Agenda

Registration and continental breakfast in Room 112

Welcome remarks Room 147

Room 147

 James M. Jasper. Graduate Center, CUNY
"Players, Arenas, and Strategic Engagement"

Frances Fox Piven. Graduate Center, CUNY
"Unpacking Disruption"

Edwin Amenta, UC-Irvine
"How Targets Influence the Influence of Movements"

Morning break Room 323

Contention Goes to College: Movements in and of Higher Education
Room 350

Organizer: Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Rhode Island College
Moderator/Discussant: Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Rhode Island College

Caroline W. Lee, Lafayette College
"Civic Authenticity and Demobilization in Higher Education"

Daisy Reyes, University of Connecticut
"Inhabited Latino Politics: How Colleges Shape Students’ Political Styles"

 Didem Turkoglu, UNC
"Students Against Tuitions"

 Joe Curnow, University of Toronto
"Cookie Cutter Campaigns and the (Perceived) Limits of Contentious Politics on Campus"

Humor, Pleasure, and Play in Protest 
Room 348

Organizer: Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, University of Pittsburgh
Moderator/Discussant: Hillary Lazar, University of Pittsburgh

Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, University of Pittsburgh
"An Emotional-Cognitive Model of Humor in Social Movements"

Jo Reger, Oakland University
"Making Music, Making Community: Lesbians, Feminism and The Women's Music Community"

 John Hammond, Hunter College
"Carnival against the Capital of Capital: Carnivalesque Protest in Occupy Wall Street"

 Anna Paretskaya, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"This is What Democracy Sounds Like: Protest Performances of the Citizenship Movement in Wisconsin and Beyond"

Strategic Responses by Targets to Social Movement Activity 
Room 347

Organizer: Ed Walker, UCLA
Moderator/Discussant: Ed Walker, UCLA

Erica Simmons, University of Wisconsin
"The Next French Revolution: Explaining State Responses to Subsistence Protests"

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Central European University
"Movement’s Missing Targets: Explaining contemporary slaveholder responses to human rights advocacy"

 David Cunningham, Washington University-St. Louis and Peter B. Owens, Washington University-St. Louis
"Configuring Anti-Civil Rights Enforcement Networks: Local Variation in the Policing of Segregation in Mississippi"

 Jeff Goodwin, New York University and Jane McAlevey, Graduate Center, CUNY
"Preemptive Contention: Union-Avoidance Practices by U.S. Corporations"

Movements, Countermovements, and Public Opinion 
Room 307

Organizer: Ed Walker, UCLA
Moderator/Discussant: Marc Dixon, Dartmouth College

Mehdi Azam and Markus Hadler, Macquarie University, Australia
"Climate Movement in Australia: Analyzing Strategic Response for Climate Change Mitigation"

Cem Emrence, SUNY-Binghamton
"Explaining Countermovement-Movement Interactions: How Islam Became a Rival of Ethnic Movement in Turkey"

Belinda Robnett, UC-Irvine
"Nullifying the NAACP and the SCLC: U.S. Racial Discourse as Strategic Constraint"

Amanda Buday, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
"Fracturing Illinois: Innovation and Backlash in a Local Campaign to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing"

Eulalie Laschever and David Meyer, UC-Irvine
“Growth and Decay of Organizational Sectors: Gun Control and Gun Rights Organizations from 1945 to 2014”

Post-2010 Global Moments of Protest 
Room 305

Special session co-sponsored by Research Committee 48 of the ISA II
Organizer: Tova Benski, Bar-Ilan University
Moderator: Lauren Langman, Loyola University-Chicago

Tova Benski, The College of Management, Israel, and Lauren Langman, Loyola University-Chicago
“The Quest for Dignity – the Emotional Core of the post 2010 Mobilizations”

Keith Mann, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee
“Labor as Social Movement in the Current Cycle of Protest”

Geoffrey Pleyers, FNRS- Universite de Louven
“After the Squares: Subjectivity, Agency and Activism beyond Spaces of Experience?”

