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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: The authors examines the contributions that can be made to critical geopolitics by the study of social movements and argues that such a study would de(centre) analytical focus away from an exclusive concern with the machinations of the state and would investigate how social movements challenge state-centred notions of hegemony, consent and power and contest the colonization of the political by the state.
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TL;DR: The paradoxical relationship of populist movements to civil society and to religion is discussed in this paper, where the authors argue that while populist movements and religious associations emerge and flourish in civil society, the logic of populism and of politicized religion is antithetical to the underlying principles of civil society.
Abstract: This chapter addresses the paradoxical relationship of populist movements to civil society and to religion. It argues that while populist movements and religious associations emerge and flourish in civil society, the logic of populism and of politicized religion is antithetical to the underlying principles of civil society and, ultimately, to democracy itself. The chapter identifies the specific logic of populism ideal typically, and analyzes the difference between populist and other, self-limiting social movements. It explores the contemporary link between populism and religious identity politics. The chapter analyzes the tensions and affinities between populist logic and political religion. If the populist temptation and the lure of politicizing religion may be to stay, a vibrant open civil society remains the best hope for resisting these challenges and generating alternatives. Civil society is a contested concept. But every conception involves three parameters – plurality, publicity, and privacy, however variously they are interpreted.
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TL;DR: The authors suggests that the clash between resource nationalist imaginaries embedded in contentious social movements and the realities of long-term extractive dependent economies not only limits government policy options but also fuels continued social protest.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the dynamics and the impact of the month-long 2004 same-sex wedding protest in San Francisco and identified three core features of cultural repertoires: contestation, intentionality, and collective identity.
Abstract: Social movement scholars have long been skeptical of culture's impact on political change, perhaps for good reason, since little empirical research explicitly addresses this question. This article fills the void by examining the dynamics and the impact of the month-long 2004 same-sex wedding protest in San Francisco. We integrate insights of contentious politics approaches with social constructionist conceptions and identify three core features of cultural repertoires: contestation, intentionality, and collective identity. Our analyses, which draw on rich qualitative and quantitative data from interviews with participants and movement leaders and a random survey of participants, highlight these dimensions of cultural repertoires as well as the impact that the same-sex wedding protest had on subsequent activism. Same-sex weddings, as our multimethod analyses show, were an intentional episode of claim-making, with participants arriving with a history of activism in a variety of other social movements. Moreo...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out that one of the major problems with critical work in education has been the fact that some of the academic leaders of the critical pedagogy movement and of critical and democratic education in general in many nations have not been sufficiently connected to the actual realities of schools and classrooms.
Abstract: Given the increasing power of neoliberal and neoconservative agendas in education internationally, critically democratic policies and practices are now even more important. Yet, one of the major problems with critical work in education has been the fact that some of the academic leaders of the ‘critical pedagogy’ movement and of critical and democratic education in general in many nations have not been sufficiently connected to the actual realities of schools and classrooms. Yet, only when it is linked much more to concrete issues of educational policy and practice – and to the daily lives of educators, students, social movements and community members – can a critical and democratic education succeed. I point to a number of such linkages and suggest that because of this the ways we think about the role of education in social transformation needs to be made more nuanced and complex.
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