[Air-L] CityU Methodology Workshop Series on Conflict Studies (Speaker: Prof. Paul Y. Chang, Harvard University)

[Yuner Zhu]

Hello Everyone,



You are cordially invited to join the Conflict Studies Methodology Workshop
Series organized by Political Analysis Lab
<http://www.cityu.edu.hk/pol/pal/> (PAL) and Centre for Public Affairs and
Law <http://www.cityu.edu.hk/cpal/> (CPAL), City University of Hong Kong.



Title: The Structure of Protest Cycles: Inspiration and Bridging in South
Korea’s Democracy Movement



Speaker: Prof. Paul Y. Chang



Date: 25 March Thursday 2021 (Hong Kong Time)



Time: 10am-11:15am  (Hong Kong Time)



Format: Zoom Webinar



Registration: https://forms.gle/Wi8g9v1mF8mwnPqL8



Abstract: Although the concept of protest cycles has received much
attention in the collective action literature, its empirical
operationalization remains relatively crude compared to the rich
theoretical discussion. Reimagining social movements as populations of
interlinked protests, we demonstrate the usefulness of analyzing protest
event networks with a novel dataset related to South Korea’s democracy
movement. In our conceptualization protest events play the role of network
nodes and links are identified based on protesters citing prior events as
sources of inspiration for mobilizing. Appropriating strategies for network
analysis, we assess the types of events that were more likely to be cited
as sources of inspiration and bridge otherwise disconnected events. Our
analysis shows that protests that raised systemic versus local issues and
events that were repressed by the state were more likely to occupy central
positions in the democracy movement. By identifying the characteristics of
events that contribute to movement inspiration and bridging, our novel
approach to analyzing protest events sheds new light on dominant themes in
social movement research.



About Speaker: Paul Y. Chang is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard
University and served as the 2019-2020 Joy Foundation Fellow at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of *Protest
Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea’s Democracy Movement,
1970-1979* (Stanford University Press 2015) and co-editor of *South Korean
Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society* (Routledge 2011).



We look forward to seeing you soon.



Political Analysis Lab and Centre for Public Affairs and Law,
City University of Hong Kong