Conference "Researching Social Movements : Methodological, Ethical, and Political Challenges"

Program

1ST JULY

• 14:15 - 14:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
  Tiago Carvalho (CIES-Iscte) and Luisa Rossini (ICS-ULisboa)

• 14:30 - 16:30 PANEL 1. Issues with positionality
  Chair : Peter Gardner (University of York)
  • Lilian Mathieu (CNRS, ENS Lyon), “Whose side are you on ?” When being a movement sympathizer does not necessarily help research
  • Kyle Matthews (Victoria University of Wellington), “‘Getting in Trouble’ in Social Movement Ethnographies : Crossing the line in police-activist negotiations and what it reveals about activist-police relations”
  • Giuseppe Lipari (Scuola Normale Superiore Firenze), “Inquiring student agency in secondary education : key challenges for an exploratory research”
  • Anna Zhelnina (Utrecht University), “Fragmented and polarized civil society claims : how to study opposing social movements ?”

• 16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK

• 17:00 - 19:00 PANEL 2 Calling into question the researcher/researched boundary
  Chair : Felipe Gonzalez Santos (University of London)
  • Peter Gardner (University of York), “Are you with us ? : Uncomfortable reflexivity and the materiality of positionality in social movement research”
  • Lazaro Bacallao-Pino (Universidad de Salamanca), “In the eye of the beholder:Particularities of social movements and derived methodological challenges in researching them”
  • Davide Grasso (Iméra Aix-en-Provence, EHESS Marseille), “Do politically motivated researchers need to praise existing activists or social movements ?”
  • Federica Stagni (Scuola Normale Superiore Firenze), “Navigating Doubt : Intersectionality, Activism, and Research Challenges in the Academic Landscape”

• 19:00 - 19:15 FIRST DAY’S CLOSING WORDS

2nd JULY

• 9:00 - 11:00 PANEL 3. Doing risky business : advancing knowledge without endangering activists (or oneself)
  Chair : Anna Zhelnina (Utrecht University)
  • Katharina Fritsch (Cesdip-CNRS), “States of emergencies and protest (self-)governing”
  • Richard Duke (University of Glasgow), “Navigating the Ethical Dilemma : Methodological Challenges in Researching Leaderless Movements, a Case Study of Black Lives Matter UK”
    **- Viktoria Lavriniuk (EmLyon Business School), “Women’s collective agency mobilization for disrupting institutions amid state-sponsored violence”
  • Hande Dönmez (Scuola Normale Superiore), “Research in motion : Analytical shifts and knowledge co-production during critical events”

• 11:00 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK

• 11:15 - 12:45 PANEL 4 Deconstructing social movements’ scholars categories of thought
  Chair : Hande Dönmez (Scuola Normale Superiore)
  • Dominika V. Polanska (Södertörn University Stockholm), Michaela Pixová (Charles University Prague) and Luca S. Bródy (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, HUN-REN KRTK, Budapest), ”Conceptualizing civil societies in and beyond post-socialist contexts”
  • Willemijn Born (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), “Studying post-soviet nonviolent resistance movements”
  • Rubén Díez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), “Researching Youth Liberal-Conservative Activism in Spain : Between Student Organizations and Political Parties”

• 12:45 - 15:00 LUNCH BREAK - NETWORKING

• 15:00 - 17:00 PANEL 5 The social movements’ scholar toolkit : tool-making and tool-selection
  Chair : Kyle Matthews (Victoria University of Wellington)
  • Gomer Betancor (UNED Madrid) and Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University), “Revealing Submerged Networks of Social Movements Through Combined Databases”
  • Matthias Hoffmann (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca), Dan Mercea (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca and University of London), Felipe G. Santos (Babeș-Bolyai University), “Methodological Insights in Constructing a Protest Event Database : Comparing Different Selections of Sources, Dictionaries, and
    Classifications”
  • Alper Cakir (Charles University Prague), “Bringing Together Structuralist and Social Constructivist Perspectives ? Potentials and Limitations of Studying the Perception of Performances with Repertoires of Contention”
  • Emanuele Amo (Aberystwyth University), “Investigating the Slow Food-Place Relation : an empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo”

• 17:00 - 17:15 COFFEE BREAK

• 17:15 - 18:00 CLOSING WORDS

• 18:00 CHAT AND DRINKS

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Organizing comittee

• Guya Accornero (ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon)
• Marco Allegra (ICS, University Institute of Lisbon)
• Tiago Carvalho (CIES-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon)
• Gabriele D’Adda (University of Catania)
• Montserrat Emperador Badimon (Triangle, Université Lumière Lyon 2)
• Pierre Monforte (University of Leicester)
• Luisa Rossini (ICS, University Institute of Lisbon)
• Lucia Valdivia (Centre Max Weber, Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Contact

• SMRNCES@gmail.com
• Montserrat Emperador Badimon