Political Opportunities: From Tilly to Tilly

Giugni, Marco

doi:10.1002/j.1662-6370.2009.tb00136.x

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“…The POS approach has been identified as one of the most influential perspectives in social movement research (Giugni 2009;Hutter 2014;McAdam and Boudet 2012), yet clear definitions of POS remain scarce. Often preferring operational over theoretical definitions, scholars typically point to the effect of variations in structural features of the political context, across space or over time, which create opportunities for (or threats to) social movements and thereby affect levels of mobilization, degrees of success, and-our focus in this article-strategies (e.g., Goldstone 2004;McAdam 1996;Meyer 2004;Tarrow 2011).…”

Section: How Political Opportunity Structures Mattermentioning

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Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate movement

Moor

Wahlström

2019

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This article advances theory on social movements' strategic adaptation to political opportunity structures by incorporating a narrative perspective. Our theory explains how people acquire and use knowledge about political opportunity structures through storytelling about the movement's past, present, and imagined future. The discussion applies the theory in an ethnographic case study of the climate movement's mobilization around the UN Climate Summit in Paris, 2015. This analysis demonstrates how a dominant narrative of defeat about the prior protest campaign in Copenhagen, 2009 shaped the strategizing process. While those who experienced Copenhagen as a success preferred strategic continuity, those who experienced defeat developed a BCopenhagen narrative^to advance strategic adaptation by projecting previously experienced threats and opportunities onto the Paris campaign. Yet by relying on a retrospective narrative, movement actors tended to overlook emerging political opportunities. We demonstrate that narrative analysis is a useful tool for understanding the link between structure and agency in social movements and other actors affected by (political) opportunity structures.Keywords Climate change . Narrative . Political opportunity structure . Social movements . Strategy . Structure and agency How do social movements adapt their strategies to political opportunity structures (POSs)? This is one of the most cited questions in social movement research and goes right to the heart of how movements advance social change. However, it is also one of

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Section: How Political Opportunity Structures Mattermentioning

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Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate movement

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Wahlström

2019

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“…55 Thus, the focus should not be limited to the conditions that help or inhibit mobilization but on the processes and mechanisms that underlie mobilization, and on the perceptions of activists of these opportunities and threats. 56 Tarrow further introduced a "dynamic statism" 57 approach, which allows the researcher to specify certain political opportunities of different actors and to track the changes in the political opportunity over time. He argues that opportunity structures are more open in some political settings than others, since elites within various states are not neutral when dealing with different activists and movements.…”

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Youth Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt

Sika

2017

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The Arab uprisings have demonstrated the importance of analyzing contentious politics in authoritarian regimes through new analytical tools. During the 1990s, Tarrow argued that research into the areas of democratization and social movements rarely intersected. 1 In trying to fill this gap, Donatella della Porta compared the democratization process in Eastern Europe with the events of the Arab Spring by examining "episodes of democratization through the lens of social movement studies." 2 Political developments and recent literature suggest that democratization is unlikely to develop in Arab countries that have experienced mass contention, with the notable exception of Tunisia. 3 This chapter establishes the theoretical framework for the study of contentious politics in authoritarian regimes.

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“…De um lado, trata-se de descrever as condições mais estáveis que afetam a ação coletiva em um país ou sociedade. De outro, buscam-se identificar as "janelas de oportunidade", isto é, as condições mais voláteis que podem encorajar os atores sociais a protestar ou a juntar-se a um movimento social em um contexto específico (GAMSON;MEYER, 1996;GIUGNI, 2009). Apesar do "viés estruturalista" que afetou muitas dessas formulações, o conceito de "oportunidades políticas" não precisa ser visto como uma condição objetiva, independente da percepção dos indivíduos (GOODWIN;JASPER, 1999;GIUGNI, 2009, p. 364-365).…”

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Boatos, Crises E Oportunidades Políticas Na Antiguidade Tardia

Oliveira

2016

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RESUMO Comparado à organização política do Principado, o regime imperial da Antiguidade Tardia obteve um controle muito maior sobre a circulação da informação política em decorrência da centralização do poder e do número ainda maior de funcionários qualificados dedicados a coligir, cotejar e recuperar informações em todo o Império. Ainda assim, a vastidão do Império Romano e a lentidão das comunicações continuavam a representar as principais ameaças ao poder absolutista, especialmente nos momentos de crises políticas, quando a própria ausência de informações oficiais alimentava os canais subterrâneos e incontrolados de notícias. Do ponto de vista da plebe urbana e dos atores políticos locais, o recurso a essas notícias clandestinas que nós chamamos de "boatos" podia representar uma tentativa de avaliar a abertura de oportunidades para a ação em um ambiente político marcado por uma profunda incerteza. O objetivo deste artigo é explorar como a plebe urbana, as facções religiosas ou seus líderes percebiam (e encorajavam) a difusão de notícias sobre as mudanças no poder imperial como uma "janela de oportunidades" e como uma forma de organizar uma ação coletiva.

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Political Opportunities: From Tilly to Tilly

Cited by 62 publications

References 8 publications

Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate movement

Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate movement

Youth Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt

Boatos, Crises E Oportunidades Políticas Na Antiguidade Tardia

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