Education
Geoffrey Pleyers holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2006).
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Geoffrey Pleyers
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Career
In July 2014, he was elected as president of the Research Committee 47 "Social classes and social movements" of the International Sociological Association, for a four year term. His research interests include social movements, youth, food movements, and social movements in Mexico. The underlying argument of his main book Becoming Actors in the Global Age (Cambridge, Polity, 2010) is that current social movements develop two parallel cultures of activism in their quest for social change.
One focuses on a bottom-up approach, implementing changes at the local scale and giving a prominent place to experience, subjectivity, experimentation and the local scale.
The second one, the "way of reason" is based on a citizen expertise and institutional regulation.
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Belgium