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ECSEuro Final Conference in Hamburg, 10-11 October 2024

ECSEuro Final Conference in Hamburg, 10-11 October 2024

The conference will focus on the social fields of migrant rights, housing/urban commons and care, which have received increased attention in the wake of the polycrisis, and center around the question of what potential local and urban scales offer for enacting more...

ECSEuro Meeting in Cortona, Italy

ECSEuro Meeting in Cortona, Italy

Last week (21-23 May), the ECSEuro researchers attended the consortium meeting in Tuscany to discuss in person the main research and organisational issues of the project. In the studious and ascetic setting of the Renaissance palace built by Cardinal Silvio Passerini...

CfP for our Research Stream at the ESC in Porto

CfP for our Research Stream at the ESC in Porto

Call for our Research Stream at the European Sociological Conference in Porto We would like to share our call for papers for our Research Stream "Enacting solidarity and citizenship across social fields and scales" at the 16th European Sociological Conference in...

ECSEuro Meeting in Bern, Switzerland

ECSEuro Meeting in Bern, Switzerland

Some of our members participated in an on-site meeting organised in the Swiss city of Bern on April 13 & 14. Project partners discussed their ongoing research on social movements in ten European cities which is now in full progress. We discussed the research that...

ECSEuro Meeting in Ljubljana and Piran

ECSEuro Meeting in Ljubljana and Piran

In October we met in Slovenia and visited in Ljubljana important places of local political initiatives like the former Rog and the PLAC. In the small Mediterranean town of Piran we had a two-day retreat where we discussed, among other things, the first results of our...

First ECSEuro meeting in Denmark

First ECSEuro meeting in Denmark

With researchers from 5 countries, we were in beautiful Klitgaarden at the northern tip of Denmark for the 1st onsite meeting for our project "Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe 'From Below': Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies, and Transnational...

Launch of our research project ECSEuro

Launch of our research project ECSEuro

The research project "Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe 'From Below': Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies, and Transnational Networks" focusse on migrant rights, housing, and care work. Conducting 10 case studies in European cities, we study how...

ECSEuroProject

This project asks how local political initiatives across Europe enact citizenship and solidarity and contribute to the vision of a more democratic Europe from below. With ten city-based case studies, we analyze initiatives in the fields of migrant rights, housing, and care work, and focus on the little-addressed challenge of developing intersectional strategies and networks beyond borders.