Social Movements

La Transición Democrática en España desde abajo: el ejemplo del Movimiento Estudiantil en Barcelona

by florian musil

Comunicación en las XIII Jornadas Interesculares Departamentos de Historia, augosto 2011 Catamarca - Argentina
Número de la mesa: Nº 48
Titulo de la mesa: “Encuadramientos juveniles, prácticas contestatarias y políticas del tiempo libre en la Europa y Argentina del siglo XX, desde perspectivas comparadas: aproximaciones teóricas e historiográficas”
Apellido y nombre de las/os coordinadores/as:  Sandra Isabel SOUTO KUSTRÍN y Jorge SGRAZZUTTI

Con mi proyecto de tesis doctoral "Los movimientos antifranquistas en Barcelona de la década de los 70"... more Con mi proyecto de tesis doctoral "Los movimientos antifranquistas en Barcelona de la década de los 70" trato de cambiar los esquemas de la narración historiográfica de la democratización de España. Se trata de una historiografía desde “abajo", pero seguirá siendo una historia política, es decir, estos movimientos sociales han de ser pensados como actor político.

Pan-Islamic Networks of the Apocalypse: Mobilizing Diasporic Muslim Youth on Facebook

by David Drissel

Soldering Toward Media Democracy: Technical Practice as Symbolic Value in Radio Activism

by Christina Dunbar-Hester

Journal of Communication Inquiry, 2012

This article follows radio activists engaged in a combination of policy advocacy and broadening access to technology... more This article follows radio activists engaged in a combination of policy advocacy and broadening access to technology and skills through hands-on work. In practice, this largely played out as a systematic elevation of “technical” work and downplaying of policy/advocacy expertise, even though both were salient features of their work. The article argues that radio activists cultivated a technical identity that served to mark boundaries between their group and others in the terrain of media democracy work. Technical identity also took on special significance as the group grappled with organizational maturation, mitigating the anxiety felt by workers as they experienced the shift from an inexperienced, though highly driven and successful activist collective, to a more sustainable nonprofit activist organization. The article concludes by naming technological activism as one strategy in the wider spectrum of work to promote media democracy and speculates on the consequences of technical identity within the wider movement.

Spindeln i nätet: Sigfrid Hansson och LOs fackliga bildningsprojekt under 1920- och 1930-talen

by Jenny Jansson

Under 1910-talet utmanades den reformistiska grenen av den svenska arbetarrörelsen av syndikalistiska och... more Under 1910-talet utmanades den reformistiska grenen av den svenska arbetarrörelsen av syndikalistiska och kommunistiska organisationer i Sverige. Utvecklingen är inte unik för Sverige, tvärtom. Uppkomsten av flera olika arbetarorganisationer fick effekten att det plötsligt inte längre fanns bara en enda politisk innebörd i begreppet arbetare  i Sverige utan flera, vilket utmanade de reformistiska organisationerna. Uppkomsten av flera definitioner av arbetaren resulterade i en identitetskris inom framförallt LO, vilket föranledde ledarna för LO att vidta åtgärder. I denna process blev folkbildningsinstitutionerna ett viktigt instrument för att konstruera en enhetlig identitet inom arbetarrörelsen. I centrum för denna process stod en handfull personer som genom sitt engagemang för arbetarrörelsens idéer och för folkbildning kom att spela en viktig roll för bildningsarbetets ställning inom fackföreningsrörelsen. Denna artikel syftar till att framförallt belysa en persons betydelse för folkbildningen som identitetsskapande instrument inom LO, Sigfrid Hansson, och hur hans medverkan fick betydelse för etablerandet av folkbildning som en viktig del av det fackliga arbetet under 1920- och 1930-talen.

Review - David N. Gellner (ed.), Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia (New Delhi, 2010) and Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia (New Delhi, 2009)

by Uday Chandra

Forthcoming in Social Movement Studies 12 (1), 2013

Exploring the Democratic Potential of Online Social Networking: The Scope and Limitations of e-Participation

by Panos Panagiotopoulos

In Communications of the Association for Information Systems 30 (16), 2012

Access to the article is without charge following the link below to aisnet.org

The availability and promise of social networking technologies with their perceived open philosophy has increasingly... more The availability and promise of social networking technologies with their perceived open philosophy has increasingly inspired citizens around the world to participate in political activity on the Web. Recent examples range from opposing public policies, such as government funding cuts, to organizing revolutionary social movements, such as those in the Middle East and North Africa. Although online spaces create remarkable opportunities for various forms of political action, there are concerns over the power of existing institutions to control and even censor such interaction spaces. The objective of this article is to draw together different insights on the online engagement phenomenon, highlighting both its potential and limitations as a mechanism for fostering democratic debate and influencing policy making. We examine recent examples from Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Finally, we summarize the implications of our work and outline directions for further research.

Beyond emancipation? The reflexivity of social movements

by Paul Bagguley

The New Spartakists. The thought of Rosa Luxemburg to understand the Global Movement

by Iñigo Errejón Galván

2005 - Con Pablo Iglesias en Barker, C. And Tyldesley (eds.) “Alternative Futures and Popular Protest. Conference Papers Supplementary Volume”. Manchester Metropolitan University
press.

En Bolivie, une victoire difficile

by Iñigo Errejón Galván

Publicado en la revista francesa "Multitudes" en su número 35, 2008 pp. 85-95

"De l’effondrement du pouvoir néolibéral au combat pour l’hégémonie indigène et populaire"

Après... more "De l’effondrement du pouvoir néolibéral au combat pour l’hégémonie indigène et populaire"

Après deux années et demi de gouvernement du Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS), nous ne pouvons que constater une certaine léthargie des mouvements sociaux. L’explication ne réside peut-être pas tant dans la cooptation des organisations paysannes et urbaines par le gouvernement que dans la dynamique propre des mouvements sociaux depuis le début de la mise en place du modèle néolibéral en 1985.

