scholarly journals La cuestión de la identidad o la identidad en cuestión. Discusiones, acuerdos y puntos de partida

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
Maria Eugenia Isidro
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Identification Process ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

En este artículo presentamos las discusiones que se dan en torno al polisémico concepto de identidad y establecemos los acuerdos que se convierten en puntos de partida en el marco de una investigación que tiene por objetivo comprender el proceso de construcción identitaria de los movimientos socioterritoriales. Para eso organizamos la exposición en tres partes. En primer lugar, nos adentramos en algunas discusiones que se suscitan alrededor del concepto de identidad intentando establecer algunos acuerdos que se constituyen en puntos de partida para investigar la construcción identitaria de los actores colectivos. En segundo lugar, nos detenemos a definir a la identidad colectiva y la ponemos en relación con la identidad individual. Por último, incorporamos dos categorías geográficas a las que consideramos constitutivas del proceso de identificación de los movimientos sociales: territorio y lugar. -- In this article we present the discussions that take place around the polysemic concept of identity, and we establish the agreements that become starting points within the framework of an investigation that aims to understand the process of identity construction of socio-territorial movements. For that we organize the exhibition in three parts. In the first place, we enter some discussions that arise around the concept of identity trying to establish some agreements that constitute starting points to investigate the identity construction of collective actors. Second, we stop to define collective identity and put it in relation to individual identity. Finally, we incorporate two geographical categories that we consider to be constitutive of the identification process of social movements: territory and place.

Constructing a Collective Identity Across Conflict Lines: Joint Israeli-Palestinian Peace Movement Organizations*

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Gawerc
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
Critical Process

For collective action to occur and be sustainable, social movements must construct collective identities and develop a sense of themselves as collective actors. This is especially difficult for movements that work across deep political and cultural chasms, and in situations of protracted conflict. Yet, there has been almost no research on how movement organizations, which work across conflict lines in situations of protracted conflict, are able to establish this sense of cohesion. This project investigates how two joint Israeli-Palestinian peace movement organizations are able to construct shared collective identities in a political environment where each side is cast as the enemy of the other. The findings indicate that in protracted conflicts, trust building is a distinct and critical process inherent in constructing a collective identity. The findings similarly reveal that while storytelling goes a long way toward establishing trust initially, ultimately, collective identity construction depends on visible confirmatory actions.

scholarly journals RESISTENCIA, IDENTIDAD, Y AUTONOMÍA: LA TRANSFORMACIÓN DE ESPACIOS EN LAS COMUNIDADES ZAPATISTAS

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stahler-Sholk
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Zapatista Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

El artículo examina la identidad colectiva que se va forjando en la vida cotidiana de las comunidades autónomas zapatistas en Chiapas. Se desarrollan tres argumentos: 1. La persistencia del movimiento zapatista, a 20 años de su aparición pública, se debe en gran parte a la construcción de una nueva subjetividad que se manifiesta como una identidad colectiva entre los participantes. 2. Esa identidad se caracteriza más por un proceso de construcción, en las prácticas de relaciones sociales y formas de hacer política en los territorios autónomos, que por un perfil fijo. 3. La autonomía zapatista es un ejemplo de «contrapoder», que puede ser relevante para otros movimientos sociales antisistémicos de América Latina. RESISTANCE, IDENTITY AND AUTONOMY: TRANSFORMATION IN ZAPATISTA COMMUNITIES This article examines the collective identity forged by everyday life in autonomous Zapatista communities in Chiapas. It develops three arguments: 1. The persistence of the Zapatista movement 20 years after its public emergence largely due to the construction of a new subjectivity expressed as collective identity among participants. 2. This identity is characterized as a construction process through the social relationships and forms of doing politics practiced in autonomous territories, rather than a fixed profile. 3. Zapatista autonomy is an example of «counterpower», which could be of relevance to other anti-establishment social movements in Latin America.

How Sociology’s Three Identity Theory Traditions Clarify the Process of Entrepreneurial Identity Formation

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 355-384
Author(s):  
Daniel Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sociological Literature

The sociological literature on identity construction falls into three broad traditions. One, rooted in social psychology, underscores how individuals internalize identities that become stable self-structures. The second, rooted in dramaturgy, emphasizes how individuals contextually perform their identities through various scripts. The third, rooted in social movements literature, stresses how collective identity is nurtured and mobilized. Through 56 interviews with undergraduate entrepreneurs, I show that the three traditions are not contradictory, but rather highlight complementary processes and divergent layers of analysis. This synthesis is pedagogically and analytically useful, providing a heuristic for designing future empirical inquiry on entrepreneurial identity construction.

¿Quién soy yo? Reflexiones teórico sistémicas acerca de la indentidad individual

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
Francisco Xavier Morales
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Moral Communication ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

The problem of identity is an issue of contemporary society that is not only expressed in daily life concerns but also in discourses of politics and social movements. Nevertheless, the I and the needs of self-fulfillment usually are taken for granted. This paper offers thoughts regarding individual identity based on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. From this perspective, identity is not observed as a thing or as a subject, but rather as a “selfillusion” of a system of consciousness, which differentiates itself from the world, event after event, in a contingent way. As concerns the definition  of contents of self-identity, the structures of social systems define who is a person, how he or she should act, and how much esteem he or she should receive. These structures are adopted by consciousness as its own identity structures; however, some social contexts are more relevant for self-identity construction than others. Moral communication increases the probability that structure appropriation takes place, since the emotional element of identity is linked to the esteem/misesteem received by the individual from the interactions in which he or she participates.

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.

The construction and regulation of collective entrepreneurial identity in student entrepreneurship societies

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Päivi Tuulikki Siivonen ◽  
Kirsi Peura ◽  
Ulla Hytti ◽  
Kati Kasanen ◽  
Katri Komulainen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Student Entrepreneurship ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Shared Narrative

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically investigate how collective identity is constructed and regulated by board members and other active members of student entrepreneurship societies (ESs). Design/methodology/approach A discursive analysis focusing on collective identity construction and regulation based on focus group discussions in two student-led Finnish ESs affiliated with higher education institutions (HEIs). Findings ES members construct and regulate collective entrepreneurial identity based on a shared narrative of entrepreneurship and the affective state of positive energy and thinking, i.e. “positive buzz.” Being entrepreneurial was constructed as having the right kind of mentality to cope with uncertain and rapidly changing working life and to break free of old moulds of working. The shared narrative was coherent, and critical reflection on the values or risks of entrepreneurship was mainly silenced. Research limitations/implications As ESs are a relatively new phenomenon future research could explore ESs in different cultural and regional contexts and compare the identity construction and regulation of ES student members and non-members. Practical implications Strong collective identity and sense of commitment to doing things together may mitigate the pressures of being entrepreneurial and taking charge of one’s life. Social implications Educational practice and research could benefit from better understanding of the informal context in which entrepreneurship education takes place. Originality/value The paper contributes to the relatively new research stream on ESs as student-led entrepreneurial organizations in HEIs. The research demonstrates how ES members participate in constructing a collective and coherent identity that is regulated by shared values and a positive state of mind. This study extends the understanding of ESs from the functional perspective to viewing them as a social community. It contributes to the definition of ESs and the self-understanding of ES actors.

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