Social Movements, the State and the Question of Autonomy

  • Dario Azzellini (Organiser)
  • Marina Sitrin (Organiser)

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Description

This panel will address the question of the meaning of autonomy from various perspectives, all based in social movement activity. Panelists will speak from: The Occupy Wall Street movement, and it’s desire to not participate in electoral politics; Experiences of autonomous movements in Argentina, struggling to simultaneously get what they can from the state while resisting it; Workers struggles for local and workers self administration in Venezuela; and International Migration and the nation state, focused on US based migrant experiences.
Period17 Mar 2012
Event typeConference
LocationUnited StatesShow on map

Fields of science

  • 506006 Peace studies
  • 506008 Conflict research
  • 504027 Special sociology
  • 509 Other Social Sciences
  • 506013 Political theory
  • 504001 General sociology
  • 506012 Political systems
  • 506003 Development policy

JKU Focus areas

  • Social Systems, Markets and Welfare States
  • Social and Economic Sciences (in general)

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