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ACTIVISMS
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Sponsored By: American Ethnological Society and National Association of Student Anthropologists
Friday, November 16, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:45 AM

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students
Organizers:  Omotayo T Jolaosho (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick)
Chairs:  Chris Garces (Cornell University)
Discussants:  John S Burdick (Syracuse University) and Jeffrey S Juris (Northeastern University)
8:00 AM
Dissident Bodies:Breakdowns and Continuity Between the 20 February Movement In Tangiers (Morocco) and Contestation Forms Amongst Moroccan and Tunisian Immigrants In Turin (Italy)
Alice Rossi (Doctorate School of Contemporary Anthropology. University of Milan – Bicocca)
8:15 AM
Pushing the Margin: Women’s Labor Militancy and the Egyptian Revolt of January 25th
Sherine M Hafez (University of California, Riverside)
8:30 AM
"This Is What Democracy Looks Like": Political Activism In Wisconsin (2011) and Romania (2012)
Amy Samuelson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
8:45 AM
Justice Through Remembrance: Community Mobilization In the Wake of South Africa’s Decade of Dissent
Omotayo T Jolaosho (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick)
9:00 AM
“Their Struggle Is All of Our Struggle” – Exploring Transnational Activism and Placeness In the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Robert R Sauders (Eastern Washington University)
9:15 AM
Kin, Class and Labor: Different Paradigms for Making Sense of Activism In Jordan
Fida J Adely (Georgetown University)
9:30 AM
Discussant
John S Burdick (Syracuse University)
9:45 AM
Break
10:00 AM
Comedy, Satire, Sincerity? Activisms and the Cultural Politics of Wealth In America
Angelique Haugerud (Rutgers University & Editor, American Ethnologist)
10:15 AM
Places of Entangled Contestation: Activism and the Scale of City-Planning In Milan’s No Expo Committee 
Alessandro Froldi (Loughborough University)
10:30 AM
”When You can’t Organize Anything Legally, There Is Only One Option to Implement Your Constitutional Right.” Examining Russian Youth Activists Protesting for Democracy
Laura Lyytikainen (University of Helsinki)
10:45 AM
Occupation Rhythms: On Dead Time & System Breaks
Melissa L. Rosario (Bowdoin College)
11:00 AM
Pitching Entanglements – Unfolding and Constructing a Social Movement
Ragnhild Freng Dale (University College London)
11:15 AM
The Spaces, Temporality, and Affects of the Occupy Movement
Gaston R Gordillo (University of British Columbia)
11:30 AM
Discussant
Jeffrey S Juris (Northeastern University)
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