Political Movements, Politics on the Move: Justice, Resistance, and Activism

Session Submission Type: Featured Paper Panel: 30-minute Paper Presentations

Session Description

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, social movements have been at the center of political upheaval and transformation in the United States and throughout the world . The papers on this panel theorize and analyze the range, content, and possibilities of a variety of movements. These include those focused on resistance and decolonization, climate justice, and activism against the intersections of labor exploitation and the carceral state.

Sub Unit

• Division 42: Critical Political Science (formerly New Political Science)

Individual Presentations

• A Theory of Resistance Movements - Benjamin Abrams, University College London

• What Would Greta Do? Reframing Politics by the Youth Climate Justice Movement - Sudhir Chella Rajan, IIT Madras

• Work as Political Control: Labor & Political Activity by Incarcerated People - Alison Boehmer, University of California, San Diego

Chair

• Joy Wang University of Chicago

Discussants

• Nathaniel Shils Amherst College

• Tony Affigne Providence College

• Lucas G. Pinheiro Bard College