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International Conference on Cross Movement Mobilization

05 – 08 April 2017, Bochum

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Location: Institute for Social Movements

16:10 Entrance

16:40-17:30 Welcome Address

Sabrina Zajak (Institute for Social Movements/Ruhr-University Bochum), Geoffrey Pleyers (International Sociology Association

RC47), Simon Teune (Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung), Jens Becker (Hans Böckler Foundation)

17:30-19:30 Opening Discussion

Cross-Movement Mobilization as a Conceptual and Practical Challenge

Donatella della Porta, Centre of Social Movements Studies; Scuola Normale Superior Florence

Dieter Rucht, Protest and social Movement Research Institute; Berlin Social Science Center

Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley; Watson Institute for International Studies and Public Affairs, Brown University

19:30- 20:00 Reception

20:00- open end Drink and think: Poster Session

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Thursday, April 6, 2017 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum / HIC

08:30-10:00 Morning plenary

Theorizing cross movement alliances: social movement, labour and postcolonial studies in dialogue

Klaus Dörre, University of Jena, Germany

Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy

Janet M. Conway, Canada research Chair in Social Justice, Brock University, Canada

Chair: Geoffrey Pleyers, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Panel Slot A

10:30-

12:00

Room:

IC 03/604

Panel 9.1. Cross-Movement Convergences: The Urban as Opportunity or Limitation?

Organizers: Margit Mayer, David Scheller Chair/Discussant: Margit Mayer

1. Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam): The urban vortex. Connections across cities and movements

2. Nina Fraeser (Hafen-City Uni Hamburg): Commoning as solidarity practice: the social-spatial

reproduction of urban social movements

3. David Scheller (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam): Beyond housing movements? Convergences of

urban social movements in Berlin and New York

Room:

IC 03/606

Panel 7.1: The Next Polanyian Movement? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism

Organizers: Saskia Freye, Sascha Münnich

1. Michael Brie (Institute for Social Analysis, Berlin): From the “Double Movement” to a Space of

Alternatives. Reframing Karl Polanyi

2. Sascha Münnich (University of Göttingen): The non-liberal origins of (neo) liberalism. Polanyi’s blind

spot?

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Room:

IC 03/610 Panel 2.1: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America: Inter-

movement Dynamics in Struggles Against Extractivism

Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira Discussant: Johanna Leinius

1. Sebastián Smart (UCL Institute of the Americas): Latin-American Social Movements against Extractivism

2. Johanna Leinius (Goethe University Frankfurt): Mobilizing Across Different Worlds: Creating Counter-

Hegemonic Alternatives from the Margins in Peru

3. Eva Kalny (University of Hannover): Transciendo movimientos: la lucha contra el neoliberalismo en el

Petén, Guatemala

Room:

IC 03/647

Panel 8.1: Transnational Cross-Movement Alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics

of Labour

Organizers: Marissa Brookes, Sabrina Zajak Discussant: Britta Rehder

1. Giulia Gortanutti, Johanna Lauber, Ana-Maria Nikolas & Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr-University Bochum):

Talking about the same but different? Alliances and cooperation in social movement and industrial

relations theory

2. Stefan R. Siebel (RMIT University, Australia): Union coop networks. Transnational workplace

democracies as a catalyst for strategic alliances between new social movements and traditional labour

politics

3. Cassandra Engeman (Uppsala University): Unpacking Union Power Resources: How Organized Labor

Contributes to Cross-movement Campaigns for U.S. Paid Sick Leave

4. Melanie Kryst (Philipps University Marburg): How to target banana companies: Complementary strategies

of labour unions and NGOs in the agricultural sector

Room:

HIC

(Auditorium)

Panel 6: Alliances as Co-Optation. Social Movements between Professionalization and Depolitisation

Organizers: Shelley Feldman, Eva Gerharz

1. Antje Daniel (Bayreuth University): Organizing change – changing organization: The women’s movement

in Kenya and the influence of the development nexus

2. Fabrício Mello (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro): Co-optation or Asymmetry? Development and

Contention in the Transnational Alliance of a South African Social Movement

3. Cleve Kevin Robert V. Arguelles (Central European University, Budapest) Neoliberal absorption or

deliberative capacity building? Assessing social movement participation in participatory interventions

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4. Sabrina Zajak & Sigrid Quack (Ruhr-University Bochum & University Duisburg Essen): (Un-)holy

Alliances between social movements and business cooperation as economization

Room:

IC 03/649

Panel 17.1: New Social Movements and the Labour Movement: Cross-Movement Mobilization since 1968.

