After a Cycle of Contention: Post-Gothenburg Strategies of Left-Libertarian Activists in Sweden

Jacobsson, Kerstin; Sörbom, Adrienne

doi:10.1080/14742837.2015.1027763

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“…Despite the disconnect between the two strands of literature exemplified above, there are some studies that seek to bridge the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ perspective with a focus on activism, suggesting that it has more dispersed forms and targets (Jacobsson & Sörbom, 2015; Maxey 1999, Reitan, 2010). Hysing and Olsson (2018) show how public sector organizations can spur transformation from the inside, as public officials act strategically from within these institutions to incrementally change public policy in line with the values of global environmental movements.…”

Section: Activism and Politics In Organization Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prefigurative Partaking: Employees’ Environmental Activism in an Energy Utility

Skoglund

Böhm

2019

Organization Studies

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The separation between an ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of organizational politics has become untenable in a rapidly changing political landscape, where people engage in environmental activism in many different domains. To understand contemporary environmental activism, we situate ourselves empirically within an energy utility, Ordalia [pseudonym], a large corporation active across Europe and heavily criticized by external activists for its carbon emitting operations. By merging Rancière’s method of equality and notion of ‘partaking’ with literature on prefiguration in social movements, we analyse everyday green actions pursued by Ordalia’s employees, which we conceptualize as ‘prefigurative partaking’. By focusing on six characterizing themes of prefigurative partaking – aspirational, individual, professional, critical, loyal and communal – we have found that employee activism is incremental, horizontal and boundaryless. We discuss these findings in relation to recent calls for more fruitful exchanges between social movement theory and organization studies, arguing that Rancière’s conceptualization of politics can help us study actions that span civil society and business. This complements and expands our understanding of environmental activism as a dispersed set of actions that can take place anywhere, and hence also at work.

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Section: Activism and Politics In Organization Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prefigurative Partaking: Employees’ Environmental Activism in an Energy Utility

Skoglund

Böhm

2019

Organization Studies

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“…[BT]Analysis of strategic adaptation by left-libertarian movements in Sweden illustrates the process of reflexive learning (Jacobsson and Sörbom 2015). After riots at the June 2001 European Council meeting in Gothenburg, activists undertook a process of strategic adaptation (Koopmans 2005;McCammon 2012), away from confrontational mass protests and toward more concrete micro-projects.…”

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Tactics and Strategic Action

Doherty¹,

Hayes²

2018

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

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“…In fact, this milieu has a relatively short history in Sweden dating from the 1980s/1990s (Jämte, 2013; Jämte and Sörbom, 2014). Added to this, most groups associated with this milieu have a history of non-violent repertoires of action (Jacobsson and Sörbom, 2015). Hence, a problem with the design was to identify autonomist leftist groups present on the Internet that met the criteria of being “anti-democratic” and promoting violence.…”

Section: Background and General Findings Of The Reportmentioning

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“…Secrecy and seclusion have been a central part of Swedish anarchist/autonomist activism for some time (cf. Jacobsson and Sörbom, 2015; Peterson, 2001), and perhaps that explains the lack of inclusive modes of address in the material. Already in the research on autonomous scenes conducted by Leach and Haunss (2009), it is described how communications within the milieu take place primarily through personal contacts at parties, concerts, and meetings, or through posters, stickers, and flyers in the urban landscape.…”

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“…It is also close at hand to assume that the sample period took place at the end of a cycle, both of radical politics in Sweden (Jacobsson and Sörbom, 2015), as well as of radical activism online. Hence, it would be useful to conduct longer, perhaps trajectory studies that could capture what and how content and modes of communication, and address change over time.…”

Section: Control and Seclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What’s left of the radical left online? Absence of communication, political vision, and community in autonomist web milieus in Sweden

Andersson

2016

New Media & Society

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This article presents and discusses results from a study of radical left-wing activism online carried out by the Swedish Media Council, a report that suggested that the Internet (i.e. the web, web 2.0, and social media) is not a prioritized arena for propaganda and recruitment for the radical left in Sweden. The purpose of this article is to re-evaluate some of these findings and add to the discussion on online activity and connectivity in political communication online, as well as to problematize simplified notions of radicalization and recruitment to pro-violent groups. Based on a hermeneutic inquiry regarding modes of communication, representations of political visions, and community, the article shows how the sites and groups studied favor one-way communication before interactivity, that political visions are limited to short-term goals in the immediate future, and that they give very little information about their activist activities to recruit supporters.

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After a Cycle of Contention: Post-Gothenburg Strategies of Left-Libertarian Activists in Sweden

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Prefigurative Partaking: Employees’ Environmental Activism in an Energy Utility

Prefigurative Partaking: Employees’ Environmental Activism in an Energy Utility

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What’s left of the radical left online? Absence of communication, political vision, and community in autonomist web milieus in Sweden

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