CBSM Workshop 2002

AUTHORITY IN CONTENTION:
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

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PLENARY SESSION I

AUTHORITY IN CONTENTION: OVERVIEW

Wednesday, August 14th 8:30 am - 10:15 am Presider: Dan Myers

Social Movements as Challenges to Authority: Resistance to an Emerging Conceptual Hegemony.  David A. Snow, University of California, Irvine   

Soft Repression: Ridicule, Stigma and Silencing in Gender-based Movements.   Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison    

Authority Within Movements.   Francesca Polletta, Columbia University   

Setting the Reach of Protest: Institutions, Movements and Social Ties in Spanish Working-Class Collective Action.  Robert Fishman, University of Notre Dame      ; Suzanne Coshow, University of Notre Dame    

WORKING GROUPS SESSION I

Wednesday, August 14th
10:30 am - 12:15 am

Social Movements in 'the Absence' of Authority.   Jennifer Johnson, University of Chicago     ; Daniel Goldstein, College of the Holy Cross    

Health Social Movements.   Phil Brown, Brown University   ; Stephen Zavestoski, Providence College   ; Sabrina McCormick, Brown University   ; Brian Mayer, Brown University  

Religion.  Rhys Williams, University of Cincinnati  

Culture and Social Movements.  Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame  

Mass Media.  Deana Rohlinger, University of California, Irvine  

New Frontiers in the Study of Cross-Border Contentious Action.  Adam Flint, Hartwick College  

Direct Action: Striving for Political Autonomy.  Lynn Owens, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill  

Institutional Theory and the Study of Social Movements.   Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Indiana University Bloomington  

Organizational Theory.  Matthew Archibald, Emory University  

Challenging Psychotherapeutic Authority.  Nancy Whittier, Smith College      

Drag Performances as Social Protest.  Verta Taylor, The Ohio State University     ; Joshua Gamson, Yale University    

Modeling Limits and Possibilities for Feminist Activism in Extra-feminist Settings.  Benita Roth, State University of New York at Binghamton   

Reclaiming the Subversive Gospel: The Religious and Political Resistance of the Plowshares Movement.  Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Duquesne University and Princeton University    

CONCURRENT SESSIONS I

Wednesday, August 14th
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm

Session A: Challenges to Non-State Authority

Presider: Dan Cress

Health Social Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement Research. (Full Version) (Brief Version)   Phil Brown, Brown University     ; Stephen Zavestoski, Providence College     ; Sabrina McCormick, Brown University   ; Brian Mayer, Brown University    

The Targets of Mobilization for Contemporary Environmental Organizations.   Kenneth T. Andrews, Harvard University     ; Bob Edwards, East Carolina University    

The Struggle for Credibility: Rational-Legal Authority, the Negotiated Order and Symbolic Power in Schools.  Timothy Hallett, Northwestern University    

The American Labor Movement's (Surprising) Economic Impact: How Unions Challenge Consumerism and Corporate Governance.  Teresa Ghilarducci, University of Notre Dame    

Insurgency and Policy Outcomes: The Impact of Protests/Riots on Urban Spending.  Arthur Jaynes, The Ohio State University    

The Development of Civil Rights Protest, 1947-1997: Collective Grievances, Mobilizing Structures and Political Opportunities.  Jon Agnone, University of Washington     ; J. Craig Jenkins, The Ohio State University     ; David Jacobs, The Ohio State University    

Racists, Feminists, Crime, and Low Voter Turnout: The Social Structure of Discontent.  Rory McVeigh, University of Notre Dame    

Practices of Resistance: The Patriot Movement Versus Legal-Bureaucratic Authority (I Fought the Law and the Law Won).  Lorna Mason, City University of New York    

Transnational Imagery and the Use of History in Feminisms: A Comparative Outlook.  M. Bahati Kuumba, Spelman College     ; Benita Roth, State University of New York at Binghamton  

How the World Conference Matters:  The India Case.  Dongxiao Liu, Harvard University    

The Challenge of September 11th to Secularism to International Relations.  Dan Philpott, University of Notre Dame       

Pathways to Participation: NGOs and INGOs in Japanese Climate Change Policy-Making. Jeffrey Broadbent, University of Minnesota    ; Stephanie Devitt, University of Minnesota  

Cultural Targets and Confrontation: "New" Versus Old Social Movements, 1968-1975.  Nella Van Dyke, The Ohio State University     ; Verta Taylor, The Ohio State University     Sarah A. Soule, University of Arizona    

Collective Identity and Cultural Challenge: Bridging the Gap Between Subcultures and Social Movements.  Ross Haenfler, University of Colorado at Boulder    

Religious Schools and Civic Participation of Congregations.   David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame    

Questioning Heteronormativity: Lesbian and Gay Challenges to Educational Practice.  Miriam Smith, Carleton University    

Status, Networks, and Social Movement Participation: The Case of Striking Workers.  Marc Dixon, The Ohio State University     ; Vincent J. Roscigno, The Ohio State University    

Personal Frame Consistency and Individual Mobilization.  Matthew Baggetta, Harvard University    

Explaining Religious Tradition Variation in Protest Participation.  Kraig Beyerlein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill    

Contesting Global Authorities: The Anti-Globalisation Movement and Its Contradictions.  Tim Jordan, The Open University    

Rules of Engagement, Credibility, and the Political Economy of Organizational Dissent.  Nicholas Argyres, Boston University     ; Vai-Lam Mui, University of Notre Dame    

Regulation and Repertoires: Contentious Claims, Cognition and Political Economy.  John Krinsky, Columbia University    

A Precarious Pact: The Political Economy of State-Making on the Margins in Modern Mexico.  Jennifer L. Johnson, University of Chicago    

Framing Abortion Globally: Transnational Framing of Access to Abortion in the United States, England and Ireland.  Deana Rohlinger, University of California, Irvine     ; David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine    

Cyberspace as Free Space for Collective Action: A Case from China.  Goubin Yang, University of Hawaii at Manoa    

America Speaks?: The Emergence of Opinion Polls in U.S. Political Discourse.  Susan Ohmer, University of Notre Dame    

The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: The 1960 Sit-In Movement in the American South.  Kenneth Andrews, Harvard University     ; Michael Biggs, University of Oxford    

Social Movements in 'the Absence' of Authority.   Jennifer Johnson, University of Chicago    

Health Social Movements.   Phil Brown, Brown University   ; Stephen Zavestoski, Providence College   ; Sabrina McCormick, Brown University   ; Brian Mayer, Brown University  

Religion.  Rhys Williams, University of Cincinnati  

Culture and Social Movements.  Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame  

Mass Media.  Deana Rohlinger, University of California, Irvine  

New Frontiers in the Study of Cross-Border Contentious Action.  Adam Flint, Hartwick College  

Direct Action: Striving for Political Autonomy.  Lynn Owens, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill  

Institutional Theory and the Study of Social Movements.   Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Indiana University Bloomington  

Organizational Theory.  Matthew Archibald, Emory University  

Controlling Protest: New Directions for Research on the Social Control of Protest.  Jennifer Earl, University of California, Santa Barbara   

Preventative Medicine: The Monitoring of Racial Boundaries.  Jenny Irons, University of Arizona   

The Role of Trade Unions in Creating and Maintaining a Democratic Society.  Barbara Fick, University of Notre Dame Law School   ; Ada Verloren, University of Notre Dame Law School   

Broadening Our Understanding of Contention and Authority.  Doug McAdam, Stanford University