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SUMMARY:Bringing the Masses Back In: Explaining Spontaneous Uprisings from
  the French Revolution to Black Lives Matter - Dr Benjamin Abrams\, Lectur
 er in Sociology and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow\, University College Lo
 ndon
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CONTACT:A B Youngman
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 7th November 12.30 – 14.00\nSeminar Room\, Departmen
 t of Sociology\, Free School Lane.\nTo join on-line please mail communicat
 ions@sociology.cam.ac.uk to request the link.\n\nSpeaker: Dr Benjamin Abra
 ms\, Lecturer in Sociology and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow\, University
  College London\n\nChair: Professor Hazem Kandil\, Professor of Historical
  and Political Sociology\, University of Cambridge\n\nIn 2020\, millions o
 f Americans rose up against police brutality\, as part of an enormous wave
  of Black Lives Matter protests. This surge of protest is but one of the m
 ost recent examples of spontaneous mass mobilization\, a phenomenon that s
 tretches back long into the history of social contention.\n\nDr Abrams wil
 l examine why and how ordinary people spontaneously protest\, riot\, and r
 evolt en masse. Drawing on comparative historical research that puts the 2
 020 uprising into dialogue with cases such as the Egyptian Revolution\, Oc
 cupy Wall Street\, and the 1789 French Revolution\, he will show how peopl
 e may organically mobilize when a cause speaks to their pre-existing dispo
 sitions and when social conditions facilitate their participation.  
LOCATION:Sociology Department Seminar Room\, Free School Lane
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