4th ECPR-COSMOS Summer School ON Methods for the study  of political participation and mobilization

Methods for the study of political participation and mobilization

4th ECPR-COSMOS Summer School

Image: tuttomondo di Keith Haring, particular

Financial and logistic support:
ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization
Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Scienze Politico-Sociali

Organising committee:
Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Lorenzo Zamponi (Scuola Normale Superiore and ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization)
Felix Butzlaff (Central European University and ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization)

PROGRAMME

Monday, 5 June

10:00-10:30
Registration
Conference hall “L’Altana”

10:30-11:00
Welcome Address and Introduction to the Summer School
Organising Committee
Conference hall “L’Altana”

11:00-13:00
Keynote Speech: Social Movement Studies and Methodological Pluralism
Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Conference hall “L’Altana”

13:00-14:30 Lunch break
Trattoria “Marione al Trebbio”, Via delle Belle Donne, 47/49R

14:30-16:00
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

Paola Buconjic, “From: refugees, to: refugees – claiming the rights and challenging the   notion of citizenship”
Discussants: Donatella della Porta and Adrien Beauduin

Veronica Pastorino, “Civil society actors entering the municipality gates: enabling cooperation or conflict? The case of Next Generation Italy in Bologna”
Discussants: Donatella della Porta and Hauke Dannemann

18:30-20:00

Welcome Aperitivo
Bar Ristorante “Companion” c/o 25hours Hotel, via Palazzuolo 11R

Tuesday, 6 June

9:00-11:00
Visuals in the study of social movements
Nicole Doerr (University of Copenhagen)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-13:30
Interviewing Activists
Lorenzo Bosi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
Trattoria “Marione al Trebbio”, Via delle Belle Donne, 47/49R

15:00-17:30
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

Alper Çakır, “Anti-capitalist Muslims in the Gezi protests: Brokerage in mass mobilization and its boundaries in Turkey”
Discussants: Lorenzo Bosi and Laura Gutierrez

Yannicke Goris, “Contested civic space in a context of autocratisation”
Discussants: Nicole Doerr and Ella Petrini

Wednesday, 7 June

10:00-12:30
Keynote Speech: Social Network Analysis for the Study of Collective Action
Mario Diani (Università di Trento)
Conference hall “L’Altana”

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Trattoria “Marione al Trebbio”, Via delle Belle Donne, 47/49R

14:00-16:30
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

JD Foster, “Mapping a ‘Progressive’ Movement using a Social Network Analysis of Legislative Activity”
Discussants: Mario Diani and Lorenzo Dardani

Didem Mina Kara, “From the Ground Up: Investigating the Relationship between Political Trust and Citizen Participation in the Wake of the Turkey Earthquake
Discussants: Mario Diani and Alvaro Vicente

Thursday, 8 June9:00-11:00

Surveys in political participation and mobilization
Joost de Moor (Stockholm University)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-13:30
Experimental methods in participation and mobilisation research
Lasse Lindekilde (Aarhus University)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”     

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
Trattoria “Marione al Trebbio”, Via delle Belle Donne, 47/49R

15:00-17:30
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

Lisa Sophie Fenner, “The Impact of Protest and Politicisation on Policy-Making in the European Parliament: Evidence from the Protests against the EU Copyright Directive, 2015-2019”
Discussants: Joost de Moor and Felipe Quintao

Alice Fubini, “The diffusion of grassroots technologies in the Italian and Spanish anti-corruption arenas: the emblematic case of digital whistleblowing platforms”
Discussants: Lasse Lindenkilde and Nerea Montejo Lopez

Friday, 9 June

9:00-11:00
Big data in the study of political participation and mobilization
Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-13:30
Focus group and group interviews
Felix Butzlaff (Central European University)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
Trattoria “Marione al Trebbio”, Via delle Belle Donne, 47/49R

15:00-17:30
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

Britta Eklöf, “Keeping engagement alive - a comparison of current and former climate activists”
Discussants: Felix Butzlaff and Yannicke Goris

Amarilys Abreu, “Conceptualizing and empirically testing sovereignty framing contestations in Argentina’s 2001-2016 private foreign sovereign debt restructuring”
Discussants: Stefania Milan and Paola Buconjic

Monday, 12 June

10:00-12:30
Keynote Speech: Analysing contentious episodes
Swen Hutter (Freie Universität Berlin and WZB)
Conference hall “L’Altana”

12:30-14:00 Lunch break
Ristorante “La Bussola”, via Porta Rossa 56R

14:00-16:30
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

Adrien Beauduin, “Enrolment and mobilisation in the parliamentary far-right parties Konfederacja (Confederation) in Poland and Svoboda a přímá demokracie (Freedom and Direct Democracy, SPD) in Czechia”
Discussants: Swen Hutter and Alper Cakir

Hauke Dannemann, “Utilizing democracy for sustainable but anti-democratic ends? Far-right participation in sustainability governance”
Discussants: Swen Hutter and Veronica Pastorino

Tuesday, 13 June

9:00-11:00

Ethical issues in social movement and political participation research
Alice Mattoni (Università di Bologna)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-13:30
Ethnography of participation and mobilization
Stefan Malthaner (Hamburg Institute for Social Research)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
Ristorante “La Bussola”, via Porta Rossa 56R

15:00-17:30
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

Laura Gutiérrez, “The role of educational strategies in the Olimpia movement's successful effort to convince decision-makers to criminalize online violence in Mexico”
Discussants: Stefan Malthaner and JD Foster

Ella Petrini, “Different framings of climate transitions from the viewpoint of trade unions and environmental movements, building on a comparative study of Sweden and Poland”
Discussants: Alice Mattoni and Didem Mina Kara

Wednesday, 14 June

9:00-11:00
Social Network Analsys
Katia Pilati (Università di Trento)

Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-13:30
Frame and Discourse Analysis
Lorenzo Zamponi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
Ristorante “La Bussola”, via Porta Rossa 56R

15:00-17:30
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

Álvaro Vicente, “A social network model to violent extremist mobilisation: a study of young jihadist sympathizers in Spain”
Discussants: Katia Pilati and Alice Fubini

Lorenzo Dardani, “Collective Identity and Ritual: what ties a social movement?”
Discussants: Lorenzo Zamponi and Lisa Sophie Fenner

Thursday, 15 June

9:00-11:00
Protest event analysis and political claim analysis
Martín Portos (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-13:30
Historical methods
Kostis Kornetis (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
Ristorante “La Bussola”, via Porta Rossa 56R

15:00-17:30
Paper presentations and discussions
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

Felipe Quintão, “Governing for a Good New World? Prefigurative Organising Experiences in an International Network of Grassroots Initiatives”
Discussants: Kostis Kornetis and Britta Eklöf

Nerea Montejo López, “Capitalism and Social Movements: Interregnum Gaps and Opportunities”
Discussants: Martín Portos, Amarilys Abreu

Friday, 16 June

11.00-13:30

Online tools and digital methods for the study of participation and mobilization
Diego Ceccobelli and Massimo Rotunno (Università Statale di Milano)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break
Ristorante “La Bussola”, via Porta Rossa 56R

15:00-17:30
Social media sampling: new challenges and solutions
Matthias Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen)
Room “Simone del Pollaiolo”

17:30-18.00
Distribution of Certificates of Attendance

20:00-22:30
Farewell Dinner
Osteria Vegetariana, Piazza del Carmine 4R