Meaning by Doing: The Making of Endurance Activism on the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-185
Author(s):  
Dain TePoel
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Physical Challenges

This article offers a consideration of physical activity within the contexts of social movement philosophies, decision making, strategies, and tactics through an examination of the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. Drawing from interviews with twenty activists on the Great Peace March, the author argues that physicality and endurance actions—literally, but also symbolically—signify particular meanings of movement for social movements, such as persistence, focus, and determination, to stretch sociopolitical limits and boundaries. Participants endeavor to accomplish difficult physical challenges and maintain the solidarity of their communities to analogize the coming into existence of equally extraordinary visions of social or political transformation. Physical and symbolic expressions of what the author terms “endurance activism” sustained the marchers’ vision of community and the survival of their organization. The article encourages sport historians to use a wider framework to interpret the links between physical activity, social activism, and oppositional movements.

Rape Consciousness

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-68
Author(s):  
Robin E. Field
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
First Person ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Maya Angelou ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts

The new understanding of the victim’s psyche in rape fiction is derived from the literature of the anti-rape movement and autobiographical accounts of sexual assault. The rhetoric of this 1970s social movement, particularly the persuasive language of polemical nonfiction and the first-person narration in testimonies and autobiographies, inspired rape fiction. The use of sociopolitical theories and newly discovered facts about sexual assault informed the themes and plots of the first rape novels, and autobiographies and testimonies provided a bridge between the galvanizing rhetoric of social activism and subsequent fiction. The diverse texts that contributed to the emergence of the rape novel—from the transcripts of the consciousness-raising sessions of radical feminists to the memoirs of Maya Angelou and Billie Holiday—highlight the primacy of social movements to this new genre.

Practicing Social Activism through Problem-Based Learning

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leontina M. Hormel
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Transformative Education ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Class Project ◽  
The Creation

This article proposes a problem-based group project that encourages students to make connections between classroom and community. The project fosters transformative education; social activism becomes more tangible to students who learn to strategize around social issues. The following discussion highlights the goals and process of teaching with an assignment that simulates the creation of a social movement and describes examples of student actions in introductory social movements courses. The class project forges creative and effective social activism.

Scandal, Social Movement, and Change: Evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Hong Luo ◽  
Laurina Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Low Costs ◽  
Female Writers

Social movements have the potential to effect change in strategic decision making. In this paper, we examine whether the #MeToo movement, spurred by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, leads to changes in the likelihood of Hollywood producers working with female writers on new movie projects. Because #MeToo affected the entire industry, we use variation in whether producers had past collaborations with Weinstein to investigate whether and how #MeToo may spur change. We find that producers previously associated with Weinstein are, on average, about 35% more likely to work with female writers after the scandal than they were before, relative to nonassociated producers, and the size of this effect increases with the intensity of the association. Female producers are the main drivers of our results, perhaps because they are more likely than male producers to resonate with the movement’s cause and face relatively low costs of enacting change. Changes made by other groups, such as production teams with the most intense association with Weinstein and less experienced all-male teams, may be better explained by motivations to mitigate risk. We also find that producers do not sacrifice writer experience by hiring more female writers and that both experienced and novice female writers have benefited from the increased demand. Our study shows that social movements that seek to address gender inequality can, indeed, lead to meaningful change. It also provides perspective for thinking about whether, and to what extent, changes may occur in broader settings.

scholarly journals O MOVIMENTO SOCIAL NEGRO NA FORMAÇÃO DA AGENDA GOVERNAMENTAL: um estudo de caso do Plano Juventude Viva

Caderno CRH ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (87) ◽  
pp. 623
Author(s):  
Sandra Gomes ◽  
Joana Moura ◽  
Jenair Alves
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Politique Publique ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Mouvements Sociaux ◽  
The Government ◽  
Participation Sociale

