Sumários

Globalisation and environmental impacts

17 Novembro 2020, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

- environmental issues and IR: what relationship?

- Green Theory in IR

- Green Theory: some historical steps

- Green politics: actors and perspectives

- challenging mainstream IR concepts

- major worldview on global environmental changes

- what alternatives? Green State and grassroots movements

- major current challenges

Transnational Migrant Networks and Flows

10 Novembro 2020, 20:30 • Rita Sousa

- migrations: a major global issue

- definitions of "migrant" and "refugees"

- globalization of migrations

- global migration governance

- some historical achievements

- levels of global migration governance

- functions of global migration governance

- current public debate

- women migrants and refugees: a necessary focus

- current situation in the Middle East

Transnational Migrant Networks and Flows

10 Novembro 2020, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

- migrations: a major global issue

- definitions of "migrant" and "refugees"

- globalization of migrations

- global migration governance

- some historical achievements

- levels of global migration governance

- functions of global migration governance

- current public debate

- women migrants and refugees: a necessary focus

- current situation in the Middle East

State v. non-state: global governance, global movements and NGOs

3 Novembro 2020, 20:30 • Rita Sousa

- social movements and IR: different positions

- "globalization from above" VS "globalization from below"

- social movements theory: some definitions

- main assumptions defining social movements

- transnational social movements

- web-initiated transnational activism

- two case-studies: the "Battle for Seattle" and the Social Forum (Porto Alegre)

- gendered/intersectional perspectives on social movements

- right-wing transnational movements