Comparative political ecology: theories and methodologies for mapping and analysing social conflicts

10.30 - 12.00
Session 1. Global social movements
(recording will be released on the Faculty YouTube Channel soon after the event)

10:30 - 10:50 Joan Martinez Alier (ICTA-UAB) - Land, Water, Air and Freedom

10:50 - 11:10 Donatella della Porta (SNS) - Transnationalization and social movements

11:10 - 12:00 Open discussion

12.15 - 13.30
Session 2. Mapping conflicts. Methodological practices and challenges of social movements’ atlases 

12:15 - 12:30 Grettel Navas (ICTA-UAB) - Overview of the EJAtlas 

12:30 - 12:40 Carlotta Caciagli (SNS) - Overview of mapping urban social conflicts

12:40 - 13:30 Open discussion

Debate with the participation of:
Irina Aguiari (SNS)
May Aye (ICTA-UAB) 
Florian Carl (SNS)
Giuseppe Cugnata (SNS)
Daniela Del Bene (ICTA-UAB)
Marcel Llavero-Pasquina (ICTA-UAB)
Brototi Roy (ICTA-UAB)
Teresa Sanz (ICTA-UAB)
Dalena Tran (ICTA-UAB)
Lorenzo Velotti (SNS)
Mariana Walter (ICTA-UAB)
Lorenzo Zamponi (SNS)

This roundtable will bring together, in a transdisciplinary dialogue, two distinct yet intersecting fields of study of social movements. Scholars from SNS and Cosmos have been studying social movements and contentious politics from the interdisciplinary field of Social Movement Studies, focusing especially on the Global North, while scholars from ICTA-UAB have been researching socio-ecological conflicts, especially in the Global South, from the interdisciplinary perspective of Political Ecology and Environmental Justice. 
The present roundtable will be an opportunity for mutual exchange and learning between the two schools: theoretical in the first part, methodological in the second. Theoretically, the features and possibilities of existence of global movements as well as the processes of social movements’ transnationalization will be discussed. 
The two keynote speeches by Joan Martinez Alier and Donatella della Porta will be followed by an open debate with the participation of several scholars from the two schools. Then, we will discuss these issues from the methodological point of view, focusing in particular on the advantages and challenges of mapping and analyzing social conflicts, and on the relationship between academia and activism in such mapping processes.