Anglo Fears

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Jacques
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Theoretical Possibility ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
The Social ◽  
Climate Change Science ◽  
Warming World

The rejection of climate change science is organized by a countermovement, a collective effort to oppose a threatening social movement, in this case global environmentalism along with climate mitigation efforts. This chapter shows that, from a comparative perspective, the Anglo group of countries are quite alone in organizing the Climate Change Countermovement (CCCM), even though climate denial manifests in an unorganized way more broadly. This chapter offers the theoretical possibility that this Anglo climate denial emerges as a defense of imperial privilege threatened by the social change required to address a warming world. The theory is then supported by selections from authors of books who reject climate change and that evidence a fear of loss—of US power, of possessive individualism, and of Western progress.

Climate Change Law: Encounters with Aesthetics and Art

Climate Law ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 279-319
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Climate change has multifaceted aesthetic dimensions of legal significance. Global warming alters the aesthetic properties of nature, and further aesthetic changes are precipitated by climate mitigation and adaptation responses of impacted societies. The social and political struggles to influence climate change law are also influenced by aesthetics, as environmental activists and artists collaborate to influence public opinion, while conversely the business sector through its marketing and other aesthetic communications tries to persuade consumers of its climate-friendly practices to forestall serious action on global warming. This article distils and analyses these patterns in forging a novel account of the role of aesthetics in climate change law and policy, and it makes conclusions on how this field of law should consider aesthetic values through ‘curatorial’ guidance.

scholarly journals Menstrual Equity, Organizing and the Struggle for Human Dignity and Gender Equality in Prison

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-99
Author(s):  
Amy Fettig
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Menstrual Hygiene ◽  
The Social ◽  
Eighth Amendment ◽  
Criminal Legal System ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Deliberate Strategy ◽  
And Control

This Essay takes a look at the movement for social change around menstruation, especially through the lens of the criminal legal system and prisons and jails in particular. Part I reviews the issues of period poverty and justice that are driving a larger social movement to recognize that safe and ready access to menstrual hygiene products should be framed through a lens of full civic participation in order to understand its full implications for the lives of people who menstruate. Part II dives into the particular needs and problems of abuse and control that incarcerated and detained people face related to menstruation. Part III examines the growing movement to transform menstruation in America along equity lines that focuses both on the rights of all menstruators while bringing social pressure to bear on behalf of the most vulnerable—incarcerated people, the unhoused, students, and those living in poverty—to demand greater governmental and cultural support for the needs, inclusion, and dignity of all people who menstruate. This Part particularly takes note of the fact that the menstrual equity movement gains strength and force when it centers the leadership and voices of people who menstruate as key players demanding social change and evolution of the culture as a whole. Part IV examines the importance of the momentum and success this social movement represents for potential litigation strategies to develop constitutional jurisprudence regarding incarcerated people and menstrual equity. It observes that the pertinent “evolving standards of decency” that inform Eighth Amendment jurisprudence must and will be influenced by the prevailing movement for menstrual equity as a deliberate strategy to ensure that incarcerated people who menstruate are not left out of the social development and rights framework that menstrual equity demands. At the same time this evolution in jurisprudence represent the opportunity for Eighth Amendment jurisprudence—and constitutional framework generally—to place a greater focus on the need for human dignity as a cornerstone of the law.

scholarly journals DEMOKRASI DAN GERAKAN SOSIAL (BAGAIMANA GERAKAN MAHASISWA TERHADAP DINAMIKA PERUBAHAN SOSIAL)

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Idil Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Political Event ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
Descriptive Method

The inception of social groups nowadays believed as positive indication cultivation of democracy in some country, including Indonesia. The existence of social group aims to create a social change better and gratify the people interest. One of the social group is student movement that in any political event has become the pioneer for social change. This article aims to analyze how does democracy become important factor to a social movement, particularly student movement to an occurrence of social change in Indonesia. This research using a qualitative descriptive method to analyze how is social movement and democracy in Indonesia, especially related to student movement through to social change. As a result that student movement is the most important thing to realizing social change. As an agent of change, the idealism of student is valued indicator-weather social change has moved as well or perhaps full of political interest. The student movement also becomes indicator for sustainability of democracy. 

Skeptics without Borders

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Raul P. Lejano ◽  
Shondel J. Nero ◽  
Michael Chua
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Climate Skepticism ◽  
Climate Change Science ◽  
Historical Examination

Chapter 4 employs a comparative lens to show how the climate skeptical norm transformed to fit the social-economic conditions, cultures, and institutional settings of each context as it diffused from place to place. It highlights how in the United Kingdom people may dispute climate change science while remaining open to the possibility that mean global temperatures are rising, while elsewhere climate skepticism seems to merge with a broader sentiment of mistrust. Using narrative analysis, this chapter underscores the point that climate skeptical narratives are not homogeneous. The focus is not a historical examination of the narrative but a cross-sectional, or synchronic, one—commonalities and contrasts among climate skeptical narratives as popularly espoused in different countries occurring simultaneously. The chapter examines how differences in climate skeptical narratives from country to country can provide insights into how and why climate skepticism has resonated among the public in each place.

