Methodological Approaches to Movement Waves and the Making of History

Manski, Ben

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“…Importantly, this attention does not equate to a dismissal of the roles of human agency or historical contingency in revolutions, but it does look for cross-case patterns in the multiple antecedent conditions that, combined, are causally relevant. Indeed, it is such configurations of conditions that movements act within and upon, that inform participants' cognition as the terrains of struggle and targets of change (Manski, 2018).…”

Section: The 2011 Arab Uprisings As Revolutionary Wavementioning

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Revolutionary struggle and its diffusion: A configurational analysis of the 2011 Arab Uprisings

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2021

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Researchers of revolutionary waves argue that early cases diffuse mobilization to later cases which are, compared with their forerunners, disadvantaged as they have fewer favorable antecedent conditions and less strategic protagonists. Using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and comparative case studies, I examine the 2011 Arab Uprisings in order to ask: (1) Why does revolutionary struggle (mass mobilization to topple an existing regime) in a given region emerge in and then diffuse to some countries but not others? and (2) Why do the struggles vary in form—that is, in terms of social composition, action types, and demands? My study finds three configurations of antecedent conditions that favor the emergence of revolutionary struggle. The three “paths” follow a two-sided narrowing pattern: each successive path has fewer expected favorable conditions and yields a less expansive form of struggle. These paths account for the six national cases of “revolutionary struggle” in the region, and co-occur with one path leading to mass reformist struggle and several other paths leading to relative quiescence. Overall, the article demonstrates how specific antecedent conditions combine in causal ways amid the temporal unfolding of a revolutionary wave. Furthermore, by identifying the narrowing pattern of revolutionary diffusion, the article suggests that later struggles essentially reflect locally informed strategic rationales, not irrational emulation or externally driven emergent processes, as posited by previous studies.

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Revolutionary struggle and its diffusion: A configurational analysis of the 2011 Arab Uprisings

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2021

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“…Translocal resistance by local communities to corporate extraction, privatization, and other projects has created the basis for a terrain of struggle we might call (until a better identifier comes along) the "translocalization of local resistance." Terrains of struggle are co-constituted between movements from above and movements from below; there is no terrain of struggle without actual struggle (Manski 2019). In this case, we are describing a terrain constructed by contending forces of global corporate capital and local communities, in which local communities network across regional and national borders in order to contest their transnational opponents.…”

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Introduction: The Dynamics and Terrains of Local Democracy and Corporate Power in the 21st Century

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2019

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Particular to the struggles of today is a renewed and increasingly networked politics of local democracy in opposition to global corporate power. With the five urgent essays in this symposium we bring these politics into a world-systems space, considering specific community conflicts with corporations over water and petro-carbon as part of larger translocal struggles, and taking up broader strategies for asserting democratic control over economic life. The included essays feature two of four terrains of struggle —the translocalization of local resistance and contests over sovereignty – that we see as significant in the contemporary dynamics of local democracy and corporate power. We identify additional examples of contests on each these terrains of struggle, as well as those terrains involving contestation of the corporation itself and of alternative global constitutionalisms, in mapping the dimensions of the developing period of community-corporate struggle. Our purpose is to set in motion further collaborations between academic and community-based scholars, with the goal of equipping communities with knowledge useful in expanding and deepening democracy.

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“…collective identity, and collective action frames) and praxis (e.g. historicity, and movement building) (Manski ). For movements are not simply “expressive,” they are a cognitive praxis capable of structuring their own future development (Cox and Nilsen ; Eyerman and Jamison ; Flacks ; Flesher‐Fominaya ; Taylor ).…”

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Constituents before Assembly: Participation, Deliberation, and Representation in the Crafting of New Constitutions. By Todd A. Eisenstadt, A. Carl LeVan, and Tofigh Maboudi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Methodological Approaches to Movement Waves and the Making of History

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Revolutionary struggle and its diffusion: A configurational analysis of the 2011 Arab Uprisings

Revolutionary struggle and its diffusion: A configurational analysis of the 2011 Arab Uprisings

Introduction: The Dynamics and Terrains of Local Democracy and Corporate Power in the 21st Century

Constituents before Assembly: Participation, Deliberation, and Representation in the Crafting of New Constitutions. By Todd A. Eisenstadt, A. Carl LeVan, and Tofigh Maboudi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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