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Synchronic Entanglements and New Social Imaginaries: Anti-War Activism in Brazil and the United Kingdom in the Twenty-First Century

Coordinatore	BIRKBECK COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF LONDON    more  Organization address address: Malet Street city: LONDON postcode: WC1E 7HX contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Juan Cognome: Vidal Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 380 3141 Fax: +44 207 380 32221
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	263˙208 €
EC contributo	263˙208 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF
Funding Scheme	MC-IOF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-01-01   -   2015-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	BIRKBECK COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF LONDON  Organization address address: Malet Street city: LONDON postcode: WC1E 7HX contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Juan Cognome: Vidal Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 380 3141 Fax: +44 207 380 32221	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	263˙208.90

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The project aims to investigate the practices and modes of association of anti-war activists in Brazil and in the UK, while formulating an interaction ritual theory that places emotions and synchronicity at the centre of social process. Building on interaction ritual chains theory (Randall Collins), I articulate a notion of synchronicity that emerges from a theorisation of the relationship between social suffering, creativity, and collective process. In short, I show how actors create novel social form while synchronically entangled with one another. While proposing an innovative multi-method approach for the study of social movements, which relies on biographic interviews, network analysis, and sequence analysis, I aim to illuminate: (1) the relationship between the biographic events of activists, and the events of the movements, thus setting the stage for an eventful sociology of social movements; (2) the structure and dynamics of networks of peace activists, understood as interaction ritual chains, and having as a result particular forms of solidarity; (3) the forms of actorness and political imaginaries of the social movements. This methodology grounds a novel way of construing the relation between micro-events and macro-events; and it allows to observe how the practices of anti-war activists in the past decade rework the boundaries between state and society. In particular, the project contributes to understanding how “war” and “peace” are construed as symbolic objects in contemporary political imaginaries. Anti-war movements are privileged sites of research for studying synchronic entanglements, especially in the aftermath of the 9/11 events, the US response to them, and the revival of pacifist mobilisation that followed. Brazil and the UK constitute two very different but equally telling cases of this revival, while also being part of a global space of anti-war mobilisations.'