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We are organizing an international conference on “The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World.” It will take place the week of July 20-25, right after the World Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA), first in the exciting capital of Tokyo (July 20-22) and then in the beautiful traditional city of Kyoto (July 23-25). The University of Tokyo and Kyoto University will sponsor the event. In the conference, we plan to compare the goals, strategies, and trajectories of movements around the world that challenge the neoliberal global order or have been shaped by it. We hope to examine these movements’ potential and limitations, and to explore their implications for the future of democracy.
There are fifteen workshop sessions and a symposium in this conference. In the small-group workshop session, a presenter will distribute his/her research paper in advance, participants will read the paper in advance of the session, and on the day of the workshop, most of the time will be devoted to discussion of the paper. We choose this workshop format so that world-renowned scholars, young researchers, and energetic graduate students from around the world can engage ideas in a free atmosphere and can nurture relationships that may serve as the a basis for global academic collaboration in the future. In the symposium, three prominent scholars will give lectures at the Ito Hall, the University of Tokyo. This event will be open to the public. To facilitate communication between the lecturers and audiences, a reception at the Event Space will follow.
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Program
The program is subject to change. Please visit this page periodically for updates (last updated on July 14).
Preliminary Sessions
July 2 (Wednesday)
Graduate Seminar: Takeshi Wada
| Date | July 2, Wednesday |
| Time | 14:50-18:00 |
| Event | GRADUATE SEMINAR "The Future of Democracy after Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World" |
| Instructor | Takeshi Wada (The University of Tokyo) |
| Readings | Session #13%%%(1) Garretón M., Manuel Antonio. 2009. "Changes in the sociopolitical matrix and development in Chile." Diplomacy, Strategy & Politics 9:43-68. (2) Tamayo, Sergio 2010. “Dynamic of contention: post-electoral movement in Mexico.” In SinghaRoy, Debal ed. Dissenting voices and transformative actions: social movements in a globalizing world. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers. 419-433. (3) Heller, Patrick. 2014. "Development in the city: growth and inclusion in India, Brazil and South Africa (draft, do not cite or quote without permission)." In State building in the developing world, edited by M. Centeno, D. Yashar, and A. Kohli. (4) Evans, Peter. 2011. "Rethinking neo-Polanyian optimism: transnational politics after the decline of neoliberalism (A post-script to Is an alternative globalization possible?) (draft, do not cite, quote or circulate)." Pp. 1-8. |
| Syllabus | Click here to download the syllabus. |
| Language | English |
| Venue | Building #8, Room 8-113%%%The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus |
July 7 (Monday) - July 28 (Monday)
Graduate Seminar: Moises Arce
| Date/Time Room |
July 7 (Monday) 2nd & 3rd periods: Room 8-420%%%July 8 (Tuesday) 2nd & 3rd periods: Room 8-210%%%July 9 (Wednesday) 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 6th periods: Room 8-420%%%July 16 (Wednesday) 2nd & 3rd periods: Room 8-420%%%July 28 (Monday) 2nd & 3rd periods: Room 8-420 |
| Course | INTENSIVE GRADUATE SEMINAR "Contentious Politics in the Andean Region" |
| Instructor | Moises Arce (The University of Tokyo & University of Missouri, Columbia) |
| Course Description |
The seminar will reflect on the causes and consequences of social mobilizations, examining how economic liberalization policies encouraged protest movements, and how political democracy, in turn, shaped societal responses to economic liberalization policies. The seminar will study and compare the dynamics of protest movements in the Andean countries of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. It will introduce students to key scholarly works on protest movements, economic liberalization and democracy in the Andes. |
| Schedule | Part I: Social Mobilization: Explanations, Concepts and Approaches Part II: Waves of Protests against Economic Liberalization in the Andes Part III: The Consequences of Mobilizations on Democracy in the Andes |
| Keywords | Protest, Democracy, Economic Liberalization, Andean Region |
| Syllabus | Not available. |
| Language | English |
| Venue | Room 8-420 or 8-210 (see above) The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus |
July 10 (Thursday)
Pre-Opening Seminar: Michael Burawoy
| Date | July 10, Thursday |
| Time | 16:30-18:30 |
| Event |
PRE-OPENING SEMINAR Michael Burawoy (University of California, Berkeley) The President of the International Sociological Association Manufacturing Consent Revisited: Reflections on 40 Years of Labor Studies. Michael Burawoy will examine the flaws in the book Manufacturing Consent and what this says about theory, about methodology as well as about the changes in capitalism over the last 40 years. |
| Paper | Click here to read the paper (available now!). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free (No prior registration is necessary). |
| Venue | Auditorium (3rd floor, Administration Office Building.) The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus |
| Sponsor |
“The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Ito International Research Center （IIRC) Conference, The University of Tokyo
