Changing Identities to Change the World: Identity Motives in Lifestyle Politics and Its Link to Collective Action

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. This book is a sweeping history of this encounter and the debates it sparked among parliaments, dictatorships, and congregations across Eurasia and the Americas. Offering a multifaceted perspective on nationalism's emergence in Europe and around the world, the book demonstrates how Mennonites' nationalization reflected and reshaped their faith convictions. While some church leaders modified German identity along Mennonite lines, others appropriated nationalism wholesale, advocating a specifically Mennonite version of nationhood. Examining sources from Poland to Paraguay, the book shows how patriotic loyalties rose and fell with religious affiliation. Individuals might claim to be German at one moment but Mennonite the next. Some external parties encouraged separatism, as when the Weimar Republic helped establish an autonomous “Mennonite State” in Latin America. Still others treated Mennonites as quintessentially German; under Hitler's Third Reich, entire colonies benefited from racial warfare and genocide in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Whether choosing Germany as a national homeland or identifying as a chosen people, called and elected by God, Mennonites committed to collective action in ways that were intricate, fluid, and always surprising.

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Social norms of corruption in the field: social nudges on posters can help to reduce bribery

Behavioural Public Policy ◽

10.1017/bpp.2019.37 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

NILS C. KÖBIS ◽

MARLEEN TROOST ◽

CYRIL O. BRANDT ◽

IVAN SORAPERRA

Keyword(s):

General Population ◽

Collective Action ◽

Social Norms ◽

Field Study ◽

South African ◽

Descriptive Norms ◽

The World ◽

Societal Challenge

Abstract Corruption in the form of bribery continues to be a major societal challenge around the world. The current lab-in-the-field study tested whether dynamic descriptive norms messages on posters can help to reduce bribery. Before, during and after placing posters throughout a medium-sized South African town, incentivized measures of social norms and bribery were assessed in a mobile lab. A total of 311 participants stemming from the general population took part. In line with the pre-registered predictions, the results reveal that people: (1) perceive bribery to be less common; and (b) engage in bribery in a corruption game less frequently when the posters were displayed. The discussion outlines how social norms nudging campaigns can be leveraged to spur collective action against corruption.

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Pandemic leadership: Lessons from New Zealand’s approach to COVID-19

Leadership ◽

10.1177/1742715020929151 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 279-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Suze Wilson

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Collective Action ◽

Leadership Practices ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Complete Control ◽

Good Practices ◽

The World ◽

The Government ◽

Leadership Lessons

This case study analyses the leadership approach and practices of the New Zealand government, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in the response thus far to the COVID-19 pandemic. It reports on how a shared sense of purpose has been established, that of minimizing harm to lives and livelihoods, for which the government has sought – and secured – New Zealanders’ commitment. Key leadership practices comprise the government’s willingness to themselves be led by expertise, its efforts to mobilise the population, and to enable coping, all of which serve to build the trust in leadership needed for transformative, collective action such as the pandemic demands. At the time of writing, New Zealand appears well on track to achieve its ambitious goal of achieving rapid and complete control over the COVID-19 outbreak – not just ‘flattening the curve’ as other countries are struggling to do – at least in part due to these leadership contributions. A framework of good practices for pandemic leadership is offered drawn from this case study, in the hope transferable lessons can be taken to aid others in the continuing struggle to limit the harm COVID-19 poses to lives and livelihoods throughout the world.

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The Freerider and the Cartel: Siam and the International Tin Restriction Agreements, 1931–1941

Modern Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0026749x00010337 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 297-321 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John Hillman

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

World Economy ◽

Production Control ◽

The World ◽

Organizational Problem

Resource cartels face a fundamental organizational problem. While production control can secure higher prices, these are enjoyed by all producers, regardless of whether they are members of the cartel or not. Those who take the benefits without making a contribution to its costs are freeriders, and they can destroy the conditions under which effective collective action is possible. If resource cartels are to make an important contribution to improving the terms under which peripheral nations participate in the world economy, it is important for them to find ways of resolving the freerider issue.

