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2021-22 Fellowship Announcement for IAS/School of Social Science

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<br>Each year, the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in
<br>Princeton, NJ, invites around 25 scholars to be in residence for the full
<br>academic year to pursue their own research. The 2021-2022 theme will be
<br>“Political Mobilizations and Social Movements.” Applications must be
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<br>There has been, in recent years, a revival and renewal of political
<br>mobilizations and social movements across the world in terms of claims as well
<br>as forms. From Hong Kong to Santiago, from Beirut to Algiers, from the Tahrir
<br>Square to the Gezi Park, from the indignados in Spain to the yellow vests in
<br>France, massive demonstrations have shaken state apparatuses, provoking
<br>democratic reforms or passive resistance, prompting the fall of governments or
<br>brutal repressions. In parallel, from gay rights to ecofeminism, from
<br>humanitarianism to veganism, from #BlackLivesMatter to #MeToo, from No Borders
<br>to Extinction Rebellion, numerous initiatives have raised awareness regarding
<br>issues related to various expressions of injustice and domination, and have
<br>sometimes generated major cultural transformations of contemporary societies.
<br>Whereas these progressive mobilizations and movements have received much
<br>attention, there has also been a resurgence of reactionary, conservative and
<br>antidemocratic responses grounded in traditionalist, fundamentalist,
<br>nationalist, xenophobic, racist, sexist and anti-feminist ideologies, which
<br>have been less studied and deserve more scrutiny. In light of this remarkable
<br>diversity, from the far left to the far right, we would like to revisit two
<br>related classical themes of the social sciences: contentious politics and
<br>collective action.
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<br>How are these manifestations of discontent about the current state of affairs
<br>to be apprehended? What do they signal about present moral, political and
<br>social crises? What do they reveal about people’s capacity to rise up even
<br>under authoritarian regimes? Are novel modes of organization being tested? Are
<br>new repertoires of action being invented? Which place does violence or,
<br>conversely, civil disobedience occupy? Under which conditions can they succeed
<br>or, on the contrary, be crushed? What are the role and responsibility of
<br>academia with regard to these protests? Which possible articulations can there
<br>be between critical theory and such mobilizations and movements? These are
<br>some of the questions we would like to address via a conversation across the
<br>disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities, in particular
<br>anthropology, sociology, history, law, philosophy, economics, political
<br>science, and literary studies. All approaches are welcome, but we are
<br>especially interested in research seeking to connect empirical investigations,
<br>be they archival, ethnographic, statistical, etc., and theoretical analysis,
<br>and we will be attentive to the presence of studies from all continents.
<br>The theme will be led by Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the
<br>Institute for Advanced Study, and Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Chair at
<br>the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Alondra Nelson,
<br>Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute.
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