Carl Ratner, Institute for Cultural Research and Education
"Populiat vs. Socialist Political Philosophy for Social Movements: The Case of Co-Ops"

Hank Johnston Graduate Student Roundtable 
Room 457

Organizer: Michelle Proctor, Madonna University
Participants: Sharon M.Quinsaat, Ahalya Balasunderam, Toni Rouhana, Hyun Jeong Ha

Susanne Staggenborg Graduate Student Roundtable 
Room 459

Organizer: Michelle Proctor, Madonna University
Participants: Amanda Martin, Maria Mora, Eulalie Laschever, Jesse Klein, Mehdi Azam

Lunch served at Wieboldt Hall Room 323

Room 147

Hank Johnston, San Diego State University
"Taking the Target Seriously: The Field of Play in Social Movement Mobilization"

Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin
"Demanding Citizenship: The Dynamics of 'Service-Delivery Protests'"

Afternoon break Room 323

Race and Social Movements 
Room 350

Organizer: Zakiya Luna, UC-Santa Barbara
Moderator/Discussant: Zakiya Luna, UC-Santa Barbara

Kelly Moore and Mickie Swisher, University of Florida
"You Are What You Eat: Food as a Source of Self-Evaluation and Social Comparison

Lina Stepick, UCLA, Edward T. Walker, UCLA, and John D. McCarthy, Penn State University
"Racial Diversity & Media Coverage of Low-Income Community-Based Organizing Campaigns"

 Melissa E. Wooten, UMass-Amherst
"Institutional Constraints on the Pursuit of Racial Justice"

Targeting Market Institutions
Room 348

Organizers: Cyrus Dioun, UC-Berkeley
Moderator/Discussant: Brayden King, Northwestern University

Erica Simmons, UW-Madison
"Market Reforms and Water Wars"

Ion Bogdan Vasi, University of Iowa
"Resurgence of the Locavore: The Growth of Multi-Motive Local Foods Markets in the United States"

 Jocelyn M. Leitzinger, University of Michigan
"Wolves in Sheeps' Clothing: The Use of Corporate Front Groups in the Battle over Renewable Energy"

Identity
Room 347

Organizer: Wayne Santoro, University of New Mexico
Moderator/Discussant: Rhys Williams, Loyola University

Jonathan Smucker, University of California - Berkeley
"Framing the ‘we’ in different layers of political mobilization"

Sharon M. Quinsaat, University of Pittsburgh
"Becoming a Filipino-American Radical: The Formation of Oppositional Consciousness in Transnational Spaces"

 Emily Schneider, UC-Santa Barbara
"Creating Activists through Tourism: The Effects of Travel to the Occupied Palestinian Territories on Jewish-Americans"

 Jesse Klein, Florida State University
"What Does Democracy Mean to You? Linking Democratic Identities to Democratic Organizational Forms in Social Movements"

 Sheila Cranmer-Byng, McMaster University
"Reclaiming Identities – Anti-poverty activism in Ontario, Canada"

Why People Protest I 
Room 307

Organizer: Wayne Santoro, University of New Mexico
Moderator/Discussant: Katrin Uba, Uppsala University

Marian Azab, University of New Mexico
"Rethinking Fear and Protest: The Post-9/11 Mobilization of Arab Americans in Detroit "

Daniel Escher, University of Notre Dame
"The Role of Cultural Matching in Micro-Mobilization"

 Katrin Uba, Uppsala University
"Why they keep quiet? Missing protests against school closures in Sweden"

 Dana R. Fisher and Anya M. Galli, University of Maryland
"Toward a Theory of Social Movement Accretion: Understanding how Social Movements Expand their Reach through Large-Scale Protest Events "

Movement Outcomes 
Room 305

Organizer: Wayne Santoro, University of New Mexico
Moderator/Discussant: Andy Andrews, UNC

Jackie Smith, Samantha Plummer, Melanie Hughes, University of Pittsburgh
"Interrogating Boundaries between Institutions and Social Movements: A Relational Analysis of Transnational Social Movement Activism since the 1980s"

Mohammad Ali Kadivar, UNC
"Popular Transitions and the fate of Young Democracies"

Anna Paretskaya, University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Tocqueville on the Barricades: Searching for the Culture of Democratic Liberty at Russian Protests"

Cecelia Walsh-Russo, Hartwick College and Mary L. Walsh, St. John Fisher College
"Climate Change as Social Movement: Targets, Strategies and Organizations"

Andre Nickow, Northwestern University
"Development as Mobilization: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Pro-Poor Growth Across Indian States"

Twenty Years of Mobilization
Timothy O'Tooles (622 N. Fairbanks Ct. Chicago)

Please join us to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Mobilization as well as to mark its editorial team’s move from Notre Dame to North Carolina as Neal Caren takes the helm. In a short time, Mobilization has transformed our field and advanced the study of protest and social movements. Food and the first two drinks are compliments of Mobilization, but please bring the vouchers from your registration packet.

