“[We invite you to read] the latest edition of Grassroots, the newsletter of the [International Sociological Association’s] RC48 Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3veM9KC
Read MoreThe Summer 2021 edition of the Critical Mass Bulletin is out, and features a report from CBSM Chair Rachel Einwohner, a list of recent publications by section members, and importantly, “on-the-market” notices from junior social movement scholars. Get your PDF copy here:
The Spring 2021 edition of the Critical Mass Bulletin is out, and features a report from CBSM Chair Rachel Einwohner, a list of recent publications by section members, a call for “on-the-market” notices from junior social movement scholars, and a directory of CBSM sessions at the upcoming meeting of ASA. Get your PDF copy here:
Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award
Apoorva Ghosh. “The Politics of Alignment and the ‘Quiet Transgender Revolution’ in Fortune 500 Corporations, 2008 to 2017.”
Honorable mention:
Rui Jie Peng. “Rightful Bargaining: Rural Women Making Claims for Social Provisions in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Program.”
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award
Joshua Bloom. 2020. “The Dynamics of Repression and Insurgent Practice in the Black Liberation Struggle.” American Journal of Sociology 126.2: 195-259.
Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award
Eleonora Pasotti. 2020. Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities (Cambridge University Press)
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Dissertation Award
Co-winners:
Benjamin H. Bradlow. “Urban Origins of Democracy and Inequality: Governing São Paulo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016”
Anna Zhelnina. “Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow’s Renovation”
After careful consideration and consultation, the CBSM workshop committee has decided to postpone the pre-ASA meeting CBSM workshop to 2022 in Los Angeles. The theme will be A Justice Agenda and the committee looks forward to facilitating a diverse, inclusive and productive meeting.
The American Sociological Association submission portal will open on Nov. 9, 2020: https://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2021
Collective Behavior and Social Movements Refereed Roundtables
- Organizer: Preethi Krishnan, Western Carolina University
Announcing the Collective Behavior and Social Movements call for award nominations for 2020. Please read on for details on qualifications, submission process, and award committee memberships.
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Special Issue Editor(s): Priska Daphi, Bielefeld University, Germany; Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Loughborough University, UK;Gemma Edwards, University of Manchester, UK
Covid-19 is affecting many dimensions of social and political life. The pandemic and its political and social consequences present challenges to social movements in various ways. Lockdowns and restrictions have complicated many prominent forms of mobilization – such as street protests. While such challenges may lead to demobilization in some cases, in other cases they seem to be giving way to new forms of organization and mobilization as in the case of online protests. Furthermore, the physical distancing complicates prevalent forms of organization, framing and identity building in several ways.
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Mobilization would like to produce a special issue on the Black Lives Movement. We are looking for papers that are about the 2014-2020 movement or that can put this protest wave into a broader context that includes prior organizing and protests. Papers can be empirical or theoretical and cover a wide range of topics related to the protest wave, BLM, allied or counter-movements generally. We are looking for qualitative or quantitative descriptive papers as well as papers that develop some theoretical angle on events. We invite submissions grounded in activist perspectives as well as those grounded in scholarly traditions. We are open to considering innovative approaches such as those that include visual, oral or digital components as supplements to printed materials.
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