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Building: Jean-Brillant, Floor: 3, Room: B-3345
Thursday 11:00 - 12:40 EDT (27/08/2015)
Since its beginnings, the sociology of collective action has drawn a clear distinction between forms of engagement and repertoires of collective action that relate with care or compassion and those that relate with political protest (Giugni and Passy, 2001). At the organisational level, this has led to analyse the activities of social movements and those of charities or philanthropic organisations separately, stressing in particular the differences in terms of forms of action, discourses or organisational features. At the micro level, this has led to distinguish between different (and often conflicting) motivations and trajectories of engagement: it is generally argued that individuals engage into social movements and charities or philanthropic organisations for different reasons and follow different careers. This panel would welcome contributions that analyse and maybe challenge this (multidimensional) frontier from an empirical as well as from a theoretical point of view. In particular, this panel seeks to analyse whether and how the economic crisis and the austerity measures taken by governments in recent years are moving the frontier between these two forms of engagement. From these perspectives, we want to analyse more generally if new, maybe hybrid, forms of engagement are emerging in this context.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Economic Crisis Conditioned: Individual Protest, Socio-economic Hardship and Welfare State | View Paper Details |
| The Consequences of Austerity Policies on the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed | View Paper Details |
| Is the Context of Austerity Moving the Frontier between Charity and Political Protest? The Case of the Engagement Against Poverty in the UK | View Paper Details |
| The Moral Economy of Rioters: Increase in Food Commodity Prices and Popular Uprisings in Algeria | View Paper Details |
| From One Crisis to Another, Social Movements and Political Mainstreams. What Can we Learn about Democratic Politics from Protest after 1929 and 2008? | View Paper Details |