Continental breakfast in Room 112

Room 147
 
Sarah Soule, Stanford University
"Corporate Opportunity Structures and Contentious Targeting by Social Activists"

Kim Voss, UC-Berkeley
"Been Down So Long, It looks Like Up to Me: Shifting Targets, Changing Repertoires in the U.S. Labor Movement"

Brayden King, Northwestern University and Laura Nelson, Northwestern University
"Moving Targets: An Analysis of Tactics and Target Selection in the Environmental Movement"

Morning break Room 323

Targets in the Field
Room 250

Organizer: Hank Johnston, San Diego State University
Moderator/Discussant: Hank Johnston, San Diego State University

Andy Andrews and Sarah Gaby, UNC
"Pathways to Desegregation: How Protest Campaigns Changed the U.S. South"

Clark McPhail, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
"Using Digital Photos as Behavioral Snapshots to Examine Relationships Between Protest Targets and Forms of Protest"

Deana A. Rohlinger, Florida State University
"Media Representation and Strategic Mobilization"

 Rebecca Tarlau, Stanford University
"Mobilizing the Low-Capacity State: The Positive Effects of Weak States on Social Movement Participation in Brazil "

Collective Violence 
Room 348

Organizer: Wayne Santoro, University of New Mexico
Moderator/Discussant: Wayne Santoro, University of New Mexico

Charles Sequin and David Rigby, UNC
"Race, Migration, and Collective Violence: Lynching in the Upper Midwest, 1882-1940"

 Aliza Luft, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Mass Violence as Contentious Politics: The Case of Rwanda’s Genocide"

Why People Protest II 
Room 247

Organizer: Wayne Santoro, University of New Mexico
Moderator/Discussant: Jesse Klein, Florida State University

Jaleh Jalili, Brandeis University
"Public Space and Mass Protests: What makes a public space an appropriate place for protest?"

Toni Rouhana, UC-Santa Cruz
"Sectarian Mobilizations? A Case Study of Sectarian Imaginations In Lebanon."

Yuki Asahina, University of Hawai’I at Manoa
"Perceived Threats and Reactionary Mobilization: A Case of Japanesese Right-Wing Movement"

Carin Runciman, University of Johannesburg
"South Africa’s ‘Rebellion of the Poor’: Challenges for Social Movement Theory"

Global Justice, Transnational Activism, and Power 
Room 307

Special session co-sponsored by Research Committee 48 of the ISA II
Organizer: Tova Benski, Bar-Ilan University
Moderator: Sahu Dipti Ranjan, University of Lucknow

Christopher Chase-Dunn, James Fenelon, Thomas D. Hall, Ian Breckenridge-Jackson, Joel Herrera, John Aldecoa and Nicolas Pascal. University of California-Riverside
“Anarchism and Autonomism in the Web of Transnational Social Movements”

Manjeet Kumar Chaturvedi, Banaras Hindu University
“Social Movement – A Passage to Power?”

Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh
“Networks, Privilege, and Exclusion in Contemporary Global Justice Activism”

Inside the Editor's Mind: Books, Articles and Publishing Strategies in Social Movements 
Room 305

Organizers: Rory McVeigh, Notre Dame, Gregory Maney, Hofstra University
Moderator: Gregory Maney, Hofstra University

Neal Caren, UNC (Mobilization)
Hank Johnston, San Diego State University (Ashgate)
Rory McVeigh, Notre Dame (American Sociological Review)
Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh (Journal of World Systems Research)

Nancy Whittier Graduate Student Roundtable 
Room 459

Organizer: Michelle Proctor, Madonna University
Participants: Stacy Williams, Shawn Gaulden, Molly Jacobs, Sarah Gaby