July 20 (Sunday)
Workshop #1: Eli Friedman
| Date | July 20, Sunday |
| Time | 09:00-10:20 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Eli Friedman (Cornell University) "Alienated Politics: Labor Insurgency and the Paternalistic State in China." |
| Discussants | Kim Voss (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Conference Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Workshop #2: Gay Seidman
| Date | July 20, Sunday |
| Time | 10:40-12:00 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Gay Seidman (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "The Crisis in COSATU: What democratic South Africa’s labor conflicts might tell us about globalization, unions, and social protest." |
| Discussants | Rina Agarwala (John Hopkins University) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Conference Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Symposium
Speaker #1: Partha Chatterjee
Speaker #2: Patricia Steinhoff
Speaker #3: Peter Evans
| Date | July 20, Sunday |
| Time | 13:30-18:00 |
| Event | SYMPOSIUM: The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World Keynote Speakers (subject to change): 1) Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta & Columbia University) 2) Patricia Steinhoff (University of Hawaii) 3) Peter Evans (University of California, Berkeley & Brown University) There is a reception party following the symposium (see below for the details). |
| Keynote Speaker #1 | Partha Chatterjee "Postcolonial Democracy and the Political Management of Primitive Accumulation." Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). Abstract: With setbacks in Thailand and Egypt, the present prospects of democracy in the postcolonial world seem somewhat discouraging. But one must remember that capitalist growth is taking place in most of these countries under conditions that are unprecedented in modern history. The key concept here is that of the primitive accumulation of capital by which primary producers are separated from their means of production to become available as wage labourers. Primitive accumulation was politically managed in 18th and 19th century Europe through the mediation of the state before the age of mass democracy. The dispossessed population that could not be absorbed by capitalist industry migrated to the Americas and other settler colonies or were mobilized as soldiers in the endless European wars or died in epidemics and famines. None of these avenues are available today. Hence, postcolonial capitalism, by carrying out primitive accumulation, creates a massive dispossessed population that is redundant to the capitalist growth economy but that must be kept alive. This is done by state-mediated policies that transfer a part of the profits of the growth economy to social expenditures aimed at reversing the effects of primitive accumulation. The result is not a preservation of the traditional subsistence economy, but a new outside of capital. This is commonly referred to as the informal economy which is a creature of capitalist growth. A principal problem in postcolonial countries is the political management of the informal sector. The question now is whether primitive accumulation is better managed under democratic or authoritarian political regimes. Who is Dr. Partha Chatterjee? Dr. Partha Chatterjee is a political theorist and historian. He divides his time between Columbia University and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, where he was the Director from 1997 to 2007. He is a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Collective, an endeavor in historically and critically informed social science scholarship that has been one of the most innovative and influential of its times. He is the author of more than twenty books, monographs and edited volumes and was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize for 2009 for outstanding achievements in the field of Asian studies. His most influential books include The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (1993), a seminal contribution the literature on nationalism, and The Politics of the Governed: Considerations on Political Society in Most of the World (2004), a seminal theoretical statement on the practice of democracy in the global south. |
| Keynote Speaker #2 | Patricia Steinhoff "Japanese Social Movements: Alternative Democracy Confronts the Same Old State." Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). Who is Dr. Patricia Steinhoff? Dr. Patricia Steinhoff is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She is a leading scholar of Japan's social movements. She has conducted extensive research on the Japanese left, particularly in the Japanese protest cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and radical left groups that emerged in that protest cycle and went underground. The author of numerous books and articles, her latest edited volume, Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law, is forthcming from the University of Michigan Center for Japanese monograph series. She has also served many leadership positions in the broader Japanese studies community, including chairing the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, the Editorial and Advisory Boards of the Journal of Japanese Studies, the Japan Advisory Council of the Social Science Research Council, the American Advisory Committee for the Japan Foundation, and as a commissioner on the Japan-US Friendship Commission. |
