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Movements as Collective Challenges to Authority Structures

University of Notre Dame August 14-15, 2002

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CONCURRENT SESSION I

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

Session A: Challenges to Non-State Authority

Paper One:  Health Social Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement Research.   Phil Brown, Brown University     ; Stephen Zavestoski, Providence College     ; Sabrina McCormick, Brown University   ; Brian Mayer, Brown University    

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

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

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

Session B: State Authority in Structural Context

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

Paper Two:  Political Opportunities and African American Protest, 1947-1997.   J. Craig Jenkins, The Ohio State University     ; David Jacobs, The Ohio State University     ; Jon Agnone, University of Washington    

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

Paper Four:  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    

Session C: Authority in International Movements

Paper One:  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  

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

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

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


CONCURRENT SESSION II

Thursday, August 15th
8:30 am - 10:15 am

Session A: Challenges to Cultural/Lifestyle Authority

Paper One:  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    

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

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

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

Session B: Authority and Micromobilization Processes

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

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

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

Session C: Political Economy

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

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

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

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

Session D: Information and Diffusion

Paper One:  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    

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

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

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