Organizers: Ulf Teichmann, Christian Wicke Comment: Stefan Berger

1. Marica Tolomelli (University of Bologna): Encounters. Capital, labor and culture in 1968

2. David Templin (The Hamburg Research Centre for Contemporary History): The hidden presence of

working class youth protests in the West German Jugendzentrumsbewegung of the 1970s

3. Christian Wicke (Utrecht University): Workers initiatives and urban movements in the Ruhr and Sydney

12:00-13:00 Lunchbreak

Panel Slot B

13:00-

14:30

Room:

IC 03/604

Panel 3: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Large-Scale Mining

Organizers: Bettina Engels, Melanie Müller

1. Kristina Dietz (Free University Berlin): Protest and democracy: citizens' initiatives against mining

projects in Latin America

2. Sorina Cristina Soare (University of Florence): Environmental mobilization after accession: the case

of Rosia Montana

3. Bettina Engels (Free University Berlin): First food, then morals? Claims, actors, and resources in

protest against gold mining in Burkina Faso

4. Melanie Müller (Foundation for Science and Politics Berlin): Coal kills - kill coal. Conflicts over

coal mining in South Africa.

Room:

IC 03/606

Panel 7.2: The Next Polanyian Movement? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism.

Organizers: Saskia Freye, Sascha Münnich

1. Heide Haas & Katharina Leganke (University of Göttingen): “Protesting Finance. Counter-

movements from a comparative perspective”

2. Hugo Dias (University of Coimbra): „Labour, solidarity and the self-protection of society”

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3. Martin Seeliger (University of Jena): Ambivalences in the Countermovement – Does re-embedding

take place as a general move towards more equity?

Room:

IC 03/610

Panel 2.2: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America:

The Relations Between Labor and Other Movements

Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira

1. Juliana Ramos Luiz & Marco Antonio Teixeira (Rio de Janeiro State University): Cross-

movement mobilizations in Latin America: lessons from the MERCOSUR Confederation of the Family

Farmer Producer

2. María Maneiro (University of Buenos Aires-CONICET): Itinerarios diferenciales y articulaciones en

la movilización organizaciones de trabajadores desocupados (2009-2012)

Room:

IC 03/647

Panel 13.1: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity

Mobilization,

Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas, Maria Kousis

1. Oscar Garcia Agustin (Aalborg University, Denmark) Anti-austerity movements interconnected:

discourse, dialogism and translation

2. Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London): A strange alliance: precarious movements, poor people

movements and declining middle class protest in anti-austerity struggles.

3. Angelos Loukakis (University of Crete): Anti-austerity protests and new forms of solidarity: one

movement?

Room:

IC 03/649

Panel 9.2: Cross-Movement Convergences: The Urban as Opportunity or Limitation?

Organizers: Margit Mayer, David Scheller

1. Esin Ileri (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris): Social Movements in Istanbul

2. Inés Morales Bernardos (ISEC, University of Córdoba) & Mamen Cuéllar Padilla (ISEC, University of

Córdoba): Athens, cross-movement convergences to reconstruct urban food autonomy in times of

crisis

3. Sebastián Ibarra González (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research): Urban Struggles in

Santiago de Chile. Between local-territorial embeddedness and fragmentation of claims

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14:30 – 15:00 Break

Panel Slot C (Long)

15:00-

17:00

Room:

IC 03/604

Panel 17.2: New Social Movements and the Labour Movement: Cross-Movement Mobilization since

1968.

Organizers: Ulf Teichmann, Christian Wicke Comment: Stefan Berger

1. Charles Roemer (Free University of Brussels): The boycott dilemma: Anti-apartheid actions and

Western European trade unions in the 1970s and 80s

2. Ulf Teichmann (Institute for social movements, Bochum): Protests for ‚work and peace‘. Trade unions,

the peace movement and peace initiatives on a plant level in West-Germany in the 1980s

Room:

IC 03/606

Panel 19: Actors or Tactics? Dynamics of Broad Coalitions and Repertoires of Contention for Political

Transformation.

