The Future of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590087
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Wada Takeshi 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (20534382)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 社会運動 / グローバル化 / 民主主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To explain the variation in the visions and the forms of social movements around the world, which are responding to the processes of globalization, this project has formed a research team of international scholars, mostly from Europe, North America, and Latin America. During the period of this grant, the team has organized several international conferences and workshops with themes such as "challenges from the global south" and "challenges from Latin America" and has successfully described the variations in such challenges. The team has also noticed that we should not ignore political factors, including state capacity and democratization, to fully explain the great variety of contentious activities throughout the world. One of the team's important accomplishments is to publish its first findings in the world's most prestigious journal in the field of social movements. Furthermore, this project has made an important progress in nurturing a young generation of scholars.

Free Research Field

社会学