scholarly journals Interpreting mobilization dynamics through art: A look at the DREAMers Movement

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Vélez-Vélez ◽  
Jacqueline Villarrubia-Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Collective Actors

Most research on art and social movements focuses on the representational aspect of art, leaving untouched how artwork informs audiences and actors on the mobilization dynamics permeating the field of action. In this article the authors contend that the analysis of art in social movements should pursue the ways in which collective actors place art as part of their interpretative lens to act upon changing social conditions. The article’s analysis of art around the DREAMers Movement suggests that artwork allows for movement actors to change the limits of their cultural context and affect the repertoires of articulations conceived within that context. This analysis moves beyond the notions of art as representation and presents art as a field to challenge the forms and dynamics of mobilization.

scholarly journals Intricacies of Social Movement Outcome Research and beyond: “How can you Tell” Social Movements Prompt Changes?

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doowon Suh
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Outcome Research ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Invariant Model ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Multiple Variables

Most scholars of social movements have been drawn to research on the politically contentious behavior of collective actors because of the conviction that social movements sometimes generate significant historical progress and social change. Yet movement outcome research has been least developed in the literature. This irony emanates from methodological and causal intricacies that fail to clearly explicate how social movements create change. The challenges encompass the heaped typologies, mutual inconsistencies, causal heterogeneities, and conflictive evaluation criteria of movement outcomes. To overcome these quandaries, this paper proposes that (1) any attempt to find an invariant model or general theorization of a movement outcome is inevitably futile; (2) instead, attention to the specific context of time and place in which social movements produce outcomes is necessary; and (3) a comprehensive understanding of the origins of a movement outcome becomes possible when multiple variables are considered and their combined effects are analyzed.

scholarly journals Uretfærdighedssymboler og sociale bevægelser

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Thomas Olesen
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
New Media ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
The World ◽  
Form Part ◽  
The One

Formålet med artiklen er at tilbyde en teoretisk og konceptuel ramme for forskning i uretfærdighedssymboler og sociale bevægelser. Uretfærdighedssymboler forstås som symboler, der for et kollektiv kondenserer og udstiller en generel uretfærdig tilstand i samfundet/verden. Studiet af uretfærdighedssymboler fremstår underbelyst i den politiske sociologi. Artiklen arbejder i to spor. På den ene side argumenteres det, at den nuværende samfundstype med globale kommunikationsstrømme og nye medieteknologier promoverer betydningen af uretfærdighedssymboler i de sociale bevægelsers aktiviteter. På den anden side pointeres det, at relationen mellem symboler og sociale bevægelser på ingen måde er historisk ny. Tværtimod er grundpåstanden, ikke mindst inspireret af den sene Durkheim, at symboler er et grundlæggende element i reproduktionen af menneskelige samfund. En udforskning af dynamikken mellem uretfærdighedssymboler og sociale bevægelser er sociologisk interessant af to grunde. For det første er uretfærdighedssymboler resultatet af politiske menings- og værdiprocesser, hvor kollektive aktører tillægger begivenheder, personer og andre objekter en universaliserende betydning. For det andet indgår uretfærdighedssymboler som en del af vores kollektive erindring og optræder derfor som idemæssige ressourcer, der kan mobiliseres uden for deres rumlige og tidslige forankring. Sociale bevægelser har med andre ord en social og politisk dobbeltrolle, hvor de både er skabere og ”forbrugere” af symboler. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Thomas Olesen: Injustice Symbols and Social Movements The purpose of the article is to offer a theoretical and conceptual framework for research on injustice symbols and social movements. Injustice symbols are understood as symbols that condense and expose an overall unjust situation in society/the world. The study of these symbols appears somewhat neglected in political sociology. The article pursues two tracks. On the one hand, it argues that the present type of society with global currents of communication and new media technologies is promoting the significance of injustice symbols in the activities of social movements. On the other hand, it stresses that the relation between these symbols and social movements is by no means historically new. On the contrary, not least inspired by Durkheim, the basic argument is that symbols constitute a fundamental element in the reproduction of human societies. An investigation into the dynamics between injustice symbols and social movements is interesting from a sociological point of view for two reasons. First, injustice symbols are the result of political opinion- and value processes whereby collective actors ascribe a universalizing meaning to events, individuals and other objects. Second, these symbols form part of our collective memory. Consequently, they act as ideational resources that can be mobilized outside their spatial and time-related framework. In sum, social movements have a social and political double role where they are both creators and users of symbols. Keywords: social movements, symbols, new media ecology, Durkheim, injustice.

Reflexivity in Mobilization: Gender and Memory as Cultural Features of Women's Mobilization in Vieques, 1999-2003

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Roberto Vélez-Vélez
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Cultural Features

This article explores the significance of reflexivity as a cultural process in social movements. It examines the roles that gender and memory played in mobilizing women in the antimilitary movement in Vieques, Puerto Rico, between 1999-2003. In particular, the analysis focuses on the articulations and actions undertaken by the Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses. While some emerging research stresses the novelty of women's participation in the latest effort to remove the U.S. Navy from this island, none have operationalized the event in a theoretical context and highlighted key nuances. This article engages literatures on the significance of gender in the mobilization process as well as the cultural nature of remembrance and its significance in the meaning-making process for collective actors. It does so through an examination of the mobilization of women in the antimilitary movement. Furthermore it argues for the acknowledgement of reflexivity in the examination of claims articulation for mobilization.

scholarly journals Prostrating Walk in the Campaign against Sino-Hong Kong Express Railway: Collective Identity of Native Social Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-41
Author(s):  
Steve Kwok-Leung Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Occupy Central

