3119 - New Social Movements

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Over the last decade, new social movements appeared in response to police violence, deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border and deportations, attack on women’s rights, and gun violence. What prompts governments to respond to new social movements? What factors feed into establishment and growth of opposition movements? How do structures facilitate and hinder these new social movements? Social change is often brought about by social movements. Are the strategies and tools of these new social movements effective in producing social change that lead to reductions in inequality and promotion of human rights? Or are some new social movements seeking changes that lead to restrictions and containment of fundamental freedoms and liberties?

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Session Organizer

• Mary Romero, Arizona State University

Presider

• Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland

Individual Presentations

• How the Women's March Sparked the Resistance? - Dana R. Fisher, University of Maryland

• Beyond the Good Immigrant: How Identity Politics have Come to Dominate the Dreamer Movement - Walter Nicholls, University of California-Irvine

• Social Justice in the Desert: Faith-Based Mobilizing to Save the Lives Along the Arizona-Sonora Desert - Kraig Beyerlein, University of Notre Dame

• The Movement for Black Lives: Power, Polemics, and Potential Legacy of Leader-full Social Justice Action for the African Diaspora - Hillary Potter, University of Colorado-Boulder