Tri-Campus Workshop
on Contentious Politics

Saturday, October 23rd
Cornell University
104 White Hall

8:30 - 9:00am – Coffee, bagels and muffins

9:00 - 10:15am – Structure and action in contentious politics. Discussants: Mark
Anner (Cornell) and Bill Martin (Binghamton).
    Anna Zalik (Cornell University) - On the resistance to the oil industry in the
    Nigerian Delta and the Mexican Gulf regions
     Hannah Wittman (Cornell University) - Movement and Counter-Movement:
    the Soy Society, the Landless Workers Movement, and the production of Mato Grosso's agrarian landscape
 

10:15 - 11:30am – Community action and contentious politics. Discussants:
Sharon Lean (Colgate) and Heidi Swarts (Syracuse).
    Alicia Swords (Cornell University) - Popular Education Strategies and State-Civil Society
    practices among Neo-Zapatista Social Movement Networks in Chiapas, Mexico
    (for a copy of Alicia's paper, please email her at as239@cornell.edu ).
    Alex Da Costa (Cornell University) - A Legitimate Space? The Municipal Council for
    the Development and Participation of the Black Community in Campinas
    Jessica F. Wintringham (Syracuse University) - Gender, Community Organizations and
    the Development of Political Capital

11:30 - 1:00 pm –Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:00pm – Islamic religion and women’s movements. Discussants: Jens Rydgren
(Stockholm) and Mable Berezin (Cornell).
    Havva Karakas-Keles (Syracuse University) - Turkish Women's Movements: 
    Interplay between Framing Processes and Ideologies
    Jekaterina Kalandadze (Syracuse University) - Independence Movements 
    in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (1986-1991) Through the Prism of the Political Process Theory
    Ecehan Koc (Cornell University) - Transnational Religion and Fading States? 
    Religious Activism among Turkish Immigrants in Germany	


2:15 - 3:30pm – Contentious Politics: General Themes. Discussants: John Glenn
(Council for European Studies) and Hans Peter Schmitz (Syracuse).
    Holly Dobbins (Syracuse University) - The International Indigenous People’s 
    Movement: Arctic Influences
    Ion Bogdan Vasi (Cornell University) - The Implementation of Environmental 
    Policies: Social Movement Infrastructures and Organizational Characteristics

3:30 - 4:00pm – Closing remarks: Sidney Tarrow, Cornell, Moderator

For more information, please contact Jennifer Gomez at jkg24@cornell.edu