State, Migration and Protest in Transnational Perspective: Contributions from Political Sociology

Abstract

This session will explore a number of substantive issues such as: the neo-liberal state, transnational migration and transnational protest movements, state and democratic power, from the perspective of political sociology. But it will also address the general question of what political sociology contributes to the study of these phenomena. By assembling the authors and editors of recent and forthcoming books published by the ECPR Press on these topics, we hope to be able to assess the state of the discipline and of the debates on these issues. Books to be discussed comprise: Niilo Kauppi (ed.) A Political Sociology of Transnational Europe; Alfio Mastropaolo, Is Democracy a Lost Cause?; Giuseppe Di Palma, The Modern State Subverted; Gianfranco Poggi, Varieties of Political Experience; Donatella Della Porta and Alice Mattoni (eds), Spreading Protest: Social Movements in Time of Crisis; and Adrian Favell, Immigration, Integration and Mobility (forthcoming)