***Apologies for cross-posting*** Dear all, please see below the call for paper for the panel "Gender-oriented mobilizations and social movements" of the next General Conference of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), which will take place in Innsbruck (Austria), 26-28 August 2020. The panel is included in the section "Current Research and Challenges on Political Participation and Mobilization", endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilisation. If you wish to contribute to the panel, send an abstract (max 500 words) at elena.pavan@unitn.it <mailto:elena.pavan@unitn.it> by *February 10th, 2020*. The full panel proposal will then be submitted to the ECPR on 19 February 2020. All those kind enough to submit abstracts will be kept up to date on progress throughout. All the best, Elena *** Gender-oriented mobilizations and social movements All over the globe, we are witnessing increasing levels of mobilization that address sex, gender and sexuality from different angles. On the one hand, from Latin America to the US, Europe, Africa and Asia, women's, feminist and transfeminist, as well as LGBTQI movements are struggling offline as much as online to reclaim equal rights for all gender subjectivities, and to end all forms of gender-based violence, abuse and discrimination. On the other hand, conservative and reactionary groups are mobilizing worldwide and crossdimensionally in the name of the "natural family", to defend traditional and binary gender-related roles, opposing any attempt to deconstruct or question them as well as revamping anti-abotion and pro-life claims. Also, gender-related issues become, more or less instrumentally, part of political parties' programmes and strategies thus opening complex entwinments between grassroots mobilizations and institutional politics. This panel explores political participation and mobilization around the politics of sex, gender and sexuality. It collects papers that address the multifaceted nature of participation endeavors in this domain looking at dynamics that: i) cut across multiple spaces (the grassroots, political institutions and the space opened up by digital media); ii) are carried out in different modes (formal political alliances, social movements, online discussion networks); iii) are aimed at overcoming power unbalances amongst genders or, conversely, aspire at restoring a social and political order grounded in sexual dimorphism. Abstracts should be sent to Elena Pavan (elena.pavan@unitn.it) by February 10th. The full panel proposal will then be submitted to the ECPR on 19 February 2020. All those kind enough to submit abstracts will be kept up to date on progress throughout. -- Elena Pavan, PhD Senior Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Social Research via G.Verdi 26 38122 Trento (Italy) https://unitn.academia.edu/ElenaPavan