Le capital militant. Essai de définition

A socio-historical approach to policy analysis: the case of the Brazilian Workers’ Food Policy

“…Political capital is, largely, symbolic capital, since it is a reputational asset. Although similar, the marked difference between it and activist capital regards those spaces in which each one is effective 39 . Bureaucratic capital is an information asset, a meta-capital that exercises power over other forms of capital and is specific to the bureaucratic field 21 .…”

O movimento da Saúde Bucal Coletiva no Brasil

“…The political sub-space is a microcosm of relatively independent relationships, with a minority that is involved in the field (professional politicians), and a mass of the "profane", with no social legitimacy to adopt policies, and which tends to interiorize and naturalize its own impotence 13 . In this paper we considered three types of capital: scientific capital, aimed at analyzing scientific output, studies and prestige in problem selection (scientific and political), and methods (scientific strategies) accumulated through measures relevant to the scientific field 11 ; b) bureaucratic capital based on the position occupied with the management of healthcare institutions or universities 9,11 ; c) political capital, accumulated and expressed in the power of mobilization contained in the specification and militancy, aiming to occupy positions at healthcare institutions or associations, or participate in the Brazilian Movement for Renewal in Odontology (Movimento Brasileiro de Renovação Odontológica -MBRO), political parties or the Brazilian Center for Healthcare Studies (Centro Brasileiro de Estudos em Saúde -CEBES) 13,14 (Tables 1 and 2). These capitals were measured based on an analysis of the lattes CVs of selected agents, which provided input for analyses of the social, professional and political path of the interviewees, of the positions held by agents in the socials space under analysis, and of the volume of capital.…”

Dominación masculina y feminismo en los movimientos sociales

“…Para analizar esta dinámica compleja se requieren "gafas" que tengan en cuenta las disposiciones y los dispositivos en la militancia ya que la cuestión atañe a las trayectorias (socialización) y a las prácticas militantes (situación), debido a que existe un "ajuste previo" entre disposiciones y dispositivos -cultural, social, económico y militante (Matonti et Poupeau, 2004), así como doméstico, profesional y "vivido" (Dunezat, 2009)-que se acumulan en las trayectorias de vida y que se pueden movilizar en una situación inédita (un movimiento social, por ejemplo). Por dispositivos designamos los "modos de organización del trabajo voluntario y militante" (Nicourd, 2009: 13), nombrando así todo lo que es necesario hacer para que la movilización tenga una existencia material y simbólica.…”