Seminar: Social movements and trade unions in Europe
Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak
14 - 16 Uhr,
Dienstag
| Veranstaltungs-Nr. | 080334 |
| Ort | GC 03/42 |
| Beginn | 27.10.2015 |
This seminar looks at a broad range of social movements in Europe and beyond from a transnational perspective. Transnational social movement activities include cross border mobilization, transnational exchange between social movement organizations, and the diffusion of protest repertoires such as occupy. After introducing key theories on transnational collective action the seminar takes a look at different cases in Europe and beyond. Examples are the transnationalisation of movements such as women's, environment or labor movement, but also more recent protest waves such as occupy or anti-austerity mobilization. The seminar uses a "methodological transnationalism" approach that takes local, national, transnational, supranational and global entanglements of social phenomena into account. This includes discussions on measuring global protest waves, new approaches in participatory action research, and critical reflection of the use of social movement concepts in non-European contexts.
Einführende Lektüre:
- Fominaya, Cristina(2014): Social Movements and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan
- Della Porta, Donatella; Tarrow, Sidney (Hg.) (2005): Transnational Protest & Global Activism. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Piper, Nicola; Uhlin, Anders (Hg.) (2009): Transnational Activism in Asia: Problems of Power and Democracy. New York: Routledge