Call for Abstracts: Social Movements & Sustainability Transformations | ESG Conference 2023 - Nijmegen (NL)
Rinscheid, A.L.M. (Adrian)
Dear GEP colleagues,
the below Call for Abstracts may be of interest to you. Please do not hesitate to contact me in case of questions. The deadline is pretty soon.
Kind regards,
adrian
Dr Adrian Rinscheid
Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance and Politics | Radboud University
2023 Earth System Governance Conference | October 24-26, 2023, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Call for Abstracts –
Social Movements and Sustainability Transformations:
Agendas, Protest Tactics and Popular Support
Panel Organizers:
Adrian Rinscheid, Radboud University, Netherlands, adrian.r...@ru.nl
Sebastian Koos, University of Konstanz, Germany, sebasti...@uni-konstanz.de
Submission Deadline for abstracts: February 9th (see below)
As critical agents of societal change, social movements are currently gaining visibility in directing their actions towards various sustainability challenges – from animal rights and biodiversity loss to child labor and climate change. While the support base of some of these movements (e.g., the climate movement) has broadened beyond traditional protest milieus, recent protest activities have brought the deep conflict lines between agents of transformation and forces of inertia to the fore. Social mobilization has become an integral component of global environmental politics and earth system governance.
The basic premise of this panel is that more knowledge about the impacts of social movement activities is urgently needed for transformational governance. While the impacts of social mobilization have been an object of research for a long time, the applicability of this knowledge to sustainability transformations is open to question. Moreover, existing studies, though valuable, are often tightly bound to the specific context in which they were conducted. Systematic knowledge is especially required with respect to (1) the impact of protest activities on perceptions of various stakeholders (e.g., policymakers, voters, state workers), (2) the differential nature of effects of various forms of protest (from litigation to civil disobedience to violent actions), (3) the different temporal scales at which impacts unfold (from immediate political effects of protest to shifts in social norms), and (4) the conditions under which activism by social movements might result in outright backlash. These areas alone, though not remotely conclusive, sketch a comprehensive research agenda for scholars from Sociology, Management, Social Psychology, Political Science and adjacent disciplines interested in the role of social mobilization and its implications for earth system governance.
Questions to be discussed in this panel include (but are not limited to):
- How do protest actions impact public support for sustainability agendas around the world?
- Do social movements’ tactics matter more than their agendas when it comes to influencing public views?
- How can the ‘effects’ of social movements be conceptualized and empirically measured?
- Why are certain protest tactics more effective than others?
- What role do emotions elicited by protest actions play in mediating stakeholders’ views on social movements?
- What role do movements’ recruitment processes and inner structures play in the selection of forms of protest?
- To what extent does the composition of protest groups influence their impacts on perceptions and public discourse?
During the panel, 4 advanced papers will be presented and thoroughly discussed. Moreover, we are genuinely interested in inter- and transdisciplinary debate. Therefore, complementing the role of an academic discussant, we plan to invite 2 stakeholders to provide their views on the presented research from a lawyer’s and an activist’s perspective in a concluding roundtable discussion with the authors of the 4 contributions.
Abstracts of up to 400 words should be submitted to adrian.r...@ru.nl by 9 February 2023. Participants will be notified of their acceptance to the panel by 14 February. If the panel submission to the Earth System Governance Conference is unsuccessful, the individual abstracts will nevertheless be reviewed by the ESG conference and may feature in other panels.
If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to the panel organizers.
General information about the 2023 Earth System Governance Conference: https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/2023radboud/
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