Geoffrey Pleyers, Movimientos Sociales en el Siglo XXI. Perspectivas y Herramientas Analíticas [Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives and Analytical Tools]

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Hugo José Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

scholarly journals Izquierda, software e internet: una agenda invisible

2018 ◽  
pp. 289-308
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

Resumen: El objetivo de estas páginas consiste en analizar las inscripciones políticas alrededor de ciertas discusiones en curso sobre software e internet. Específicamente: este artículo trata sobre los modos en que distintos grupos activistas abocados a los problemas políticos producto del uso masivo de servicios digitales fuertemente centralizados inscriben su lucha dentro de la tradición cultural de las izquierdas. Si, por un lado, la bibliografía destinada a pensar la izquierda del siglo XXI parece desconocer las propuestas concretas de los grupos activistas, por otro lado, estos mismos apelan a diferentes elementos tanto de la tradición marxista como libertaria. Se trata de discusiones que en buena medida también caen fuera de los estudios político-sociales contemporáneos y los activistas que las llevan a cabo han logrado plantear tanto una desconocida agenda de discusión sobre estos problemas como las coordenadas políticas para pensarlos. A continuación este texto pretende lograr su objetivo a través de tres de estos ejes de discusión: (I) sobre privacidad y criptografía, (II) sobre el uso de software libre y (III) sobre la importancia de utilizar redes descentralizadas. Finalmente, las inscripciones activistas y académicas de estas intervenciones permiten observar cómo se reconfiguran actualmente nuevas prácticas de militancia en relación a otras luchas sociales tradicionales dentro de la izquierda. Palabras clave:Izquierdas, Software libre, Encriptación, P2P, nuevos movimientos sociales Left Thought, Software and Internet: an Invisible Agenda Abstract:The aim of this article is to analyze the activists’ political inscriptions around the discussions connected with software and internet. On the one hand, the literature intended to think the left of the twenty-first century seems to ignore the concrete proposals of these activist groups. Where as, on the other hand, the activists dedicated the digital fights usually appeal to elements of the Marxist and anarchist traditions. Most of these activists have an academic inscription, but, in fact, they raise an unknown agenda of discussion and some concepts to think about it. Therefore, this text aims to achieve its objective through three of these axes of discussion: (I) cryptography and privacy, (II) software libre and left thought, and (III) importance of digital decentralized services. Finally, the activist and academic inscriptions of these interventions might lead us to an analysis of these new militant practices in relation with other traditional struggles of the left culture. Keywords: Left Thought, Software Libre, Cryptography, P2P, New Social Movements

scholarly journals A Brief History of Social Movements in North America

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
CASIS
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Fifth Generation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

The purpose of this analysis is to differentiate social movements. In this instance, we will be using the hippie/counterculture movements during the 1960s and 1970s in Canada, and those that are occurring in the second decade of the twenty-first century. In particular, this analysis distinguishes right-wing extremist movements in 2016 from groups like the Hippie Movement and the Black Panther Party Movement. Specific reference will be made to contrast the social movements of the twenty-first century that are non-political in nature but are identity-based, versus movements during the 60s and 70s that were political by design and intent. Due to the non-political nature of twenty-first century Violent Transnational Social Movements, they might be characterized as fifth generation warfare, which we identify as identity-based social movements in violent conflict with other identity based social movements, this violence may be soft or hard. ‘Soft violence damages the fabric of relationships between communities as entrenches or highlights the superiority of one group over another without kinetic impact. Soft violence is harmful activities to others which stops short of physical violence’. (Kelshall, 2019) Hard violence is then recognized as when soft violence tactics result in physical violence. Insurgencies are groups that challenge and/or resist the authority of the state. There are different levels of insurgencies; and on the extreme end, there is the resistance of systemic authority.

Waiting for the Revolution

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Previous Volume ◽  
The Revolution

Waiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day. The book is designed to complement the previous volume, Against the grain: The far left in Britain from 1956, bringing together young and established academics and writers to discuss the realignments and fissures that maintain leftist politics into the twenty-first century. The two books endeavor to historicise the British left, detailing but also seeking to understand the diverse currents that comprise ‘the far left’. Their objective is less to intervene in on-going issues relevant to the left and politics more generally, and more to uncover and explore the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups, activists and struggles. To this end, the book will appeal to scholars and anyone interested in British politics. It serves as an introduction to the far-left, providing concise overviews of organisations, social movements and campaigns. So, where the first volume examined the questions of anti-racism, gender politics and gay rights, volume two explores anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid struggles alongside introductions to Militant and the Revolutionary Communist Party.

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