Gender, Social Movements and Multilateralism: A Case Study of Women’s Organizing in Russia

1999 ◽  
pp. 303-334
Author(s):  
Elena Ershova ◽  
Linda Racioppi ◽  
Katherine O’Sullivan See
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Women's Organizing

Prohibition, Legalization, and Political Consumerism

2018 ◽  
pp. 740-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Drug Control ◽  
Psychoactive Substance ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us

Cannabis (marijuana) is the most commonly consumed, universally produced, and frequently trafficked psychoactive substance prohibited under international drug control laws. Yet, several countries have recently moved toward legalization. In these places, the legal status of cannabis is complex, especially because illegal markets persist. This chapter explores the ways in which a sector’s legal status interacts with political consumerism. The analysis draws on a case study of political consumerism in the US and Canadian cannabis markets over the past two decades as both countries moved toward legalization. It finds that the goals, tactics, and leadership of political consumerism activities changed as the sector’s legal status shifted. Thus prohibition, semilegalization, and new legality may present special challenges to political consumerism, such as silencing producers, confusing consumers, deterring social movements, and discouraging discourse about ethical issues. The chapter concludes that political consumerism and legal status may have deep import for one another.

scholarly journals Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media: The Case of Black Lives Matter

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511880791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Mundt ◽  
Karen Ross ◽  
Charla M Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Careful Management

In this article, we explore the potential role of social media in helping movements expand and/or strengthen themselves internally, processes we refer to as scaling up. Drawing on a case study of Black Lives Matter (BLM) that includes both analysis of public social media accounts and interviews with BLM groups, we highlight possibilities created by social media for building connections, mobilizing participants and tangible resources, coalition building, and amplifying alternative narratives. We also discuss challenges and risks associated with using social media as a platform for scaling up. Our analysis suggests that while benefits of social media use outweigh its risks, careful management of online media platforms is necessary to mitigate concrete, physical risks that social media can create for activists.

Using Social Media to Organize a Marginalized Community

2020 ◽  
pp. 216-249
Author(s):  
Todd R. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Military Community ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
The U.S

Potential leaders within marginalized communities find it difficult to connect, learn, strategize, and support one another and build a cohesive community capable of effecting social change. This research contributes to filling a gap in empirical research on effective approaches to employing social media tools to organize and engage in social movements. The research builds on earlier studies of marginalized communities and social media to organize and engages in social movements by applying a case study design to assess how the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) military community employed social media to organize and advocate for inclusion and end discrimination within the U.S. armed forces. Seventeen findings were identified that describe key ways the LGBT military community employed these tools to organize, identify leaders and their roles, and how online behavior affected offline advocacy.

'A Native Man Is Still a Man': A Case Study of Intercultural Participation in Social Movements

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Landsman ◽  
Louise Krasniewicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements

From Local to Global: The Anti-Dam Movement in Southern Brazil, 1979-1992

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin Rothman ◽  
Pamela Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Power Company ◽  
Financial Base

A case study of the anti-dam movement in southern Brazil shows how particular local mobilizations are linked to national and global economics, politics, and social movements. In the early stages, the progressive church was the predominant influence and was largely responsible for framing the key issue as peasants' right to land, while left intellectuals contributed a class analytical frame. After 1988, the weakening of the regional power company ELETROSUL, the crisis of the Left after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the defeat of the agrarian reform movement, the rise of national and international ecology movements, and the anti-dam movement's need for a broader political and financial base all contributed to the adoption of a broadened and more pro-active land/energy/ecology frame and an alliance with international environmentalism.

The Exemplary in Transnational Social Movements: The Legacies of the Alterglobalization Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iratxe Perea Ozerin
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
International System ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Main Aspect ◽  
Transnational Social Movements ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Revolutionary theorists have pointed to the “exemplary” in revolutions as the main aspect explaining the power of these phenomena to shape the international system. As a result of their internationalist commitment and their capacity to set revolutionary models, revolutions have a long-term impact not anticipated by even the revolutionaries themselves. Even though they might be overthrown or socialized, the ideas and the internationalist practice exercised by revolutionary movements continue affecting subsequent dynamics of contestation and thus defining world politics. In this article, I argue that the impact of Transnational Social Movements (TSM) can be analyzed in this light. To the extent that they aim to transform the international order, TSMs’ interaction with the international might be deeper than is normally assumed. In order to illustrate this, the article focuses on the Alterglobalization Movement (AGM) as a case study. This approach allows an assessment of the potential of the AGM to shape international politics beyond more immediate victories at the beginning of the millennium.

scholarly journals People and urban nature: the environmentalization of social movements in Bogotá

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germán A. Quimbayo Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Urban Nature ◽  
Urban Commons

Using research conducted in Bogotá, Colombia, I discuss in this article how urban nature has been used as a vehicle by social movements to contest urban commons. The article explores the "environmentalization" of strategies and repertoires of social movements in urban struggles dating back to the 1980s, which developed in parallel with public urban planning debates. In recent years these were nurtured in turn by environmental discourse in a quest to change the city's growth paradigm. I suggest that the legitimacy of knowledge and law about urban nature advocacy is co-created by communities confronting institutions that are supposed to represent state power. This case study analyses conceptualizations of urban nature in and from Latin America, and shows that urban politics and environmental issues are part of a process in which political mobilization is a key element to overcome socio-ecological inequalities.Key words: urban social movements; political ecology of urbanization; situated knowledge; socio-ecological inequalities; Latin America  

Exploring the Politics of Social Movements through ‘Sociological Intervention’: A Case Study of Local Exchange Trading Schemes

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter North
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Small Study ◽  
Local Exchange ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Touraine's method of Sociological Intervention (SI) for the analysis of social movements is examined in the light of a case study of Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS). Tempered by Melucci's critique of Touraine's attempt to find one ‘higher’ meaning of a social movement, LETS was examined using a staged series of focus groups to uncover and illuminate the extent that LETS can be regarded as a social movement. The appropriateness of SI as a method within the resource constraints of a small study is discussed, and SI is recommended as an effective method of examining emerging social movements if triangulated with other methodological approaches.

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