ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements

Resources | American Sociological Association CBSM Mini-Conference at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

Count down to the CBSM mini conference #CBSM2025 begins. See you in 3 days in Chicago! For details: www.asanet.org/collective-b...

Anna Milewski receives honorable mention with "Diffuse Social Movement Organizations as Focal Points: Explaining Dynamic Demands Under Repression in East Germany’s Peaceful Revolution, 1989-1990."

Mayer N. Zald Student Paper Award winner is Keenan Wilder for "Colony and Class Struggle: Unionization and Empire in Egypt and Tunisia"! Congratulations🎉

CBSM Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award goes to Tomás Gold
‪@tomasgold.bsky.social‬ and Ann Mische @amische.bsky.social‬ for “Channeling Anti-partisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave (2008-2016).” Congratulations!

Book covers of Insurgency Communities : How protests create a filipino diaspora, Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg

Congratulations to the CBSM Charles Tilly Book Awardees🎉: Sharon M. Quinsaat @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social for Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social for Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg

Resources | American Sociological Association CBSM Mini-Conference at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

Preliminary schedule for our mini conference, "The Many Impacts of Social Movements:
Fifty Years after William Gamson’s The Strategy of Social Protest" is up! Check it out: www.asanet.org/collective-b...

For those interested in a summer school on social movements.

ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Virtual Conversation on “Global Resistance to Democratic Backsliding”

Join us tomorrow! 12:00-1:30PM Central/Chicago Time (GMT-5), Virtual Conversation on “Global Resistance to Democratic Backsliding”. Please register at bit.ly/CBSMevent
The conversation will focus on how social movements confront democratic backsliding esp re: immigration, higher ed. & gender issues

Might be of interest to our colleagues @asapolisoc.bsky.social

Join us in a Virtual Conversation on “Global Resistance to Democratic Backsliding” on May 13, 2025 (Tuesday), 12:00-1:30 Central Time organized by @asa-cbsm.bsky.social. Please register at bit.ly/CBSMevent. Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now! @asanews.bsky.social

Great news! Submission deadline is extended to March 28th!🎉

13: Reforming Authoritarian Polities @Dana moss

14: Social Movements’ Impact in Mainland China and Hong Kong under Communist Authoritarianism @ Yang Su

15: Rebellions and Revolutions @ Jeff Goodwin

16:The Biographical Impacts @ Marco Giugni

17: The Impacts on Arts, Music... @Nella van Dyke

9: Methodological Advances @profearl.bsky.social

10: The Impacts of Black Lives Matter @ Kenneth Andrews

11: The Impacts of Major Progressive Social Movements, their Current Challenges @davidsmeyer.bsky.social

12: The Impacts of Right-Wing Movements @ Rory McVeigh

5: Social Movements and Entertainment Media @ Francesca Polletta

6: Strategies and the Impacts of Social Movements @jamesmjasper.bsky.social

7: Social Movements and Public Opinion @edwinamenta.bsky.social

8: Social Movements and Collective Identities/ Memories @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social

The Impacts of Social Movements;
1: on Politics and Policy @edwinamenta.bsky.social

2: on Businesses, Corporations, and Markets @brayden king

3: on Non-Political and Non-Business Institutions @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social

4: Social Movements and News and Social Media @haphazardsoc.bsky.social

Resources | American Sociological Association Initially, most social movement research concerned what drove mobilization and why people participated in social movements.  William Gamson’s 1975 work stood

📅 Mark your calendars for CBSM mini conference in Chicago, August 7-8th. Submission deadline March 14.
"The Many Impacts of Social Movements: Fifty Years after William Gamson’s The Strategy of Social Protest"

For details: www.asanet.org/collective-b...

Graduate Fellowships The Foundation supports world-class graduate students through Jefferson Fellowships and National Fellowships.

Grad students in @asapolisoc.bsky.social or @asa-cbsm.bsky.social: Deadline for the Jefferson Scholars Natl Fellowship is Feb 3! www.jeffersonscholars.org/fellowships Great oppty for APD scholars writing dissertations in US politics, with an emphasis on historical/global/instl analyses

List of committee members

I'm on CBSM Tilly book award committee @asa-cbsm.bsky.social and looking forward to reading all the nominations:) Please send copies of your book published in 2024 (or e-book copy) to each committee member by March 1 st. Only section members and authors may nominate. Addresses below.

I’m on the ASA CBSM Section’s @asa-cbsm.bsky.social Student Paper Award Committee this year. PhD students and 2024+ graduates can submit published or unpublished papers. We welcome exciting new works on collective action and social movements. Submissions are due by March 1, 2025.

a bridge over a river with a train going over it Alt: Chicago: a bridge over a river with a train going over it

New issue of our newsletter Critical Mass is out! Check your mailboxes (also on our website soon). Spoilers: You can find the details of CBSM mini-conference which will take place 7-8 August, right before ASA. Hope to see you all in Chicago!

Cheers to social movements! As the starter pack's name suggests this is just a humble list of folk affiliated with ASA's CBSM section. If you had been affiliated at some point but the membership has lapsed, please send a private message, I will look into it.

Sure, it would be great if you could fill in the form sent via email to the section members yesterday. Helps keeping things organized ;)

Our social movements scholars starter pack is live now! With 50 scholars who signed up. More to be added :)

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Cool TED talk from one of our section members. It is about her book Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action.

Following your lead ;)

Sociology advisers and mentors—recognize scholarly achievement by nominating a 2024 PhD recipient for the 2025 ASA Dissertation Award! Nominations are due January 1, 2025. Get all the details here: https://bit.ly/DissertationAward.