Organizers: Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop, Jan Philipp Vatthauer

1. Jannis Grimm (Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies / Free University Berlin):

Contentious Dynamics and Evolving Repertoires in Post-Coup Egypt

2. Jan-Erik Refle (University of Lausanne): Combining networks and framing - How a Tunisian civil

society coalition frames pro democratic claims

3. Andrea Noll & Jan Budniok (University of Hamburg): Cross-movement mobilization, cooperation and

segmentation among social movements in Ghana

Room:

IC 03/610

Panel 2.3: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America:

Feminist and Decolonial Pedagogic Approaches to Inter-Movement Encounters

Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira Discussants: Eva Kalny and Johanna

Leinius

1. Janet Conway & Anabel Paulos (Brock University): Popular feminism, cross-movement mobilization

and the decolonial challenge

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2. Mar Daza (Program of Democracy and Global Transformation, Peru): Los nuevos saberes feministas

desde nuestros cuerpos-territorios-vida

3. Ivette Hernández (UCL Institute of Education): Territorial assemblies and cross-movement

mobilisation in the 2011 Chilean student movement

4. Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes (IESP- UERJ, Rio de Janeiro) Culture against narcoviolence: Lessons

from popular mobilizations in Brazil and México

Room:

IC 03/647


Mobilization, Workshop


Robert MacDonald, Maite Aurrekoetxea Casaus & Martin Zuñiga de Loizaga & Jone Goirigolzarri Garaizar ,

Arturo Rodríguez Sáez & Silvia Semenzin, Pedro Ibarra & Ariel Sribman, Bernd Bonfert

Room:

IC 03/649

Panel 14: Mediated Collaborations

Organizers: Simon Teune, Armin Scholl

1. Amoshaun Toft (University of Washington): From civil rights to the occupy movement: Talking across

issues in activist media

2. Asli Polatdemir (University of Bremen): Vitrines of Women's Movements in Turkey: Empowerment and

Websites

3. Niamatullah Ibrahimi (Australian National University): Rumours and Gossips and Contentious Politics

in Afghanistan, 2001-2016

4. Armin Scholl & Julia Völker (University of Münster): Activistsʼ Use of Twitter in the Conflict at the

Oranienplatz (Berlin)

17:00-17:30 Break

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17:30- 19:00 Evening session: Bridging the activist-academic divide

Discussants:

Cristina Flesher Fominaya University of Aberdeen, UK

Geoffrey Pleyers Université de Louvain, Belgium

Alissa Starodub Activist and Ruhr-University Bochum

Janis Klusman Activist, trade union for education and science, Germany

Session moderation:

Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University Bochum)

19:30 Dinner on campus

Friday, April 7, 2017 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum / HIC

Room: IC 03/604 (08:00 - 10:00)

Meeting of the Group Gender Movements at the IS

Panel Slot D

10:00-

11:30

Room:

IC 03/604

Panel 18.1: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive

Social Movements.

Organizers: Ilse Lenz

1. Ilse Lenz (Emeritus Prof. Ruhr-University Bochum): Challenges for research on crossmobilisation of

gender movements

2. Beatrice Halsaa (University of Oslo): National and transnational mobilization of indigenous women in

Norway and Sápm

3. Friederike Apelt (Leibniz University Hanover): Mobilization of Women in the West German Solidarity

Movement with Nicaragua

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Room:

IC 03/606

Panel 5.1: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other

Movements' Mobilizations? Session 1: Theoretical Perspectives

Organizers: Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose, Britta Baumgarten

1. Kevin Gillan (University of Manchester): What's Wrong with Waves or Sequences? Understanding

Temporality in Social Movement Research

2. Lisa Villioth (University of Siegen): Protest Professionals? Is it the protest that spreads or is it the

protestor that travels?

3. Jochen Roose (University of Wroclaw): Mobilization by Example

Room:

IC 03/610

Panel 10.1: Cross-Movement Mobilization against TTIP.

Organizers: Giulia Gortanutti, Jan Orbie, Aukje van Loon

1. Patricia Goff (Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs): Cross-Movement

Mobilization in Canada and the United States: The Dog that Didn’t Bark?

