scholarly journals RURAL COMMUNITY MOVEMENT IN LITHUANIA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-378
Author(s):  
Lina Pareigienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Western World ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Willingness To Change ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
New Social Movement Theory ◽  
Community Movement

After Lithuania regained the independence, the state confronted with many political, social, economic, and cultural challenges, which led to changes of norms, values, forms of activities and consciousness of citizens. Changing situation lead to the marginalization of rural areas, the rural community movement raised. The main reason for the rising movement was dissatisfaction about current situation and willingness to change it using communities’ resources. This movement is allied to new social movements, which arose in 1960 in Western world. For the creation of postindustrial rural areas the paradigm of innovative, sustainable, inclusive rural development determines that new theories, explaining transformations, are necessary. The aim of this research is to identify correspondence of Lithuanian rural community movement to new social movement theory. Scientific literature, related documents, and secondary statistical data were analysed, the theoretical framework of six dimensions was created and applied. The research results confirmed that rural community in Lithuania is to be viewed as a new social movement with some features of traditional movements. These findings may be useful for increasing the awareness about social transformations in rural areas.

scholarly journals GERAKAN ECOTON DALAM UPAYA PEMULIHAN SUNGAI BRANTAS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Miatus Sholikhah ◽  
Siti Zunariyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
The People ◽  
Management Procedure ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
New Social Movement Theory

<p>Most of Indonesia’s rivers fall into the heavily polluted category. One of the heavily polluted rivers in Indonesu is the Brantas River. This research had purpose to understanding the problems in Brantas River and also to know the environmental movement in order to recovering Brantas River. The theory which was used in this research was New Social Movement theory from Rajendra Singh. This research was qualitative research with etnography methods. Data was obtained by observation, detailed interview, and also documentation. The subject of this research was Ecoton, the public accompanied by Ecoton on the headwaters and the downstream of the Brantas River, and the school accompanied by Ecoton. Researcher was using source triangulation techniques to test the collected data legitimation. Researcher used Miles and Huberman’s outlook in data analysis, which consist of three activity lines; data reduction, data presentation and draw conclusions.</p>            Results show that there were many problems happened in Brantas River from the headwaters to the downstream. There were five problems found in this research. <em>First,</em> problems in Brantas River headwaters was reclaiming the land functions and illegal logging. <em>Second,</em> there were many abandoned buildings on the riverside. <em>Third</em>, domestic pollution from household. The buildings which were built on the riverside had made the people to easily throw away their garbages to the Brantas River. Mostly it was diapers, which could endanger human and the fishes whom lives in Brantas River. <em>Fourth</em>, the industrial pollution which already exceeds the permittable treshold. Industry had oftenly disposed their waste to the river without conducted the sewage management procedure which then created the new problems in Brantas River: a mass death fish. A mass death fish had become the <em>fifth</em> problems in Brantas River. The damage of environmental condition of Brantas River had pushed the movement from Ecoton. In their movement, Ecoton had the characteristic new social movement which was the ideology of care to the Brantas River damage. The strategy which was used by Ecoton were conducted partitions research, environmental education, advocation and also involved the media on every movement they had done. Ecoton had the non-institutional structure, which was unconcerned with power but put their focus to reach the aims and the visions.

scholarly journals Media and transnational social movements : a content analysis of The Globe and Mail's coverage of the 2009 Tamil protest in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorris Peter
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Medium Theory ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Tamil Diaspora ◽  
New Social Movement Theory

By using theoretical frameworks of Medium theory and New Social Movement Theory, this study analyzed how The Globe and Mail news articles published from January to May 2009 depicted the transnational social movement efforts of the 2009 Tamil protest in Toronto. The method of content analysis was applied to the following research question: How do new articles from The Globe and Mail newspaper portray the transnational social movement (TSM) efforts of the Tamil Diaspora in Canada? This study found that (1) overall there was a negative coverage of the Tamil transnational social movement; and (2) the emphasis was mostly placed on the Tamil protest's alleged affiliation and support for a banned terrorist group. This paper will conclude that the news articles of The Globe and Mail presented a distorted message of the Tamil protest in the articles to attract readership rather than inform the audience, in a neutral method, about the protest events that were occurring at that time. Hence, future research should seek to expand on this study by doing a longitudinal and comparative analysis of the relationship between media and the Tamil transnational social movement.

scholarly journals ‘Waving the banana’ at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York’s ‘freegan’ dumpster divers

Ethnography ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex V. Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Political Theater ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
Dumpster Diving ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
New Social Movement Theory

This article presents an ethnographic study of ‘freegans’, individuals who use behaviors like dumpster diving for discarded food and voluntary unemployment to protest against environmental degradation and capitalism. While freegans often present their ideology as a totalizing lifestyle which impacts all aspects of their lives, in practice, freegans emphasize what would seem to be the most repellant aspect of their movement: eating wasted food. New Social Movement (NSM) theory would suggest that behaviors like dumpster diving are intended to assert difference and an alternative identity, rather than make more traditional social movement claims. Through the lens of social dramaturgy, I engage with New Social Movement theory by arguing that unconventional tactics like dumpster diving can also have strategic components, serving to project a favorable image of movement organizations, recruit new participants, and achieve a positive portrayal in the mainstream media.

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