<p>A partir da discussão sobre o grau de efetividade da participação social na formulação de políticas públicas, este artigo apresenta um caso de sucesso em que parte das demandas de movimentos sociais entra na agenda governamental e se torna uma política. Para fazer a análise do Plano Juventude Viva – uma política com foco nos homicídios de jovens negros e no racismo institucional –, o estudo adota uma estratégia analítica que combina teorias de movimentos sociais e participação com teorias sobre políticas públicas. O histórico de construção dessa agenda temática pelos ativistas de movimentos e dos apoios recebidos revela como o problema dos homicídios de jovens negros se tornou uma pauta prioritária em fóruns participativos. Em seguida, o artigo mostra o momento em que se abre uma janela política, gerando uma oportunidade para ativistas, na burocracia estatal, de explorar a inserção dessa temática na agenda governamental. A análise da configuração institucional da arena decisória no governo e dos atores ali presentes, por fim, explica a política final adotada e seu conteúdo. A contribuição da análise institucional para a explicação da efetividade é um achado que sugere uma possibilidade analítica para a agenda de pesquisa sobre participação e políticas públicas.</p><p> </p><p>THE BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENT IN THE FORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENTAL AGENDA: a case study of the Plano Juventude Viva</p><p>Based on studies analyzing social participation effectiveness into public policy formulation, this article presents a case of success in which part of the demands from social movements were adopted as a government policy. In order to analyze the “Young Persons Living Plan” – a policy focusing on the high levels of homicide among young black people in Brazil and on institutional racism – this study adopts an analytical strategy which combines theories of social movement and participation with public policy theories. The historical construction of this issue by social movement activists and also the support received by other political actors reveals how the issue of homicide among black youths became a priority agenda in participatory forums. Subsequently, the article shows the moment where a political window is opened which produced an opportunity for activists inside the state bureaucracy to explore the entering of the issue into the government agenda. Finally, the analysis of the institutional configuration of the decision-making arena within the government apparatus and of the political actors involved in the process explains the final public policy adopted and its substantive content. The contribution of the adopted institutionalist perspective to explain effectiveness is considered to be a useful finding for the research agenda on participation and public policies.</p><p>Keywords: Social movements. Social participation effectiveness. Decision-making arenas. Young Persons Living Plan Brazil. Multiple streams model.</p><p> </p><p>LE MOUVEMENT SOCIAL NOIR DANS LA FORMATION DE L’AGENDA GOUVERNEMENTAL: une étude de cas du Plano Juventude Viva</p><p>A partir de la discussion sur le degré d’efficacité de la participation sociale dans la formulation de la politique publique, cet article présente un exemple de réussite où une partie des revendications des mouvements sociaux sont entrées dans le programme du gouvernement et devenues une politique. Pour ce faire, l’analyse du Plan Jeunesse Viva – une politique axée sur les homicides chez les jeunes noirs et le racisme institutionnel – notre recherche adopte une stratégie d’analyse qui combine les théories des mouvements sociaux et de la participation avec les théories des politiques publiques. L’histoire de la construction de ce programme thématique par les militants des mouvements et le soutien reçu révèle comment le problème des homicides des jeunes noirs est devenu une priorité au programme des forums participatifs. Ensuite, l’article montre à quel moment le politique s’ouvre à la revendication, créant ainsi une opportunité pour les militants appartenant à la bureaucratie d’Etat de mettre cette question à l’ordre du jour du gouvernement. L’analyse de l’organisation institutionnelle de la structure de prise de décision au sein du gouvernement ainsi que des acteurs présents, explique la politique finale adoptée et son contenu. L’objet de l’analyse institutionnelle que nous avons aadoptée pour expliquer l’efficacité est de trouver ce que suggère une capacité d’analyse à la recherche d’ordre du jour sur la participation et la politique publique.</p><p>Mots-clés: Mouvements sociaux. Efficacité de la participation sociale. Arénas de décision. Plan Jeunesse Viva Brésil. Modèle de flux multiples.</p>

Consensus Social Movements and the Catholic Worker

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul V. Stock
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Theoretical Strength ◽  
Catholic Worker ◽  
Conceptual Definition ◽  
Theoretical Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThis article proposes a revised conceptual definition of consensus social movement. By using the example of the Catholic Worker, I construct a workable concept of a consensus social movement based on Quaker consensus and indigenous decision-making. The new definition of consensus social movement brings theoretical strength as demonstrated in the illustration of the Catholic Worker. The concept of a consensus social movement offers a revised theoretical tool for the social movement literature toolkit.

Game-Assisted Social Activism: Game Literacy in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement

2022 ◽  
pp. 155541202110618
Author(s):  
Holin Lin ◽  
Chuen-Tsai Sun
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Mass Protest ◽  
Movement Activities ◽  
Gaming Literacy

This paper describes the appropriation of video game culture for discursive use during the 2019–20 Hong Kong anti-extradition movement, with participants relying on game argot for mass protest communication and mobilization purposes, and employing game frameworks (especially from MMORPGs) for organizing protest actions. Data from online forums are used to present examples of video game rhetoric and narratives in protest-related online discourses, to speculate on their symbolic meanings, and to examine ways that borrowed aspects of game culture influenced movement activities. After describing ways that game culture spilled over into social movements, we highlight examples of gaming literacy during dynamic protest situations. Our evidence indicates that the combination of game culture and online gaming literacy strengthened activist toolkits and intensified the “be water” nature of a social movement that many describe as leaderless.

Unanticipated Movements: Examining the Role of ICT in Leadership and Decision Making during the Shahbag Protests in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-210
Author(s):  
Shudipta Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
Method Approach

Abstract This paper explores the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in leadership and decision making in social movements. To do so, this study examines the 2013 Shahbag protests in Bangladesh through the lens of new social movement theories. The study employs a multi-level and multi-method approach in analyzing the protests. It finds that, along with traditional communication tools, ICT played an important role in the leadership and decision-making process in the first three days of the protests that made it an example of new social movement. However, when the political party members captured the protests, it became a hybrid. I argue that the new network society formed by using ICT changes the communication pattern among activists, the nature of leadership, and the process of decision making of a movement and that this differentiates it from other conventional social movements.

Die Bewegung für Klimagerechtigkeit und Energiedemokratie in Deutschland.

