| Kommentar |
Backed by New Information and Communication Technology (NICT), protest and social movements in the 21st century have entered new territories of transnational virtual networking, cross-issues coalition-building, and street protests with new forms of deliberation and participation. Their effects upon our understanding of collective action and democratic life in different regime types and cultural contexts remains insufficiently explored. Think of the Domino-effects triggered by the MeToo- and Times-Up-move-ments as well as the Avaaz campaign, whose platforms have facilitated a speedy spread of alternative discourses and organization of social movements, thereby clamouring for a voice in global decision-making. Furthermore, such digital mobilization provides new outlets for traditional street protests. Some of them pursue the aim to draw public and global attention for the sake of promoting climate and social justice (ie Friday for Future (FFF) movements). Could this be global democracy in the making?
Our course provides a critical overview of significant protest events in the post-2008 period and explores a range of the analytical tools that may be used to understand them, before proceeding to identify, disaggregate and draw into question some of the major claims which have emerged in literature on the post-2008 mobilizations and their effects upon democracy. The sessions contained in the seminar tackle novel approaches and perspectives of social movements and provide nuanced insights with respect to a variety of post-2008 movements ranging from the re-emergence of peace movements, cross-crises protest movements (FFF’s digital mobilization during the Covid-19 pandemic Crisis), issue-, country- and region-specific social movements (eg the New Movement for Iranian women „Women, Life, Freedom“ in 2022 and solidarity mobilization for refugees in Italy). Their composition, mobilization forms, frames, democratic practices, and interrelationships with other actors in pursuit of rights promotion and democratic reform will be carefully studied and compared. |
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