Jeff Goodwin Graduate Student Roundtable 
Room 457

Organizer: Michelle Proctor, Madonna University
Participants: Elizabeth Schwarz, Dana Moss, Kelly Maginot, Marian Azab

Lunch served at Wieboldt Hall Room 323

Room 147 

Graeme Hayes, Aston University
"Collective Identity as Situated Identity"

Holly McCammon, Vanderbilt University, Allison McGrath (presenting), Ashley Dixon and Megan Robinson, Vanderbilt University
"Targeting the Judicial Arena: U.S. Feminist Movement Litigation Strategy"

Afternoon break Room 323

Targeting Culture: Collective Action Campaigns Aimed at Challenging Norms, Values, and Beliefs 
Room 250

Organizer: Sandy Levitsky, University of Michigan
Moderator/Discussant: Liz Borland, College of New Jersey

Ahalya Bala, University of Roehampton
"Investigating Activism Amongst Younger Generation Tamils in London"

Jesse Klein, Florida State University
"When Organizational Forms Fail: Social Movement Brands and Local Movement Adoption"

 Chelsea Shields, Boston University and A. Joseph West, University of Arizona
"The Mobilizing Power of Culture in Unsettled Times: Discursive Opportunity Structures and the Case of the ‘Ordain Women’ Movement in Mormonism"

Urban and Contemporary Conflicts 
Room 348

Organizer: Wayne Santoro, University of New Mexico
Moderator/Discussant: Eric Turner, University of New Mexico

Luke Elliott-Negri, CUNY Graduate Center
"Strategic Interaction in the Fight for 15: The Seattle Case"

Jos Grandolfo, Oregon State
"Wind Energy Siting Conflicts in Klickitat County, Washington"

Eric Turner, University of New Mexico
"Not All Publicity is Good Publicity: The Role of Media Coverage and Threat in the Violent Repression of Occupy Wall Street"

Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans, University of Amsterdam
“How Violated Values Forge Protest”

Methodologies 
Room 247

Organizer: Wayne Santoro, University of New Mexico
Moderator/Discussant: Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona

Heidi Reynolds-Stenson and Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona
"Using Moving Regression to Historicize Protest Event Analysis"

Pierce Greenberg, Washington State University
"Social Movements Research and Access to Information (ATI) Data Collection: Insights and Applications"

Harel Shapira, University of Texas-Austin
"From the Nativist’s Point of View: On the Limits of Ideology and Potentials of Ethnography for Understanding Participation in Social Movements"

Paul Y. Chang, Harvard University and Kangsan Lee, Northwestern University
"The Structure of Protest Cycles: Contagion and Cohesion in South Korea’s Democracy Movement"

New Trajectories, Possibilities, and Risks in Different Geographical Zones 
Room 307

Special session(s) sponsored by Research Committee 48 of the ISA I
Organizer/Moderator:  Tova Benski, Bar-Ilan University

Emil Albert Sobottka, Brazilian Sociological Society
“Where do the Current Mobilizations Lead to?”

Gayatri Bhattacharyya, University of Calcutta
“The New Trajectory of Movements and Struggles against Injustice”

Carlos Rafael Rea Rodríguez, Autonomous University of Nayarit and Gustavo Galicia Araujo, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales
“The Costs of AYOTZINAPA: Possibilities and Risks for Social Movements in Mexico”

Sahu Dipti Ranjan, Lucknow University
"Culture and Social Movements in Contemporary India"

Bringing the Community in: Challenges and Opportunities to Publishing Community-Based Research in Leading Peer-Reviewed Journals 
Room 305

Organizers: Greg Maney, Hofstra University, Charlotte Ryan, UMass-Lowell
Moderator: Greg Maney, Hofstra University

Graeme Hayes, Aston University (Social Movement Studies)
Rory McVeigh, Notre Dame (Mobilization, ASR)
Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh (Journal of World Systems Research)
Neal Caren, UNC (Mobilization)

Pam Oliver Graduate Student Roundtable 
Room 459

Organizer: Michelle Proctor, Madonna University
Participants: Brittany Friedman, Eric Turner, Yuki Asahina, Hanning Wang