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This collection contains more than 55 writings by academics and public intellectuals. The essays are drawn from different decades of the 20th and 21st centuries, and from across the globe, presenting different and sometimes divergent lines of thinking about social movements

To make sense of the rise and fall, origins and nature, of the 1980s West German peace movement requires work that is part political sociology and part social movement theory building. An analysis of the peace movement's organizations, leadership, strategy, goals, tactics, and mobilization comprises the political sociology part of this study.

Culture has become a prominent concept in social movement research. It is, however, often employed in an unsystematic and limited way. This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses advantages and shortcomings of existing concepts and introduces new approaches. In particular, it addresses facets of cultural theory that have hitherto been largely neglected in the literature on social movements. This includes ideas from anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. The chapters in this volume address three relationships between social movements and culture: culture as a framework for movements, social movements' internal culture, and culture and cultural change as a result of social movement activity. For the purpose of making concepts easily accessible, each contribution explains its approach to culture in an understandable way and illustrates it with recent cases of mobilization.

Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction: From diversity of interpretations to sustainability of institutions / Päivi Eriksson, Ulla Hytti, Katri Komulainen, Tero Montonen and Päivi Siivonen -- Higher education policy and administration on the move -- 2. The role of European Union in creating europe of knowledge / Luk Van Langenhove and Päivi Eriksson -- 3. Higher education marketization in England: Employable or entrepreneurial graduates (or both)? / Michael Tomlinson, Päivi Siivonen and Hanna Laalo -- 4. Experimenting in the organisational periphery: Introducing extra-curricular entrepreneurship education in traditional research universities / Juha Tuunainen, Kari Kantasalmi and Sari Laari-Salmela -- Entrepreneurial universities claiming their future -- 5. The third mission of universities: A boundary object with interpretative flexibility / Tero Montonen, Päivi Eriksson and Kirsi Peura -- 6. Beyond the ecosystem metanarrative: Narrative multiplicity and entrepreneurial experiences at the university of waterloo / Ryan T. MacNeil, Santana Ochoa Briggs, Alisha E. Christie and Connor Sheehan -- 7. Identity work of a researcher in entrepreneurial university backyard research / Kirsi Peura, Anna Elkina, Kaisu Paasio and Ulla Hytti -- Discomforting and delighting: the student experience of academic entrepreneurship -- 8. The formation of and resistance to enterprising labouring subject in academia: A case study of a translation graduate entering the labour market / Katri Komulainen and Maija Korhonen -- 9. Doing gender in the student entrepreneurship society programme / Anna Elkina -- 10. Ability self makes a difference - university students' perceptions of employability and entrepreneurship / Kati Kasanen and Hannu Räty -- Academics becoming entrepreneurs -- 11. You never travel alone - challenging the masculine ethos of individualism in academic entrepreneurship / Tiina Suopajärvi, Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Oili-Helena Ylijoki -- 12. Social academic entrepreneurship: Contextual understanding / Subhanjan Sengupta -- 13. Becoming credible? An alternative narrative of start-ups in an accelerator program / Jukka Moilanen, Outi-Maaria Palo-oja, Eeva Aromaa and Tero Montonen -- Future movements -- 14. Understanding academic entrepreneurship as fields of moral orders: Theoretical and methodological perspectives of positioning theory / Pasi Hirvonen and Luk Van Langenhove -- Epilogue -- 15. Stirring and disturb - urging the movement of academic entrepreneurship onwards / Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert -- Index.

This article presents a series of reflections on
the situation of social movements in Argentina,
reflections result of work in and from the same
organizations, key elements to understand and
reflect, to identify common points in our social
organizational logic, the way Institutions such as
the State moves ahead of the claims, demands
and struggles of social and popular organizations.

This is the Review Article of Moving the Social 64 (2020).

In the state-centric UN organization, meaningful participation by nonstate entities, eg, social movements, is severely limited. However, social movements can make valuable contributions to the UN; because of their nonhierarchical internally democratic structures, social movements, representing the disenfranchised & marginalized in society, can provide examples for democratization of the UN. Due to their small size, social movements are more flexible, adaptable, & nonbureaucratic than states; they can help to broaden or refocus agendas. Their grass-roots experience can assist in decision making & in opening up critical issues of concern for UN study. The social movements with greatest access to the UN are the large, well-organized Northern groups, but these are more removed from the grass-roots level. Efforts are needed to facilitate greater participation by social movements in the UN, & especially, to open up access for voices from the South & participation by local groups. 1 Photograph, 23 References. Adapted from the source document.

