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

过去，社会学中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，政治学中对动员和镇压之间关系的研究主要集中在威权背景下的抗议活动上。这两个领域都忽视了对方提供的重要见解。最近，随着来自专制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被应用到社会运动研究以及关于镇压/人权的研究中，学者们对重新审视和重新定义这种关系的兴趣越来越大。这项研究包括一个研讨会，旨在将在不同环境中工作的20名初级和高级研究人员聚集在一起。主要目标是解决理论上的空白，即民主和威权国家的一系列镇压策略如何塑造争斗、动员结构以及机会和集体身份的框架，作为抵抗、抗议和叛乱循环中的不同点。研讨会的输出将是由组织者编辑的一本书。这项活动的目的是帮助建立一个研究这些问题的学者网络，既包括单一国家的方法，也包括全球/比较方法。

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.