2. Tereza Novotna (Free University Brussels): From Cross-Movement Mobilisation to Public Discourse:

TTIP and its Potential Failure across the Atlantic

3. Paolo Roberto Graziano (University of Padova): Europeanization and Social Movements: The Case of

the Stop-TTIP campaign

Room:

IC 03/647

Panel 11.1: Moving Boundaries - Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement,

Session 1

Organizers: Jana Bosse, Romina Ranke

1. Katrin Hedemann & Mundo Yang (University of Siegen): Camps, Farms, Movements – The Politics of

Social-Ecological Infrastructures

2. Francesca Colli (University of Leuven): Green consumption groups: mobilization between individuals

and institutions

3. Jana Bosse (Free University Berlin): Projects Instead of Protest – The Example of a Transition Town

Initiative

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Room:

IC 03/649

Panel 4: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Migration and Asylum.

Organizers: Priska Daphi, Leslie Gauditz, Lorenzo Zamponi

1. Elias Steinhilper (Scuola Normale Superiore): Mobilizing within precarious networks of solidarity: The

case of self-organized refugee-activism in Berlin, Germany

2. Jiří Navrátil (Masaryk University, Czech Republic): Fear and Loathing in the Czech Republic: Political

Elites - Civil Society Interaction in the Public Discourse on the Refugee Crisis

3. Nicole Dörr (University of Copenhagen): LGBT and Gender Coalition Work as a Critical Political

Translation Practice: the Danish and German Refugee Solidarity Movements in Comparison

4. Chiara Milan (Scuola Normale Superiore): Solidarity with migrants across the so-called “Western

Balkan route"

11:30 -12:00 Break

Panel Slot E

12:00-13:30 Room:

IC 03/604


Social Movements.

Organizers: Ilse Lenz

First session (1): LGBTI and intimate/local citizenship

1. Francesca Romana Ammaturo (University of Roehampton, London): The Italian Debate on

“Gestational Surrogacy” and the Tensions inside the Italian LGBT Movement

Second Session (2): Sex Work and crossmovements contentions

1. Trine Rogg Korsvik (University of Oslo): "The Great Nordic War over Sexual Morality": Feminist

and other social movements’ mobilization against prostitution

2. Joana Hofstetter (University of Freiburg): The Contemporary Sex Worker Movement in Europe in the

Context of Neo-Abolitionism and Repressive Policies

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Room:

IC 03/606


Movements' Mobilizations? Session 2: Case Studies


1. Baran Alp Uncu (Marmara University, Istanbul): Impact of ‘eventful protests’ on cross-movement

alliances: Solidarity across movements after the Gezi protests

2. Christian Scholl (University of Maastricht): “We are the University!” Connecting Protest on Europe’s

Campuses

3. Jed Alegado (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Competing, cosmetic, and/or covert? Multiple food

sovereignties and the politics of translation and positioning

4. Jana Günther (Dresden Technical University): “Fragile Solidarity” – Relations between issues of gender

and class as a factor of mobilization in early feminist movements

Room:

IC 03/610

Panel 10.2: Cross-Movement Mobilization against TTIP.

Organizers: Giulia Gortanutti, Jan Orbie, Aukje von Loon

1. Kees Hudig (Independent researcher): From MAI to TTIP: Globalization, protest-movements, and the

brave new world of NGO’s

2. Aukje van Loon (Ruhr-University Bochum): Diverging German and British Governmental Trade

Policy Preferences in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Negotiations

Room:

IC 03/647

Panel 11.2: Moving Boundaries - Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement.

Organizers: Jana Bosse, Romina Ranke

1. Bleta Arifi & Georg Winkel (University of Freiburg): The contestation of wind energy in Germany and

the production of a conservationist ‘people’s movement’: Analysing local conflicts about wind energy

use

2. Anna Wiemann (The German Institute for Japanese Studies): Network-Building in Movement Waves:

The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement since Fukushima

3. Romina Ranke (Leibniz University of Hannover): Challenging established structures in global activism.

The case of transnational climate networks

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Room:

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Mobilization,


1. Martín Portos G. & Tiago Carvalho (Cosmos, Scuola Normale Superiore & University of Cambridge):

Keeping dissent alive: No-radicalisation and protest in Spain after the eventful 15M/indignados

campaign

2. Carolina Alves Vestena (University of Kassel): Anti-Austerity protests in Portugal and France: between

opportunities and strategies

3. Andrea Felicetti (European University Institute): Handling cross-movement mobilization: ‘convergence

des luttes’ and deliberation in the nuit debout movement.

