IAS Talking Points Seminar: 'The global rituals of protest'

Most of the repertoires used by social movements in Europe have remarkable global connections. By looking at selected protest tactics (e.g., shaming rituals, hunger strikes and self-immolation), the paper will examine transfers of protest cultures and routines across the globe and across a wide range of movements. How do protest tactics, rituals and symbols circulate? How do they travel throughout time and across geographical borders? Do their meanings and functions change and, if so, how? What role do protest actors play in the process? The paper aims at placing the history of modern European protest into a wider context and generating innovative questions on protest repertoires and their transmission.

Speaker

Professor Ilaria Favretto

(Senior Visiting Research Fellow IAS)

Respondents

Professor Martin Holbraad

(Professor of Social Anthropology and Head of Department, UCL)

Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite

(History, UCL)

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