Visiting lectures
4 April 2022, University College Dublin
Prof. Donatella Della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore
Changing paths of transnationalization in social movements
18 May 2022, Scuola Normale Superiore
Seminar by J. Pešić, University of Belgrade, J. Petrović, University of Belgrade, Aron Buzogany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences BOKU of Vienna, at Scuola Normale Superiore
Marginal environmentalism: Local environmental activism and global trends in the European neighborhood
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19 May 2022, University of Trento
Prof. Jelisaveta Vukelić, University of Belgrade
Development of Environmental Activism in Contemporary Serbia and the Role of the EU
25 October 2022, University of Belgrade
Prof. Graham Finlay, University College Dublin
Strengthening workers' rights in the European Union: the minimum wage directive
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Syllabus of the course
Session 1 | Introduction: Transnational political contention and global activism
5/04/2022, h. 14-16
Required readings
D. della Porta and S. G. Tarrow (2005) Transnational Protest and Global Activism. People, Passions, and Power. Lanham (MD): Rowman & Littlefield, Chapter 1: “Transnational Processes and Social Activism: An Introduction”, pp. 1-20 and Chapter 9: “Social Movements beyond Borders: Understanding Two Eras of Transnational Activism”, pp. 203-226
Additional readings
M. Keck and K. Sikkink (1998) Activists beyond Borders. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Chapter 1: “Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics: Introduction”, pp. 1-38
S. Tarrow (2010). Dynamics of Diffusion: Mechanisms, Institutions, and Scale Shift. In The Diffusion of Social Movements: Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects, edited by Rebecca Kolins Givan, Kenneth M. Roberts, and Sarah A. Soule, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 204–219.
Session 2 | The transnational dimension of social movements. From the Global Justice Movement to #Occupy
13/04/2022, h. 14.30-17.30
Required readings
S. Soule and C. Roggeband (2019) Diffusion processes within and across movements. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, second edition, David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi and H.J. McCammon (eds) Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 236-251.
J. Smith (2001) 'Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements', Mobilization: An International Quarterly 6 (1): 1-19.
Additional readings
M. Pianta and R. Marchetti (2007) “The Global Justice Movements: The Transnational Dimension” in D. della Porta (ed.) The Global Justice Movement: A Cross-National and Transnational Perspective. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, pp. 29-51
C. Milan and L. Chiodi, (2022), Grassroots European Solidarity. Italian Solidarity Movements in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and 2020s and Their Visions of Europe. Southeastern Europe, 46 pp. 248–270.
Session 3 | Political contention around migration: a multi-scale perspective
28/04/2022, h. 10-13
Required readings
M. Portos and J. Alcalde (2018) “Scale shift and transnationalization within refugees’ solidarity activism. From Calais to the European level” in della Porta (ed.), Solidarity Mobilizations in the “Refugee Crisis”: Contentious moves. Palgrave, pp. 243-269
F. Alagna (2023). Civil society and municipal activism around migration in the EU: A multi-scalar alliance-making. Geopolitics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2230902
Additional readings
C. Lahusen, M. Kousis, U. Zschache and A. Loukakis (2018) “European solidarity in times of crisis: Comparing transnational activism of civic organisations in Germany and Greece” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Supplement 1/43: 173-197
L. Fischer, M. B. Joergensen (2021) “Scale-switching as a response to a shrinking space for solidarity. A comparison of Denmark’s Venligboerne and Germany’s Seebrucke” in D. della Porta and E. Steinhilper (eds.) Contentious Migrant Solidarity London: Routledge
Session 4 | Transnational feminist and anti-gender movements
29/04/2022, h.10-13 – guest lecture of prof. Zorica Širočić, Department of Sociology, University of Graz: “The transnational contentious politics of gender”
Required readings
Corredor, E. S. (2019). Unpacking “Gender Ideology” and the Global Right’s Antigender Countermovement. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 44(3), 613–638
Dean, J. 2010. Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter 1, p. 9-35).
Additional readings:
Fillieule, O. and Broqua, C. 2020. Sexual and reproductive rights movements and counter movements from an interactionist perspective. Social Movement Studies, 19(1), 1–20.
Roggeband, C. 2018. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Making Sense of Opposition to Feminisms from a Social-Movement Perspective. In M. Verloo (Ed.), Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe. Routledge.
Session 5 | Global governance and transnational contention in labour politics
6/05/2022, h.10-13 Guest lecture of Dr Imre Szabo and Dr Darragh Golden, University College Dublin: "Transnational labour activism in public and private services. The cases of the European Citizens' Initiative Right to Water and the Pilots' Strike at Ryanair."
Required readings
Szabó, I., Golden, D. and Erne, R. (2021) ‘EU governance and transnational labour mobilization. Explaining the unequal success of the “Right2Water” and the “Fair Transport” European Citizens’ Initiative’.
Golden, D., & Erne, R. (2022). Ryanair pilots: Unlikely pioneers of transnational collective action. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 28(4), 451-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596801221094740
Additional readings
Erne, R. (2008) European Unions: Labor’s Quest for a Transnational Democracy. Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press/Cornell University Press. Chapter 2: Approaching Euro-Democracy and Its Alternatives pp11-28.
Gentile, A. and Tarrow S. (2009) “Charles Tilly, Globalization, and Labor’s Citizen Rights.” European Political Science Review 1(3): 465–93.
Session 6 | Racial justice struggles and the transnational mobilization around issues of race
11/05/2022, h.10-13
Required readings
A. Klotz (2002). “Transnational Activism and Global Transformations: The Anti-Apartheid and Abolitionist Experiences”. European Journal of International Relations, 8(1), 49-76.
Mundt, M., Ross K., Burnett M.C. (2018) “Scaling social movements through social media: the case of Black Lives Matter” Social Media + Society: 1-14.
Additional readings
D. della Porta, A. Lavizzari, H. Reiter, M. Sommer, E. Steinhilper and F. Ajayi (2023) Patterns of adaptation and recontextualisation: The transnational diffusion of Black Lives Matter to Italy and Germany, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2023.2239324
D. della Porta, A. Lavizzari and H. Reiter (2022), The Spreading of the Black Lives Matter Movement Campaign: The Italian Case in Cross-National Perspective. Sociological Forum, 37: 700-721. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12818
Session 7 | Transnational political contention in the field of environmental and climate justice
18/05/2022, h. 15.00-18.00
Cosmos talk:
Guest lecture of prof. Jelisaveta Petrovic and prof. Jelena Pesic, University of Belgrade
Guest lecture of prof. Aron Buzogany and Dr. Patrick Scherhaufer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) of Vienna. Lecture: “Marginal environmentalism: Local environmental activism and global trends in the European neighborhood”
Required readings
P. Jehlička and K. Jacobsson (2021) “The importance of recognizing difference: Rethinking Central and East European environmentalism” Political Geography 87
B. Doherty and T. Doyle (2006) “Beyond Borders: Transnational Politics, Social Movements and Modern Environmentalisms” Environmental Politics 15 (5) pp.697-712
Additional readings
J. Martinez-Alier (2014) “The environmentalism of the poor” Geoforum 54, pp. 239-241
J. Pešić and J. Vukelić (2022), 'Europeanisation from below at the semi-periphery: the movement against small hydropower in Serbia'. Sociologija, https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC2201005P
A. Fagan & A. Buzogány (2022) Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe, Environmental Politics, 31:7, 1203-1213