4. Ana-Maria Nikolas (Ruhr-University Bochum): Networks in the anti-austerity protests. Measuring anti-

austerity cooperation through events.

13:30-14:30 Lunchbreak

Panel Slot F

14:30-

16:00

Room:

IC 03/604


Social Movements.

Organizer: Ilse Lenz

1. Asli Polatdemir (University of Bremen): Vitrines of Women's Movements in Turkey: Empowerment and

Websites

2. Corinna Trogisch (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation): Socialist feminism in Turkey between mass

organisation and small networks

3. Barbara Stefan (University of Vienna): Masculinity as precondition of “the political”

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Room:

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Movements' Mobilizations? Session 3: Country Comparisons


1. Jan Jämte, Måns Lundstedt & Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörns University, Stockholm): Radical Left-

Libertarian Protests. Transnational diffusion between three Northern European countries

2. Rubén Díez Garcia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): The Historical and Cultural Roots of the

Current Wave of Indignation

3. Magdalena Tendera (Jagiellonian-University): Student Protest and the Left. The Cross-movement

Mobilization in the Balkans

4. Kei Takata (University of Duisburg-Essen): Connecting with the First or the Third World? Two Paths

Toward the Cross-National Movement Mobilization in the Japanese Global Sixties

Room:

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Panel 16: Changes in Protest Repertoires Reconsidered: Effects of Cross-Movement Mobilization.

Organizers: Felix Anderl, Priska Daphi, Nicole Deitelhoff

1. Deniz Günce Demirhisar (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, CADIS): Living

Together In A Protest Camp: Repertoire Of Gezi Park Occupation

2. Christian Scholl (University of Maastricht): The Political Grammar Of Summit Protest As

Transnational Repertoire Of Action

3. Grzegorz Piotrowski (European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk): Beyond Internal Division Of Labor:

Alliances With Radical Social Movements

Room:

IC 03/647

Panel 12: The Global Justice Movement Today: What Lessons Learned?

Organizers: Johanna Lauber, Geoffrey Pleyers

1. Geoffrey Pleyers (Catholic University of Louvain): "From the World Social Forum to Trump. What

have we failed? A critical balance of the alter-globalization movement and social movement studies"

2. Benjamin Bunk (University of Erfurt): “The World Social Forum as space for (self-)formation

processes. Or: Individuals as structure of cross-movement mobilization?”

3. Cristina Flesher Fominaya (University of Aberdeen): “The role of the Global Justice Movement in

setting the basis for the 15-M movement in Spain”

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Room:

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Panel 8.2: Transnational Cross-Movement Alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics of

Labour, Session 2

Organizers: Marissa Brookes, Sabrina Zajak

1. Zach McKenny (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): The State of the Union? Commodity Chains and

Labor Organizing Outcomes at Volkswagen Group of North America2.

2. Stefan Rother (University of Freiburg): Transnational organizing for migrant workers:Social

movement unionism and grassroots unions in Southeast Asia

3. Manfred Wannöffel (Ruhr-University Bochum): Networking and a two-track strategy : perspectives of

international trade union activities in India

4. Jan Niggemeier (Free University Berlin): Going Global, but How? Diversity in Transnationalisation

Processes of Labour Activism in Japan

16:00-16:30

IC 03/610

Institute for Protest and Social Movement Research (IPB) meeting of working groups and those who would like to join

https://protestinstitut.eu/

16:30-16:45 Break/Transfer to the ISB

16:45-17:30

ISB Meet the Editor

With following journals: social movement studies, moving the social, Interface

17:30-19:00

ISB

Evening session

Cross-movement mobilization: a cure to desolidarisation and rising populism?

Discussants:

Shelley Feldman, Cornell University, USA

Daniele Di Nunzio Fondazione Di Vittorio, Italy

Hugo Braun, Attac, Germany

Margit Mayer, FU-Berlin, Germany

Moderator: Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr-University Bochum)

19:30 Dinner in Town

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Saturday, April 8, 2017

Morning

10:00 Industrial heritage in the Ruhr-region. Visit of the biggest mining museum in

Germany (including visiting a mine underground)

http://www.bergbaumuseum.de/en/visitor-information

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