Modes of Cognitive Praxis in Transnational Alternative Policy Groups

Carroll, William K.

doi:10.1080/14747731.2014.1001231

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“…Preliminary analysis of the interview transcripts involved open coding with author 1 reading the transcripts line by line to identify and develop ideas, themes and issues from the data, followed by a research team meeting in which general themes were drawn out. A coding framework was then developed and informed by social movement theory and literature on health activism as a pathway for social change (23)(24)(25). The research team found that participants' reflections on health activism pivoted around dialectic tensions in their activist roles.…”

Section: Analytical Approachmentioning

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Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All

Musolino

Baum

Freeman

et al. 2020

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Background The People’s Health Movement (PHM) formed in 2000 and drew inspiration from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care’s ‘Health for All’ (1978). Since then PHM has been an active part of a global counter-hegemonic social movement. From locations across the world including eleven countries, health activists shared their insights on social movement building, drawing on the successes and failures over many decades of striving to improve health, justice and equity. Methods Qualitative research methods were employed in this study to capture complex and historical narratives of individual activists, including semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis of transcripts. The research design and analysis were informed by social movement theory and literature on health activism as a pathway for social change. In this paper we examine the semi-structured interviews of 15 health activists who are part of the PHM, to derive lessons for strengthening movements for Health for All. Results This paper locates the activists’ narratives within a socio-political analysis of the global trends of late modern individualism and capitalist neoliberalism to understand the challenges faced by civil society groups mobilising collective action and building social movements for Health for All. This study found that within the constraints of the neoliberal socio-political and economic conditions which have caused the rise in social and health inequities, this group of long-term health activists have been nurturing alternative approaches to structuring society and building collective agency to improve health. Conclusion This paper draws on the practical long-term experiences of the PHM activists to understand better the processes and motivations that lead to and sustain health activism, and the dilemmas, strategies, impacts and achievements of such activism.

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Section: Analytical Approachmentioning

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Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All

Musolino

Baum

Freeman

et al. 2020

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“…An alternative to Leninist "march-in-line" must be found. While the culture of the contemporary global left usually equates the idea of a political party with vanguard parties or electoral machines, there is a recent literature that argues that new forms of party organization are possible in the age of internet communication (Dean 2012(Dean , 2016Carroll 2015).…”

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Forging a Diagonal Instrument for the Global Left: The Vessel

Álvarez

Chase‐Dunn

2019

JWSR

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This article takes up Samir Amin’s challenge to rethink the issue of global political organization by proposing the building of a diagonal political organization for the Global Left that would link local, national and world regional and global networks and prefigurational communities to coordinate contention for power in the world-system during the next few decades of the 21st century. The World Social Forum (WSF) process needs to be reinvented for the current period of rising neo-fascist and populist reactionary nationalism and to foster the emergence of a capable instrument that can confront and contend with the global power structure of world capitalism and aid local and national struggles. This will involve overcoming the fragmentation of progressive movements that have been an outcome of the rise of possessive individualism, the precariat, and social media. We propose a holistic approach to organizing a vessel for the global left based on struggles for climate justice, human rights, anti-racism, queer rights, feminism, sharing networks, peace alliances, taking back the city, progressive nationalism and confronting and defeating neo-fascism and new forms of conservative populism.

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“…An alternative to Leninist 'march-in-line' must be found. While the culture of the contemporary global left usually equates the idea of a political party with vanguard parties or electoral machines, there is a recent literature that argues that new forms of party organization are possible in the age of internet communication (Carroll, 2015;Dean, 2012Dean, , 2016.…”

Section: Diagonal Organizational Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Forging a diagonal instrument for the global left: the vessel

Álvarez

Chase‐Dunn

2019

Globalizations

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This article takes up Samir Amin's challenge to rethink the issue of global political organization by proposing the building of a diagonal political organization for the Global Left that would link local, national and world regional and global networks and prefigurational communities to coordinate contention for power in the world-system during the next few decades of the 21st century. The World Social Forum (WSF) process needs to be reinvented for the current period of rising neo-fascist and populist reactionary nationalism and to foster the emergence of a capable instrument that can confront and contend with the global power structure of world capitalism and aid local and national struggles. This will involve overcoming the fragmentation of progressive movements that have been an outcome of the rise of possessive individualism, the precariat, and social media. We propose a holistic approach to organizing a vessel for the global left based on struggles for climate justice, human rights, anti-racism, queer rights, feminism, sharing networks, peace alliances, taking back the city, progressive nationalism and confronting and defeating neo-fascism and new forms of conservative populism.

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Modes of Cognitive Praxis in Transnational Alternative Policy Groups

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All

Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All

Forging a Diagonal Instrument for the Global Left: The Vessel

Forging a diagonal instrument for the global left: the vessel

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