scholarly journals Disinformed social movements: A large-scale mapping of conspiracy narratives as online harms during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 100174
Author(s):  
Philipp Darius ◽  
Michael Urquhart
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Conspiracy Narratives

Protest, Social Movements, and Spaces for Politically Oriented Consumerist Actions—Nationally, Transnationally, and Locally

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-88
Author(s):  
Francesca Forno
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Predatory Lending ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Consumer Organizations ◽  
Ethical Criteria ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the relationship between social movements and political consumerism. Besides traditional consumer organizations that seek to protect customers from corporate abuse (such as unsafe products, predatory lending, or false advertising), political consumer practices have become increasingly employed to achieve diverse political and social goals. Calls to citizens to take action in their role as consumers have been made by social movement organizations of various types, either to build up transnational awareness so as to step up pressure on corporations or to facilitate the purchase of goods/services that meet specific ethical criteria. Along with large-scale boycotting and global fair trade initiatives, market-based actions have entered the repertoire of a number of local grassroots organizations seeking bottom-up solutions for sustainable development, within which the act of shopping moves beyond a form of individuals taking responsibility to become a tool for constructing collective, citizenship-driven alternative styles of provisioning.

Smartphone as a mediating technology of organization

2019 ◽  
pp. 429-442
Author(s):  
Jennifer Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Small Device ◽  
Power Trust ◽  
The Individual ◽  
A Site

This chapter considers the smartphone as organizational force. Its effects are to blur the boundaries between work and home; to involve different constituent actors and forms of power (bypassing traditional organizational gatekeepers); and to raise new forms of service and exclusion. The smartphone is a small device that impacts large-scale organizing. A site of interaction between the individual and organizing, it raises questions of power, trust, transparency, work–life balance, self-monitoring, surveillance, and self-expression. It is associated with the rise of new, less-regulated forms of work and social movements. Organizational scholars need to further unpack its implications for organizations and organizing.

scholarly journals Goodbye to Grand Politics: The Cane Sugar Campaign and the Limits of Transnational Activism, 1968–1974

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-534
Author(s):  
Peter van Dam
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
Common Target

AbstractIn 1968 Dutch activists launched a campaign focused on cane sugar as a symbol of unfair trading conditions for the global South. The history of the cane sugar campaign from 1968 to 1974 highlights how European integration provided hope for large-scale change and a common target. This led activists to establish European networks and campaigns. Its demise sheds new light on the new social movements’ shift from ‘grand politics’, aimed at a sudden and drastic transformation through global and European politics, towards incremental change by locally targeting specific companies and countries.

Participation of social movements in the innovative development of the population’s life safety system

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR А. PUCHKOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Safety System ◽  
The State ◽  
Life Safety ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Key Aspects

The article analyzes the promising directions of development of social movements to support the innovative evolution of the population’s life safety system. The key aspects of the activities of veterans organizations aimed at the transfer of life and professional experience are considered. The assessment of practical experience and prospects of joint actions of volunteers in areas of large-scale disasters with the use of the latest innovative technologies is carried out. The role of social movements in the implementation of modern approaches in the education of younger generations, increasing the involvement of all segments of Russian society in the formation of a culture of life safety and improving the new quality of socio-economic development of the country’s regions is studied. Based on his own practical experience, the author comes to the conclusion about the absolute effectiveness of cooperation between the state and public organizations, involving volunteers in ensuring the safety of life. The analysis of the necessary measures on the part of the state to ensure full cooperation with volunteer movements is carried out, and a set of measures to achieve these goals is proposed. Creation of stimulating conditions for public voluntary fire protection associations at the level of the Russian Federation’s regions as a unique public-rescue institution is noted.

