Repression and Mobilization: What We Know and Where We Should Go From Here

过去，社会学的社会运动和集体行动研究主要集中在民主国家的动员上。相比之下，政治学中对动员-镇压关系的研究主要集中在专制背景下的抗议。这两个领域都忽视了对方提供的重要见解。最近，随着来自镇压和民主政权的新数据的出现，以及关于国家建设、政治控制和文化的新理论视角进入社会运动研究以及镇压/人权研究，学者们越来越有兴趣重新审视和重新定义这种关系。这项研究包括一个研讨会，旨在汇集20名在不同环境中工作的初级和高级研究人员。主要目标是解决关于民主和专制国家的镇压策略如何在理论上形成争论，动员结构，以及作为抵抗，抗议和叛乱周期中的各个点的机会和集体身份的框架的中断。工作坊的成果将是由主办单位编辑的一本书。该活动旨在为建立一个学者网络做出贡献，这些学者既采用单一国家的方法，也采用全球/比较的方法来研究这些问题。

In the past, social movement and collective action research in sociology has concentrated largely on mobilization in democratic states. In contrast, studies of the mobilization-repression nexus in political science focus on protest in principally authoritarian contexts. Both areas have neglected important insights provided by the other. Recently, as new data from repressive as well as democratic regimes have become available, and as new theoretical perspectives on state building, political control, and culture have found their way into social movement studies as well as research on repression/human rights, there is growing interest among scholars to reexamine and reconceptualize this relationship. This research involves a workshop designed to bring together twenty junior and senior researchers who are working in diverse settings. The primary goal is to address the hiatus in theory concerning how the range of repressive tactics in democratic and authoritarian states shapes repertoires of contention, mobilizing structures, and the framing of opportunities and collective identities as various points in cycles of resistance, protest, and rebellion. The workshop output will be a book edited by the organizers. The activity is to contribute to the creation of a network of scholars who come to these issues embracing both single-state as well as global/comparative approaches.