Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe

2017 ◽  
pp. 228-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pujante ◽  
Esperanza Morales-López
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Southern Europe

Collective memory and social movements in times of crisis: the case of Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raluca Abăseacă
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
National Context ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
The Past ◽  
Occupy Movements ◽  
Rosia Montana

Social movements are not completely spontaneous. On the contrary, they depend on past events and experiences and are rooted in specific contexts. By focusing on three case studies – the student mobilizations of 2011 and 2013, the anti-government mobilizations of 2012, and the protests against the Rosia Montana Gold Corporation project of 2013 – this article aims to investigate the role of collective memory in post-2011 movements in Romania. The legacy of the past is reflected not only in a return to the symbols and frames of the anti-Communist mobilizations of 1989 and 1990, but also in the difficulties of the protesters to delimit themselves from nationalist actors, to develop global claims, and to target austerity and neoliberalism. Therefore, even in difficult economic conditions, Romanian movements found it hard to align their efforts with those of the Indignados/Occupy movements. More generally, the case of Romania proves that activism remains rooted in the local and national context, reflecting the memories, experiences, and fears of the mobilized actors, in spite of the spread of a repertoire of action from Western and southern Europe.

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE COMMONS: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CRISIS-RIDDEN SOUTHERN EUROPE

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-379
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Roussos ◽  
Haris Malamidis
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Commons

Both social movement research and the literature on the commons provide rich accounts of the anti-austerity mobilizations and uprisings in southern Europe. Movement studies offer important insights regarding the context of mobilization and collective claim making. The commons literature emphasizes bottom-up practices of shared ownership, self-management, and social co-production that move beyond institutional solutions. Although both literatures highlight similar phenomena, they remain relatively unconnected. Their distance precludes a full grasp of the implications regarding the dynamic and abundant to-and-fro movement between protest-based politics and everyday forms of collective action in this region, which is heavily affected by the crisis’ austerity management. Drawing on the South European context, this article rethinks key concepts addressed in both literatures (social movements-commons, activists-commoners, mobilization-commoning) and highlights how a conceptual synthesis can sharpen and (re)politicize the theorization of contemporary collective action in the everyday.

Becoming- work

2019 ◽  
pp. 182-199
Author(s):  
Nicholas Owen
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
New Approach

Chapter 11 describes a new approach to adherence. Earlier chapters have examined the various forms of work that social movements do and asked whether and when such work can be pursued conjointly, by adherents as well as constituents. Chapter 11 reverses the question and looks beyond the answers so far given. It asks: what else would the work have to be, in order for it to be possible for adherents and constituents to pursue it conjointly? It defines a sixth approach, beyond the five already discussed in chapter 10—which it terms “becoming- work,” drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It assesses the implication of becoming- work for the older dilemmas of adherence and describes some contemporary and emerging examples of the approach in alter-globalization politics and queer theory.

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