New Social Movements: Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics (1985)

Offe, Claus

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“…Whether the structure of the system of political interest mediation changes with the new social movements (Offe 1985;Roth 1989), or whether there may even be a challenge to the entire political order in connection with them (Dalton/Kuechler 1990) depends essentially on the extent to which they are supported by the mass publics. Social movements are dependent to a greater degree on the willingness of citizens to become involved in them than are the established collective actors, which can rely on professional apparatuses and direct access to the political system.…”

Section: Support For New Social Movements In Five Western European Comentioning

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Support for new social movements in five western European countries 1

Fuchs¹,

Rucht²

2018

Social Change and Political Transformation

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. AbstractOn the basis of the Eurobarometer survey data of 1982, 1984, 1986, and 1989, trends as well as levels of support for new social movements are analysed comparatively. The countries involved are France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Great Britain. The analysis is based on a concept of support combining a behavioral and an attitudinal dimension. With respect to the levels, there are considerable differences between countries over the whole period of time. The strongest support can be clearly found in the Netherlands and in Germany whereas it is quite low in Italy and France. In the course of the eighties the support in all five countries has been relatively stable with a slightly increasing tendency.

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Section: Support For New Social Movements In Five Western European Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Support for new social movements in five western European countries 1

Fuchs¹,

Rucht²

2018

Social Change and Political Transformation

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“…In Walter Benjamin’s terms, both Project Gängeviertel’s and Collectif 7‐à‐Nous’ creation of historicized and place‐centered narratives of belonging may be read as an interpretation and appropriation of the past as “the subject of a structure” that is thoroughly tied both to the presence of the now ( Jetztzeit ) and to the revolutionary future (Benjamin , 261), thereby disintegrating the dominance of restrictive presentism and reconnecting the past as a reservoir of possibilities for the future. The “neo‐conservative project of insulating the political from the non‐political” (Offe , 818), then, also applies to the presentist regime of urban temporality, in which ahistorical neglect of urban memory goes hand in hand with foreclosing alternative options for the future. Against the current of restrictive presentism, both projects have made historicized narratives a vital aspect of their tactics of urban appropriation and of re‐politicizing the city.…”

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Practicing Urban Transformation: Places of Solidarity and Creative Traditionalism in Transatlantic Comparison

Ufer

2018

City & Society

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In this paper, I make use of the comparative method to discuss two social movements for urban grassroots transformation, Collectif 7‐à‐Nous in Montréal, Canada, and Project Gängeviertel in Hamburg, Germany. For my analysis, I develop and apply two concepts – terrain solidaire and creative traditionalism – to discuss the differences and similarities in how both social movements have been justifying their claims to urban property with reference to and in dialogue with local culture, local space, and local temporalities in order to withstand adverse dynamics of entrepreneurial urbanism. How have activists constructed urban imaginaries that tie the historically grounded identity of place to current practices of solidarity amongst local dwellers? Moreover, how have creative practices of rediscovering and rewriting local history and memory in activists’ narratives of belonging contributed to rooting their claims in local contexts and against the currents of presentist temporalities? Finally, I discuss the difficulty of activist projects and narratives in escaping the increasing tendencies of commodifying urban culture. [Urban Social Movements; Urban Transformation; Solidarity; Narrative; Presentism; Urban Imaginary]

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“…According to M. Diani (1992), the bulk of scientists, instead of clearly defining the concept of the SM or its features, analyse a particular aspect of SMs such as causes of emergence of SMs, conditions for mobilization, differences between new and traditional SMs, etc. In the latter case, researches dedicated to NSMs, for example by C. Offe (1985), H. Johnston et al (1994), and S. Simsek (2004), aim to define and stress the elements distinguishing new movements from their traditional, or old, counterparts.…”

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“…NSMs as a social phenomenon has been investigated in detail by authors like A. Melucci (1985;1995), C. Offe (1985), B. Klandermans (1986), M. Diani (1992;, N. A.…”

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Šumylė¹,

Pareigienė

Ribašauskienė³

2018

VPA

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This paper presents a New Social Movement approach to the studies of local food system development. It aims to identify whether local food initiatives coalesce into a movement in Lithuania, drawing on the characteristics derived from the New Social Movement theory. Discourse analysis and semi-structured interviews with representatives of local food organizations and initiatives are applied as main methods of the study. Results reveal that social processes around local food are characterized by much unified commitment of participants to a cause, moderately expressed opposition to the adversary of movement, and fainting networking among them. The evidence of all applied characteristics suggests that local food movement is present in Lithuania yet in the incoherent and insubstantial form.

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New Social Movements: Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics (1985)

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Support for new social movements in five western European countries 1

Support for new social movements in five western European countries 1

Practicing Urban Transformation: Places of Solidarity and Creative Traditionalism in Transatlantic Comparison

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