Category Archives: Cluster News
2022 Best Student Paper Award Recipient
This year’s CSA PSSM Best Student Paper Award was presented to Max Chewinski (University of British Columbia), for his paper entitled “It Became a Battlefield: Emotions, Polarization and Disengagement from Environmental Deliberations.” The adjudication committee found Max’s paper to make … Continue reading
PSSM Sessions at CSA 2022
The Political Sociology and Social Movements Research Cluster will be hosting 6 virtual sessions and a business meeting at our annual conference. The sessions and meetings are listed below in Eastern Daylight Time. For more detailed information, please visit the … Continue reading
2022 Best Student Paper Award – Submit by April 15
The Political Sociology and Social Movements (PSSM) Research Cluster is now accepting submissions for the Best Student Award, to be presented to the graduate student (MA or PhD) whose paper is judged by the research cluster’s Awards Committee to be … Continue reading
2021 Best Student Paper Award Recipient
This year’s CSA PSSM Best Student Paper Award was presented to Kristen Bass (University of Toronto), for her paper entitled “Étudiants en grève: Cultural Repertoires of Labour Organizing in the 2012 Quebec Student Strikes.” The award committee was impressed with … Continue reading
PSSM Best Student Paper Award
PSSM Best Student Paper Award The Political Sociology and Social Movements (PSSM) Research Cluster is now accepting submissions for the Best Student Award, to be presented to the graduate student whose paper is judged by the research cluster’s Awards Committee … Continue reading
2021 PSSM Sessions at Congress
The Political Sociology and Social Movements Research Cluster is preparing for a busy conference season with 2 invited panels and 8 sessions at this year’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, held via Zoom from May 31 – June … Continue reading
Professor Barry Eidlin on Athlete Strikes for Racial Justice
Professor Barry Eidlin (McGill University) uses some basic tools of sociological analysis (relying particularly on Erik Olin Wright and Howard Kimeldorf) to think through the broader implications of the recent strikes for racial justice by professional athletes in a piece published on … Continue reading
Invitation to Submit to Cambridge Elements Series in Contentious Politics
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Cambridge University Press Elements series on Contentious Politics, which we are co-editing. Cambridge Elements are a new concept in academic publishing and scholarly communication, combining some of the best features of books … Continue reading
PSSM Sessions at Congress, June 2019
The Political Sociology and Social Movements (PSSM) research cluster is preparing for another active conference season at this year’s Congress, held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. The conference is being held on the traditional, ancestral, and … Continue reading
The Future of Social Movements in Canada – Nov 16, 2018
The 4th annual SD Clark Symposium will be held on 16 November at the University of Toronto. This year’s topic is “The Future of Social Movements in Canada,” featuring presentations by some of Canada’s leading social movement scholars including Catherine Corrigal-Brown, Tina … Continue reading