Doctoral Dissertation Research: Spatial Dimensions of Social Movements: A Geographic and Historic Network Analysis of the 'Madres de Plaza de Mayo"

一般来说，关于集体行动的地理研究和社会运动分析的正式分析框架仍然是分离的。 因此，目前尚不清楚跨空间的关系和基于地点的社会现象与社会行为者参与集体行动并试图长期维持这种行动的方式有何关系。 由于地理学家很少使用网络理论作为分析框架，而社会学家和政治科学家很少讨论地理问题，因此将社会运动作为一种集体行动的研究缺乏批判性的综合，这一问题更加严重。 本博士论文研究项目的重点是分析空间和地点作为调解社会运动组织（SMOs）的可持续性和动员的因素，这些组织是寻求实现共同社会目标的“网络的网络”。 通过马约广场母亲会（阿根廷人权运动中一个长期存在的SMO）的案例研究，博士生将具体说明SMO组织结构的变化与其可持续性和长期动员之间的关系，并特别关注网络如何跨空间构建。 该项目还将具体说明以地点为基础的集体仪式在多大程度上调解了SMOs的内部动态并影响其可持续性。 该项目依靠档案研究和人种学方法获得详细数据。 这项研究将有助于空间和社会的地理文献和当代集体行动的研究，具体说明空间和基于地点的关系如何调解社会运动的动员战略的结果和集体行动的可持续性。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。

In general, geographic research on collective action and formal analytical frameworks for social movement analysis remain divorced. As a result, it is unclear how relations across space and place-based social phenomena are related to the way in which social actors engage in collective action and attempt to sustain it over time. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that research on social movements as a type of collective action lacks critical synthesis, because geographers infrequently use network theory as an analytical framework while sociologists and political scientists rarely address geographic issues. This doctoral dissertation research project focuses on an analysis of space and place as factors mediating the sustainability and mobilization of social movement organizations (SMOs), which are "networks of networks" seeking to attain common social goals. Through a case study of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, a long-standing SMO within the human rights movement in Argentina, the doctoral candidate will specify the relationship between change in the organizational structure of SMOs and their sustainability and mobilization over time, with special attention given to how networks are structured across space. The project also will specify the extent to which place-based collective rituals mediate the internal dynamics of SMOs and affect their sustainability. The project depends on archival research and ethnographic methods to obtain detailed data. The research will contribute to the geographic literature on space and society and to contemporary research on collective action by specifying how spatial and place-based relations mediate the outcomes of mobilization strategies of social movements and the sustainability of collective action. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.