Since the recognition of the relevance of participation and mobilisation has been growing in different areas, the study of contentious politics has been increasingly interacting with other fields, both within and beyond sociology and political science.

The goal of this Section is to provide an opportunity to further develop such cross-sectoral insights, favouring the cooperation of researchers coming from different fields of political science.

We invite Panels and Papers that focus on the interaction between the literature on contentious politics, including both political participation and social mobilization, and other fields of political science, both from the theoretical and the empirical point of view. Examples of panels: Social movements and political parties; Social movements and migrations; Social movements and memory; Social movements and media; Social movements and industrial relations; Social movements and political transformations; Social movements and international relations.