17.02.2021: Introduction to the course

24.02.2021: Theorising (New) Social Movements, Part 1

Compulsory Readings

Della Porta, D.; Diani, M. (2006). “The Study of Social Movements: Recurring questions, (partially) changing answers”. In Della Porta D.; Diani, M. (2006). Social Movements: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishing Lt: Oxford

Della Porta, D.; Diani, M. (2006). “Social Changes and Social Movements”. In Della Porta D.; Diani, M. (2006). Social Movements: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishing Lt: Oxford

Diani, M.; Mische, A. (2015). “Network Approaches and Social Movements”. In Della Porta, D.; Diani, M. (eds) (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements. Oxford University Press: Oxford

03.03.2021: Theorising (New) Social Movements, Part 2

Flesher Fominaya, C. (2010). Collective Identity in Social Movements: Central Concepts and Debates. Sociology Compass 4/6, 393-404

Juris, J. (2004). “Networked Social Movements: Global Movements for Global Justice”. In Castells, M. (ed.) (2004). The Networked Society: The Cross-Cultural Perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Maeckelbergh, M. (2017). “Social Movements as a Process”. In Coleman, S.; Hyatt, S.B.; Kingsolver, A. (2017). The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology. Abingdon, New York: Routledge

Tarrow, S. (2015). “Contentious Politics”. In Della Porta, D.; Diani, M.(eds) (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements. Oxford University Press: Oxford

Recommended Readings

Elliott‐Maksymowicz K. Social movement in stages: a reply to Shultziner and Goldberg. J Theory Soc Behav. 2019;49:254–258. https://doi.org/10.1111/ jtsb.12205

Flesher Fominaya, C. (2017). European anti-austerity and pro-democracy protests in the wake of the global financial crisis. Social Movement Studies Vol.16, 2017, Issue 1

Khasnabish, A. (2020) Ecologies of the radical imagination. Information, Communication & Society, 23:12, 1718-1727, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1631368

10.03.2021: Social Movements, Technology, and Digital Activism, Part 1

Mattoni, A. (2017). A situated understanding of digital technologies in social movements. Media ecology and media approaches. Social Movements Studies Vol 16, Issue 4

Postill, J. (2014). Freedom technologists and the new protest movements: a theory of protest formulas. Special Issue of Convergence Journal. Vol 20, No 3

Trere, E.; Matonni, A. (2015). Media ecologies and protest movements: main perspectives and key lessons. Information, Communication, Society. Vol 19, Issue 2

17.03.2021: Social Movements, Technology, and Digital Activism, Part 1

Beraldo, D., & Milan, S. (2019). From data politics to the contentious politics of data, Big Data & Society, pp. 1-19

Merini, K. (2021). “In memory of Covid 19 in China: Forms of Digital Resistance Towards Censorship”. In Milan, S.; Trere, E.; Masiero, S. (2021). Covid 19 From the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies, and Resistance in the Datafied Society. Institute of Network Cultures: Amsterdam

Postill, J. (2012). Digital politics and political engagement. In Horst, H.; Miller, D. (eds.). Digital Anthropology. Berg: Oxford

Tufekci, Z. (2014). Social Movements and Governments in the Digital Age: Evaluating a Complex Landscape. Journal of International Affairs, 68(1), 1–18.

Recommended Readings

Barassi, V. (2013). Ethnographic Cartographies: Social Movements, Alternative Media and the Spaces of Networks. Social Movement Studies Vol 12, Issue 1

24.03.2021/31/03/2021: New Feminist & Queer Mobilisations

Graff, A.; Korolczuk, E. (2021). Anti-gender politics in the Populist Times. Routledge: New York. Introduction (p.3-40)

Majewska, E.; Rakowska, K. (2018). Migrant tactics: An interview. Available online: http://politicalcritique.org/cee/poland/2018/migrating-tactics-an-interview-with-ewa-majewska-and-katarzyna-rakowska/

Korolczuk, E. (2017). Explaining ‘Black Protests” against abortion ban in Poland: the power of connective action. Zoon political journal. Available online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314232114_Explaining_black_protests_against_abortion_ban_in_Poland_the_power_of_connective_action

Kuhar, R.; Paternotte, D. (2017). Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing Against Equality

Peterson, A.; Wahlstrom, M.; Wennerhag, M. (2018). Pride parades and LGBT movements: Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective. Routledge: New York

Suchanow, K. (2020). “How a harsh Polish abortion bill sparked women’s strikes around the world”. Available online: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/how-a-harsh-polish-abortion-bill-sparked-womens-strikes-around-the-world/

Audio Material

“This is War”: Inside Poland’s Abortion Protests

https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2020/11/16/poland-abortion-protests

Clare Hemmings, Unnatural Feelings: The Affective Life of ‘Anti-Gender’ Mobilisations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oJUr0j_UmM

o7/04/2021: Social Movements and Migration

Cantat, C. (2018). The politics of refugee solidarity in Greece: Bordered identities and political mobilization. MigSol Working Paper Series (1)

Rozakou, K. (2018). Solidarians in the land of Xenios Zeus: Migrant deportability and the radicalization of solidarity. In Dalakoglou, D.; Agelopoulos, D. (2018). Critical Times in Greece: Anthropological Engagements with the Crisis. Routledge: New York

Rygiel, K. (2011). Bordering solidarities: migrant activism and the politics of movements and camps at Calais. Citizenship Studies 15:1, 1-19

Visual Material

“Scirocco: A case against deportation”

https://roarmag.org/films/scirocco-case-deportations/

“Idomeni camp before eviction: refugees in Greece”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV9EubFLXtA

“Inside City Hotel Plaza Athens”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjrN2A34WB0

21/04/2021 / 28/04/2021: Social Movements and Ecology

Compulsory Readings

Carruthers, D. (2007). Environmental Justice and the Politics of energy on the US-Mexico borders. Environmental Politics, 16:3, 394-413

Escobar, A. (1998). “Whose knowledge, whose nature? Biodiversity, conservation, and the political ecology of social movements”. Journal of Political Ecology Vol 5 1998

Martinez-Alier, J.; Rodriguez–Abajos, B. (2015). “Political ecology of water conflicts”. WIREs Water, 2:537-558

Rootes, C.; Nulman, E. (2015). “The Impacts of Environmental Movements”. In Della Porta, D.; Diani, M. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements. Oxford University Press: New York

Visual Material

“The River Says No”

https://roarmag.org/films/the-river-says-no/

“Máxima”, Máxima Acuña, 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize, South and Central America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz8eZx8V4Uo

“Invasion”

https://roarmag.org/films/invasion-unistoten-camp/

Recommended Readings

“An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion”. Available at: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/an-open-letter-to-extinction-rebellion/

05/05/2021: Final group assignments

19/05/2021: Final course assignment deadline