Sports fan movements to save suburban-based teams threatened with amalgamation in different football codes in Australia.

by John Nauright

Coauthored with Murray Phillips. Published in International Sports Studies, 17:1 (1999), 23-38.

During the late 1980s and 1990s there has been an international acceleration in the rationalisation and relocation of... more During the late 1980s and 1990s there has been an international acceleration in the rationalisation and relocation of professional sporting teams and competitions. While this process has had a long history in the United States, it has occurred much more rapidly in other societies. In Australia, there has been a dual process of national expansion of professional sporting competitions and pressures placed on historic suburban-based clubs. In addition, there has been a massive infusion of international capital in the form of television interest in Australian professional sports. In rugby league this caused a temporary split in the national competition. In rugby union it has led to open professionalism and greater integration with South Africa and New Zealand. And, in Australian Rules football, the governing
body has worked to protect itself against an outside takeover such as has plagued rugby league. At the same time, both the Australian Football League (AFL) and the National Rugby League (NRL) and their predeessors have worked to rationalise the number of suburban Melbourne and Sydney-based clubs respectively while promoting a policy of national expansion and for rugby league even international expansion to Auckland, New Zealand. We examine fan responses to these changes
particularly when their club is threatened with merging with other clubs, We discuss the dynamics of this process that are unique to the Australian context in our analysis of global capital and local audiences and suggest how this connects with a theoretical understanding of such processes more generally and comparisons that can be made between Australia and other countries.

Horizontal Democracy Now: From Alterglobalization to Occupation

by Marianne Maeckelbergh

Interface: a journal for and about social movements 4(1)

This article examines the 15 May movement in Barcelona to explore some continuities and discontinuities between social... more This article examines the 15 May movement in Barcelona to explore some continuities and discontinuities between social movement responses to the economic crisis and previous experiments with horizontal democracy within global social movement networks. Specifically, this article examines two meeting structures embodied in the occupied square in Barcelona to explore the mechanisms through which decision making within the 15 May movement foster diversity and embrace conflict. Based on a decade of involvement in the alterglobalization movement, attendance at meetings in the acampada in Barcelona at the height of the 15 May uprising, as well as follow up interviews and discussions with long-time activists in Barcelona, this article shows how the decision making practices used in the squares in Barcelona mimic, build on and expand on horizontal decision-making methods practiced within the alterglobalization movement. Some of the dilemmas created by the grounding of horizontal decision- making within local squares and the much larger scale of these meetings are explored.

Gobernadores vs. Organizaciones: Política social y Federalismo durante los gobiernos de Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández

by Lorena Moscovich

Borrador/draft

Nuevos movimientos sociales, activismo digital y nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación

by Emiliano Treré

Memorias de las "Cuartas Jornadas: La Comunicación como objeto de estudio Teorías y prácticas en ciencias sociales" Querétaro, Qro. 22 y 23 de septiembre de 2011

Este pequeño ensayo pretende reflexionar críticamente sobre las trasformaciones sociales debidas a los medios... more Este pequeño ensayo pretende reflexionar críticamente sobre las trasformaciones sociales debidas a los medios digitales que están cambiando profundamente nuestras sociedades. Este trabajo está dividido en dos partes. En la primera parte realizo un sucinto recorrido por la historia de la Red, haciendo un especial énfasis en la paralela evolución del activismo digital. En la segunda parte, proporcionaré algunas reflexiones acerca de la evolución de la Red y de los paralelos cambios experimentados en el entorno del activismo, tanto desde el punto de vista conceptual como metodológico.

Les relaciones ente los movimientos de reivindicación llingüística d’Asturies y Llión (I): los “Alcuentros nel Cordal” (1996-2001)

by Fernando Álvarez-Balbuena

published in Faceira 2 (2011): 26-31

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Exploring genre repertoire and document work in the Assemblea operai e studenti of 1969

by Steve Wright

forthcoming in Archival Science: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1389-0166/

Beyond Kurdistan? The Mesopotamia Social Forum and the appropriation and re-imagination of Mesopotamia by the Kurdish Movement.

by Marlies Casier

Published in the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 13:4, 417-432, December 2011.

Escalation of Social Conflict during Popular Upheavals: Evidence from Bahrain

by Magdalena Karolak

Central European Journal of Political Science

Český protest od dob normalizace - sociálně-politické podmínky disidentů a současné anti-systémové opozice v komparativní perspektivě

by Olivie Brabcová

Cílem práce je popsat změny anti-systémové opozice v Čechách za státního socialismu a po změně režimu na demokratický,... more Cílem práce je popsat změny anti-systémové opozice v Čechách za státního socialismu a po změně režimu na demokratický, konkrétně v časovém období od
počátku normalizace až do pádu komunismu v kontrastu s polistopadovou érou až do současnosti. Po obecném porovnání anti-systémových opozic autorka staví proti sobě
dvě konkrétní protestní události důležité pro daná období. První jsou násilně potlačené demonstrace v lednu 1989 známé jako Palachův týden a druhou alterglobalizační protesty proti zasedání Mezinárodního Měnového Fondu a Světové Banky v září 2000.

Anarchsim Strikes Back

by Christian Garland

Unedited version of shortened review of Franks, B. (2006) Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms (Edinburgh: AK Press) published in Radical Philosophy 172 http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/142-reviews

A Dual-power situation? Communization and the Materiality of Anti-power

by Christian Garland

Text of talk given at 'Taking Control' Conference, 12 March 2011
SOAS, University of London
http://takingcontrol2011.wordpress.com/