Mobilization

Mobilization Winter Update Advancing the Science of Contentious Politics

Our winter newsletter is out!

Highlights from our current issue, along with details on our summer conference.

Volume 29 Issue 4 | Mobilization: an International Quarterly

Check out this special issue of @mobilization.bsky.social on "Weaving the Transnational Anti-gender Networks", edited by Manuela Caiani and @tranfi.bsky.social, and featuring a contribution by yours truly.

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ANTI-GENDER REGIMES, FEMINIST POLITICS, AND THE CHALLENGE OF SOCIETAL DEMOCRATIZATION* Democracy is an ongoing process that involves society as a whole, not merely politics. Anti-gender politics challenges democratization in all areas of society. Therefore, a gendered theory of society ...

💫 Anti-gender regimes, feminist politics and the challenge of societal democratization is out! In Mobilization: An International Quarterly 29(4): 469-486 doi.org/10.17813/108... A preprint is available on Researchgate

Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Networks Manuela Caiani and Ivan Tranfić Assembling God's 'Last Best Hope': The Expanding Reach of the World Congress of Families Kristopher Velasco and Jeffrey Swindle Anti-Gender Regimes, Feminist Politics, and the Challenge of Societal Democratization Emanuela Lombardo Virtual Brokers and National Boundaries: Transnational Online Networks in European Anti-Gender Movements Dominika Tronina Capitalizing on COVID-19: Crisis Exploitation in the Christian Right's International Campaign for Family Values Martijn Mos The Making of a Translocal Anti-Gender Alliance and Hope for Progressive Change Ipek Demirsu Anti-Gender Civilizationism and the West-East Divide: The Case of the World Congress of Families Katja Kahlina Who's the Real Feminist? Feminist Discursive Boundary Making in the Context of Anti-Gender Campaigns Kerstin Jacobsson, Eva Karlberg, Elżbieta Korolczuk, and Anna Meeuwisse

Our winter special issue is online!

"Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Networks" guest edited by Manuela Caiani and @tranfi.bsky.social

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David Meyer (Irvine) closes the conference with a dynamic presentation on "How to Save the World"

Steven Lauterwasser (Northeastern University) uses DOCA to examine the pre-history of the immigration rights movements.

Final conference panel 😔

Leslie Wood (York) on when, why and how movements look to the past.

Hank Johnston (SDSU & @mobyjournal founder/publisher) put himself on the program for a talk on structural and cognitive availability in the Hong Kong student movement.

Junghun Oh (UCSD) on how marginalized actors develop new political identities using the case of mothers in the Korean disability rights movement.

Starting of the afternoon, Junius Brown (Berkeley) on performative governance as a state strategy in China.

Rasha Naseif (UC-Merced) on barriers and accelerators to working-class youth participation in climate action.

Jasmine Till (UCLA) on activist burnout and self-care in Asian American social movements

Conor McCutcheon (NYU) on movement-countermovement dynamics and identity formation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement.

Conor McCutcheon (NYU) on movement-countermovement dynamics and identity formation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement.

Moby Conference Day 2

Aaron Schutz (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) on how "mobilize" is a swear word to organizers.

Final panel of the day

Jenn Earl (Delaware) on catching up with repressive governments in our understanding how repression works.

Final organizational strategies panelist:

Barak Kesgin (Istanbul Beykent) on waves of activism in the animal rights movement in Turkey.

More from the organizational strategy panel

Lynsy Smithson-Stanley (JHU/SNF Agora) on designing resilient coalitions in the climate movement.

Afternoon Organizational Strategy panel

Paul Dosh (Macalester) on the strategies of goals of prison reform movements in Latin America.

Media and Movements

Ana Lopez Rico (UCSD) on how US cultural entrepreneurs responded to femicide in Ciudad Juarez.

Media and Movements Panel

Thomas Davidson (Rutgers) on mechanisms for gaming online engagement used by the far right.

Media and Movements Panel

Zahra Mansoursharifloo (Kansas) shows how celebrity capital turned into political capital during the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran.

Media and Movements Panel

Grey Rochon (UC Irvine) on how nonviolent occupations led SDS to break through the protest paradigm and receive substantive coverage.

Prochoice advocates deployed a variety of arguments with state-level variation, while pro-life posters only had one nation-wide, time-invariant frame.

Final panelist on the right-wing: Kelsey Kretschmer (Oregon State) on threats and opportunities after Roe using topic modeling to look at state-level patterns in social media rhetoric.

Prochoice tweet volume went up everywhere, but most where rights faced the greatest threat.

Next up, Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore) on the transnationalization of the radical right.

Rory McVeigh kicks off the 2024 Mobilization Conference with a talk on status contestation and political polarization.

New article! Irony and camp are powerful cultural forms that drive social change. Terence E. McDonnell and Katherine Everhart in @mobyjournal

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SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY: LESSONS FROM THE SOCIOLOGY OF W. E. B. DU BOIS* This article addresses why movement scholars had no idea that the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s and 70s were imminent. In fact, their theories led them to predict that these movements were impossible because only whites possessed history-making agency. These scholars accepted the dogma that black people, their culture, and their institutions were inferior and incapable of organizing and leading powerful movements. This article demonstrates that the black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois predicted those movements a half century before they occurred. He did so because he conducted concrete empirical analyses of the black community, and his lived experiences led him to reject the thesis of black inferiority. This article argues that the field of social movements remains too white and elitist and that this condition causes less robust and accurate analysis. The article suggests ways to make needed changes.

Uncovering the power of prediction. Aldon Morris on how W.E.B. Du Bois foresaw major social movements in the 1960s and 70s when others saw impossibility.

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WHO SPEAKS FOR WHOM? (MIS) REPRESENTATION AND AUTHENTICITY IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS* While many social movement studies mention the idea of authenticity, few consider the authentication processes in movements. This article examines how authenticity challenges manifest in different arenas of movement/countermovement struggles. Through a qualitative analysis of minority organizations engaged in an abortion debate, I focus on how racial minorities demonstrate authenticity to legitimate their ability to represent their community's views on abortion. I argue that both sides engage in proximity practices that emphasize their movement's congruence while pointing to perceived incongruence of the opposition. After demonstrating how these practices are used in three arenas, I suggest areas for researchers to examine in future studies on minorities in movements and beyond.

How minority organizations navigate the complex terrain of proving authenticity in abortion debates.

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