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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jan 17

Our winter newsletter is out!

Highlights from our current issue, along with details on our summer conference.

Mobilization Winter Update

Advancing the Science of Contentious Politics

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jan 13

Check out this special issue of @mobilization.bsky.social on "Weaving the Transnational Anti-gender Networks", edited by Manuela Caiani and @tranfi.bsky.social, and featuring a contribution by yours truly.

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Volume 29 Issue 4 | Mobilization: an International Quarterly

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Emanuela Lombardo @elombardo.bsky.social · Jan 7

💫 Anti-gender regimes, feminist politics and the challenge of societal democratization is out! In Mobilization: An International Quarterly 29(4): 469-486 doi.org/10.17813/108... A preprint is available on Researchgate

ANTI-GENDER REGIMES, FEMINIST POLITICS, AND THE CHALLENGE OF SOCIETAL DEMOCRATIZATION*

Democracy is an ongoing process that involves society as a whole, not merely politics. Anti-gender politics challenges democratization in all areas of society. Therefore, a gendered theory of society ...

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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jan 2

Our winter special issue is online!

"Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Networks" guest edited by Manuela Caiani and @tranfi.bsky.social

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Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Networks
Manuela Caiani and Ivan Tranfić

Assembling God's 'Last Best Hope': The Expanding Reach of the World Congress of Families
Kristopher Velasco and Jeffrey Swindle

Anti-Gender Regimes, Feminist Politics, and the Challenge of Societal Democratization
Emanuela Lombardo

Virtual Brokers and National Boundaries: Transnational Online Networks in European Anti-Gender Movements
Dominika Tronina

Capitalizing on COVID-19: Crisis Exploitation in the Christian Right's International Campaign for Family Values
Martijn Mos

The Making of a Translocal Anti-Gender Alliance and Hope for Progressive Change
Ipek Demirsu

Anti-Gender Civilizationism and the West-East Divide: The Case of the World Congress of Families
Katja Kahlina

Who's the Real Feminist? Feminist Discursive Boundary Making in the Context of Anti-Gender Campaigns
Kerstin Jacobsson, Eva Karlberg, Elżbieta Korolczuk, and Anna Meeuwisse

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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 10

David Meyer (Irvine) closes the conference with a dynamic presentation on "How to Save the World"

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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 10

Steven Lauterwasser (Northeastern University) uses DOCA to examine the pre-history of the immigration rights movements.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Final conference panel 😔

Leslie Wood (York) on when, why and how movements look to the past.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hank Johnston (SDSU & @mobyjournal founder/publisher) put himself on the program for a talk on structural and cognitive availability in the Hong Kong student movement.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Junghun Oh (UCSD) on how marginalized actors develop new political identities using the case of mothers in the Korean disability rights movement.

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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Starting of the afternoon, Junius Brown (Berkeley) on performative governance as a state strategy in China.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Rasha Naseif (UC-Merced) on barriers and accelerators to working-class youth participation in climate action.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Jasmine Till (UCLA) on activist burnout and self-care in Asian American social movements

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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Conor McCutcheon (NYU) on movement-countermovement dynamics and identity formation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Conor McCutcheon (NYU) on movement-countermovement dynamics and identity formation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 9

Moby Conference Day 2

Aaron Schutz (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) on how "mobilize" is a swear word to organizers.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Final panel of the day

Jenn Earl (Delaware) on catching up with repressive governments in our understanding how repression works.

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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Final organizational strategies panelist:

Barak Kesgin (Istanbul Beykent) on waves of activism in the animal rights movement in Turkey.

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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

More from the organizational strategy panel

Lynsy Smithson-Stanley (JHU/SNF Agora) on designing resilient coalitions in the climate movement.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Afternoon Organizational Strategy panel

Paul Dosh (Macalester) on the strategies of goals of prison reform movements in Latin America.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Media and Movements

Ana Lopez Rico (UCSD) on how US cultural entrepreneurs responded to femicide in Ciudad Juarez.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Media and Movements Panel

Thomas Davidson (Rutgers) on mechanisms for gaming online engagement used by the far right.

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Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Media and Movements Panel

Zahra Mansoursharifloo (Kansas) shows how celebrity capital turned into political capital during the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Media and Movements Panel

Grey Rochon (UC Irvine) on how nonviolent occupations led SDS to break through the protest paradigm and receive substantive coverage.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Prochoice advocates deployed a variety of arguments with state-level variation, while pro-life posters only had one nation-wide, time-invariant frame.

Mobilization @mobilization.bsky.social · Jul 8

Final panelist on the right-wing: Kelsey Kretschmer (Oregon State) on threats and opportunities after Roe using topic modeling to look at state-level patterns in social media rhetoric.

Prochoice tweet volume went up everywhere, but most where rights faced the greatest threat.

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