‘they’re talkin’ bout a revolution’: feminism, anarchism and the politics of social change in the global justice movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bice Maiguashca
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Global Justice Movement

scholarly journals Narratives, connections and social change

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Squire
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Stylistic Elements ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Narrative Syntax

In this article, I suggest that narratives’ importance for social change may be understood by examining specific elements of narrative syntax — key rhetorical tropes within stories, and story genres. I argue that these stylistic elements generate social connections that themselves support and stimulate social change. I use Young’s (2006) theorisation of responsibility and global justice in terms of connection, to suggest how narratives may support or generate progressive social change. I then examine narrative tropes and genres of similarisation and familiarisation at work in narratives produced around the HIV pandemic, and the limits of those tropes and genres for supporting and catalysing social change.

Making The Polis: Social Forums and Democracy in The Global Justice Movement

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Porta
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Organizational Demands ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
The Cost

The debate on deliberative democracy could open a fruitful perspective for research on social movement conceptions and practices of democracy. This article reports a pilot study of the values and norms that guide the global justice movement's organizational choices based upon focus groups and in-depth interviews with participants in various Italian social forums. Deliberative democracy, which emphasizes participation and the quality of communication, is particularly relevant for a multifaceted, heterogeneous movement that incorporates many social, generational, and ideological groups as well as movement organizations from different countries. The global justice movement—a "movement of movements" according to some activists—comprises a dense network of movement organizations, often the product of previous protest cycles. It builds upon past experiences of organizational institutionalization, but also upon reflexive criticisms of it. These networks of networks provide important resources, but also pose challenges for participation and internal communication. The activists in our study addressed these challenges by building an organizational culture that stressed diversity rather than homogeneity; subjectivity, rather than obedience to organizational demands; transparency, even at the cost of effectiveness; open confrontations oriented to consensus building over efficient decision making; and "ideological contamination" rather than dogmatism. Traditional participatory models of democracy are bridged with concerns for good communication and deliberation.

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