvika Kapoor
Acting for change: Narratives from a denotified nomadic tribe in India
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Guilherme Dornelas Camara; Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen and Vesa Puhakka
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, B2
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Chair: Guilherme Dornelas Camara
Yuna Reis Fontoura, Flávia Naves Mafra and Steffen Boehm
The rise of a new ‘rural’ identity: Agroecological social movement in Brazil from its beginning
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rajiv Maher; Dan Shen & Le Bo
Rajiv Maher
Challenges to autonomous alternatives as resistance from below – Cases from South America
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Yuna Fontoura; Dan Shen & Le Bo
Dan Shen and Le Bo
A counter-hegemonic perspective on actor-network theory: Defining and organizing CSR in China
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Yuna Fontoura; Rajiv Maher
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, B2
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Chair: Steffen Böhm
Soumitra Ghosh
Indian forest struggles: Exploring the political idea of movements
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jasper Finkeldey; Eric Ghiglione
Jasper Finkeldey
Whose stake is it anyway? Resisting coal in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Soumitra Ghosh; Eric Ghiglione
Eric Ghiglione
From below: From everyday acts of resistance to a new structure of production
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Soumitra Ghosh; Jasper Finkeldey