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Activism, Strategies, and Social Structures<\/h1>\n

Temi Ogunye (University of Oxford); Antoine Louette (Humboldt University, Berlin)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Humanities Bridgeford Street Building: Room 1.69<\/em><\/p>\n

A common complaint made about contemporary political theory is that it is far too focused on describing what a perfect society looks like, or what is wrong with contemporary societies, and not focused enough on exploring the means by which to right these wrongs and move toward the ideal (Mills 2009).\u00a0<\/p>\n

This criticism seems to us to be basically right. But it would not be correct to say that nothing has been said about the means by which to improve society. Political theorists have had a fair amount to say about\u202f\u2018civil disobedience\u2019 for instance (Rawls 1971). Indeed, in recent years, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to allegedly\u202f\u2018uncivil\u2019 forms of activism from hacktivism to hunger strikes, rioting to revolution (Smith 2018, Pasternak 2019).\u00a0<\/p>\n

What all of these forms of activism have in common, however, is that they typically have the laws and policies of the state as their targets. And while this kind of activism is of course essential, in this panel we want to draw attention to forms of activism that have social phenomena other than law or policy as their targets: social structures and practices, specifically, with their constituent norms and ideologies, their logics and socialization processes, and their supporting enforcement mechanisms and material conditions (Sewell 1992, Celikates 2016, Bicchieri 2017).\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is important, because while law and policy can of course affect social structures, the relationship between them is complex and bidirectional: structural change is not simply and inevitably downstream from legal change. The relative neglect of contemporary attempts to disrupt prevalent norms, queer social meanings, or sabotage material conditions does a disservice to political theorists aiming to understand \u2013 and to participate in \u2013\u202fthe struggle against the forms of oppression, domination, and exploitation that plague modern societies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreover, when attention is paid to norms and social practices (e.g., Haslanger 2017, Olin-Wright 2019, Lu 2023), much remains to be said about how exactly they are to be changed: not just what is permissible in this regard, but also what is needed (whether it is radical change or something else, and how to prioritize between different ends), what works best (either in general or in the present conjuncture), how to go about it (strategically and tactically), who is responsible for it (morally and\/or politically), and how they can become historically efficacious (including through self-transformation and the construction of transnational solidarity).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The aim of this workshop is to move towards remedying these relative neglects by facilitating discussion on activism \u2013\u202fwhether feminist, antiracist, anticapitalist, environmentalist, or all of the above \u2013\u202fthat is not (just) directed at law and policy but also targets norms and social structures, with particular emphasis on precise strategies and hands-on tactics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Monday 11th<\/sup> September<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Xenophon Tenezakis<\/em>: Activism, Social Norms and Social Change
According to Spinoza and Zhuangzi<\/p>\n

Bettina Lange<\/em>: Decoupling driving and autonomy<\/p>\n

Paul Raekstad<\/em>: Activist Strategy for the Climate Crisis<\/p>\n

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Tuesday 12th<\/sup> September<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Carla Silva<\/em>: Paths followed by the Brazilian Black Social Movement<\/p>\n

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Madeleine Sallustio<\/em>: The paradoxical future temporalities of
neo-peasant community projects. For an anthropology of incoherence<\/p>\n

Francisco Garcia Gibson<\/em>: How to be Politically Influential as an Academic Philosopher<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Wednesday 13th<\/sup> September<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Keunchang Oh<\/em>: Situating Anti-racist Social Movements as Pragmatic Learning and Unlearning<\/p>\n

Steph Hanlon<\/em>: Religious Signifiers, Repeal, and the Politics of
Interpretation<\/p>\n

Robin Zheng<\/em>: Solidarity, Disagreement, and Strategies for Change<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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