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Social Movements

The Social Movements RWG, dedicated to exploring contemporary social change through the lens of social movement activity, has divided its time between regular working meetings, oriented by a set of readings on social movements/theory, developing a position paper, hosting a small number of speakers, and organizing a graduate-student led conference at Cornell in Spring 2003. The latter brought together a dozen presenters, from coast to coast, to address theoretical and methodological questions concerning social movements. The RWG is now focusing on developing a monograph on the question of social movement research and analysis. The goal is to construct a volume with chapters reporting research (dissertation or otherwise) undertaken by members of the RWG, through an initial process of establishing a collaborative framework for coherence and representation of a unique approach to the subject from Cornell. Contributors have written positions, held a mini-retreat in October 2005, and written a small grant proposal to fund a conference at which contributors will present their work.

Contact: Alex Da Costa at aed4@cornell.edu or Philip McMichael at pdm1@cornell.edu.

Current Members:
Nosheen Ali
Alex DaCosta
Kelly Dietz
Sage Beckett Ferguson
Chad Futrell
Angela Gonzales
Rachel Bezner Kerr
Hyunok Lee
Philip McMichael
Gayatri Menon
Karuna Morarji
Dia Mohan
Emelie Peine
Michael Luis Ristorucci
Alicia Swords
Razack Kerriem
Hannah Wittman
Anna Zalik