Organizational practices of social movements and popular struggles: understanding the power of organizing from below

Abstract

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Decolonising management and organisational knowledge (MOK): Praxistical theorising for potential worlds

“…Latin American management academics at the exteriorities have embraced decolonial praxis in their local languages, by reaffirming the liberatory imagination of Latin American activist scholarship (e.g. Faria et al, 2010;Misoczky et al, 2017) in contesting CMS's critical theoretical orthodoxy (see Prasad et al, 2015). Yet, the praxistical dimensions of decolonial are often omitted through framing decolonising MOK as a theoretical approach.…”

Torn between Legal Claiming and Privatized Remedy: Rights Mobilization against Gold Mining in Chile

“…The Pascua-Lama dispute represents an unusually revelatory case (Yin, 2017), able to offer theoretical insights to explore the transformations of human rights mobilization and the interplay between domestic and transnational business governance. In many ways, this lengthy dispute-starting in 2000 and still ongoing at the moment of writing-represents a familiar case of rights mobilization by an indigenous community against a mega-mining project that menaces its very existence (Bebbington et al, 2008;Bruijn & Whiteman, 2010;Maher, 2019;Misoczky & Böhm, 2015;Misoczky, Camara, & Böhm, 2017). The local mobilization appears even more significant because of the extreme environmental conditions in which it is taking place and the unlikely capacity of the residents to stop the largest gold mining company in the world (Li, 2017).…”

“…Inspired by Bartley's (2018: 45), we found it more fruitful to start from the premise that "sites of implementation are crowded with actors, agendas and rules," rather than treating them as empty spaces waiting to be filled by transnational standards. Hence, we have analyzed in detail the processes of rights mobilization from below (Misoczky & Böhm, 2015;Misoczky et al, 2017) and the linkages between private transnational rules and domestic judicial and governmental enforcement mechanisms. Theorizing the changing nature of rights mobilization in the Pascua-Lama case (Figure 3), our study highlights a more dynamic and dialectical relationship between processes of de-territorialization and re-territorialization of BHR governance and legalization and privatization of human rights disputes.…”

Pensar Desde a América Latina Em Diálogo Com a Organização Das Lutas Sociais Descoloniais: Explorando Possibilidades

“…We are interested in what is happening in the reality in which we are immerse. We are convinced of the impossibility of properly understanding the plethora of organizational processes of these collectives unless we articulate the knowledge that is theoretically elaborated and the one that emerges from below and remains, most of the time, restrained to the processes and spaces of struggle (Misoczky, Dornelas Camara & Böhm, 2017). Therefore, it calls for paying attention not only to the claims around which the struggle or the movement is organized, but also its prefigurative practices.…”