Poner el Cuerpo: Women's Embodiment and Political Resistance in Argentina

Abstract This article explores the relationship between women's embodiment and political resistance in Argentina during 2002–2003. This was a time of socioeconomic crisis, influenced by neoliberal globalization. In this tumultuous context, women's bodies became embattled sites, shaken by the crisis but also actively engaged in constructing a new society and new forms of womanhood. Bodies are important to understanding political resistance, as reflected by the meanings attached to poner el cuerpo, a common expression in contemporary Argentine social movements. This article analyzes how women construct embodied subjectivities through their activist practices and how they define poner el cuerpo in terms of collective protest and daily activist work, coherence between words and actions, embodied sacrifice, and risk taking and struggle. As life in Argentina deteriorated because of the crisis, women's bodies represented not only suffering but also resistance and renewal.

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Wenn stadtpolitische Bewegungen das Terrain des Staats betreten

PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft ◽

10.32387/prokla.v48i191.84 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 48 (191) ◽

Author(s):

Jonathan Diesselhorst

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

City Government ◽

Housing Policies ◽

Hierarchical Decision Making ◽

Urban Social Movements ◽

State Apparatus ◽

Hierarchical Decision ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

This article discusses the struggles of urban social movements for a de-neoliberalisation of housing policies in Poulantzian terms as a “condensation of the relationship of forces”. Drawing on an empirical analysis of the “Berliner Mietenvolksentscheid” (Berlin rent referendum), which was partially successful in forcing the city government of Berlin to adopt a more progressive housing policy, the article argues that urban social movements have the capacity to challenge neoliberal housing regimes. However, the specific materiality of the state apparatus and its strategic selectivity both limit the scope of intervention for social movements aiming at empowerment and non-hierarchical decision-making.

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Violence, Social Movements, and Black Freedom Struggles

Contention ◽

10.3167/cont.2021.0901of ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

AK Thompson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Social Movements ◽

The United States ◽

United States Today ◽

Black Freedom ◽

Current Events ◽

Research Agendas ◽

Ambivalent Relationship ◽

The Relationship ◽

Freedom Struggles

George Floyd’s murder by police on 26 May 2020 set off a cycle of struggle that was notable for its size, intensity, and rate of diffusion. Starting in Minneapolis, the uprising quickly spread to dozens of other major cities and brought with it a repertoire that included riots, arson, and looting. In many places, these tactics coexisted with more familiar actions like public assemblies and mass marches; however, the inflection these tactics gave to the cycle of contention is not easily reconciled with the protest repertoire most frequently mobilized during movement campaigns in the United States today. This discrepancy has led to extensive commentary by scholars and movement participants, who have often weighed in by considering the moral and strategic efficacy of the chosen tactics. Such considerations should not be discounted. Nevertheless, I argue that both the dynamics of contention witnessed during the uprising and their ambivalent relationship to the established protest repertoire must first be understood in historical terms. By considering the relationship between violence, social movements, and Black freedom struggles in this way, I argue that scholars can develop a better understanding of current events while anticipating how the dynamics of contention are likely to develop going forward. Being attentive to these dynamics should in turn inform our research agendas, and it is with this aim in mind that I offer the following ten theses.

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Transnational Social Movements and Peaceful Change

The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190097356.013.25 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Alejandro Milcíades Peña

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Civil Society ◽

Political Violence ◽

Global Civil Society ◽

Dynamic Processes ◽

Transnational Social Movements ◽

Relational Perspective ◽

The Relationship ◽

Interactive Dynamic ◽

Dominant Treatment

The chapter discusses the relationship between social movements and peaceful change. First, it reviews the way this relationship has been elaborated in IR constructivist and critical analyses, as part of transnational activist networks, global civil society, and transnational social movements, while considering the blind sides left by the dominant treatment of these entities as positive moral actors. Second, the chapter reviews insights from the revolution and political violence literature, a literature usually sidelined in IR debates about civil society, in order to cast a wider relational perspective on how social movements participate in, and are affected by, interactive dynamic processes that may escalate into violent outcomes at both local and international levels.

