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All social movement groups, organizations, and individual participants operate within structures of opportunities and constraints. Opportunities and constraints may relate to available financial resources, technologies, civic and legal space, and social support, among other factors. The degree to which these types of opportunities and/or constraints are present or absent and what form they take, significantly shape social movement participation, identity-building, organizational forms, and tactics. This panel will offer a set of diverse international and Canadian case studies that examine how resources, technologies, civic and legal space, and social support provide opportunities and constraints that structure social movements.

Recent developments—including the emergence of the People’s Party and protest movements like the “Freedom Convoy” and “1 Million March 4 Children”—challenge the narrative that Canada has resisted the rising tide of far-right movements, parties, and leaders sweeping the globe in the early 21st century. Papers in this session seek to understand the state of radical politics in Canada today; identify factors enabling and constraining its success; and situate it within a global context by outlining the distinguishing features of Canada’s far right.

This panel brings together fascinating analyses of the dynamics of social movements/political mobilizations by focusing on a wide range of issues such as environmental mobilization, LGBT activism, institutional activism, and populist mobilization. The papers present empirical cases from Canada, China, and Africa, and examine structural and cultural factors shaping pro-environmental actions, marginalized activists’ negotiating power and capacities in a political context characterized by conservative-leaning nationalism, the strategic responses of higher education institutions to social movement demands vis-à-vis equity, diversity, and inclusion, and postcolonial political mobilization igniting racial and ethnic divide.

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This panel examines various aspects of revolution, populism, and democracy. The papers present empirical cases from a diverse political context. They offer critical analyses of the spillover effects of revolutions on democracy and equality beyond a national political context, state violence and the politics of death in the context of the Arab Spring, the effects of right-wing populism on trust in voting by mail, and populism’s relationship to the pluralist principles of liberal democracy. In doing so, the panelists enrich our understanding of the dynamics of revolutionary and populist politics.

This panel brings together critical analyses of various aspects of social movements such as movement strategies and tactics, responses from those in the position of power and authority, and multilayered outcomes of movements. Examining empirical cases from a diverse political context, the papers present nuanced analyses of the role of emotions in shaping social movements’ strategies, the choice of movement tactics in dealing with an authoritarian government not willing to negotiate and compromise, protest management tactics especially the violent response of the state, and outcomes of environmental movements in a hybrid political regime.