Cosmos Roundtable: "Comparative political ecology" with ICTA-UAB researchers

Several ICTA-UAB researchers, led by Joan Martínez Alier will be participating at the COSMOS Roundtable which will be held next Tuesday June 14^th, in Florence. This roundtable will bring together, in a transdisciplinary dialogue, two distinct yet intersecting fields of study of social movements. Scholars from SNS and Cosmos have been studying social movements and contentious politics from the interdisciplinary field of Social Movement Studies, focusing especially on the Global North, while scholars from ICTA-UAB have been researching socio-ecological conflicts, especially in the Global South, from the interdisciplinary perspective of Political Ecology and Environmental Justice. 
 

Cosmos Roundtable: Comparative political ecology: theories and methodologies for mapping and analysing social conflicts
 

Date: Tuesday, 14th of June 2022
Time: 10.30 - 13.30 CET 
Venue: Conference Hall Altana. Faculty of political and social sciences. Florence
 

Program

Session 1. Global social movements 10.30 - 12.00h (it will be released on Faculty Youtube Channel)

• Joan Martinez Alier (ICTA-UAB) - Land, Water, Air and Freedom (10:30-10:50)
• Donatella della Porta (SNS) - Transnationalization and social movements (10:50-11:10)
• Open discussion (11:10 - 12:00)

Session 2. Mapping conflicts. 12.15 - 13.30h

Methodological practices and challenges of social movements’ atlases 

• Grettel Navas (ICTA-UAB) - Overview of the EJAtlas (12:15 - 12:30) 
• Carlotta Caciagli (SNS) - Overview of mapping urban social conflicts (12:30 - 12:40)
• Open Discussion (12:40 - 13:30)

 Debate with the participation of:

• Irina Aguiari (SNS)
• May Aye (ICTA-UAB) 
• Florian Carl (SNS)
• Giuseppe Cugnata (SNS)
• Daniela Del Bene (ICTA-UAB)
• Marcel Llavero-Pasquina (ICTA-UAB)
• Brototi Roy (ICTA-UAB)
• Teresa Sanz (ICTA-UAB)
• Dalena Tran (ICTA-UAB)
• Lorenzo Velotti (SNS)
• Mariana Walter (ICTA-UAB)
• Lorenzo Zamponi (SNS)

Event description 
This roundtable will bring together, in a transdisciplinary dialogue, two distinct yet intersecting fields of study of social movements. Scholars from SNS and Cosmos have been studying social movements and contentious politics from the interdisciplinary field of Social Movement Studies, focusing especially on the Global North, while scholars from ICTA-UAB have been researching socio-ecological conflicts, especially in the Global South, from the interdisciplinary perspective of Political Ecology and Environmental Justice.

The present roundtable will be an opportunity for mutual exchange and learning between the two schools: theoretical in the first part, methodological in the second. Theoretically, the features and possibilities of existence of global movements as well as the processes of social movements’ transnationalization will be discussed. 

The two keynote speeches by Joan Martinez Alier and Donatella della Porta will be followed by an open debate with the participation of several scholars from the two schools. Then, we will discuss these issues from the methodological point of view, focusing in particular on the advantages and challenges of mapping and analyzing social conflicts, and on the relationship between academia and activism in such mapping processes.