Dear colleagues, please find attached here a CFP – Critical Margins for a conference on “Critical Margins. Politicizing the Crisis” at University of Trento in June 2022. We are very much looking forward to your submissions. If there are any questions remaining, please get back to me or Joost de Moor (joost.demoor@sciencespo.fr). With best wishes from Vienna, Felix
Call for Papers “Societal Conflicts: Collective Action in an Unequal World” Zentrumstage 2022 An international conference by theCenter for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg July 14-16, 2022 Classical conflict theories often understand conflict as a universal feature of society. But there is variation. Over the last decades, in different countries and continents, we have seen a rise of societal conflicts, epitomized in a growing number of street-level collective action. At the same time, economists and social scientists have observed a…
Dear colleagues, the ECPR’s General Conference 2022 is already in the planning. The call for sections has just been published (https://ecpr.eu/GeneralConference) and the submission deadline is December 8th. If you are planning to submit a section for the conference, if you are raising issues of participation and mobilization, and if you are looking for the Standing Group’s endorsement, please send us a brief note and a short draft of your planned section by November 30th. If there are any questions…
Dear colleagues, the ECPR’s Call for Workshops for the upcoming 2022 Joint Sessions in online and open until November 15th: https://ecpr.eu/JointSessions. If you would like to submit a workshop proposal and ask for the standing group’s endorsement, we ask you to approach us until Nov 8th so that we can review the proposals made and get back to you. If you have any questions remaining in the meantime or would like to have feedback regarding your proposal, please do not hesitate…
Call for Papers Political Participation in Central and Eastern Europe During the Pandemic 3-4 November 2020, Sodertorn University Stockholm The COVID-19 pandemic altered the functioning of societies and people’s behavior in many areas of daily life. Political participation is one behavior that faced important challenges due to the social distancing regulations and general restrictions for personal interactions in many countries. In spite of these limitations, the political participation continued during the pandemic: elections were organized, people protested, social movements continued…
The Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”Invites Your Contributions Concerns about growing inequalities play a fundamental role in current debates on technological change, globalization and in particular the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. When and how are inequalities perceived as a problem, and what can governments do to alleviate them? How do perceptions of inequality influence patterns of political participation? To what extent are structural inequalities shaped by policies? The Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” aims to…
Dear all, we would like to direct your attention to the upcoming ECPR General Conference and the Section 41 on “Mobilizing in a polarized world”, in which we will discuss many movement and participation related papers. Please find the section program attached. Furthermore, next week, we will have the traditional Standing Group`s Business: Tuesday 31 August from 15:15 – 16:15 CEST. Please see the link below: Topic: Standing Group Business Meeting Join Zoom Meeting This Meeting and the link are open and…
Dear all, we would like to direct your attention to the upcoming ECPR General Conference and the Section 41 on “Mobilizing in a polarized world”, in which we will discuss many movement and participation related papers. Please find the section program here: ECPR GC 2021 Section 41 Mobilizing in a Polarized World Furthermore, next week, we will have the traditional Standing Group`s Business: Tuesday 31 August from 15:15 – 16:15 CEST. Please see the link below: Topic: Standing Group Business…
Dear members of the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization, At the end of last year, we held elections for the new Steering Committee of the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization. It has taken us a while to process the outcomes, but we are now happy to announce the new steering committee, which consists of Felix Butzlaff, Joost de Moor, Louisa Parks, Jan-Erik Refle, David Siroky and Lorenzo Zamponi. The steering committee will be in place until the…
Call for papers RN25 Social movements at the 15th conference of ESA The 15th conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) will be held on August 31 to September 3 in Barcelona. The conference will most likely be a hybrid conference in which it will be possible to participate both on site and online (updates on this will come on the conference website). The Research Network on Social Movements (RN25) calls for papers providing theoretical and empirical contributions to current…
