The social movements that impact societies today are diverse, politically, culturally, and organisationally. They navigate our changing world in sometimes unexpected ways: ‘change’ is complex, constant, and often counterintuitive. Contemporary social movements are connected (and divided) by concerns, challenges, and socio-digital networks where the local cannot be understood without putting it into dialogue with the global. Protests and movements today have a global resonance even if they appear as ephemeral and sometimes isolated events, which explains why they can go beyond specific events to be translated into a multiplicity of social movements on a global scale.

Social Movements in a Changing World is an interdisciplinary conference attending to social movements as they intersect with one another and encounter, enact, and react to our changing world.

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

Dr Luke Yates (University of Manchester): keynote speaker

Zhihui Hu (University of Sheffield) Identity, Legitimacy and Risk: The framing of homosexuality in British newspapers on the occasion of the enactment of Section 28 in 1988 and its repeal in 2003

Hou Anran (Beijing Normal University & Hong Kong Baptist University United International College: The narrative of “madwoman” in #MeToo movement: discourses of intersectionality’s power

Sophie Atherton (University of Manchester): Trans students’ engagement with social movements and activism in school

Chalisa Chintrakarn (University of Birmingham): Cosmetic Surgery and Intersectionality: Young Thai Female Risk-Takers through Beauty

Qianyu Wang, Woonie (University of Leeds): Neoliberal feminism in China: the case of Fashion influencers

Bahar Zandrazavi & Elaheh Razazedeh (University of Tehran): Social media and everyday politics: Lived Experiences of Afghan immigrant women in Iran

Eleanor Godwin (University of Manchester): Committing a Crime to Save the Planet: Climate Activism, Civil Disobedience and the Defence of Necessity

Kashfia Ameen (University of Manchester): Worker Protest over National Minimum Wage Increases: Evidence from the Bangladeshi Garment Industry

Morgan Rhys Powell (University of Manchester): Deciding to Defy: Collective Contention as Collective Cognition in the UK’s Gig Economy Strikes

TIMETABLE

Session 1: Keynote

9:20 - 9.30 am Zoom room opens for attendees to arrive

9.30 - 9.40 am Welcome/Introduction

9.40 - 10.10 am Keynote speech - Dr Luke Yates

10.10 - 10.20 am Q & A

Session 2

10.22 - 10.42 am Zhihui Hu - Identity, Legitimacy and Risk: The framing of homosexuality in British newspapers on the occasion of the enactment of Section 28 in 1988 and its repeal in 2003

10.44 - 11.05 am Hou Anran & Joseph Joo Suk Park - The narrative of “madwoman” in #MeToo movement: Discourses of intersectionality’s power

11.05 - 11.15 am Q & A

11.15 - 11.30 am Coffee Break

Session 3

11.32 - 11.52 am Trans students’ engagement with social movements and activism in school Sophie Atherton

11.54 - 12.10 pm Cosmetic Surgery and Intersectionality: Young Thai Female Risk-Takers through Beauty Chalisa Chintrakarn

12.12 - 12.32 pm Neoliberal feminism in China: The case of Fashion influencer Qianyu Wang, Woonie

12.32 - 12.42 pm Q & A

12.42 - 1.30 pm Lunch break

Session 4

1.32 - 1.52 pm Social media and everyday politics: Lived Experiences of Afghan immigrant women in Iran - Bahar Zandrazavi & Elaheh Razazedeh

1.54 - 2.20 pm Committing a Crime to Save the Planet: Climate Activism, Civil Disobedience and the Defence of Necessity - Eleanor Godwin

2.20 - 2.30 pm Q & A

2.30 - 2.45 pm Coffee Break

Session 5

2.47 - 3.05 pm Worker Protest over National Minimum Wage Increases: Evidence from the Bangladeshi Garment Industry - Kashfia Ameen

3.07 - 3.30 pm Deciding to Defy: Collective Contention as Collective Cognition in the UK’s Gig Economy Strikes - Morgan Rhys Powell

3.30 - 3.55 pm General Q & A

3.55 - 4 pm Closing speech