Speakers:
• Jorge Benedicto Millán (UNED)
• Patricia García Espín (University of Granada)

Comments by:
• Camila Ponce (Institut für Gesellschaft, Wissen und Politik), ISA RC47

 Organized by: C120, C137, FES, RC47–ISA

The foruth RC47 webinar will explore Geoffrey Pleyers's book El cambio nunca es lineal. Movimiento sociales en tiempos polarizados

Este libro proporciona estudios de caso, herramientas analíticas y propuestas epistemológicas para pensar el cambio social y la manera por la cual los movimientos sociales contribuyen a producir la sociedad. Es una invitación enraizada en encuentros y diálogos para implementar una sociología global capaz de pensar los desafíos de nuestro siglo. “Geoffrey Pleyers piensa el mundo, sus movimientos, sus crisis, desde un lugar que desafía el pensamiento consagrado y, al mismo tiempo, rinde tributo a una larga tradición de la producción de conocimiento. Con la curiosidad y solvencia que lo caracterizan, el incansable sociólogo global y actual presidente de la Asociación Internacional de Sociología nos ofrece pistas clave para comprender los movimientos sociales contemporáneos”. Rossana Reguillo, ITESO, Guadalajara. 

with Geoffrey Pleyers (FNRS- UCLouvain, President of the International Sociological Association)

Language: Spanish

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89932291286...

Moderator: Antonio Álvarez-Benavides (UNED – RC47 Board member).

This webinar will explore the politics of the No Evictions Network, a grassroots solidarity space in Glasgow that challenged the large-scale eviction of asylum seekers by the UK Home Office contractor Serco, becoming an infrastructure of migrant solidarity. The Network’s struggles emerged to challenge a political landscape shaped by the escalating toughening of migration and asylum policies over the past two decades in the UK, accentuated by Brexit and the Covid19 pandemic. In such framework, housing has become a key site of control and exclusion within neoliberalized forms of asylum governmentality, with multinational companies like Serco playing a key role shaping and delivering asylum policies. My research on the No Evictions Network and its campaigns – which have become a popular example of successful migrant-solidarity politics UK-wide and beyond in the past five years – makes key contributions in a political scenario shaped by unprecedented political, social, and policy challenges. Employing scholarship on Black Geographies and Black Feminist writings to discuss spaces of migrant solidarity and border struggle, the thesis critically revisits existing work providing an in-depth engagement with questions of race. Findings underscore the contentious processes of solidarity-making, often shaped by racialized, gendered, and classed geographies thus positioning migrant solidarities in relation to wider black and brown cartographies of struggle.

Speaker: Ana Santamarina Guerrero (UNED, Spain)

Moderated by Antonio Álvarez-Benavides (UNED – RC47 Board member) 

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86505692887?pwd=KkHBpB7wg7DBHeb1oqmMSC41oYwFYK.1

 The second RC47 Webinar has been dedicated to the presentation of the book "Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic" edited by Simone Maddanu and Emanuele Toscano, published by Routledge. This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak. Employing both qualitative, theoretical and quantitative methods, it presents the impact of the pandemic in different settings, shedding light on political and cultural realities around the world. With attention to inequalities rooted in race and ethnicity, economic conditions, gender, disability, and age, it considers different forms of marginalization and examines the ongoing disjunctions that increasingly characterize contemporary democracies from a multilevel perspective.
 

The book is composed by 16 different case studies organized around three main axes: 1) how COVID-19 pandemic worsened social, racial/ethnic, and economic inequalities, including variables such as migration status, gender, and disability; 2) how the pandemic impacted youth and how younger generations cope with public health alarms, and containment measures; 3) how the pandemic posed a challenge to democracy, reshaped the political agenda, and the debate in the public sphere. 

Webinar speakers: 

   Simone Maddanu, University of South Florida. 

   Emanuel Toscano, Università degli studi G. Marconi. 

Moderated by Antonio Álvarez-Benavides (UNED – RC47 Board member) 

The main objective of the RC47 - ISA webinar "Mobilizations in Solidarity with the Palestinian People" is to foster a debate on the role of mobilizations in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the context of a war and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Our discussion aims to tackle the following questions:

 
 1. Understanding the Role of Mobilizations in Solidarity with the Palestinian People amid the Gaza Conflict: Responses of Palestinian social movements to the invasion and the massacre; Mobilizations in the MENA region;  Global mobilizations and solidarity responses with Palestine. 

2. Interpreting the Repression of Solidarity Mobilizations Across the Globe: Repression of activists and social movements in Western societies; Repressions of academics in universities; Examination of censorship, self-censorship, and other forms of repression. 

3. Exploring Alternative Forms of Protest and Action: Online-based protests and mobilizations; The pivotal role of communication and information dissemination in protests against the invasion and civilian casualties; Analysis of the repertoire of contention, strategies, and actions during demonstrations and social mobilizations against the war. 

4. The Role of Critical Sociology in this Context: Insights and contributions from sociology of social movement; Interactions between academics and activists in response to the conflict; The role of universities and academic institutions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. 

Webinar speakers: 

Federica Stagni, Scuola Normale Superiore de Firenze 

Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement 

Pablo Sapag, Complutense University of Madrid 

Moderated by Antonio Álvarez-Benavides (UNED – RC47 Board member)