scholarly journals Community Economies

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gradon Diprose ◽  
Kelly Dombroski ◽  
Stephen Healy ◽  
Joanne Waitoa
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Diverse Economies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Community Economies ◽  
Conference Session

This commentary was invited by the special editors of this issue and is partly based on the Community Economies session that the four authors organised at the Social Movements Conference III: Resistance and Social Change in Wellington, 2016. In the Community Economies session we reviewed the diverse-economies framework and showed how it translates into a politics grounded in economic difference, specifically non-capitalist economic practices. We gave various examples of how people enrol different practices into the formation of community economies that prioritise ethical interdependence among people and with the planet. In what follows we briefly outline some key theoretical underpinnings of Community Economies scholarship, and then provide some reflections on the questions asked during the 2016 conference session.  

scholarly journals We Have Come Too Far Not To Go Further

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moana Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
The Social

Moana Jackson is a renowned lawyer, consitutional thinker, and has worked internationally advancing the rights of Indigenous people. He delivered a keynote address at the Social Movements, Resistance, and Social Change conference in 2016, and this year, gave his time to be interviewed by two members of the conference organising committee, Dylan Taylor and Amanda Thomas.  

scholarly journals Inhabited Ecosystems: Propelling Transformative Social Change Between and Through Organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 931-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rich DeJordy ◽  
Maureen Scully ◽  
Marc J. Ventresca ◽  
W. E. Douglas Creed
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Change Effort ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Domestic Partner Benefits ◽  
Partner Benefits ◽  
Change Efforts

Two research streams examine how social movements operate both “in and around” organizations. We probe the empirical spaces between these streams, asking how activism situated in multi-organizational contexts contributes to transformative social change. By exploring activities in the mid-1990s related to advocacy for domestic partner benefits at 24 organizations in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota, we develop the concept of inhabited ecosystems to explore the relational processes by which employee activists advance change. These activists faced a variety of structural opportunities and restraints, and we identify five mechanisms that sustained their efforts during protracted contestation: learning even from thwarted activism, borrowing from one another’s more or less radical approaches, helping one another avoid the traps of stagnation, fostering solidarity and ecosystem capabilities, and collaboratively expanding the social movement domain. We thus reveal how activism situated in multi-organizational contexts animates an inhabited ecosystem of challengers that propels change efforts “between and through” organizations. These efforts, even when exploratory or incomplete, generate an ecosystem’s capacity to sustain, resource, and even reshape the larger transformative social change effort.

What a Good Idea! Ideologies and Frames in Social Movement Research

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Oliver ◽  
Hank Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Frame Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Coherent Systems ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The Social

Frame theory is often credited with "bringing ideas back in" social movement studies, but frames are not the only useful ideational concepts. The older, more politicized concept of ideology needs to be used in its own right and not recast as a frame. Frame theory is rooted in linguistic studies of interaction, and points to the way shared assumptions and meanings shape the interpretation of events. Ideology is rooted in politics and the study of politics, and points to coherent systems of ideas which provide theories of society coupled with value commitments and normative implications for promoting or resisting social change. Ideologies can function as frames, they can embrace frames, but there is more to ideology than framing. Frame theory offers a relatively shallow conception of the transmission of political ideas as marketing and resonating, while a recognition of the complexity and depth of ideology points to the social construction processes of thinking, reasoning, educating, and socializing. Social movements can only be understood by linking social psychological and political sociology concepts and traditions, not by trying to rename one group in the language of the other.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMASI BUDAYA TERHADAP PERUBAHAN SOSIAL DI ERA GLOBALISASI

ASKETIK ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
GUNTORO GUNTORO
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Times

This paper aims to provide an overview related to cultural transformation and social change. Socio-culturalchanges in a society is a necessity and cannotbe avoided due to changes in society in accordance with the times. This change can be said as an effort to survive (survive) or defend themselves. In a broad sense, social movements can be interpreted as a central part of modernity. Social movements determine the characteristics of modern politics and modern society. This social movement is closely related to the fundamental structural changes that have been known as modernization that is spreading to the world system and life system. Behind social movements in social change there are conditions that can determine whether the social movements will succeed in making a broad impact and provide changes in the level of life as expected or not. In this condition it will foster various other social movements.

CULTIVATING PEACE: SOCIAL MOVEMENT PROFESSIONALIZATION AND NGOIZATION IN CROATIA*

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Heideman
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Levels

Scholars studying social movements and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have noted a rapid expansion in the number of professional organizations dedicated to creating social change. This study uses the case of the peacebuilding sector in Croatia (1991–present) to examine central questions in both fields: where professional organizations come from, what drives professionalization, and what the consequences of professionalization are for the work of social change. I find there are actually many paths to NGO creation, and identify five types of NGOs: transformed, new, bud, seed, and clone. These five types of organizations had different paths for development, have different levels of professionalization, and engage in different types of work based on their location and history. Examining the history of a social change sector shows professionalization to be a nuanced, uneven process that can expand the social change sector even as it transforms the sector's work.