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Risk-Taking Behavior and the Consumption of Alcohol Mixed with Energy Drink among Australian, Dutch and UK Students

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18105315 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (10) ◽

pp. 5315

Author(s):

Sean J. Johnson ◽

Sarah Benson ◽

Andrew Scholey ◽

Chris Alford ◽

Joris C. Verster

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Energy Drinks ◽

Energy Drink ◽

Energy Drink Consumption ◽

Risk Taking Behavior ◽

The Relationship ◽

Level Of Risk

The relationship between risk-taking behavior, alcohol consumption and negative alcohol-related consequences is well known. The current analyses were conducted to investigate whether alcohol mixed with energy drink (AMED) is related to risk-taking behavior and if there is a relationship between the amount of energy drink mixed with alcohol consumed, risk-taking behavior and negative alcohol-related consequences. Data from N = 1276 AMED consuming students from the Netherlands, UK and Australia who completed the same survey were evaluated. The analysis revealed that, compared to AMED occasions, on alcohol only (AO) occasions significantly more alcohol was consumed and significantly more negative alcohol-related consequences were reported. On both AO and AMED occasions, there was a strong and positive relationship between amount of alcohol consumed, level of risk-taking behavior and number of reported negative alcohol-related consequences. In contrast, the level of risk-taking behavior was not clearly related to energy drink consumption. Across risk-taking levels, differences in the amount of energy drink consumed on AMED occasions did not exceed one 250 mL serving of energy drink. When correcting for the amount of alcohol consumed, there were no statistically significant differences in the number of energy drinks consumed on AMED occasions between the risk-taking groups. In conclusion, alcohol consumption is clearly related to risk-taking behavior and experiencing negative alcohol-related consequences. In contrast, energy drink intake was not related to level of risk-taking behavior and only weakly related to the number of experienced negative alcohol-related consequences.

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Sustainable Competitive Advantage through Entrepreneurship, Market-Oriented Culture, and Trust

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13073986 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 3986

Author(s):

Jun-Chul Ha ◽

Jun-Woo Lee ◽

Jee Young Seong

Keyword(s):

Work Engagement ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Choice Theory ◽

Business Environment ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽

The Relationship ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Significant Positive Influence

In a rapidly changing business environment, the entrepreneurship of top management is essential for the survival and sustainable development of the enterprise. Building on the view of the strategic choice theory, this study identifies the relationship between entrepreneurship, market-oriented culture, and work engagement. Data were collected from 493 employees regularly working in small and medium-sized firms in South Korea. The results of this study indicate: (1) entrepreneurship (consisting of innovation, proactiveness, and risk-taking) has a significant positive influence on market-oriented culture, (2) entrepreneurship positively affects work engagement, (3) market-oriented culture has a significant positive effect on work engagement, (4) the effects of innovation and proactiveness on work engagement are significant, controlling for market-oriented culture, showing the partial mediating effect of market-oriented culture on work engagement, and (5) CEO trust moderates the relationship between risk-taking and work engagement. Theoretical and practical implications are suggested.

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Moderating effect of personality traits on the relationship between risk-taking behaviour and self-injury among first-year university students

Advances in Mental Health ◽

10.1080/18387357.2021.1913065 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Choja Oduaran ◽

Samson F. Agberotimi

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Moderating Effect ◽

First Year ◽

Self Injury ◽

First Year University ◽

The Relationship

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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sports Entrepreneurship

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12208493 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (20) ◽

pp. 8493

Author(s):

Paloma Escamilla-Fajardo ◽

Juan M. Núñez-Pomar ◽

Ferran Calabuig-Moreno ◽

Ana M. Gómez-Tafalla

Keyword(s):

Service Quality ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Non Profit ◽

Paired Sample ◽

Sports Clubs ◽

Before And After ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Linear Regressions ◽

Crisis Situations

Sports entrepreneurship has been considered an important part of sports organisations when overcoming crisis situations. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of the crisis derived from COVID-19 on sports entrepreneurship and whether there are differences in the prediction of entrepreneurship on service quality in non-profit sports clubs. To this end, 145 sports clubs were analysed before and after the outbreak of the virus in society. Paired sample-t tests were carried out to determine the differences in variables studied before (Time I) and after (Time II) the COVID-19 outbreak, and correlations and hierarchical linear regressions were used to analyse the relationship between the variables studied in the two different stages. The results obtained show that risk-taking and innovation are significantly higher after the appearance of COVID-19, while proactivity has not undergone significant changes. Finally, the relationship between sports entrepreneurship and service quality is positive and significant in both stages but stronger before the crisis.

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