Sub-theme 16: Becoming Agents of Change: Societal Disruption, Resistance, Movements, and the Formation of Activists
Convenors:
Craig Prichard, Massey University, New Zealand
W.E. Douglas Creed, University of Rhode Island, USA, & University of Melbourne, Australia
Samer Abdelnour, University of Edinburgh Business School, United Kingdom
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 08, 10:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Welcome by the convenors & [1] Mobilizing around Contested Issues
Chair: W.E. Douglas Creed, Craig Prichard & Samer Abdelnour
Simeon Vidolov and Susi Geiger
Uncovering the incipient becomings of (digital)
social movements
Elena Bruni, Renate E. Meyer and Dennis Jancsary
Mobilizing for the ‘red pill’? Coalition
building and frame alignment in the anti-vaccination movement
Manuel F. Ramirez
Liberating creative imagination: How internal activists change organizational environmental imaginaries
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 08, 16:00 to 20:00, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
[2] Digital Identities] & [3] Change Agents
Break 1: 18:00 to 18:30
Chair: Doug & Samer
Marjan De Coster and Patrizia Zanoni
"We are the 99%": The dialectic struggle of constituting and mobilizing ‘the people’ in the mediated scenes of power
Dima Louis and Michelle Mielly
Collective identity in digitally-mediated social movements: The case of Lebanon’s October revolution
Ali Abu-Yasein
Infrapolitical Cyberculture & the Construction of Alternative Community Spaces Amidst Spatial Repression
Cecile Feront, Stephanie Bertels and Ralph Hamann
How do privileged insiders become change agents? A study of institutional volition
Yi Ning (Eileen) Chiu
A qualitative analysis of union growth in the healthcare sector in Taiwan
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16:00–18:00: “Digital Identities”: Louis & Mielly al.; Abu-Yasein; De Coster & Zanoni
18:30–20:00: “Change Agents”: Feront et al.; Murtagh & Nowak
16:00–18:00: “Digital Identities”: Louis & Mielly al.; Abu-Yasein; De Coster & Zanoni
18:30–20:00: “Change Agents”: Feront et al.; Murtagh & Nowak
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 09, 08:30 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
[4] Change and Disruption & [5] Collective Action for Accountability in Crises
Break 1: 10:00 to 10:30
Chair: [4] Craig & Samer, [5] Doug, Craig & Samer
Arti Sharma
ASHASOFT: A study of technological change intervention at National Health Mission, India
Chayanika Bhayana, Kashika Sud and Anil K. Gupta
Taxonomy of dissent: Selected cases of social disruption, resistance, and movements from India
W.E. Douglas Creed, Lina Daouk-Öyry, Alain Daou, Rich DeJordy, Carmen Geha, Charlotte Karam and Shawn Scott
No guidebook or map: The institutional work of expertise in ection in post-blast Beirut
Alicja Dańkowska
Building a civic anti-coal opposition in Poland:
Multi-level perspective on a collective agency and framings development
Nathania Chua
Resisting by numbers: A virtual ethnography of audit as collective action in the COVID-19 crisis
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08:00–10:00: “Change and Disruption ”: Chiu; Sharma; Bhayana et al.
10:30–12:00: “Collective Action for Accountability in Crises”: Creed et al.; Dańkowska; Chua
08:00–10:00: “Change and Disruption ”: Chiu; Sharma; Bhayana et al.
10:30–12:00: “Collective Action for Accountability in Crises”: Creed et al.; Dańkowska; Chua
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 09, 16:00 to 17:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
[6] Opposition to ID Construction
Chair: Doug & Samer
Joaquin Cestino, Brian McCauley, Joseph Macey and Brian McCauley
Aiming for validity: The experience of conflicts in legitimacy judgments and new grassroots activism
Sung-Chul Noh and Johan Chu
Divided we stand, united we fall: Management actions to fragment employee activists
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 10, 10:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
[7] Identities and Identity Work & Wrap-up by the convenors
Chair: Doug, Craig & Samer
Rich DeJordy, W.E. Douglas Creed, Alain Daou, Lina Daouk-Öyry, Carmen Geha, Charlotte Karam and Shawn Scott
Walking an identity tight-rope: Organizing to transform rage into hope through sustained collective action
Amira Benali and Florence Villesèche
Alternative organizational models as an anchor for the activist identity: Exploring the narratives of women social entrepreneurs
in post-revolution Tunisia
Erica Gabrielle Foldy and Bianca Almedina
“The team was basically like Sweden”: Discursive constructions of Whiteness in change agent work groups