Start
19/10/2023 - 12:30 pm
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19/10/2023 - 2:00 pm
The Politics and Urban Governance (PUG) research group and the Department of Political Studies are excited to host Prof. Mario Diani as he presents Comparing Civil Society Networks: Evidence from the UK and South Africa.
Seminar Details:
Date: Thursday, 19th October 2023
Time: 12:30 – 14:00 (SAST, GMT + 2)
Locartion: HYBRID – EMS Building, Level 3, Boardroom 1 or Zoom (link included in registration form)
Click here to register.
About the Seminar and Speaker
Mario Diani (PhD 1987, Turin) has been a Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy, since 2001. He also held chairs at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (1996-2001) and ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2010-2012). He has worked extensively on social movements as a particular form of network organizing. Major works on this topic include Green Networks (Edinburgh UP 1995), Social Movements and Networks (Oxford UP 2003, co-edited with Doug McAdam), The Cement of Civil Society (Cambridge UP 2015) and Multimodal Political Networks (Cambridge UP 2021, co-authored with D Knoke, J Hollway, and D Christopoulos).
This seminar presents a comparative approach to the structure of civil society networks in different urban settings, based on a typology of “modes of coordination”. The groups and organizations promoting collective action on public goods can relate to each other in different forms. The seminar highlights some of these patterns. The comparison of networks based on different local politics shows political conditions affect not only the behaviour of specific actors but also the networks through which they coordinate. Evidence comes from projects conducted in two British cities, Glasgow and Bristol, in the early 2000s, and in Cape Town in the early 2010s.
Please refer to the poster below for more information:
Comparing Civil Society Networks Evidence from the UK and South Africa Final Seminar