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What Will it Take to Address the Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance?

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1111/jlme.12253 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 363-368 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Steven J. Hoffman ◽

Kevin Outterson

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Antibiotic Resistance ◽

Collective Action ◽

Global Health ◽

Global Strategy ◽

World Today ◽

The World ◽

The Many ◽

Global Threat ◽

Economic Tools

Of the many global health challenges facing the world today, only a small number require global collective action. Most health challenges can be fully addressed through action at local, regional or national levels.What kind of actions must be taken to address the global threat of antibiotic resistance (ABR)? What legal, political and economic tools might be needed to achieve this level of action?In March 2015 the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation convened a workshop in Uppsala, Sweden to address these questions in partnership with the Global Strategy Lab, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (JLME), the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and ReAct — Action on Antibiotic Resistance. Eleven concise articles were commissioned to explore whether ABR depended on global collective action, and if so, what tools could help states and non-state actors to achieve it.

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Dual identity and immigrants’ protest against discrimination: The moderating role of diversity ideologies

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations ◽

10.1177/1368430216629813 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (6) ◽

pp. 924-934 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Maykel Verkuyten

Keyword(s):

Experimental Study ◽

Social Change ◽

Collective Action ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Cultural Diversity ◽

Social Problem ◽

Dual Identity ◽

The World ◽

Moderating Role

Discrimination of immigrant groups is an important social problem in many societies around the world. This study examines the moderating role of cultural diversity beliefs on the relation between dual identity and the intention to protest against immigrants’ discrimination. An experimental study was conducted among national samples of the three main immigrant-origin groups in the Netherlands. It was found that dual identity predicted the intention to protest against discrimination more strongly within a context of multicultural recognition compared to a context of assimilation or interculturalism. This demonstrates that multicultural recognition is a facilitating condition for dual identifiers to get involved in collective action for social change.

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Collective Action across Borders: Opportunity Structures, Network Capacities, and Communicative Praxis in the Age of Advanced Globalization

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.2307/1389565 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 587-616 ◽

Cited By ~ 56

Author(s):

Markus S. Schulz

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Collective Action ◽

Social Movement ◽

The Internet ◽

Opportunity Structures ◽

Movement Theory ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The World ◽

Informational Networks

This paper analyzes the dynamics of the Zapatista uprising with research tools inspired by recent social movement theory. It finds that the insurgent indigenous peasants of Chiapas rose up in arms under conditions of relative economic and political deprivation at a particularly opportune moment after developing a project of insurgency and acquiring significant organizational strength. Militarily, the Zapatistas would not have been able to hold out long against the overwhelming force of the federal army. But enormous media attention and massive national and international protest prevented the regime from military crackdowns. The Zapatistas' ability to link personal, organizational, and informational networks has helped to gain crucial support. Using globalized means of communication, they were able to disseminate their messages around the world where they touched a chord in the discourse of an incipient global civil society linked by non-governmental organizations, fax machines, and the internet.

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Freedom, Teleodynamism, Creativity

Foucault Studies ◽

10.22439/fs.v0i17.4253 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 60-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William E. Connolly

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Bifurcation Point ◽

The Self ◽

Positive Freedom ◽

Simple Mode ◽

The World ◽

Insight Into ◽

Do So

After presenting a critique of both negative and positive freedom this essay pursues the relation between creativity and freedom, drawing upon Foucault, Deleuze and Nietzsche to do so. Once you have understood Nietzsche’s reading of a culturally infused nest of drives in a self, the task becomes easier. A drive is not merely a force pushing forward; it is also a simple mode of perception and intention that pushes forward and enters into creative relations with other drives when activated by an event. You can also understand more sharply how the Foucauldian tactics of the self work. We can now carry this insight into the Deleuzian territory of micropolitics and collective action by reviewing his work on flashbacks and “the powers of the false.” If a flashback in film pulls us back to a bifurcation point where two paths were possible and one was taken, the powers of the false refer to the subliminal role the path not taken can play in the formation of creative action. As you pursue these themes you see that neither old, organic notions of belonging to the world nor do negative notions of detachment as such do the work needed. Deleuze’s notion of freedom carries us to the idea of cultivating “belief” in a world of periodic punctuations. The latter are essential to creativity and incompatible with organic belonging. They are also indispensable supports of a positive politics today.

