Today is the first day of our International Workshop “Quietly Standing Out” organised by Université de Montreal that invite international scholars to join a collective discussion on the alternatives forms of socio-political engagement (from do-it- yourself and lifestyle politics to day-to-day citizen experiments, quiet activism and self- governance), and to “reflect upon the nature of this emerging but quietly standing out phenomena that is often overlooked in social sciences, often not captured by traditional understandings of political or public participation.”
Organized by: Laurence Bherer, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal; Geneviève Cloutier, Center for research on planning and development, Université Laval Pascale Dufour, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal; Stéphanie Gaudet, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Université d’Ottawa; Françoise Montambeault, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
The workshop is happening in four meetings.
Friday, October 2 : Opening session and Workshop Session #1 – Spaces of informality, spaces of politics
Discussant: Françoise Montambeault; Chair: Pascale Dufour
Popular Culture and the State: Transgressive Practices and the Political Process in Mexico City Julie-Anne Boudreau, INRS-UCS
Re-envisionning the Public Sphere : Evidence from Pakistan Mehr Latif, University of Pittsburgh
Radical Manifestations of Permanence: Community and Bottom-Up Planning in Oakland’s Informal Settlements Gordon Douglas, San José State University
Hybrid Political Spaces: The Negotiation of the Negative Impacts of Agriculture in Argentina and Mining in Peru Pablo Lapegna, University of Georgia; Maritza Paredes, Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru
Friday, October 16 : Workshop Session #2 – Empowerment and Transformative Practices
Discussant: Laurence Bherer; Chair: Françoise Montambeault
Unimaginable Futures: Activism in the Face of Social and Planetary Collapse, Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California
Quietly Standing Out : Informal Practices of Political Translation and Solidarity with Refugees in Malmö and Copenhagen, Nicole Doerr, University of Copenhagen
Political Energy, Political Evaporation: Evaluating the Practice of Shopping for Food System Change, Emily Huddart Kennedy, University of British Columbia; Hannah Wittman, University of British Columbia; Cathryn Sprague
Friday, November 13 : Workshop Session #3 – Informality and Resistance
Discussant: Pascale Dufour; Chair: Laurence Bherer
Critical Social Innovation as the “Ordinary Political”: Contesting the Post-Political City via Performative Material Political Practices, Chiara Certomà, University of Turin
Street Artists as Urban Citizens : Evidence from Latin America, Olivier Dabène, CERI-Sciences Po Paris
Resisting Adaptation and Adapting to Resist : A Systematic Literature Review of Adaptation to Climate Change, Ana Maria Vargas, Swedish International Center for Local Democracy; Ebba Brink, Lund University; Emily Boyd, Lund University
Friday, November 20 (11:00-1:30): Workshop Session #4 and closing session – Politisation: What Counts as Political?
Discussant: Pascale Dufour; Chair: Françoise Montambeault
Discreet Politisation: The Experience of Discrimination in Deprived Neighborhoods, Marion Carrel, Université de Lille-CeRIES
Extending the Domain of Politisation: Thinking Ordinary Relationships to Politics, Camille Hamidi, University de Lyon 2 – Triangle
Between Compassion and Protest: The Politisation of Volunteers in the British and French Refugee Support Movement, Pierre Montforte, University of Leicester; Gaja Maestri, Aston University
Picture by Pascal Dufour
Chiara Certomà 