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Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section Roundtables
Sun, August 9, 8:00 to 9:00am, TBATable Presider
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Everyday Processes of Peace-Making in Cambodia - Mehr Latif, University of Pittsburgh
“No Fear Amid Affliction (The Case of Smyrna)” - Michael D. Royster, Prairie View A&M University
Overcoming Special Interests in the Adoption of Policy: Tobacco Control, Health Insurance Regulation, and Gun Control - Joseph A. Harris, Boston University
Taking the First Step: The First Step Act and the Path to Criminal Justice Reform - Lloyd Klein, Laguardia Community College
Warriors, Wells, and Wealth: Military Institutions and Technology Adoption - Wentong Sun, Wuhan University
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Why so old and white? Explaining the demographics of No Kings 2025 with social movement theory - Betsy Leondar-Wright
Cells and Servers: The Converging Logics of Prisons and Data Centers - Irene Franco Rubio, University of California, Berkeley; Sanjana Paul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jasmine Hiroko McAdams, University of California, Berkeley
Disaster Publics and the Post Legitimate Condition - Will Charles, Miami University-Ohio
Is Convenience a Factor in Altruistic Behavior During Disaster? - brenda vollman, CUNY BMCC; Bethany Lee Van Brown, Sacred Heart University
Resisting and Rethinking Big Tech’s Data Center Development Strategies: Knowledge Production within the Transnational Epicenter - John G. Dale, George Mason University
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A Historically International Movement: The Early Trajectory of Feminist Activists in the Dominican Republic - Esther Hernandez-Medina, Pomona College
Articulating Activisms, Structuring Political Subjectivities: Feminist Movement “Brokers” in Argentina - Elisabeth Jay Friedman; Ana Laura Rodriguez Gusta, Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Barbara Sutton, University at Albany-SUNY
Lessons on Literacy and Resistance from Brazil, Cuba and Oakland - Keomi Barksdale, California State Univ-Dominguez Hills
Pilots as Privileged Allies: Exploring the Conditions Under Which Unaggrieved Individuals Join Social Movement Organizations - Lorena Aviles Trujillo, Stanford University
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An Advocate for whom?: Homonormativity and respectability politics in The Advocate, 1999-2000 - Hannah Jacobs, University of Florida
Heterosexual Threat and Violent Anti-Gay Mobilization - Gavin Riley, Vanderbilt University
Meaning Work in the Movement that Cannot Move: Preservative Pragmatism in China’s LGBTQ+ Movements - Ada Wang, University of Oxford
Navigating Knowledge and Authority: Cisgender Allies’ Experiences of Epistemic Conflict in Trans Activism - Ruth Blatt, Bar Ilan University; Gilly Hartal, McGill University; Orna Sasson-Levy, Bar-Ilan University
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Barriers to Participation - Burrel James Vann, San Diego State University
Between Fear and Courage: Campus Gates as Thresholds of Collective Identity in Bangladesh - Arifur Rahaman, The University of Alabama
Fueling Change: What Makes U.S. Universities Prime for Successful Student-Led Fossil Fuel Divestment? - Sophia E Wood, University of Michigan
Layered Youth: How a South Korean Housing Movement Made “Youth” Politically Usable - Eunchong Cho, University of California-San Diego
The Rise and Fall of College Protests: Diffuse Effects of Repression - Marty Kennedy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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Broad Fronts Under Authoritarian Threats: A Reflexive History of Social Movement Coalition-Building in the United States - Rishi Awatramani, University of Southern California
From Dissent to Belonging: Identity and Unity in Serbia’s Anti-Corruption Protests - Adrijana Miladinovic, The Ohio State University; Anneliese M Schenk-Day, The Ohio State University; Steven Bao, Ohio State University
Runaway State-Sponsored Movement: How the CCRG Failed to Contain Beijing’s Red Guard Factional Warfare, 1966–1968 - Junliang Xu, New York University
The Movement is a Torch: Cultivating Intergenerational Resistance to Authoritarianism via Collective Memory - Carolina Hernandez, University of Pittsburgh
“Very Fine People” : Donald Trump as a Symbol of Political Meaning among Far-Right Extremist Groups - Anne Getz Eidelhoch, The Ohio State University