Occupation, blockage and storming are not rare in social movements a decade after China resuming sovereignty in Hong Kong. The organizers and participants usually involve locally born young people. Some of them are secondary school students in their teens. They are known as the fourth generation or post-1980s born Hongkongers. The paper examines the cultural context of social movements involving these youth activists. It mainly studied the campaign against the Sino-Hong Kong Express Railway development project. The project called for the demolition of the Tsoi Yuen Village, a small rural village located on its designed route. Since then, the role of younger generation in social movements has been generally recognized. Social media are widely employed in all stages of the movements with citizen journalists actively involved. The impressive ‘prostrating walk’ imitating Tibetan pilgrims becomes the symbol of these youth activists. It keeps appearing in other campaigns including Occupy Central in Hong Kong in 2014. This paper argues that the rise of nativism, advancement in ICT technology and shifting towards new social movements contribute to the dominant role of youth in recent social movements of Hong Kong. Collective identity of Hongkonger in response to the top-down assimilation by China, strengthens the movement.

scholarly journals Tipologi Tafsir Alquran di Indonesia Pasca Reformasi: Telaah Pribumisasi Al-qur’an Karya M. Nur Kholis Setiawan

MUTAWATIR ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-351
Author(s):  
Fithriyawan Husni
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Background ◽  
New Order ◽  
Applied Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Qur'anic Exegesis

An interpretation is a result of a dialectical process between mufassir, the Qur’anic text, and various factors surrounding it, such as the socio-cultural context, socio-intellectual basis, and the level of spirituality. Indonesia’s socio-political conditions after the Reformation have a different character from the New Order era. There have been political liberation and various social movements, including the Qur’anic interpretation, emerged in this era. This article attempts to analyze a book entitled Pribumisasi Al-Qur’an: Tafsir Berwawasan Keindonesiaan, a representative Qur’anic exegesis which appears in the post-reformation age. The article specifically focuses to examine the typology and methodology initiated by the author. Further, it argues that firstly, the key point of the interpretative thought in Pribumisasi Al-Qur’an lies in the authorship process which is closely related to the author’s social background as santri-academician-bureaucrat. Thus, secondly, the applied method emphasized more on combinative plural thematic interpretation which tends to regard the social nuance with scientific styles and forms of writing.

Movement Framing and Discursive Opportunity Structures: The Political Successes of the U.S. Women's Jury Movements

2007 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 725-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly J. McCammon ◽  
Courtney Sanders Muse ◽  
Harmony D. Newman ◽  
Teresa M. Terrell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
Social Movement Framing

Collective actors typically attempt to bring about a change in law or policy by employing discursive tactics designed to convince key political decision-makers to alter policy, yet few systematic studies of the effects of social movement framing on political outcomes exist. We theorize that the cultural context in which framing takes place moderates the success of movement framing in winning changes in policy. We examine the efforts of organized women, during roughly the first half of the twentieth century, to convince lawmakers to broaden jury laws to give women the opportunity to sit on juries. To examine the combined effect of framing and the discursive opportunities provided by hegemonic legal principles, traditional gender beliefs, gendered political opportunities, opposition framing, and wartime, we use logistic regression. The findings provide substantial evidence that framing's influence is moderated by discursive elements in the broader context. Our results suggest that investigations of how citizen groups influence law and policy must take into account framing's important role and the ways in which the cultural context conditions framing's influence.

scholarly journals Young Migrants’ Experiences and Conditions for Health: A Photovoice Study

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrika Lögdberg ◽  
Bo Nilsson ◽  
Catrine Kostenius
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Study Methods ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Three Stages

Visualization and expression of health-related experiences and conditions by young migrants from five different countries residing in Sweden were examined in this study. Using photovoice, the participants were invited to describe and discuss their experiences in three stages: (a) document and portray their everyday lives by taking pictures, (b) discuss their findings, and (c) present their views on health to the adults who are present in their everyday life and that are important for improving young migrants’ health conditions. The overall findings indicate that temporal, spatial, and social conditions are important for the well-being of these young migrants. Thus, in order for the young migrants to feel well in a new cultural context, a search for meaning and meaningfulness in relation to time, place, and other people was important. These findings are discussed in light of social, mental, and existential health dimensions and in relation to the selected study methods.

scholarly journals Der kurze Sommer des akademischen Marxismus oder: Wie weiter mit der PROKLA?

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (146) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmar Altvater
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Political

Leaving the editorial board of PROKLA after 35 years the author confronts the political and social conditions under which PROKLA originated and developed with the changing conditions nowadays. He discusses the consequences for academic Marxism in general and specially for PROKLA and their connections with social movements.

scholarly journals Pemikiran Pendidikan al-Ghazali

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Muhammad Jafar Sodiq
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Educational Thought ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Islamic Civilization

There are many controversial views in assessing Al-Ghazali thought. For example, there is an opinion that the reason of Islam deterioration is caused by his categorisation of fard 'ain for Religious Studies, and fard kifayah for others. Abdulloh Mas'ud said that the dichotomy in education today can be traced to his categorisation. On the other hand, there are many defenders declared that al Ghazali is not responsible for this dichotomy, but he is the true defender of Islam. Even al-Zubaidi, he said that If there is a prophet after Muhammad, he would be al - Ghazali. Based on these controversies, this article will describe al-Ghazali's ideas about education in his two books, Ihya Ulumuddin and Ayyuhal Walad. This article concluded that al-Ghazali's ideas can not be separated from its socio-cultural context. With this perspective we can get a whole picture of al-Ghazali. He lived in a period of the emersion of various sects and schools (mazhab) in Islam, the deterioration of the Abbasid dynasty, and the golden age of the dynasty Saljuk until its collapse. Al-Ghazali's educational thought is an integral part of this dynamics Islamic civilization in general. Thus, Islamic education also should not be alienated from the economic, political and social conditions that affect and determine the direction and the shape of Islamic civilization.

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