Participation and Mobilization

Dear All,  the next ECPR General Conference at the University of Innsbruck (26-28 August 2020) call for panels and papers is now open.  Elena Pavan and I chair a Section there on social movements and political participation, that has been endorsed by the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization. The Section is entitled Current Research and Challenges on Political Participation and Mobilization and here comes its full description.  To submit an individual paper on any of the themes already listed in the Section description, please…

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Panel Title: Participation for environmental democracy Chair: Louisa Parks (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, University of Trento, School of International Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Research) Co-Chair: Francesca Forno (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research) Abstract: Attention to different forms of participation aiming to protect and advocate for the environment has grown in recent years. The environmental protest wave that began with Greta Thunberg’s school strikes for the climate that spread…

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Dear colleagues,   We are very glad to invite you to submit papers, panels and research proposals to the 2020 ECPR-ESA midterm conference on social movements to be held at the University of Tartu (Estonia), 27-29 May. Proposals can be sent to socialmovements2020@gmail.com until January 15, 2020.   The theme of the conference is “Democratic struggles: contention, social movements and democracy.” The conference aims to attract social movement scholarship from a broad range of topics, disciplines and methodological approaches.  …

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