PHILIP BALSIGER (SWISS)
Philip gained his PhD from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Sciences Po, Paris, in June 2010. Before coming to the EUI he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. His main research interests are in social movement studies and the sociology of markets. Philip was granted a postdoctoral mobility stipend by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will be a visiting Fellow at the EUI’s SPS department from September 2013
ACTIVITIES DURING MAX WEBER FELLOWSHIP
Email: philip.balsiger@eui.eu EUI Affiliation: Department of Social and Political Sciences EUI Mentor: Donatella Della Porta
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ‘Tactical Competition and Movement Outcomes on Markets: the Rise of Ethical Fashion’, MoveOut Conference, Uppsala, 6-8 September 2012 Presentation at the inaugural conference of the Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung, WZB Berlin, 19-20 June 2013 ‘Social Movements and the Framing of Moral Markets. A Cross-National Comparison of Ethical Fashion Markets in the UK and Germany’, EGOS Colloquium, Montreal, 4-7 July 2013 (paper co-authored with Simone Schiller-Merkens)
BOOKS The Fight for Ethical Fashion. The Origins and Strategic Interactions of the Clean Clothes Campaign, Aldershot, Burlington VT: Ashgate (Mobilization Series), forthcoming CHAPTERS IN BOOKS ‘Participant Observation’, forthcoming in Donatella della Porta (ed) Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research (with Alexandre Lambelet) OTHER PUBLICATIONS ‘Competing Tactics. How the Interplay of Tactical Approaches Shapes Movement Outcomes on the Market for Ethical Fashion’, MPIfG Discussion Paper 12/9 MWP WORKING PAPER ‘Embedding “Political Consumerism”: A Conceptual Critique’, MWP WP 2013/08
SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS ‘Comparer en sciences sociales’, presentation at a doctoral seminar of the Centre de recherche sur l’action politique (CRAPUL) at the University of Lausanne, 29 March 2013. ‘Movements and markets’, presentation at the seminar on social movement studies by Donatella Della Porta, EUI, October 2012
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