Regulations of Large-Scale Acquisitions of Land: The Case of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenza Paoloni ◽  
Antonio Onorati
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
World Food Security ◽  
Responsible Governance ◽  
Voluntary Guidelines

AbstractThis article focuses on the recent international agreement now known as Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests. The drafting process for this international agreement, achieved through a transparent consultation activity, started by FAO and finalized through intergovernmental negotiations led by CFS (Committee on World Food Security, a body of the U.N.), also including the participation of civil society organizations, international organizations, private sector representatives, academics and researchers. The engagement of rural social movements and other Civil Society Organizations in the negotiation process is an unprecedented effort in influencing governments to establish guidelines to gain greater access to land resources at the global scale. The Guidelines aim to promote food security and sustainable development by improving secure access to land, fisheries and forests, especially for small food producers, and protecting the legitimate tenure rights of millions of people against forms of grabbing, concentration, commodification and privatization of land which are shaping agrarian systems. They have been elaborated on the basis of human rights and in respect of local communities rights. From a strictly legal point of view, the Guidelines are not mandatory and hence they are not a source of legally binding effects for every single State. They do not derive from a formal legislative proceeding, and they are the result of a consultation and negotiation process coming from the bottom. Every State and international organization is called on to guarantee the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Guidelines. The authors contend, with critical arguments, that the process of consultation and negotiation that led to the endorsement of the Guidelines is quite relevant – in the current context of the large-scale land acquisitions – and very significant because it involved civil society and social movements, giving rise to an innovative instrument of soft law.

scholarly journals LA CUESTIÓN AMBIENTAL EN EL CAPITALISMO DE LA PERSPECTIVA DE MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALESA QUESTÃO AMBIENTAL NO CAPITALISMO DESDE A PERSPECTIVA DOS MOVIMENTOS SOCIAISTHE ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTION ON CAPITALISM FROM THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Anita Helena Schlesener ◽  
Maria Antonia de Souza ◽  
Maria Arlete Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Critical Education ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Face ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
La Via Campesina ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

El artículo trata del dilema que vive la humanidad de cómo preservar el sistema ecológico y la biodiversidad para la sostenibilidad frente a la constante depredación del capital y la forma de vida capitalista que se nos presenta como el Ideal. ¿Cuál es la tarea de la educación en esta realidad concreta? Las reflexiones de naturaleza bibliográfica y documental consideran que los movimientos sociales son portadores de referencias analíticas para comprender el aprendizaje generado en contradicciones, luchas y participación social, teniendo el Movimiento de Trabajadores Sin Tierra (MST) y la Via Campesina como protagonistas de prácticas sociales colectivas que contrastan críticamente con el modelo capitalista de producción a gran escala conocido como agronegocios. Se basa en el modelo agroecológico, en defensa de la educación crítica y la formación integral del hombre y las nuevas generaciones con miras a una sociedad planetaria justa y sostenible. O artigo trata do dilema que vive a humanidade de como preservar o sistema ecológico e a biodiversidade para sustentabilidade ante a constante depredação do capital e do estilo de vida capitalista, que nos é apresentado como o Ideal. Qual é a tarefa da educação nesta realidade concreta? As reflexões de natureza bibliográfica e documental consideram que os movimentos sociais são portadores de referências analíticas para se compreender o aprendizado gerado nas contradições, nas lutas e na participação social, tendo o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) e a Via Campesina como protagonistas de práticas sociais coletivas que se contrapõem de forma crítica ao modelo capitalista de produção em larga escala, conhecido como agronegócio. Fundamenta-se no modelo agroecológico, na defesa da educação crítica e formação integral do homem e das novas gerações com vistas a uma sociedade planetária justa e sustentável. The article deals with the dilemma that mankind lives of how preserving the ecological system and biodiversity for sustainability in the face of the constant depredation of capital and the capitalist way of life presented to us as the Ideal. What is the task of education in this concrete reality? Reflections of bibliographical and documentary nature consider that social movements are bearers of analytical references to understand the learning generated in contradictions, struggles and social participation, having the Landless Workers Movement (MST) and Via Campesina as protagonists of collective social practices that contrast critically to the large-scale capitalist model of production known as agribusiness. It is based on the agroecological model, in defense of critical education and integral formation of man and the new generations aiming a just and sustainable planetary society.

scholarly journals Nation’s body, river’s pulse: Narratives of anti-dam politics in India

