ISA Forum, Programme Book - International Sociological Association

Farmers’ Movements in Contemporary India
Sonia Pires (European University Institute, Firenze,
Italy)
Immigration and Collective Action in Italy and
Portugal
Saturday, September 6, 11:30-13:30
Session 06: Joint Session of RC07 and
RC48: Social Movements and New Media
Chair: Markus S. Schulz, New York University,
USA and Benjamín Tejerina, University of
the Basque Country, Spain
Location: UB-FPGH-206
Session ID: JS_RC48_RC07_06
Authors and Papers:
Veronica Alfaro (New School for Social Research,
USA)
Comparing Action and Social Movements in
the Virtual Public Sphere: Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
From Silence and Disruption to Acting in Concert
Frederico Bertagnoli (New York University,
USA)
Human Rights, Wireless Technologies, and
Organized Crime in Contemporary Brazil
Sartaj Chanchal (University of Texas, USA)
The Role of Media in Advancing the Cause of
the Feminist Movement in America
Gert Verschraegen (Univerty of Leuven, Belgium)
Commons-based Knowledge Production as a
Strategy for Development
Fen Lin (University of Chicago, USA)
Behind Technology: Changes of State-Society
Relationship and Media Technology
Yihu Zhou (Beijing University, China)
Behind Technology: Changes of State-Society
Relationship and Media Technology
Saturday, September 6, 11:30-13:30
Session 02: Urban Conditions, Processes of
Exclusion and Social Movements
Chair: Tova Benski, College of Management
Studies, Israel
Location: UB-FPGH-205
Session ID: RC48_02
Authors and Papers:
Britta Baumgarten (University of Bremen, Germany)
The Debate on Unemployment: Communicative
Strategies of Making Things Public
Gui Yong (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Interpreting the ‘Nature’ of Resistance: Interest
Alliance in Housing Marketization and Its Responding
Strategies to Homeowners’ Collective
Resistance. An Empirical Study of Transforming
China
Anna Livia Brand (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA)
Claiming the Right to the City: The Transformations
and Limits of Change
César Guzmán -Concha (University of Barcelona,
Spain)
Squatter Movement in Europe: Sources of Variation
and Political Dynamic of the Mobilization
Saturday, September 6, 15:30-17:30
Session 03: Democratization, Political Institutions
and Social Movements in Latin America
Part I
Chair: Benjamín Tejerina, University of the
Basque Country, Spain
Location: UB-FPGH-205
Session ID: RC48_03
Authors and Papers:
Breno Bringel (Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Spain)
Ampliando el espectro democrático y la esfera
pública. Movimientos sociales y política radical
en la “nueva redemocratización” brasileña
Camilo Andrés Castiblanco Durán (Universidad
Santo Tomás and Universidad Central,
Bogotá, Colombia)
Protesta campesina en Colombia
Maria Victoria Espiñeira González (Universidad
Federal de Bahía, Brasil)
Cuando la clase social importa. El papel de los
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