‘Stand back and watch us’: Post-capitalist practices in the maker movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S.J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Maker Movement ◽  
Social Practice Theory ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Diverse Economies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Practices

This paper examines the economic practices of maker spaces – open workshops that have increased in number over recent years and that aim to provide access to tools, materials and skills for small-scale manufacturing and repair. Scholarly interest in such spaces has been increasing across the social sciences more broadly, parallel to a growing interest in craft and making in economic geography. However, to rectify the ‘capitalocentrism’ of much existing work, the paper examines the case of a workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, through the dual theoretical lens of diverse economies and social practice theory. This conceptual approach sees the space as a novel form of economic ‘being-in-common’, providing diverse and contradictory opportunities for post-capitalist practice. The paper draws conclusions regarding the limits and potential of such spaces for sowing the prefigurative seeds for a more inclusive, sustainable and democratic urbanism.

scholarly journals A Model of How Shifting Intelligence Drives Social Movements

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Noah F. G. Evers ◽  
Patricia M. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Social World ◽  
Practical Intelligence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Do So

Based on the theory of social change, cultural evolution, and human development, we propose a mechanism whereby increased danger in society causes predictable shifts in valued forms of intelligence: 1. Practical intelligence rises in value relative to abstract intelligence; and 2. social intelligence shifts from measuring how well individuals can negotiate the social world to achieve their personal aims to measuring how well they can do so to achieve group aims. We document these shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic and argue that they led to an increase in the size and strength of social movements.

scholarly journals Gerakan Sosial Ekofeminisme Melawan Penambangan Marmer di Gunung Mutis Nusa Tenggara Timur

ijd-demos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajeng Pandu Nagari
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Ecological Damage ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social

This research aims to understand the movement of ecofeminism that can not be separated from women's unease on the practice of ecological damage. where social movements are the most important factor in realizing social change. Where their presence aims to the realization of better social change and meets the interests of the people. The social movement of ecofeminism discussed in my writing is about the resistance of women from the east who live around the mountain of mutis, who daily perform activities that interact with nature. In 2006 there was a social movement of women in the form of rejection of marble mining around the mountain of mutis done by weaving action in the mining area of Mount Mutis for one year.Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk memahami pergerakan ekofeminisme yang tidak dapat dipisahkan dari ketidaknyamanan perempuan pada praktik kerusakan ekologis. dimana gerakan sosial adalah faktor terpenting dalam mewujudkan perubahan sosial. Dimana kehadiran mereka bertujuan untuk mewujudkan perubahan sosial yang lebih baik dan memenuhi kepentingan rakyat. Gerakan sosial ekofeminisme yang dibahas dalam tulisan saya adalah tentang perlawanan perempuan dari timur yang tinggal di sekitar gunung mutis, yang setiap hari melakukan kegiatan yang berinteraksi dengan alam. Pada 2006 ada gerakan sosial perempuan berupa penolakan penambangan marmer di sekitar gunung mutis yang dilakukan dengan menenun di kawasan penambangan Gunung Mutis selama satu tahun.

scholarly journals Social media: The new opiate of the masses?

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Emad Khazraee ◽  
Kristene Unsworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study argues that the relationship between new information and communication technologies (ICT) and social movements should be done from a socio-technical perspective. In the present study, we broaden this perspective and use Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to better understand the relationship between social media (as a new ICT) and social movements. From the perspective of ANT, one cannot define unidirectional causal relationships between the social and the technical. New technical developments create opportunities to change the social order and in the meantime technologies are transformed and are adapted differently by humans. Preliminary findings examining the use of Facebook among Iranians, applying the aforementioned relational sociology perspective based on ANT, suggest that the role new ICTs play in social movements and social change is not linear and constant through time. The impact of new ICTs might be different considering different stages in a social movement timeline. In fact, there may be a stage where ICTs actually function as a sort of pressurerelease value, allowing individuals to remain content within the status quo rather than choosing to pursue more radical goals. We propose the utilization of the two concepts of “durability” and “mobility”, from ANT literature, to better understand the potential of online social networking technologies for social change. We suggest three different time stages as short (emergence of movements), mid (development or decline of movements), and late stage (the movement’s continuation, survival or disappearance through time) to be considered in the study of relationship between social media and social change.

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