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amita Baviskar
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Hindu Nationalism ◽  
River Health ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Large Dams ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable Development ◽  
Indian Rivers

In the 1990s, social movements against large dams in India were celebrated for crafting a powerful challenge to dominant policies of development. These grounded struggles were acclaimed for their critique of capitalist industrialization and their advocacy for an alternative model of socially just and ecologically sustainable development. Twenty years later, as large dams continue to be built, their critics have shifted the battle off the streets to new arenas – to courts and government committees, in particular – and switched to a techno-managerial discourse of maintaining river health. What accounts for this change? This article traces the trajectory of cultural politics around Indian rivers within the larger imagination of the nation, the rise of economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism, and the emergence of environmental bureaucracies. It argues that, alongside being shaped by this context, current anti-dam campaigns also contend with the legacy of earlier social movements, their gains as well as losses. This political field has narrowed the potential for radical critique, large-scale collective mobilization and, ultimately, keeping rivers alive.

The role of rationality in motivating participation in social movements: The case of anti-Japanese demonstrations in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-186
Author(s):  
Min Zhou ◽  
Hanning Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
University Students ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Interpersonal Ties ◽  
Benefits And Costs

This study proposes a theoretical model that integrates the rational approach with the structural and cultural approaches to explain motivations for participation in social movements. In this integrative model, rational perceptions about the benefits and costs of participation have both mediation and interaction relations with structural and cultural motivators. First, rational perceptions mediate the motivating effects of interpersonal ties to prior participants and collective identity. Interpersonal ties and collective identity construct individuals’ perceived benefits and costs, which in turn affect their participation motivations. Second, perceived benefits and costs also interact with interpersonal ties and collective identity in affecting participation motivations. Interpersonal ties and collective identity may affect how sensitive the individual is to the formed rational perceptions. Especially, interpersonal ties weaken the motivating effect of perceived benefits. We apply this model to the case of China’s recent nationwide anti-Japanese demonstrations. Using original data from a large-scale survey on 1458 university students in Beijing, we find this integrative model effective in explaining university students’ motivations to participate in future anti-Japanese demonstrations.

Social Movements and Large-Scale Tropical Forest Protection on the Amazon Frontier: Conservation From Chaos

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Schwartzman ◽  
Ane Alencar ◽  
Hilary Zarin ◽  
Ana Paula Santos Souza
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Forest Protection

Social movements thinking for managing change in large-scale systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 697-714
Author(s):  
Judith A. Holton
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
System Change ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Large Scale Systems ◽  
Large Scale System ◽  
The Status

PurposeThis study explores the efficacy of social movements thinking for mobilizing resources toward sustainable change in large-scale systems such as health and social services.Design/methodology/approachThe study proceeds from a critical realist perspective employing a qualitative multi-case study approach. Drawing on the tenets of grounded theory (i.e. constant comparative analysis and theoretical sampling), data from semi-structured interviews and field notes were analyzed to facilitate theoretical integration and elaboration.FindingsOne case study explores the emergence of social movements thinking in mobilizing a community to engage in sustainable system change. Data analysis revealed a three-stage conceptual framework whereby building momentum for change requires a fundamental shift in culture through openness and engagement to challenge the status quo by acknowledging not only the apparent problems to be addressed but also the residual apathy and cynicism holding the system captive to entrenched ideas and behaviors. By challenging the status quo, energy shifts and momentum builds as the community discovers shared values and goals. Achieving a culture shift of this magnitude requires leadership that is embedded within the community, with a personal commitment to that community and with the deep listening skills necessary to understand and engage the community and the wider system in moving forward into change. This emergent conceptual framework is then used to compare and discuss more intentional applications of social movements thinking for mobilizing resources for large-scale system change.Originality/valueThis study offers a three-stage conceptual framework for mobilizing community/system resources toward sustainable large-scale system change. The comparative application of this framework to more intentional applications of social movements thinking to planned change initiatives offers insights and lessons to be learned when large-scale systems attempt to apply such principles in redesigning health and social service systems.

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