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Relational outcomes and collective action

Relational outcomes and collective action

Evento speciale
Thursday 16 March 2023
09:00
to Friday 17 March 2023
“Altana” Conference Hall, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

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Research on the consequences of collective action is a flourishing subfield in Political Sciences and Sociology. Over the years, scholars have investigated collective action’s internal and external impacts in organizational, political, cultural, biographical, economic, and legal realms. However, fewer contributions have explicitly considered the connection between the outcomes of collective mobilization and their relational dimensions. The conference aims to fill this gap by shedding light on the relational consequences of collective action at the micro, meso, and macro levels. It focuses on how the interactions within and between activists, challengers, targets, and audiences influence biographical, political, cultural, and social change processes. Furthermore, it asks to what extent relationships can be intended as outcomes of collective action per se and what methodologies are better suited to grasp them.

Entrance will be allowed up to the maximum capacity of the room.

Organizers

  • Federica Stagni - Scuola Normale Superiore
  • Alessandra Lo Piccolo - Scuola Normale Superiore

Program

Day 1 - March 16th

9.00-9.15: Welcome and introduction

9.15- 10.45: Keynote Nella Van Dyke,

11.00- 13.00: Panel 1 - Relational consequences of collective action: a micro-level assessment

Discussant: Sarah Elmasry

  1. Marco Giugni & Maria Grasso. Relational Covariates of Biographical Consequences of Protest Participation
  2. Allison Lang. Social movement persistence as a relational outcome: Generational transmission of grassroots environmental activism in Patagonia, Argentina
  3. Angela Adami. Starting from scratch: memory building as a relational outcome in migrants’ collective action
  4. Alejandro Ciordia, Nuria Targarona, & Miranda Lubbers The relational toll of political involvement in polarized times: experiences of damaged personal networks in Catalonia

14.00-16.30: Panel 2. Relational consequences of collective action: players and arenas
Discussant: James Jasper

  1. Anna Zhelnina, Grassroots activism and electoral politics: transferring gains between arenas in urban political fields
  2. Alvaro Oleart & Manès Weisskircher, How (not) to impact EU politics from below? The gains and losses of DiEM25
  3. Raffaele Bazurli Theorizing the policy outcomes of immigrant rights activism in Global North cities
  4. Bartosz Ślosarski, Environmental Data Arenas. The Relational Consequences of Data Activism
  5. Alessandra Lo Piccolo, Influencing the policy cycle: dilemmas and positional strategies

16.45-18.45: Panel 3. Relational consequences of collective action: after mobilization,
Discussant: Karlo Kralj

  1. Benjamin Abrams, Relational Crystallization. How Protest Encounters become Network Ties
  2. Ji-Eun Ahn, Beyond Boundaries: the organisational dynamics of the Candlelight Vigil in South Korea
  3. Clara van den Berg & Swen Hutter, Relational outcomes that last: How civil society brokers keep networks going
  4. Federica Stagni, Never Let Me Go: Relationality in Social Movements Outcomes

Day 2 - March 17th

9.15- 10.45: Keynote Mario Diani

11.00-13.00: Panel 4. Relational methods in the study of the consequences of collective action
Discussant: Alice Ferro

  1. Weijun Yuan, Building Inter-organizational Solidarity: Real and Imagined Ties
  2. Aurora Perego, TOGETHER WE STAND? An analysis of the digital interactions developed by Italian and Spanish LGBTQIA* organisations
  3. Alejandro Ciordia & Aurora Perego, Taking a detour to travel farther: advantages and caveats of indirectly deconstructing collective action networks through trace data
  4. Elias Steinhilper & Matthias Hoffmann, Peaks of Contention as Relational Junctures? Comparing Local Protest and Civil Society Networks Before, During and After the “Summer of Migration” in Germany

14.00-16.30: Panel 5. Relational consequence: processual insights 
Discussant: Lorenzo Bosi

  1. Eva Fernandez Guzman Grassi, Marco Giugni & Katia Pilati, The co-evolution of inter-organizational networks in workers’ contentious politics
  2. César Guzmán-Concha, Carriers of change: Conceptualizing outcomes of contention over the long-term
  3. Darren Colbourne, “We’re the Raw Material”: Relational Power in the Evolution of Students for a Democratic Society and the American University
  4. Kenneth Andrews, Contingency and the Relational Dynamics of Protest Trajectories
  5. Eitan Alimi,Tracy Adams & Robert White, Unpacking Object Shift(s): Critical Events and Variation in Objects of Attacks in Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine
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