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Accornero, G. (2022). Bridging social movement studies between Global North and Global South. PArtecipazione e COnflitto. 15 (1), 193-202

G. Accornero,  "Bridging social movement studies between Global North and Global South", in PArtecipazione e COnflitto, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 193-202, 2022

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AB  - Social movement studies are an interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and broad field transversal to
different social and human sciences, which has been growing and consolidating since the late 1970s. Since
then, and concurrent with the intensification and pluralization of protests and protestors around the world, the
recognition and establishment of social movement studies inside different areas has accompanied the
recognition of social movements as legitimate social and political actors. This variety and diversification of
perspectives and object of study has helped to include some ‘hidden’ forms of protest which are particularly
relevant outside Europe and USA, and specially in authoritarian and semi-democratic countries. Despite this, the
field of social movement studies – especially in sociology and political science – still shows difficulties in
integrating and dialoguing with other approaches to the study of conflict and resistance. Moreover, dialogue
with other epistemological sources and particularly with the Global South’s knowledge about social movements
is still hesitant. If we look at the other side of the coin, many studies on resistance, protest and social
movements in the Global South reject what are sometimes considered hegemonic – or Eurocentric – social
movement theories, which is also problematic. In front of this, and acknowledging the asymmetries in epistemic
power relations, in our view, it is not a matter of opposing canter and periphery, or North and South, but of
understanding, promoting and developing multiple activist and conceptual entanglements and collaborations.
Against this background, thus, this special issue aims to contribute to the dialogue between conceptual
perspectives, approaches and fields in the Global North and South around social movements and protest.
ER  -