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Social movement

About: Social movement is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 23103 publications have been published within this topic receiving 653076 citations. The topic is also known as: movement & syndical movement.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the rhetorical performance and reconstruction of places in protest can function in line with the goals of a social movement, and a heuristic framework is proposed for theorizing the rhetorical force of place and its relationship to social movements.
Abstract: Social movements often deploy place rhetorically in their protests. The rhetorical performance and (re)construction of places in protest can function in line with the goals of a social movement. Our essay offers a heuristic framework—place in protest—for theorizing the rhetorical force of place and its relationship to social movements. Through analysis of a variety of protest events, we demonstrate how the (re)construction of place may be considered a rhetorical tactic along with the tactics we traditionally associate with protest, such as speeches, marches, and signs. This essay has implications for the study of social movements, the rhetoricity of place, and how we study places.

171 citations

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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: Gills, P.Gills Overturning 'Globalization': Resisting Teleology, Reclaiming Politics L.K.Galbraith as mentioned in this paper and I.Watson Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalism.
Abstract: List of Tables and Figures Foreword: The Social Left and the Market System J.K.Galbraith Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE: THINKING THROUGH POLITICS Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance B.K.Gills Overturning 'Globalization': Resisting Teleology, Reclaiming Politics L.Amoore, R.Dodgson, B.K.Gills, P.Langley, D.Marshall & I.Watson Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalism J.Mittleman & C.Chin Resisting 'Globalization-From-Above' Through 'Globalization-From-Below' R.Falk Globalization versus Community: Stakeholding, Communitarianism and the Challenge of Globalization R.J.B.Jones Globalization and Democratic Provisionism R.Latham Rearticulation of the State in a Globalizing World Economy J.A.Hart & A.Prakash False Prophets and the Politics of the Retreat of the State I.R.Douglas PART II: STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE: FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL Social Movements, Local Places and Globalized Spaces: Implications for 'Globalization from Below' P.Waterman From National Resistance to International Labor Politics D.Stevis & T.Boswell Globalization and American Common Sense: Struggling to Make Sense of a Post-Hegemonic World M.Rupert Globalization and Emancipation: From Local Empowerment to Global Reform J.N.Pieterse 'Corporate Welfare' Campaigns in North America K.P.Thomas Neoliberal Globalization, Social Welfare and Trade Unions in Southeast Asia J.D.Schmidt Globalization, Islam, and Resistance M.K.Pasha Mexico, Neoliberal Restructuring and the EZLN: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis A.D.Morton Globalization and Local Resistance: The Case of Shell versus the Ogoni C.I.Obi Structural Adjustment and the Response of Civil Society in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Analysis S.J.MacLean, F.Quadir & T.M.Shaw Index

171 citations

01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Ekiert and Kubik as discussed by the authors studied the politics of protest in post-communist Central Europe and found that organized protests not only continued under the new regime but also had a powerful impact on Poland's democratic consolidation.
Abstract: Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This book, the first comprehensive study of the politics of protest in postcommunist Central Europe, shows that organized protests not only continued under the new regime but also had a powerful impact on Poland's democratic consolidation.Following the collapse of communism in 1989, the countries of Eastern Europe embarked on the gargantuan project of restructuring their social, political, economic, and cultural institutions. The social cost of these transformations was high, and citizens expressed their discontent in various ways. Protest actions became common events, particularly in Poland. In order to explain why protest in Poland was so intense and so particularized, Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik place the situation within a broad political, economic, and social context and test it against major theories of protest politics. They conclude that in transitional polities where conventional political institutions such as parties or interest groups are underdeveloped, organized collective protest becomes a legitimate and moderately effective strategy for conducting state-society dialogue. The authors offer an original and rich description of protest movements in Poland after the fall of communism as a basis for developing and testing their ideas. They highlight the organized and moderate character of the protests and argue that the protests were not intended to reverse the change of 1989 but to protest specific policies of the government.This book contributes to the literature on democratic consolidation, on the institutionalization of state-society relationship, and on protest and social movements. It will be of interest to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and policy advisors.Grzegorz Ekiert is Professor of Government, Harvard University. Jan Kubik is Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University.

171 citations

Book
01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: This paper explored how justices are influenced by the distinctive features of courts as institutions and their place in the political system, drawing on interpretive-historical institutionalism as well as rational choice theory, and considered such factors as the influence of jurisprudence, unique characteristics of supreme courts, the dynamics of coalition building, and the effects of social movements.
Abstract: What influences decisions of the US Supreme Court? For decades social scientists focused on the ideology of individual justices. This text moves beyond that focus by exploring how justices are influenced by the distinctive features of courts as institutions and their place in the political system. Drawing on interpretive-historical institutionalism as well as rational choice theory, a group of scholars consider such factors as the influence of jurisprudence, the unique characteristics of supreme courts, the dynamics of coalition building, and the effects of social movements.

170 citations

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TL;DR: Using regression models on cross-national data, this paper showed that high levels of individualization and gender equality provide a "cultural opportunity structure" that gives rise to active lesbian and gay social movements and liberalized state policies on same-sex relations.
Abstract: Over the last half century, social life throughout much of the world has been reconstituted around individualized persons, conceived to embody ultimate authority over their own lives. As individuals have become more central to society, and as models of individuated personhood have been claimed by women as well as by men, many changes have ensued, including a dramatic transformation of sex. Sex has ceased to be dominantly associated with the family and procreation and has come to be associated with the individual and pleasure. One expression of this shift is the recent rise and public legitimation of same-sex sexual relations. Gay and lesbian social movements have appeared worldwide, and many nation-states have liberalized theirpolicies on homosexual relations. Using regression models on cross-national data, we show that (1) high levels of individualization and gender equality provide a "cultural opportunity structure" that gives rise to active lesbian and gay social movements and liberalized state policies on same-sex relations and that (2) active lesbian and gay social movements and liberal state policies each facilitate the other. Competing explanations for the changes, such as economic development and democratization, receive little support.

170 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023342
2022758
2021829
20201,073
20191,050