Everyday Routines in Free Spaces: Explaining the Persistence of The Zapatistas in Los Angeles

Glass, Pepper G.

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“…In recent years, social movement scholars have shown increasing interest in the internal lives of social movements and what we might call the "backstage" of protest. They investigated questions of internal democracy and democratic practices (Della Porta, 2009b;Graeber, 2009;Leach, 2009;Maeckelbergh, 2009;Polletta, 2002), consensus decision-making (Haug, 2011;Della Porta, 2009a), deliberation (Della Porta, 2005), multi-lingual communication and translation (Doerr, 2009), the role of online and offline communication (Kavada, 2010), various dimensions of social movement culture (Hart, 2001;Summers-Effler, 2010), the interactive formation of collective identity (Flesher Fominaya, 2010), practices of network organizing (Juris, 2008(Juris, , 2012Maiba, 2005), tensions between different approaches to political practice (Flesher Fominaya, 2007, in press;Pleyers, 2010) and the related politics of organization (Böhm, Sullivan, & Reyes, 2005), the role of everyday routines (Glass, 2010), social movement scenes (Haunss & Leach, 2007), and the creation of public spheres within movements (Doerr, 2010;Haug, 2010b). Rather than studying the "frontstage" of protest where social movements appear to the general public as more or less homogenous actors with a given goal and strategy, these studies attend to social movements as action contexts or collective spaces in which activists find themselves and which they aim to shape and organize according to their needs and visions.…”

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Organizing Spaces: Meeting Arenas as a Social Movement Infrastructure between Organization, Network, and Institution

Haug

2013

Organization Studies

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In recent years, social movement scholars have shown increasing interest in the internal lives of social movements, but this turn from "social movements as actors" to "social movements as spaces" has not yet led to a conceptual apparatus that addresses the key role of face-to-face meetings, especially in the interorganizational domain of mesomobilization. Building on the concept of "partial organization", the paper develops the concept of "meeting arena" as a hybrid of three forms of social order: organization, institution, and network. It is argued that the complex figuration of meeting arenas in a social movement or protest mobilization constitutes an infrastructure that synchronizes the dispersed activities of movement actors in time and space. This infrastructure is not an entirely emergent phenomenon but is also the result of conscious decisions by organizers. Heuristic, methodological, and theoretical implications of this novel perspective on social movements are discussed, highlighting especially the potential of the distinction between organizing and mobilizing as two intertwined but essentially different types of social movement activity.

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Organizing Spaces: Meeting Arenas as a Social Movement Infrastructure between Organization, Network, and Institution

Haug

2013

Organization Studies

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“…Los estudiosos del movimiento social recién empezaron a mostrar más interés en las organizaciones de los movimientos sociales. Los principales temas de investigación han sido las estructuras internas y los procesos de decisiones (Della Porta et al, 2009;Leach, 2009;Kreiss, 2014;Polletta, 2002;Maeckelbergh, 2012;Choi-Fitzpatrick, 2014;Polletta, 2005), liderazgo y jerarquía (Milam y Heath, 2014;Sutherland et al, 2013;Spicer y Böhm, 2007;Briscoe y Safford, 2008;Western, 2014), conflictos (Laamanen y den Hond, 2015; Maeckelbergh, 2012), y las rutinas cotidianas (Glass, 2010;Tilly, 1995). Las contribuciones relacionadas con la teoría organizacional suelen referirse al concepto de organizaciones prefigurativas.…”

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“La forma sigue a la función”. Organizaciones Parciales de Movimientos Sociales para la realización prefigurativa del cambio

