Speaker: Lorenzo Bosi (EUI). Discussant: Jonas Bergan Draege (EUI)

In his work Lorenzo Bosi presents how the wave of contention commencing in late 1960s with the mobilization of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement (henceforth CRM) gradually institutionalized. Different strands of the movement institutionalized at different stages during the same existance of the movement itself and afterwards, while other never took such path. However, this work is not limited to empirically describing different stages in a process of institutionalization. It also builds on the tenets of a strategic-relational approach and of a process tracing research strategy so as to provide a nuanced understanding of how and when the phenomenon of institutionalization of political mobilization unfolds via particular sequences of mechanisms. This work advances an approach to institutionalization based on a theoretical synthesis capable of capturing and explaining the dynamic, relational interplay between social movements and the state.

The talk will take place at the EUI Seminar room (ground floor), Villa Pagliaiuola , Via delle Palazzine 17-19  on the 4th of March from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM