Anthropology and the Study of Social Movements

Salman, Ton; Assies, Willem

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“…Viewing social capital as a potential springboard to adversarial social movements fighting for social changes that enable better health, allies the field with rich bodies of multi-disciplinary social theory on collective action and social movements. This offers great potential for deepening existing analysis and action in global public health: social psychology on identity and solidarity in collective action (Kinvall & Kapellos, 2014); social anthropology on movements as makers and carriers of meaning and culture (Salman & Assies, 2007); sociology on resource mobilisation, political opportunity structures and identities as movement drivers (Snow et al, 2018). The applied fields of public policy (Hankivsky & Jordan-Zachery, 2018) and development studies (Cornwall,25 2011) also provide rich insights around engaging diverse groups in collaborative social development.…”

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Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings

Campbell

2020

Social Science & Medicine

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Social capital, social movements and global public health: fighting for healthenabling contexts in marginalised settings. AbstractResearch linking health and social capital is often cited in relation to global public health policies and programmes that mobilise local community participation in health promotion in marginalised settings. A long-standing criticism of this body of analysis and action is its inadequate attention to the power inequalities that drive poor health, often linked to macro-social forces beyond the reach of local community activism.Supplementing social capital research with attention to more ambitious and wideranging forms of health activism tackles this criticism. It puts the reproduction and transformation of health-relevant power inequalities at the heart of social capital research and community mobilisation strategies. We use the South African Treatment Action Campaign as a prototype for expanding understandings of social capital for health promotion. Existing social capital work currently focuses on facilitating community mobilisation to create co-operative bonding and bridging social capital (networks of solidarity within and between marginalised communities respectively), as well as linking social capital (networks uniting marginalised communities and more powerful champions). We call for an expanded focus that takes account of how these co-operative networks may serve as springboards for community involvement in adversarial social movements. In such cases, these networks of solidarity serve as launch pads for various forms of demand and protest where the marginalised and their allies confront power-holders in conflictual struggles over health-relevant social resources. We illustrate this expanded 3 framework with two examples of collective action for mental health: the Movement for Global Mental Health and the UK Mental Health User and Survivor Movement.Both seek to use bonding, bridging and linking networks as the basis for movements to pressurise power-holders to increase access to appropriate psychiatric services, adequate welfare support and social respect and recognition for people living with mental distress.

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Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings

Campbell

2020

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Literary anthropology is one of the literary approaches that are useful for help analyze literary works based on the cultural aspects contained in the literature itself (Breda-Verduijn & Heijboer, 2016). This is in line with the opinion of (Salman & Assies, 2017) Thus, in order to detect cultural values in novels, understanding of culture is required in order to interpret the values it includes correctly. The author explores the significance and kinds of friendship in this study.…”

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Cultural Values in the Novel “Charlotte’s Web - E.B White”: Literary anthropology Approach

Kheryadi

Zuriyati

Lustyantie

2021

loquen Engl. stud. j.

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The purpose of this research is to learn more about the cultural value of the novel Charlotte’s Web - E.B White. The qualitative descriptive technique was used in this study, which is based on the literary anthropology approach. The information was gathered by carefully reading the text, identifying, and categorizing it. The goal of this study is to help find the friendship depicted in the novel Charlotte's Web. This study focuses on the many forms of friendship and how they are depicted in the novel. W. D. Ross (1999) theory was used to identify and classify the data, while Robert Stanton's (1965) theory was utilized to analyze the friendship depicted in the novel Charlotte's Web. The findings of this study reveal three forms of friendship in the characters represented. The three forms of friendship are as follows: 1) friendship of utility, 2) friendship of pleasure, and 3) friendship of kindness.

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“…Researchers interested in activism and social movements have shifted their analysis from a functional focus on social order and (in)stability to exploring people's political agency, subjectivity, and practices (Wright, 2016). More recently, attention has been paid to notions of temporality and space (Featherstone, 2010; Juris, 2012; Szolucha, 2016); identity, representation, and political practice (Day & Goddard, 2010; Salman & Assies, 2017); and citizen science (Jalbert et al, 2017). Other authors have emphasized the centrality of prefigurative dynamics, showing the ways in which people carve out alternative spaces in the present, to show how possibilities and change emerge from forms of resistance at different scales (Fians, 2022; Graeber, 2002, 2009; Krøijer, 2010; Maeckelbergh, 2011; Razsa, 2015; Razsa & Kurnik, 2012).…”

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“Jobbos” and the “wageless life”: Exploring work and responsibility in the anti‐fracking movement in Lancashire, United Kingdom

O'Brien

2022

Economic Anthropology

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Drawing on ethnographic research at an anti-fracking encampment at Preston New Road (PNR) in Lancashire, England, this article explores activists' perceptions of work and responsibility. I examine their protest activities and explore how work is understood, disrupted, and contested; what this means for my interlocutors' engagement with monetary compensation; and how this is reinforced by the extractive nature of the activity they are contesting. I show how through protesting, monitoring, and maintaining a presence on site, interlocutors worked to ethically and materially disentangle themselves from the reality fueled by hydrocarbon extraction. While paid work was deemed ethically problematic in this context, at stake for my interlocutors was the web of relationships in which financial and practical support was received and shared. By drawing on research on activism and dynamics of prefiguration, I show how the work of activism at PNR was predicated on balancing agency with responsibility in a complex and powerful web of responsible relationships. Reconciling agency and responsibility was integral to the ethical orientations on which the anti-fracking community was built and the realities it aspired to create.

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Anthropology and the Study of Social Movements

Cited by 8 publications

References 46 publications

Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings

Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings

Cultural Values in the Novel “Charlotte’s Web - E.B White”: Literary anthropology Approach

“Jobbos” and the “wageless life”: Exploring work and responsibility in the anti‐fracking movement in Lancashire, United Kingdom

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