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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465181303321

Titolo

Reimagining social movements : from collectives to individuals / / edited by Antimo L. Farro and Henri Lustiger-Thaler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-90533-3

1-315-24486-1

0-7546-9999-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Global Connections

Altri autori (Persone)

FarroAntimo <1951->

Lustiger-ThalerHenri <1951->

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Social movements

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Subjectivity and Collective Action; Part I : Subjectivity, Memory,  and Collective Action; 1 A New Era for Collective Movements: The Subjectivization of Collective Action; 2 Occupying Human Values: Memory and the Future of Collective Action; 3 The Emergence of the Migrant Subject; 4 Grassroots Mobilizations for Sustainable Consumption; 5 Social Movement in Japan: Split Mentalities and Memory; 6 Emotions, Memory, and New Cultural Movements in Turkey

7 Memory and Sociology: Subjectivization and De-subjectivization Part II: Contentious Cultures; 8 Violence and the Egyptian Revolution; 9 Citizens' Movement in South Korea and Reflexive Modernization; 10 Social Movement Activism in South Africa: Ebbs and Flows, 2000-2010; 11 Beyond Institutionalization: Urban Movements in Rome; 12 Brazilian Social Movements in the Latin American Context; 13 Market, Legitimacy, and the Politics of Risk: The Candlelight Protest in South Korea; 14 Civic Society, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America; 15 Religion and Land Takeovers in Mexico



16 Taking Everything Back: Casa Pound, a Far Right Movement in Italy17 Group Formation, Riots, and Immigrants: Social Movements in Britain; Afterword: Globalization and the War of Gods; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies in the late 1960's and early 1970's, namely resource mobilization, framing, collective identity, and new social movements. It is now, however, increasingly clear that we are experiencing a profound period of social transformation associated with online interactivity, informationalization and globalization. This book explores emerging forms of movement and action not only in terms of the industrialized countries of the North Atlantic, but recognize.