| Keynote Speaker #3 | Peter Evans "Reading Polanyi in the Late Neoliberal Era: A Critically Optimistic Perspective." Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). Who is Dr. Peter Evans? Dr. Peter B. Evans, senior fellow at the Watson Institute Brown University, is also professor emeritus in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Evans is one of the leading figures in the sociology of development, having in particular been at the forefront of theories of the developmental state. Author of many influential books, Dr. Evans' Embedded autonomy: states and industrial transformation (1995) is the classic comparative study of the developmental state in the Global South. He has also authored a range of highly influential articles on theories of comparative development, development policies, the relationship of states to class actors, the dynamics of state-society relations, globalization and labor. Most recently Dr. Evans has explored the role of the “21 Century developmental state” synthesizing new developments in economic theories of growth with his own work on the political foundations of effective states. Dr. Evans serves on the board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and as an advisory group member of the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre-Consortium of the Institute for Policy Development and Management, the University of Manchester, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| Discussants | Patrick Heller (Brown University) Francesca Polletta (University of California, Irvine) Keiichi Tsunekawa (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan) |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free (No prior registration is necessary). |
| Venue | Ito Hall, Ito International Research Center The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Reception: Meet Our Keynote Speakers and about 20 Invited Scholars!
| Date | July 20, Sunday |
| Time | 18:00-20:30 |
| Event | RECEPTION You will have an opportunity to meet about twenty guest scholars (sociologists, political scientists, anthropologist, and social psychologist) specializing in globalization, democracy and democratization, development, labor studies, social movements and contentious politics, civil society, social psychology, subaltern studies, transnationalism, gender, demography, revolution, political violence and terrorism, and more! Our guests (subject to change) Rina Agarwala, Edwin Amenta, Moises Arce, Salvatore Babones, Partha Chatterjee, Nitsan Chorev, Peter Evans, Helena Flam, Eli Friedman, |
| Fee | 5,000 yen (3,000 yen for the first 50 registrants) 3,000 yen for students. Prior registration is recommended. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Event Space, Ito International Research Center The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo |
July 21 (Monday)
Workshop #3: Rina Agarwala
| Date | July 21, Monday |
| Time | 09:00-10:20 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Rina Agarwala (John Hopkins University) "Remaking the Working Class in the 21st Century: Informal Workers’ Struggles in 8 Countries" |
| Discussants | Yoojin Koo (The University of Tokyo) Tola Olu Pearce (University of Missouri, Columbia) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Conference Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Workshop #4: Bert Klandermans
| Date | July 21, Monday |
| Time | 10:40-12:00 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Bert Klandermans (VU-University) "We are the people! Confronting the austerity state" (coauthored with Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Marie-Louise Damen, Anouk van Leeuwen & Dunya van Troost). The financial crisis only amplified the outrage. People lament that rather than protecting them from the economic recession politicians are shifting the burden of the crisis to the people. But, the people say no to the emaciated, austerity state (Offe 2013), they don’t want to pay for the failures of capitalism. Yet, people differ in the way they respond. Quite a few don’t respond altogether, but we see those who do respond taking diverging routes. Some participate in demonstrations against specific austerity measures that affect them personally. For instance, students protesting a raise of tuition fees or public health workers fighting budget cuts on health care—we call that Anti-Austerity demonstrations (AA-Demonstrations). Others take part in demonstrations against the powers taking these measures; laying charges against the political mismanagement of the crisis and calling the government’s legitimacy into question. People challenge democracy as it is done. Claiming that the power should be taken from corrupt and incompetent politicians and given to the people—Occupy-London or Amsterdam, or May 15 in Spain are examples. We call that Pro-Democracy Demonstrations (PD-Demonstrations). How are the two types of demonstrations different? Are the dynamics of demand, supply and mobilization diverging? Do they bring different people into the streets and squares? It has been argued that the two are fundamentally different, appealing to different motives, employing disparate mobilization mechanisms, and revealing diverging processes. Is that so? So far, there is very little data to support or refute that claim. Questions like these require comparative studies of the two types of demonstrations. Most of the research of protest events, however, are either single cases studies that are not comparative by design, or global surveys that fall short of data regarding individual demonstrations, or protest event studies that do not produce data regarding individual demonstrators. But, we are fortunate to dispose of a dataset of over 15.000 individuals participating