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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 article, the authors analyze the effects of judicial reform on the capacity of politically marginalized groups to safeguard their constitutional rights and argue that it was not the establishment of the court as such but rather the specific rules regulating access to and cost of approaching the court that enabled marginalized groups in Costa Rica to push for their rights and effectively circumvent the traditional policy-making process.
Abstract: How does institutional change in established democracies affect the distribution of political power in society? The new constitutional court in Costa Rica allows the authors to analyze the effects of judicial reform on the capacity of politically marginalized groups to safeguard their constitutional rights. Particular attention is paid to homosexuals, AIDS patients, and labor unions. The authors argue that it was not the establishment of the court as such but rather the specific rules regulating access to and cost of approaching the court that enabled marginalized groups to push for their rights and effectively circumvent the traditional policy-making process. Although these groups did not win all their cases, they have nonetheless been able to achieve considerable success in the protection of their previously denied constitutional rights. The legal reform partially redistributed power in society from policy makers to social groups and individuals.
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TL;DR: In a 5-year study of the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission, this article found four planning styles at work: technical/bureaucratic, political influence, social movement, and collaborative.
Abstract: In a 5-year study of the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission, we found four planning styles at work: technical/bureaucratic, political influence, social movement, and collaborative. Each involved differing assumptions about knowledge, participation, and the nature of a good plan. Players using one style were often mistrustful or contemptuous of those working in others. Regional actions—as opposed to packages of projects for parochial interests—were rare. The few regional initiatives emerged from collaborative planning and social movements. We argue that where diversity and interdependence of interests are high, collaboration is the most effective approach. Key barriers to collaboration included state and federal funding formulas, earmarking, and the substantial documentation required by state and federal regulations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on South Africa's first wave of economic reforms macroeconomic reforms and employment, and what possibilities for South Africa? operationalising South Africa move from macroeconomic stability to micro-economic reform sequencing micro and macro reforms for pro-poor growth.
Abstract: Development debates in a global context: Beyond neo-liberalism? development debates in historical and comparative perspective development theories, knowledge production and emancipatory practice macroeconomic balance and microeconomic reform: Reflections on South Africa's first wave of economic reforms macroeconomic reforms and employment: What possibilities for South Africa? operationalising South Africa's move from macro-economic stability to micro-economic reform sequencing micro and macro reforms for pro-poor growth: Forward looking reflections on the South African experience. Distributive issues in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing the social policy agenda - conceptual debates around poverty and inequality policy dilemmas around direct state transfers to the poor. Industrial upgrading and innovation: The Noledge of Numbers - SandT, RandD, and innovation indicators in South Africa the role of government in facilitating clusters. Municipal governance and development: Pro-poor local economic development in post-apartheid South Africa - the Johannesburg fashion district local economic development - utopia and reality in South Africa the example of Durban KZN. Labour, work and the informal economy: Labour supply and demand constraints on employment creation - a microeconomic analysis definitions, data and the informal economy in South Africa: a critical analysis population, health and development - people's views on how families cope with illnesses and deaths in South Africa condom use within marriage and cohabiting partnerships - perspectives of couples framing the HIV epidemic in South Africa - A sociological perspective economic and development issues around HIV/AIDS social movements and democratic transition - social movements in South Africa - promoting crisis or creating stability? democracy and social movements in South Africa political work - mobilisation and negotiation in the shadows of Durban's refineries. Traditional authority and development challenges - rural development, traditional authorities and democracy in South Africa.
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TL;DR: A sociological analysis of culture jamming can be found in this paper, where it is seen as an investigation into the apparatus of representation in late modernity, as it relates to both images and discourses of the media and commodity system and the expression of political will.
Abstract: ‘Culture jamming’is defined as‘an organized, social activist effort that aims to counter the bombardment of consumption-oriented messages in the mass media’ (Handelman and Kozinets,2004: n.p.). This article seeks to understand culture jamming from a sociological perspective, situating it in the‘expressivist’tradition, which originates with the mid-18th century thinker Rousseau and whose legacy extends to postwar Western counterculture. Culture jamming is seen as an investigation into the apparatus of representation in late modernity, as it relates to both images and discourses of the media and commodity system, and the expression of political will. By providing an incentive for producers to respond to consumer demands for environmental sustainability and an end to labor exploitation, culture jamming may ironically help rehabilitate the market system it often portends to transcend. This may indeed serve to ameliorate certain‘market failures’ of the global system.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors make the link between the struggle against accumulation by dispossession and the struggle for expanded reproduction that is necessary to meet the material needs of impoverished and repressed populations.
Abstract: David Harvey suggests that, compared with struggles waged by traditional political parties and labor unions, struggles to “reclaim the commons” typically result in a less focused political dynamic of social action, which is both a strength and a weakness. While these social movements draw strength from their embeddedness in daily life, not all manage to make the link between the struggle against accumulation by dispossession and the struggle for expanded reproduction that is necessary to meet the material needs of impoverished and repressed populations. Social movements in Bolivia have framed their demands differently in the struggles against the privatization of natural gas and water depending on the different roles these resources play in the region’s political economy. Struggles against the privatization of natural gas pose a greater challenge to neoliberalism because of their macro frame and politics.
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