This session seeks papers on issues pertaining to resource-based communities. Papers could cover topics relating to community challenges, differences, strategies in relation to future sustainability, the boom and bust nature of some types of resource [...]
This is intended as a round table discussion about the economic and social relationships between rural and fringe areas including but not exclusively, issues such as education, jobs, and food (production and access). Session Organizer: [...]
This session invites papers concerned with broadening our conceptualization of social movements beyond contentious politics approaches. Macro and micro perspectives are welcome, along with comments on recent debates in the field, including those surrounding the [...]
Case studies form the core of social movements scholarship. The session welcomes papers that focus on particular instances of collective action as bases for discussion of social movement approaches and concepts. Investigations of recent examples [...]
The 30-odd years of socioeconomic transition in China brought about many challenges to individuals, communities, social groups, and the nation as a whole. Various reforms led by the central government had different results – some [...]