in a variety of street demonstration that make it possible to answer such questions. Caught in the Act of Protest: Contextualizing Contestation was designed precisely to solve such comparative puzzles. Between 2009 and 2013 we surveyed the citizens who populated street demonstrations in eight European countries—building a unique dataset of over 80 demonstrations. Some were ritual parades such as gay-prides, women’s marches, or 1st of May parades. Other were typical new social movements events addressing such issues nuclear energy, fascism, peace or racism. Again other were AA- or PD-demonstrations protesting the austerity politics in their country. We will compare the participants in the latter two types of demonstrations. How were they different in terms of gender, age, education and employment status? Were they socially and politically embedded in different ways? Are they differentially mobilized? Does their evaluation of how democracy is done in their country diverge? Do they differ in terms of the extent to which they trust state institutions? Did their motivation to participate diverge? These are the questions we seek to answer. |
| Discussants | Moises Arce (The University of Tokyo & University of Missouri, Columbia) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Conference Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Workshop #5: Jeff Goodwin
| Date | July 21, Monday |
| Time | 13:20-14:40 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Jeff Goodwin (New York University) "The New Anti-Capitalist Movements: Occupy and 15M in Comparative Perspective" (coauthored with Eduardo Romanos). |
| Discussants | Eli Friedman (Cornell University) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Seminar Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Workshop #6: Geoffrey Pleyers
| Date | July 21, Monday |
| Time | 15:00-16:20 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Geoffrey Pleyers (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) "Alter-Europe: Progressive activists and models of democracy in the aftermath of the crisis." |
| Discussants | Yu Nobuoka (The University of Tokyo) Salvatore Babones (The University of Sydney) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Seminar Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Workshop #7: Francesca Polletta
| Date | July 21, Monday |
| Time | 16:40-18:00 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Francesca Polletta (University of California, Irvine) "Social Movements in an Age of Participation" With respect to the first, I focus on opportunities and challenges presented by the government-sponsored citizen forums that have proliferated in the last fifteen years. Critics have seen such forums as neoliberal strategies designed to give people voice in lieu of power. I argue that that characterization overshoots the mark. It misses the fact that activists can use the symbolic power of the “people’s voice” to challenge policies promoted by those in power rather than simply rubberstamp them. However, taking advantage of the opportunities created by participatory forums requires an ability to operate from both within and outside the participatory process. That in turn, requires a kind of tactical flexibility that is often unfamiliar to activists. When it comes to movement groups that also seek to operate as participatory democracies (e.g. Occupy, groups in the alterglobalization movement), I argue that there are elements of the early 1960s participatory democratic project that may be worth recovering. Activists in the southern civil rights movement used participatory democratic movement practices on local projects as a way to train people with little experience in how to do politics—but also in how to figure out their own interests and what should count as leadership. That pedagogical rationale for participation has lost favor in movement circles, and operationalizing it in a way that combines learning with equality presents challenges. But it offers the potential to make participatory democracy appealing to people outside small networks of middle class activists. |
| Discussants | Shunsuke Fujita (The University of Tokyo) Helena Flam (University of Leipzig, Germany) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Seminar Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
July 22 (Tuesday)
Workshop #8: Salvatore Babones
| Date | July 22, Tuesday |
| Time | 09:00-10:20 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Salvatore Babones (The University of Sydney) "From Monitory Democracy to Monitory Empire." Theme B: States and Social Movements • Under what conditions do movements gain political influence? • How do these patterns alter our understanding of state-related influences or "political opportunities" on movements? Theme F: New Understandings of Democracy • What does democracy mean in a globalizing world? • Development agencies and governments promote new forms of civic participation; how should we assess just how democratic such forms are? |
| Discussants | Hiromi Makita (The University of Tokyo) Nitsan Chorev (Brown University) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Seminar Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
“The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Workshop #9: Sergio Tamayo and Guadalupe Olivier
| Date | July 22, Tuesday |