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Can the Cop21 Stop the Rise of CO2s

Sustainability in Environment ◽

10.22158/se.v5n1p14 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. p14

Author(s):

Jan-Erik Lane

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Collective Action ◽

Public Good ◽

Global Public Good ◽

Irreversible Change ◽

Global Environmental ◽

The World ◽

Environmental Process ◽

Coal Power

The UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 is a huge international reunion to attempt to enact with unanimity policies that counteract global warming or its effects. Can such really overcome the difficult problematic of collective action inherent in providing global public good? The Global Environmental Process runs meeting after meeting-no results. The global thermometer keeps rising, as Co2s do not decrease. The first manifestations of Hawking’s irreversible change have appeared around the world. Only one major non-incremental policy would make a difference: close down coal power.

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ORGANIZAÇÕES COLABORATIVAS COMO SISTEMAS ABERTOS: CONTRIBUIÇÕES DO METAPROJETO PARA FOMENTAR AÇÕES DE INOVAÇÃO SOCIAL

MIX Sustentável ◽

10.29183/2447-3073.mix2015.v1.n2.10-18 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 10-18

Author(s):

Coral Michelin Basso ◽

Carlos Franzato ◽

Karine Freire ◽

Gustavo Severo de Borba

Keyword(s):

Complex System ◽

Collective Action ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Economic Model ◽

Social Innovation ◽

Open Systems ◽

Well Being ◽

The World ◽

Modelo Económico

No contexto em que tudo que se ouve é crise, urgência e mudança, falar sobre as possibilidades de ação em prol de um futuro sustentável é uma necessidade. Estão surgindo, em diversos lugares no mundo, iniciativas com capacidade de propor uma visão de bem-estar renovada, calcada na sustentabilidade e no agir coletivo, conhecidas como organizações colaborativas. Tais empreendimentos promovem pequenas rupturas locais no modelo econômico vigente, ao mesmo tempo que criam casos promissores de inovação social. Ao observar as características das organizações colaborativas e as relações que estabelecem com o ecossistema onde estão inseridas, o presente estudo estabelece uma conexão comparativa entre essas organizações e os sistemas abertos, apresentando um conceito que amplia o entendimento acerca do funcionamento e das possibilidades de ação das organizações. O objetivo, com isso, é apontar as possibilidades do design – encarado aqui sob seu viés estratégico – em fomentar as atividades de inovação social das organizações colaborativas. Utilizando o framework conceitual do metadesign, são sugeridas duas contribuições para dar suporte à organização; para habilitar seus atores a serem co-criadores; e também para transformar o próprio designer, que se assume então o papel de articulador desse sistema complexo: o co-design e o seeding.ABSTRACT In a context where all you can hear is crisis, urgency and change, to speak about the possibilities of action towards a sustainable future is a necessity. Initiatives are emerging in several places around the world, that are able to propose a renewed vision of well being based on sustainability and collective action, known as collaborative organizations. Such projects promote small local ruptures on the current economic model, while creating promising cases of social innovation. By observing the characteristics of these collaborative organizations and the relations they establish with the ecosystem where they are inserted, the present study establishes a comparative connection between these organizations and open systems, presenting a concept that amplifies the understanding of the operation and possibilities of action of such organizations. With this, the goal is to point the possibilities of design – understood here under its strategic scope – to foster the actions of social innovation of these collaborative organizations. Using the conceptual framework of metadesign, two contributions are suggested to support the organization; to enable its actors to be co-creators; and to transform the designer himself, who then assumes the role of articulator of this complex system: co-design and seeding.

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