Key Issues in the Study of New and Alternative Social Movements in Spain: The Left, Identity and Globalizing Processes

This paper asks what happens to ‘alternative’ social movements like the Irish organic farming movement, which try to promote sustainable forms of rural development, when they begin to be incorporated into state policy for farming and the countryside. Does this provide a context in which farming and the food industry can begin to be ‘restructured from below’, or does it lead instead to ‘deradicalisation’ of the movement and its ideas? The European literature on ‘new’ or alternative social movements has focused more on mobilisation of such movements than on processes of institutionalisation and their effects. Yet institutionalisation is often experienced by movement members themselves as a critical, even highly divisive development, which can result in severe damage to the movement's core ideology and values. The Irish case discussed here is a starting point from which we may develop a more general understanding of the increasing institutionalisation of environmentalism in the contemporary developed world.

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Democracy without Parties? Some Lessons from Peru

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x10000477 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 357-382 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

JOHN CRABTREE

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Latin America ◽

Political Culture ◽

Party System ◽

Important Case ◽

Party Development ◽

State And Society ◽

Key Issues

AbstractThirty years on from Peru's return to democracy in 1980, the country's record with democratisation has been chequered. Not only was the process of ‘consolidation’ reversed in the 1990s under the Fujimori government, but the degree to which durable linkages have been established between state and society is very limited. More than in most countries of Latin America, the party system has failed to fulfil the representative role allotted to it in the literature, a role that cannot easily be assumed by other sorts of institution. It is therefore an important case study for those concerned with the more structural obstacles to the development of representative politics. The article seeks to look at some key issues affecting party development: the chimera of consolidation, the persistence of clientelism and patrimonialism, the interaction with social movements and the significance of political culture.

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780190856779.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Francis L. F Lee ◽

Joseph M Chan

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Digital Media ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

The World ◽

Key Issues ◽

Connective Action ◽

The Relationship

The concluding chapter summarizes the account of the Umbrella Movement provided in the book. It discusses the implications of the analysis on several key issues in the study of media and social movements, including the origin of connective action, the power and limitations of digital media and connective action, the significance of movement frames, and the relationship between digital media and mainstream media. The implications are discussed by referring not only to the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong but also to other similar protest campaigns around the world in previous years. The chapter ends with some updates about happenings in the movement scene in Hong Kong after 2014.

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Sport, World Economy, Global Culture, and New Social Movements

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.11.4.337 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 337-355 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Jean Harvey ◽

François Houle

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Global Economy ◽

World Economy ◽

Major Elements ◽

Current Debate ◽

New Social Movements ◽

Global Culture ◽

Ongoing Debate ◽

The Third ◽

Key Issues

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on sport and globalization. In the first section of the paper major elements of the current debate are presented. The second section discusses the current literature on globalization and its related processes. Four elements are discussed in this section: the global economy, communications, new social movements, and the question of identity/culture. The third section comments on sport and key issues of the debate on globalization in light of the discussion in the previous section. An emphasis is put on the interrelationships between sport and new social movements.

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New and Alternative Social Movements in Spain

10.4324/9781315762494 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John Karamichas

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Alternative Social Movements

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The Spanish indignados: A movement with two souls

European Urban and Regional Studies ◽

10.1177/0969776412459846 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 155-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Carlos Taibo

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

The Other ◽

The Political ◽

Political Landscape ◽

General Terms ◽

Alternative Social Movements

The Spanish indignados movement has forcefully erupted onto the political landscape of the country. Two different souls can be found at its core: one attached to activists from alternative social movements, the other emerging around the ‘young indignados’. In general terms, a drift can be found within the movement from merely citizenist positions towards others which are more clearly anticapitalist.

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Probing vacancies and structural distortions at individual defects in ceramics using EELS

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100165859 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 678-679

Author(s):

D. J. Wallis ◽

N. D. Browning

Keyword(s):

Structural Information ◽

Core Loss ◽

Nearest Neighbors ◽

Ceramic Materials ◽

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽

Real Space ◽

Atomic Scale ◽

Structure Property ◽

Scanning Transmission ◽

Key Issues

In electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), the near-edge region of a core-loss edge contains information on high-order atomic correlations. These correlations give details of the 3-D atomic structure which can be elucidated using multiple-scattering (MS) theory. MS calculations use real space clusters making them ideal for use in low-symmetry systems such as defects and interfaces. When coupled with the atomic spatial resolution capabilities of the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), there therefore exists the ability to obtain 3-D structural information from individual atomic scale structures. For ceramic materials where the structure-property relationships are dominated by defects and interfaces, this methodology can provide unique information on key issues such as like-ion repulsion and the presence of vacancies, impurities and structural distortion.An example of the use of MS-theory is shown in fig 1, where an experimental oxygen K-edge from SrTiO3 is compared to full MS-calculations for successive shells (a shell consists of neighboring atoms, so that 1 shell includes only nearest neighbors, 2 shells includes first and second-nearest neighbors, and so on).

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