Silcences and Voices in Social Movement studies

06 Feb 2023 (3h 00m)

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

Session 1. Social movements in times of crisis: contextual challenges This session introduces general approaches to the contextual dimensions in social movement studies with particular attention to critical junctures. Research on the progressive movements in pandemic times will be discussed.

13 Feb 2023 (4h 00m)

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

Session 2. Backlash and countermovement This session addresses issues of time in social movements, reflecting in particular on the movement-countermovement dynamics. It will discuss examples from research on anti-vax and anti-gender protests as well as on the Charlie Hebdo attacks as discoursive critical junctures

17 Feb 2023 (4h 00m)

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

Session 3. Social movements and social cleavages This session will analyse the impacts of capitalist transformations on contentious politics. Research on student protests and new forms of labour mobilization will be presented.

20 Feb 2023 (3h 00m)

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

Session 4. Generations, gender, ethnicity and social movements February 20, 2-5pm The session will address the role of generations, gender, ethnicity in social movements, with particular attention to research on movements on migrant rights and against racism.

23 Feb 2023 (4h 00m)

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

Session 5. Social movements, cultural turns and collective identities This session will address the cultural turns in social movement studies, with a particular focus on the effects of eventful protests on the development of contentious politics. Research on memories of past events on contentious moments will be presented.

27 Feb 2023 (3h 00m)

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

Session 6. Protest outcomes and interrelated outcomes During this session we review the main concepts and approaches on collective action outcomes research, while drawing attention to key contemporary debates and the main problems that have undermined this field of studies. We will also look at one silence within the sub-filed of the literature: how different types of effects relate to each other.