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (184) ◽  
pp. 403-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Sander
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Historical Materialist

This article argues that social movement research must be renewed by a historical-materialist perspective to be able to understand the emergence and effects of the relatively new climate justice movement in Germany. The previous research on NGOs and social movements in climate politics is presented and the recent development of the climate justice movement in Germany is illustrated. In a final step two cases of climate movement campaigns are explained by means of the historical-materialist movement analysis proposed by the author.

Gerakan Sosial Melalui Sosio Drama Berbasis Kearifan Lokal Untuk Meningkatkan Nasionalisme Daerah Pedalaman

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Ahmad Sudi Pratikno ◽  
Dewi Nurmasita
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Descriptive Method

Social movement is an effort to provide benefits to others. However, within the context of cultivating the character, research on social movement through socio-drama based on local wisdom is very limited. This study aims to examine the increasing character of nationalism through social movements in the form of socio-drama. Research subjects were elementary and secondary students residing in rural area. This research used qualitative and descriptive method. Data collection techniques were documentations, observations, and interviews. The results showed that the increased character of nationalism only arise when playing socio-drama only, they would return to the previous character. Cultivating the character values need a long time, so the change of character did not necessarily happen.

GERAKAN SOSIAL MASYARAKAT KAMPUNG LABALUBA DESA KONTUMERE KECAMATAN KABAWO KABUPATEN MUNA TAHUN 1960-1980

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurwan Nurwan ◽  
Ali Hadara ◽  
La Batia
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Movement Process ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

ABSTRAK: Inti pokok masalah dalam penelitian ini meliputi latar belakang gerakan sosial masyarakat Kampung Labaluba Desa Kontumere Kecamatan Kabawo Kabupaten Muna, Faktor-faktor yang mendorong gerakan sosial masyarakat Kampung Labaluba Desa Kontumere Kecamatan Kabawo Kabupaten Muna, proses gerakan sosial masyarakat Kampung Labaluba Desa Kontumere Kecamatan Kabawo Kabupaten Muna dan akibat gerakan sosial masyarakat Labaluba Desa Kontumere Kecamatan Kabawo Kabupaten Muna? Latar belakang gerakan sosial masyarakat Kampung Labaluba yaitu keadaan kampungnya yang hanya terdiri dari beberapa kepala keluarga tiap kampung dan jarak yang jauh masing-masing kampung membuat keadaan masyarakatnya sulit untuk berkomnikasi dan tiap kampung hanya terdiri dari lima sampai dengan tujuh kepala keluarga saja. Kampung ini letaknya paling timur pulau Muna terbentang dari ujung kota Raha sekarang sampai kampung Wakuru yang saat ini. Kondisi ini juga yang menjadi salah satu faktor penyebab kampung ini kurang berkembang baik dibidang ekonomi, sosial politik, pendidikan maupun di bidang kebudayaan. Keadaan ini diperparah lagi dengan sifat dan karakter penduduknya yang masih sangat primitif. Faktor yang mendorong adanya gerakan sosial masyarakat Kampung Labaluba Desa Kontumere Kecamatan Kabawo Kabupaten Muna adalah adanya ketidaksesuaian antara keinginan pemerintah setempat dan masyarakat yang mendiami Kampung Labaluba pada waktu itu. Sedangkan proses gerakan sosial masyarakat Kampung Labaluba Desa Kontumere Kecamatan Kabawo Kabupaten Muna bermula ketika pemerintah seolah memaksakan kehendaknya kepada rakyat yang menyebabkan rakyat tidak setuju dengan kebijakan tersebut. Akibat yang ditimbulkan dari adanya gerakan sosial masyarakat Kampung Labaluba Desa Kontumere Kecamatan Kabawo Kabupaten Muna terbagi dua yaitu akibat positif dan akibat negatif.Kata Kunci: Gerakan Sosial, Factor dan Dampaknya ABSTRACT: The main issues in this study include the background of the social movement of Labaluba Village, Kontumere Village, Kabawo Sub-District, Muna District, Factors that encourage social movements of Labaluba Kampung Sub-village, Kontumere Village, Kabawo Sub-District, Muna District, the social movement process of Labaluba Village, Kontumere Village, Kabawo Sub-District Muna Regency and due to Labaluba community social movements Kontumere Village Kabawo District Muna Regency? The background of the Labaluba Kampung community social movement is that the condition of the village consists of only a few heads of households per village and the distance of each village makes it difficult for the community to communicate and each village only consists of five to seven households. This village is located east of the island of Muna stretching from the edge of the city of Raha now to the current village of Wakuru. This condition is also one of the factors causing the village to be less developed in the economic, social political, educational and cultural fields. This situation is made worse by the very primitive nature and character of the population. The factor that motivated the existence of the social movement of Labaluba Village in Kontumere Village, Kabawo Subdistrict, Muna Regency was the mismatch between the wishes of the local government and the people who inhabited Labaluba Village at that time. While the process of social movements in Labaluba Village, Kontumere Village, Kabawo District, Muna Regency began when the government seemed to impose its will on the people, causing the people to disagree with the policy. The consequences arising from the existence of social movements in Labaluba Village, Kontumere Village, Kabawo District, Muna Regency are divided into two, namely positive and negative effects. Keywords: Social Movements, Factors and their Impacts

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