Mothers, whores and spells: Tradition and change in Portuguese sexuality

Ethnography ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Machado Pais
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Northern Portugal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Town

This article presents a case study looking at the social upheavals generated by the presence of young Brazilian women in a town in northern Portugal (Bragança) with strong traditionalist traits. Due to their situation as prostitutes, seducers and immigrants, these women were regarded as disturbing the social order. A number of women of the town, calling themselves the Mothers of Bragança, organized themselves into a social movement to drive the Brazilian women out of the town, accusing them of bewitching their husbands with charms and magic. Focusing on issues of social change, the research takes up the challenge of interpreting the mothers’ movement, the stereotypes associated with this movement and the Brazilian incomers, and also certain dilemmas of masculinity.

The Power of Narrative

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul P. Lejano ◽  
Shondel J. Nero
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Genetic Code ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Climate Skepticism ◽  
Climate Change Science ◽  
Over Time

Narrative is the stuff of community. The Power of Narrative embarks on a quest to understand how narrative works in taking an inchoate group of individuals and turning it into a powerful social movement. To understand the force of narrative, the authors examine the particular phenomenon of climate skepticism. Somehow, the narrative of climate skepticism has been able to forge a movement and stake a challenge to the hegemony of the larger community of scientists on what is ostensibly a matter of science. The book asks: How is this achieved? What is the narrative of climate skepticism, and how has it evolved over time and diffused from place to place? Is it possible that this narrative shares with other issue narratives an underlying genetic code of sorts, a story that is more fundamental than all of these? How has the climate skeptical narrative contended with its other, which is the narrative-network of climate change science, and forged its own social movement? The outcome of this struggle between climate science and its denial has implications for society that go far beyond climatology. Using narrative and discourse analysis, the authors demonstrate how the narrative lens allows us unique insights into these questions. The book takes the reader on a journey, across times and places and social realms; throughout, we see the power of narrative at work, making believers, or skeptics, of us all.

scholarly journals Inhabited Ecosystems: Propelling Transformative Social Change Between and Through Organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 931-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rich DeJordy ◽  
Maureen Scully ◽  
Marc J. Ventresca ◽  
W. E. Douglas Creed
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Change Effort ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Domestic Partner Benefits ◽  
Partner Benefits ◽  
Change Efforts

Two research streams examine how social movements operate both “in and around” organizations. We probe the empirical spaces between these streams, asking how activism situated in multi-organizational contexts contributes to transformative social change. By exploring activities in the mid-1990s related to advocacy for domestic partner benefits at 24 organizations in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota, we develop the concept of inhabited ecosystems to explore the relational processes by which employee activists advance change. These activists faced a variety of structural opportunities and restraints, and we identify five mechanisms that sustained their efforts during protracted contestation: learning even from thwarted activism, borrowing from one another’s more or less radical approaches, helping one another avoid the traps of stagnation, fostering solidarity and ecosystem capabilities, and collaboratively expanding the social movement domain. We thus reveal how activism situated in multi-organizational contexts animates an inhabited ecosystem of challengers that propels change efforts “between and through” organizations. These efforts, even when exploratory or incomplete, generate an ecosystem’s capacity to sustain, resource, and even reshape the larger transformative social change effort.

scholarly journals The emergent modes of dementia activism

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUTH BARTLETT
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Temporal Space ◽  
Health Social Movements ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACTAfter decades of silencing and discrimination, people with dementia are beginning to join forces, take action and campaign for social change. Drawing on data obtained from ‘activists’ with dementia using diary interview method and participant observation, this paper considers the emergent modes of dementia activism in the context of the social movement literature, and in particular, work emphasising the role of networks in health social movements. The study identified three emergent modes of dementia activism; these were the ‘protecting-self against decline’ mode, ‘(re) gaining respect’ mode, and ‘creating connections with other people with dementia’ mode. Taken together, these modes show how a sense of elapsing time pervades this form of activism. The investigation reinforces the contention that time is a dominated force that structures human motivation and goals. Furthermore, it raises the possibility that activism can protect against decline amongst people with dementia given the appropriate temporal space.

What a Good Idea! Ideologies and Frames in Social Movement Research

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Oliver ◽  
Hank Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Frame Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Coherent Systems ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The Social

Frame theory is often credited with "bringing ideas back in" social movement studies, but frames are not the only useful ideational concepts. The older, more politicized concept of ideology needs to be used in its own right and not recast as a frame. Frame theory is rooted in linguistic studies of interaction, and points to the way shared assumptions and meanings shape the interpretation of events. Ideology is rooted in politics and the study of politics, and points to coherent systems of ideas which provide theories of society coupled with value commitments and normative implications for promoting or resisting social change. Ideologies can function as frames, they can embrace frames, but there is more to ideology than framing. Frame theory offers a relatively shallow conception of the transmission of political ideas as marketing and resonating, while a recognition of the complexity and depth of ideology points to the social construction processes of thinking, reasoning, educating, and socializing. Social movements can only be understood by linking social psychological and political sociology concepts and traditions, not by trying to rename one group in the language of the other.

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