This group is dedicated to study of political strife from a broad perspective, which includes: social movements and cycles of protest, but also others more specific or extensive forms of collective action, from riots to revolutions through armed conflicts and democratization processes, without losing sight of other more routine, such as elections or parliamentary work.
The group pays special attention to impact of social movements and civil society, the symbolic dimension of collective action, its connection with the inequalities and conflicts that contemporary society is going through, and the processes of democratic deepening or retreat.
These areas and interests are specified in the following lines of research:
- Democracy, inequalities and social rights.
- Conflict, revolutions and protest.
- Collective identities, discursive strategies and political emotions.
- Mobilizations, activisms and performances.
- Political strife, collective action and social movements.
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