Adventures in meaningful social movement research

Always keen to try to ‘save the world’ Clare Saunders has been an environmentalist academic for the past two decades. What began as idealistic passion to protect Mother Earth has become an endeavour to use robust research methods to understand and help environmental and social justice movements. In this talk, Clare will share insights on a number of dilemmas facing these movements. How might movement factions be united? How can movements best make decisions in ways true to their participatory ethos? Who takes to the streets and how we might move beyond the usual suspects? Which types of protests get the most media coverage? How do the public talk about protest? And are there better ways than protest to motivate people to engage in pro-environmental behaviour?  Her talk will show why it is important for social movement research to have clear conceptual underpinnings, to construct effective sampling procedures and to produce research that is respectful of, and useful to, the activists who do the ‘real work’ of instigating progressive change.

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