This study examines the Green Movement in Bulgaria (1987-2014) as a typical and specific example of the New Social Movements. It focuses on the interconnection between environmentalism, politics and participation. We present the movement along with its evolution and analyse it on three levels: macro (through its relation to the most important contemporary issues, phenomena and processes); meso (in the national context during the past three generations); and micro (through the prism of individuals and their experience). Our general approach is interdisciplinary, combining qualitative, comparative and quantitative methods. Bulgaria's green movement is a citizen and political movement of a new type. In the context of the New Social Movements, it is an actor of challenging the status quo; a moral corrective of the power, which implements a genuine 'citizen environmental politics.' Secondly, it introduces and fosters New Culture and New Politics based on a novel set of values, practices and behavioural models: one where the individual is essential. Thirdly, it is one of the pillars of Bulgarian civil society, a key factor in democratizing the socio-political life. Last but not least, it is a vehicle of an Eco-humanism originating in the specific environment that gave birth to the citizens' movements in Eastern Europe under the totalitarian regimes and during the Democratic Transition. It also embodies a specific national attitude towards nature, traditionally stemming from peculiarities of Bulgarian culture. ; Le présent travail étudie le mouvement écologique en Bulgarie (1987-2014) comme un représentant typique et spécifique des nouveaux mouvements sociaux. Il s'agit de questionner en particulier les rapports qui lient l'écologie, la politique et l'engagement. L'évolution du mouvement est observée dans sa continuité historique, au niveau macro (dans sa relation avec les enjeux politiques majeurs de notre temps), au niveau méso (dans son contexte structurel et culturel) et au niveau micro (celui de l'individu ...

THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT MODERN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS LACK THE THEORY NECESSARY FOR EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE. THE MOVEMENTS THAT HAVE EMERGED IN THE POSTWAR ERA DIFFER FROM THE MOVEMENTS OF EARLIER PERIODS IN WAYS THAT CALL FOR A RETHINKING OF THEORY.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Theory and Protest in Latin America Today -- PART 1: CONCEPTUALIZING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA -- 2 Social Movements: Actors, Theories, Expectations -- 3 Marxism, Feminism, and the Struggle for Democracy in Latin America -- 4 The Study of New Social Movements in Latin America and the Question of Autonomy -- 5 Culture, Economics, and Politics in Latin American Social Movements Theory and Research -- PART 2 THE MAKING OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES -- 6 "I Dreamed of Foxes and Hawks": Reflections on Peasant Protest, New Social Movements, and the Rondas Campesinas of Northern Peru -- 7 From Resistance to Social Movement: The Indigenous Authorities Movement in Colombia -- 8 Power, Gender, and Development: Popular Women's Organizations and the Politics of Needs in Ecuador -- 9 The Venezuelan Ecology Movement: Symbolic Effectiveness, Social Practices, and Political Strategies -- 10 Rethinking the Study of Social Movements: The Case of Christian Base Communities in Urban Brazil -- 11 Homosexual Identities in Transitional Brazilian Politics -- PART 3 ARTICULATING STRATEGIES AND DEMOCRATIZING DEMOCRACY -- 12 Feminisms in Latin America: From Bogotá to San Bernardo, Nancy Saporta Sternbach, Marysa Navarro-Aranguren -- 13 The Evolution of Urban Popular Movements in Mexico Between 1968 and 1988 -- 14 Radical Opposition Parties and Squatters Movements in Pinochet's Chile -- 15 Democratization and the Decline of Urban Social Movements in Uruguay: A Political-Institutional Account -- 16 Popular Movements in the Context of the Consolidation of Democracy in Brazil -- 17 Social Movements and Political Power in Latin America

"This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of social movements and a study of discourses on the European "refugee crisis", by leading theorist, Teun A. van Dijk. Concrete examples of different kinds of discourse are vital for the study of social movements because their activities are not limited to such well-known forms of contention as marches, occupations or strikes, but also daily discursive activities, such as meetings, assemblies, interviews, press conferences, manifestos, pamphlets, banners, graffiti, websites, blogs, social media posts and everyday talk. This book proposes that empirical analyses of these discourses should go beyond the popular but vague notion of "frame" and engage in more detailed and explicit analyses of the text and talk of social movements. This is a much-needed introduction to the most important structures of discourse and a detailed theoretical account of the notion of "solidarity" defining the Refugees Welcome movement"--

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements and politics. Pride Parades and LGBT Movements contributes to a better understanding of LGBT protest dynamics through a comparative study of eleven Pride parades in seven European countries – Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK – and Mexico. Peterson, Wahlström and Wennerhag uncover the dynamics producing similarities and differences between Pride parades, using unique data from surveys of Pride participants and qualitative interviews with parade organizers and key LGBT activists. In addition to outlining the histories of Pride in the respective countries, the authors explore how the different political and cultural contexts influence: Who participates, in terms of socio-demographic characteristics and political orientations; what Pride parades mean for their participants; how participants were mobilized; how Pride organizers relate to allies and what strategies they employ for their performances of Pride. This book will be of interest to political scientists and sociologists with an interest in LGBT studies, social movements, comparative politics and political behavior and participation.