Simsa¹,

Totter²

2018

Gobernar

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La forma sigue a la función". Organizaciones Parciales de Movimientos Sociales para la realización prefigurativa del cambio Ruth Simsa & Marion Totter * Resumen. El propósito de este artículo es analizar cómo los activistas del movimiento español de protesta 15M conceptualizan las prácticas organizativas en relación con los objetivos del movimiento. Ubicamos el concepto "organización parcial" en el contexto de la política de prefiguración. Empíricamente, el trabajo se basa en la investigación de campo realizada en España durante tres años (2014-2016), que incluyó 36 entrevistas cualitativas y observaciones participantes. Los hallazgos indican que los activistas consideran, de un lado, a las prácticas organizacionales como medios cruciales para lograr el cambio social y, de otro lado, a las organizaciones como organizaciones parciales, específicamente, para lograr una membresía abierta y estructuras no jerárquicas. Al hacer esto para implementar las metas del movimiento de manera prefigurativa en sus prácticas organizativas diarias, son ampliamente aceptados los límites y restricciones de las prácticas de auto-organización. Al contribuir a una comprensión más profunda de la filosofía subyacente de organizaciones de movimientos sociales, este artículo debería ser útil para activistas y académicos del movimiento social. Palabras clave: movimientos sociales, organizaciones de movimientos sociales, prefiguración, organización parcial. "Form follows function". Partial Organizations of social movements to prefigurative fulfillment of change Abstract. The purpose of this article is to analyze how activists of the Spanish protest movement 15M conceptualize their organizational practices in relation to the objectives of the movement. We situate the concept of "partial organization" in the context of the so-called politics of prefiguration. Empirically, this work is based on field research conducted in Spain over three years (2014-2016), including 36 qualitative interviews and participatory observation. The findings indicate that activists consider organizational practices as crucial means to achieve social change. Further, they use the form of partial organization, specifically open membership and non-hierarchical structures, to implement the goals of the movement in a prefigurative way in daily organizational practices. Furthermore, the limits and restrictions of self-organizing practices are widely accepted. By contributing to a deeper understanding of the underlying philosophy of social movement organizations, this article might be useful for social movement activists and academics.

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“…Complementing this, work on social movement spaces shows how movements ‘prefigure’ movement goals in everyday practices (see Polletta ). Yet similarly to arguments about abeyance, the emphasis is on the role that spaces and visions of ‘alternatives’ have in social movement ‘persistence’, as though they were important to movements only during periods of quiescence (Polletta ; Futrell and Simi ; Glass ). Work on prefiguration, particularly in studies of the alter‐globalization movement, shows that the way in which political action is planned and undertaken, even in everyday life, is important both in producing inspiring and/or feasible alternative societies, and in distinguishing groups from authoritarian and hierarchical forms of left‐wing political organization (Graeber ; Maeckelbergh ).…”

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Everyday politics, social practices and movement networks: daily life in Barcelona's social centres

Yates

2015

British Journal of Sociology

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The relations between everyday life and political participation are of interest for much contemporary social science. Yet studies of social movement protest still pay disproportionate attention to moments of mobilization, and to movements with clear organizational boundaries, tactics and goals. Exceptions have explored collective identity, 'free spaces' and prefigurative politics, but such processes are framed as important only in accounting for movements in abeyance, or in explaining movement persistence. This article focuses on the social practices taking place in and around social movement spaces, showing that political meanings, knowledge and alternative forms of social organization are continually being developed and cultivated. Social centres in Barcelona, Spain, autonomous political spaces hosting cultural and educational events, protest campaigns and alternative living arrangements, are used as empirical case studies. Daily practices of food provisioning, distributing space and dividing labour are politicized and politicizing as they unfold and develop over time and through diverse networks around social centres. Following Melucci, such latent processes set the conditions for social movements and mobilization to occur. However, they not only underpin mobilization, but are themselves politically expressive and prefigurative, with multiple layers of latency and visibility identifiable in performances of practices. The variety of political forms - adversarial, expressive, theoretical, and routinized everyday practices, allow diverse identities, materialities and meanings to overlap in movement spaces, and help explain networks of mutual support between loosely knit networks of activists and non-activists. An approach which focuses on practices and networks rather than mobilization and collective actors, it is argued, helps show how everyday life and political protest are mutually constitutive.

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Everyday Routines in Free Spaces: Explaining the Persistence of The Zapatistas in Los Angeles

Cited by 13 publications

References 52 publications

Organizing Spaces: Meeting Arenas as a Social Movement Infrastructure between Organization, Network, and Institution

Organizing Spaces: Meeting Arenas as a Social Movement Infrastructure between Organization, Network, and Institution

“La forma sigue a la función”. Organizaciones Parciales de Movimientos Sociales para la realización prefigurativa del cambio

Everyday politics, social practices and movement networks: daily life in Barcelona's social centres

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