‘Citizenship without borders’: An ethnographic study of the Peoples Health Movement. Subproject undertaken by Sidsel Roalkvam, University of Oslo. People's Health Movement is a global network of grassroots health activists, civil organizations and academic institutions. The study focuses on ritual as a device for mobilizing grassroots sentiment in India and as a tool for global collective action when relating to national and global policy institutions.
The Rites of Citizenship. Subproject undertaken by Paul-François Tremlett (Open University) that also explores collective rituals in public spaces by analyzing the on-going Occupy protests in London and Hong Kong as attempts to re-enchant the material spaces most associated with financial markets.
Occupying Soundscapes: The Impact of Musical Performances on Interreligious Dynamics in Hatay, Turkey. Subproject undertaken by Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University, which explores to what extent interreligious musical performances shape a public space consisting of a number of different religious and ethnic groups and impacts and transforms the interactions between local religious communities.
An Internal Revolution: Collective Ritualizing and Youth Conversion to Radical Environmentalism. Comparative case study to be undertaken by Sarah M. Pike (California State University, Chico), which will investigate the processes by which young Americans become committed to environmental activism through protest rituals. This case study aims to identify the kinds of cultural resources young people draw on that shape and inform adult ritual performances within the framework of the environmental protest movement in the United States.