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"Regioninės studijos" (ISSN 2029-2074) 2013 m. virto į "International journal of area studies" (eISSN 2345-0223) ; New social movements in South Africa could play a prominent role in mobilizing the communities to reflect critically and address the repercussions of the neo-liberal agenda which manifests itself in perpetual exclusion of under-educated adults and provision of poor quality education. Few studies especially from the perspective of the activists leave a potential research area of a very interesting phenomenon of how people learn while struggling for social justice. Therefore this article based on a single multi-site case study on a social movement cohering around literacy issues in Gauteng, South Africa, aims at answering, what forms of learning and education the social movement encompassed, how did the group conscientization occur and what are the individual transformations. Semi-structured interviews and a focus group discussion were held with 13 learnersactivists and 2 adult educators. By applying Mezirow's individual transformation and Freirean group conscientization models the analysis of primary and secondary data, revealed that the engagement in the social movement challenged and changed learnersactivists' understanding of educational status within their respective communities. This in turn led to transformative action addressing the problems identified. On the individual level, some learners-activists became more tolerant and willing to cooperate with those of different political ideologies, able to tap into community resources. Finally, the potential of social movements as adult learning environments are outlined ; Regionistikos katedra ; Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas

Post-modern politics does not follow patterns created by established institutions and the state; such movements create their own ways of accomplishing their aims. Looks at how their 'non-linear' conception of change is radically altering the nature of Swedish politics. (SJK)

Several new social movements are described that offer some hope of progress toward democracy in authoritarian nations of Latin America. These include ecclesiastical base communities, neighborhood associations, & the feminist movement in Brazil; human rights groups in Argentina; & ecological associations in both nations. Both countries have been typified by semidemocratic political cultures. The new movements -- which have emerged since 1964 in Brazil, & since 1976 in Argentina, in response to the failure of Left authoritarianism, Right authoritarianism, & populism -- share important values, especially in their shared emphasis on participatory democratic relations. Their possible future roles in democratization are four: they could be suppressed by authoritarian governments, marginalized within restricted democracies, coopted, or form alliances with liberals while also maintaining a separate identity that permits them significant political influence. W. H. Stoddard.

The author uses a case study of the COCEI of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a left coalition that has achieved power at the municipal level despite repressive intervention by the national government, to critique theoretical approaches to new social movements. He offers as an alternative a combination of Marxist and postmodernist propositions. While some aspects of the COCEI reflect the radicalization of Mexican grass-roots movements after 1968, Zapotec intellectuals have combined revolutionary socialist thought and avant-garde artistic styles with ethnic mobilization to create a movement that is linked to regional and indigenous traditions

Es wird ein Überblick über den Stand der Forschung über Neue Soziale Bewegungen in der Bundesrepublik gegeben. Nach einer kurzen Darstellung der Entwicklung des Phänomens verschiedener sozialer Bewegungen seit der Mitte der sechziger Jahre wird die Literatur zum Thema unter zwei Aspekten gesichtet: Zum einen werden die verschiedenen theoretischen Verständnisweisen und Erklärungsansätze Neuer Sozialer Bewegungen beschrieben, zum anderen wird der Stand der empirischen Forschung zu diesem Phänomen dargelegt. (AuD-Pls)

New social movements emerge in Portugal as relevant actors in democratic decision-making processes. As more democratic, young and urban, new social move-ments engage in a relevant change in the processes of negotiation (Santos 2008, 2001; Schemmeling 2009; Swyngedouw 2010; Touraine 2002, 1994), publicizing marginal claims and minority flags (Guerra 2006; Henriques 2007; Picolotto 2007; Alonso 2009). So, this article aims to discover: "How to define today's narratives of the New Social Movements in Portuguese media, in the view of young people?". The meth-odological resources used are documentary research and inquiry to a nonprobabilistic sample survey by voluntary system.The most significant results found about new activism are: a) journalistic pieces are evaluated, by youth, as partial, superficial and controversial; b) the respondents as-sociate some advantages to the new activism: flexibility, new technologies, and the per-ception of helping the world; c) and, finally, the respondents associate disadvantages to the new activism: extremism, violence, controversy.