| Time | 10:40-12:00 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation | Sergio Tamayo (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico) and Guadalupe Olivier (National University of Education Sciences, Mexico) "The mobilization-demobilization process of the student movement in the difficult construction of a democratic future. The case of Mexican "#Yosoy132" movement." The purpose of this paper is to stand out what we believe are the main tensions of the student movement so called “#YoSoy132”. This mobilisation emerged following the presidential race of 2012 in Mexico. We observe that several aspects of the political context along the class conditions of the participants, as well as some mechanisms of mobilization-demobilization, brought the movement to an end point of no return. At first, we describe those mobilisations worldwide to locate more precisely the experience of #YoSoy132 movement. We highlight here two aspects in common: the struggle for democracy, and the internal use of international networks. Then we expose the political context for 2012 presidential elections that brought back the former hegemonic political party after 12 years of absence. After these two elements of context, we introduce some explanations about the unsolved political tension inside the #YoSoy132. These tensions can explain the process of transformation and disintegration, as well as the cycles of decline and demobilization that brought the movement to change its purpose and its final breakdown. It is essential for us to bring to the front of the analysis, the trajectories and practices of both private and public Universities in the whole country, intimately related to students’ class formation. This allows establishing the existing political contradictions, based on the movement plurality. Finally, in order to explain the path of contestation, we enhance four basic elements of mobilisation-demobilisation: a) The political nature of the movement, b) The role of the alliances and rival networks as well as the internal struggle for hegemony, c) The definition and innovation of the repertoire of mobilization, and d) Repression mechanisms. |
| Discussants | Yukiko Nagata (The University of Tokyo) Yoshiyuki Aoki (The University of Tokyo) Edwin Amenta (The University of Tokyo & University of California, Irvine) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Ito International Research Center (IIRC) Seminar Room The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus |
| Sponsor |
“The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
The Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University
July 23 (Wednesday)
Workshop #10: Nitsan Chorev
Workshop #11: James Jasper
| Date | July 23, Wednesday |
| Time | 10:20-12:00 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation | James Jasper (City University of New York) "Social Movements and the Rise of Compassionate Democracy" |
| Discussants | Geoffrey Pleyers (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Main Conference Room, 3rd floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University |
| Sponsor |
JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26590087 “The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University Department of Area Studies The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Graduate Program on Global Humanities The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
July 24 (Thursday)
Workshop #12: Moises Arce
| Date | July 24, Thursday |
| Time | 13:00-14:20 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Moises Arce (University of Missouri, Columbia) "Social Mobilization and Resource-Based Growth in Peru." |
| Discussants | Kota Miura (The University of Tokyo) Isamu Okada (Kyoto University) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Main Conference Room, 3rd floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University |
| Sponsor |
Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26590087 “The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) Department of Area Studies The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Graduate Program on Global Humanities The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Workshop #13: Patrick Heller
| Date | July 24, Thursday |
| Time | 14:40-16:00 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Patrick Heller (Brown University) "Democratic Deepening in the Age of Neo-liberalism: Comparing Brazil, India and South Africa" This paper argues that democratic deepening in the age of neo-liberalism is not overdetermined by globalization. Rather, it is shaped by shifting civil society-state relations that can only be understood by disaggregating democratic deepening into its component parts of participation, representation and stateness. This frame is used to explore the divergent democratic trajectories of Brazil, India and South Africa (BISA). Through the examples of local government transformation and social movement mobilization, I argue that a “project” civil society in Brazil has deepened democracy and transformed the state. In contrast, in South Africa and India civil society is increasingly being subordinated to political society. In South Africa, an active civil society has largely been sidelined as a politically consequential actor (containerization) and in India much of civil society has been fragmented and instrumentalized (involution). |
| Discussants | Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, India & Columbia University) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Main Conference Room, 3rd floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University |
| Sponsor |
JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26590087 “The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University Department of Area Studies The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Graduate Program on Global Humanities The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Extra Session: Takeshi Wada
