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50th ABS Annual Conference
Saturday August 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:45am EDT
Limited Capacity seats available
Across political contexts, traditional modes of activism are losing traction. Mechanisms that once translated civic mobilization into institutional response—litigation, advocacy campaigns, and transnational leverage—have become unreliable or blocked. What forms of durable collective power persist amid this strategic exhaustion? This book examines 14 initiatives that thrive under institutional erosion by neither resisting nor reforming. It conceptualizes a generative mode of action through which communities construct governance, social-care, economic, and epistemic infrastructures. By theorizing this mode, it offers an understanding of how collective power develops when institutions falter.
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May Farid

Assistant Professor, University of San Diego
May Farid is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego. Her research explores how community groups shape state policies, with a focus on China and its overseas engagement. She also studies NGO interventions to empower citizens in the global South, such as fighting misinformation... Read More →
Saturday August 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:45am EDT
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