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Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,   We are happy to announce our workshop “The ‘New’ Climate Activism: Contemporary Trajectories and Political Consequences” at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2021, which will be a hybrid online/offline event taking place at Charles University, Prague, from 25 to 28 May 2021. The deadline for submitting papers is 8 February, to be submitted through the ECPR website (you will need a ‘My ECPR’ account to register, but this is free to all).   The call for papers for…

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Endorsed section at ECPR General Conference

Endorsed section at ECPR General Conference

Dear members of the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization, Our section “Mobilizing in a polarized world: social movements and political participation in a global pandemic” (41) has been accepted for the General Conference to be held at the University of Innsbruck in 2021, and we are looking forward to your panel and paper proposals! You can find the abstract for the section and panels below – we look forward to your proposals, which should be submitted via the ECPR…

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Election Time

Election Time

Dear colleagues,   I’m pleased to announce that, as of today, you can vote in the election for the next steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilisation. The vote will close on 10 December.   You find all the necessary information on how to vote in the attached document, but briefly, go to ecpr.eu, login, and then, under my ECPR, you should see ‘Participation and Mobilisation election 2020’. Here you will also find details on the…

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Section proposal ECPR GC

Section proposal ECPR GC

Dear members of the standing group on participation and mobilization, until the 23rd of november you still have the possibility to propose a section for next year’s ECPR general conference which will (as we hope) take place in Innsbruck at the beginning of September. We as a standing group have the possibility to endorse one proposal. We are currently preparing a section proposals with several of the standing group involved, but if there are other suggestions and ideas, please do…

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ECPR Joint Sessions Call for Workshops

ECPR Joint Sessions Call for Workshops

To submit a Virtual Workshop, log in to your MyECPR account and complete this form.   You must be affiliated with an ECPR Full Member institution to direct a Virtual Workshop. Associate members may co-direct. ​ ​We’ve put together a helpful guide on proposing a Virtual Workshop. We recommend you read this beforehand.   Funding opportunities will be available; more information to follow soon. ​ Submission deadline is 22 October 2020, midnight UK time.   You’ll be notified about the outcome of…

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Steering Committee

Steering Committee

Dear Standing Group members,   According to our Standing Group’s constitution (see attachment), our SG is governed by a Steering Committee which is selected from among the SG’s members every two years. The current steering committee accidentally overlooked that this should have meant elections in 2019, and we apologize for this mistake. We have therefore chosen to hold elections as soon as possible, which means that we aim to have a new steering committee selected by December, and ready to…

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Social Movements Midterm conference 2020 “Democratic struggles: contention, social movements and democracy”

Social Movements Midterm conference 2020 “Democratic struggles: contention, social movements and democracy”

Social Movements Midterm conference 2020 “Democratic struggles: contention, social movements and democracy”   POSTPONED to Autumn 2020! More info to come. Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia     IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the organizers of the conference have taken the decision to postpone the midterm conference. We are planning to set new dates in early autumn 2020. Accepted conference participants will be informed as soon as new dates have been set. We are…

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CfP ECPR GC Innsbruck – Panel on Participation & Mobilization

CfP ECPR GC Innsbruck – Panel on Participation & 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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CfP Participation for environmental democracy

CfP Participation for environmental democracy

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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