| Date | July 24, Thursday |
| Time | 16:10-17:00 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Takeshi Wada (The University of Tokyo) "Predicting Future Action Patterns Based on the Cultural Hypothesis about Repertoires of Contention" (coauthored with Yoojin Koo and Kayo Hoshino). Contentious events—such as the collapses of socialist regimes around 1990, the Seattle anti-globalization protests in 1999, and the Arab Spring since 2010—often catch many by surprise. It appears that future contentious events are totally unpredictable. The literature of repertoires of contention, however, suggests that future actions by contentious actors are highly predictable because actors’ selection of action forms is dependent upon their familiarity with these forms. In a word, people cannot perform if they do not know how. This paper explores such a cultural hypothesis about repertoires and asks to what degree we can predict future action patterns (violence, nonviolent protests, and conventional institutional actions). Specifically, we examine what is the most important predictor of action patterns: (1) institutional regime characteristics such as degree of democracy and state capacity, as political process theorists have argued, or (2) actors’ familiarity with contentious forms, as the cultural hypothesis claims? To find an answer to the question, we conduct a cross-national comparison of action patterns using a data set of 10 million events world-wide, reported by Reuters, between 1990 and 2004. Using multilevel analysis, we estimate and compare the national-level effects of structural-institutional characteristics (e.g., regime characteristics, levels of development) and the actor-specific effect of cultural factor (actors’ familiarity with specific forms of contention, measured by action patterns in the past years). We also uncover the conditions under which new innovations of action patterns are likely to occur. This study contributes to the study of contentious politics both theoretically and methodologically by explicitly integrating cultural dimensions—rather than by treating culture as a residual explanatory factor—into the analysis of repertoire selection. While the prediction of future events and actions is difficult and, therefore, is not a popular topic, this study makes an important step toward such a research direction. |
| Paper | Please login to download the PowerPoint (for conference participants only). |
| Venue | Main Conference Room, 3rd floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University |
| Sponsor |
JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26590087 “The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University Department of Area Studies The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Graduate Program on Global Humanities The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
July 25 (Friday)
Workshop #14: Edwin Amenta
| Date | July 25, Friday |
| Time | 09:00-10:20 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Edwin Amenta (University of California, Irvine) "U.S. Movements in the Great Depression and Great Recession: Why They Took Off and Why They Were So Different" (coauthored with Thomas Alan Elliott and Amber Celina Tierney). |
| Discussants | Kayo Hoshino (The University of Tokyo) Bert Klandermans (VU-University, Netherlands) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Main Conference Room, 3rd floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University |
| Sponsor |
JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26590087 “The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University Department of Area Studies The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Graduate Program on Global Humanities The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Workshop #15: Kim Voss
| Date | July 25, Friday |
| Time | 10:40-12:00 |
| Event | WORKSHOP |
| Presentation |
Kim Voss (University of California, Berkeley) "Ironies of Neoliberalism: The shifting repertoires of labor contention in the United States-- with some implications for democracy" (coauthored with Pablo Gaston). |
| Discussants | Jeff Goodwin (New York University) |
| Paper | Please login to download the paper (for conference participants only). |
| Language | English (No simultaneous translation is provided). |
| Fee | Free. Prior registration is required. Click here to register. |
| Venue | Main Conference Room, 3rd floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University |
| Sponsor |
Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26590087 “The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World” (Dr. Takeshi Wada, the University of Tokyo) Department of Area Studies The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Graduate Program on Global Humanities The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Post-Conference Sessions
November 11 (Tuesday) - November 21 (Friday)
Graduate Seminar: Edwin Amenta
| Date | November 11 (Tuesday) ~ November 21 (Friday) |
| Time | TBA |
| Event | INTENSIVE GRADUATE SEMINAR "Research on the Consequences of Social Movements" |
| Instructor |
Edwin Amenta (The University of Tokyo & University of California, Irvine) |
| Course Description |
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| Keywords | Social movements, political sociology, social policy, culture, news media |
| Course Syllabus | [|Click here to download the syllabus (unavailable).] |
| Language | English |
| Venue | Room (TBA) The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus |