A Comparative Analysis of the Identities, Cultures, and Potential Outcomes of Legal Organizations Involved in Social Movements

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Ahrend
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Potential Outcomes

The Organization of Expert Activism: Shadow Mobilization in Two Social Movements*

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Frickel ◽  
Rebekah Torcasso ◽  
Annika Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Cumulative Risk ◽  
Alternative Agriculture ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Systematic Data ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Knowledge Based

The organization of expert activism is a problem of increasing importance for social movement organizers and scholars alike. Yet the relative invisibility of expert activists within social movements makes them difficult to systematically identify and study. This article offers two related ways forward. First, we advance a theory of “shadow mobilization” to explain the organization of expert activism in the broader context of proliferating risk and intensifying knowledge-based conflict. Second, we introduce a new methodological approach for collecting systematic data on members of this difficult-to-reach population. Findings from comparative analysis of expert activists in the environmental justice movement in Louisiana and the alternative agriculture movement in Washington reveal both important commonalities and fine-grained differences, suggesting that shadow mobilizations are strategic collective responses to cumulative risk in contemporary society.

New Social Movements and the Egyptian Spring: A Comparative Analysis between the April 6 Movement and the Revolutionary Socialists

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 98-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bassem Nabil Hafez
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Youth Movements ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

Abstract In this article I will comparatively analyze the conceptual foundations of two Egyptian protest movements, the April 6 Movement and the Revolutionary Socialists, two prominent instigators of the Egyptian revolution, as part of the global rebellion against the dystopia perceived as the creation of neo-liberalism and globalization. In Egypt, the limitations of conventional opposition led to the mushrooming of New Social Movements (NSMs) over the past decade. The political dynamics since 2000 have yielded, among many, the aforementioned youth movements that represent two different approaches to the rebellion against the dystopia, which speeded up the downfall of Mubarak.

Evangelicals and Emergent Moral Protest

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Gahr ◽  
Michael Young
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
New Left ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evangelical Protestants ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
New Social Movement

This article provides a comparative analysis of two religiously inspired protests that fed broader social movements: the "rebellion" of immediate abolitionists at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati in 1834 and the new-left "breakthrough" at the Christian Faith-and-Life Community in Austin in 1960. The two cases are examples of moral protests breaking out of Protestant institutions and shaping social movements. From the comparison, we draw general lessons about the meso- and micro-level processes of activist conversions. We show how processes of "rationalization" and "subjectivation" combined in the emergence of new contentious moral orders. We apply these lessons to help explain the creative interactions of evangelical Protestants in the history of American moral protest. Our approach accords with pragmatist and new social movement theories of emergent moral orders.

scholarly journals Invited Commentary: Counterfactuals in Social Epidemiology—Thinking Outside of “the Box”

2019 ◽  
Vol 189 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler J VanderWeele
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Causal Inference ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Potential Outcomes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Outcomes Framework

Abstract There are tensions inherent between many of the social exposures examined within social epidemiology and the assumptions embedded in quantitative potential-outcomes-based causal inference framework. The potential-outcomes framework characteristically requires a well-defined hypothetical intervention. As noted by Galea and Hernán (Am J Epidemiol. 2020;189(3):167–170), for many social exposures, such well-defined hypothetical exposures do not exist or there is no consensus on what they might be. Nevertheless, the quantitative potential-outcomes framework can still be useful for the study of some of these social exposures by creative adaptations that 1) redefine the exposure, 2) separate the exposure from the hypothetical intervention, or 3) allow for a distribution of hypothetical interventions. These various approaches and adaptations are reviewed and discussed. However, even these approaches have their limits. For certain important historical and social determinants of health such as social movements or wars, the quantitative potential-outcomes framework with well-defined hypothetical interventions is the wrong tool. Other modes of inquiry are needed.

New Social Movements in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
Dieter Rucht ◽  
Hanspeter Kriesi ◽  
Ruud Koopmans ◽  
Jan Willem Duyvendak ◽  
Marco G. Giugni
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
New Social Movements

Social Movements against Corruption and Sexual Violence in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Buser De ◽  
Chanwahn Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Institutional Resources ◽  
Resource Mobilisation

This paper investigates the highly mediatised mobilisation of the urban middle class in Delhi, India, against two social events, the anti-corruption movement in 2011 and the movement against sexual violence in 2013. It uses the perspective of resource mobilisation theory and, more specifically, the resource typology for social movements for a systematic and comparative analysis of middle-class mobilisation. The inclusion of a category of institutional resources is proposed, because of the important role played by judicial institutions to frame demands for change in both instances. Findings from this investigation reveal that the urban middle class in Delhi has approached these two movements using similar cultural, human and institutional resources, but it has significantly diverged in its usage of social-organisational resources. This study contributes to the ongoing discussions about the potential new role of the diverse urban middle class in Indian politics beyond electoral processes.

scholarly journals F. M. Dostoevsky – a writer or a thinker?

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Alexander Usachev
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Philosophical Text ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Artistic Image

The object of this research is the works of the prominent Russian writer F. M. Dostoevsky. The subject of this research is the opinion whether F. M. Dostoevsky first and foremost is the Russian philosopher and thinker, and only then a writer. The author examines the peculiarities of such roles in culture as philosopher, thinker and writer, which gives grounds to question unambiguous reference of the works of prominent Russian writer as activity of the thinker. The peculiarity consists in the fact that F. M. Dostoevsky’s literary texts is so rich in images and themes, that shifting the specificity of his artistic image into the background is not quite justified. Special attention is given to clarification of the essence of activity of the philosopher and the writer. The key research method is the comparative analysis of the facts of such types of social practice as the profession of writer, philosopher and thinker in their relation to the fundamental concepts of time, space, text and nature of its perception from the outside perspective .The main conclusion consists in the statement that the philosophical text maintains neutrality in relation to time, as is being written from the standpoint of eternity. Literary text, in turn, is “submerged” in time and space of the events taking place within it, and relies on recognizability of the characters and their existential characteristics. F. M. Dostoevsky appears to the audience as the creator of storylines and images, rather than a person who sets the trends and concepts of social movements.

Smart Technologies, E-Participation, and the ‘Right to the Territory'

2020 ◽  
pp. 194-214
Author(s):  
Teresa Graziano
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Web

The chapter is finalized to scrutinize the capacity of netizens' e-participation and/or online activism to effectively influence territorial governance, by analyzing the role and the relevance of the Web in shaping new and variegated forms of “social movements” both in urban and in rural/marginal contexts trough a comparative analysis of four case studies in Italy. The main aim is to critically rethink - conceptually and politically - the intersection among sustainability, smart technologies, local communities, and the “right to the territory”, to provide new theoretical insights about bottom-up and “participative” concepts of smartness.

scholarly journals Internationalized Framing in Social Movements against Mining in India and the Philippines

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Radhika Borde ◽  
Elisabet Dueholm Rasch
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Mining Companies

There are several documented cases of indigenous peoples’ conflicts with mining companies, often for the reason that the land planned for mining is sacred or culturally significant to them. This article presents a comparative analysis of two specific anti-mining social movements in India and the Philippines that combined an emphasis on environmental protection with an emphasis on indigenous cultural rights. We show how the emphasis on indigeneity in these social movements played itself out in relation to globalized frames, as well as the other frames within which the movements were also situated.

Democracy in the Bullring: The Emergence and Representation of Postmaterial Conflicts in the Andes

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 131-147
Author(s):  
Alberto Vergara ◽  
Viviana Baraybar
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

Comparative analysis of the antibullfighting agenda in Bogotá, Lima, and Quito sheds light on the relation between new social movements and left parties. It suggests that, although a social movement is important to the visibility of the agenda, the key variable in achieving a ban on bullfighting in the three capitals has been a decisive left leadership that is not shy about confrontation with traditional elites. Un análisis comparativo de la agenda contra la tauromaquia en Bogotá, Lima y Quito devela la relación entre los nuevos movimientos sociales y los partidos de izquierda. Sugiere que, aunque la existencia de un movimiento social resulta importante para visibilizar dicha agenda, la variable clave para lograr la prohibición de la tauromaquia en las tres capitales ha sido un liderazgo decisivo por parte de la izquierda, que no se ha mostrado tímida cuando se trata de confrontar a las élites tradicionales.

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