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Context-Specific Embeddings of Extremism: A Regression Approach to Activists and Sympathizers in White Supremacist Spaces - Alessandro Giuseppe Drago, University of Notre Dame; Yi-Cheng Hsieh, McGill University
Emotions and Expert Frames in Platformed Publics: Normative Contestation around This is America - Xinyue Ma, Senshu University
Mapping the Young Far-Right: Network Analysis of Discourse Diffusion on Discord - Youngjin YJ Chae, Rutgers University-New Brunswick; Alessandro Giuseppe Drago, University of Notre Dame
Networked Framing: Twitter and Ferguson Protests - Josephine Nummi, Purdue University Northwest
Refusal Without Exit: De-Influencing, Non-Posting Coordination, and Youth Resistance to the “Anxious Generation” Narrative - Theresa Ann Hunt, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Private Harms, Public Silence: The Private/Public Divide in Online Visibility of Violence Against Women in China - Zhaodi Chen, Indiana University-Bloomington
The Paradox of Anger, Affective Governance and Movement Burnout in South Korean Digital Feminism - Dahyun Ryu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“We, the Conspiracy Theorists.” Symbolic Boundary Work in the “Great Reset” Debates Across Social Media Platforms - Kamile Grusauskaite, Yale University; Matthias de Bondt, KU Leuven; Lars de Wildt, University of Groningen; Stef Aupers, Erasmus University
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Activist Arcana: The Creation of Tarot in and for Radical Leftist Subcultures - Sarah Megan Hanks, CUNY-John Jay College
Dramaturgy and the Barricade: Charisma, Debt, and the Politics of Labor Control - Youbin Kang, City College of New York
From a Negligent to a ‘Narco-State’: Why Protests Tactics in Anti-Crime Mobilizations in Mexico Radicalized - Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College
Invention of Protest Repertoires in the Anti-Nuclear Power Movements after the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan - Hiroe Saruya, Sophia University
Legitimacy in the Repertoire of Contention: How Black Lives Matter Activists Justify Riots - Mathis Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford
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Building Intersectional Movements: Managing Power and Ongoing Conflicts - Evonnia Woods
Leveraging Ambiguity: A Long-Game Strategy of Corporate Reform Activism - Prami Sengupta, University of California, Irvine
Settler Activists in Academia: What are ethical pathways for non-Indigenous academics working towards decolonial justice? - Natalia Ilyniak, University of Tennessee Knoxville
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“External Framing”: A Theoretical Conceptualization Based on Black Millennial Perceptions of Black Lives Matter - Simone Nicole Durham, Morgan State University
“Is Silence Compliance?” Bay Area Perspectives on Modern Political Expression - Mattea Gutierrez, Las Positas College
The Time Has Come: Analysis of Iranian Celebrities' Digital Activism during the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement - Zahra Mansour, University of Kansas
What is a ‘political worker’? Leadership & leaderlessness in Lebanon’s ‘Independence Intifada’ - Karim Safieddine
Working Across Difference: Heterogeneous Framing Processes and Collective Action Strategies in the Practice of Agroecology - Águeda Ortega, University of Texas-Austin
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Buying Time: The Synergy Between Direct Action and Legal Victories in a Pipeline Resistance Movement - Cameron Reid Baller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Deborah Kushner
The Abortion Abolition Movement: Membership, Beliefs, and Practices - Robin O’Hanlon, CUNY-Graduate Center
The Great Cannabis Transformation and the Snowball Model of Incremental Policy Change - Alex Diamond, Oklahoma State University
The Synergy of Change: Feminist Protest, Pedagogy, and Legal Transformation in Japan - Kanoko Kamata, Keio University
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Exilic Future-Making: How Iranian Diaspora Movements Contest the Post-Regime State Under Crisis - Vahid Jadidi, University of Notre Dame
Staying here, tied there: how diaspora activists navigate transnational repression through spatial orientation - Nathan L.T. Tsang, University of Southern California
The Global Movement for Immigrants’ Rights - Daniel Jenks, University of Pennsylvania; Ernesto Castañeda, American University; Cecelia C Walsh-Russo, American University
Youth-Led Climate Justice Refracted through Local Lenses: A Comparison of SMOs in Cape Town and Philadelphia. - Rehana Thembeka Odendaal, University of Pennsylvania