Alternatives to Resistance? Comparing Depoliticization in Two British Environmental Movement Scenes

Moor, Joost de

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12860

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“…Other scholars claimed that alternatives such as grassroots spaces can establish synergies with contentious forms of action (De Moor, 2020;Blanco and León, 2017). Urban solidarity spaces have an empowerment role vis-à-vis austerity, where alternative modes of economic conduct are imagined and built (Arampatzi, 2017).…”

Section: C) Integrating Commons and Social Movementsmentioning

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Commons: a social outcome of the movement of the squares

Varvarousis

Asara

Akbulut

2020

Social Movement Studies

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This paper examines the evolvement of the "movement of the squares" following the end of the more visible cycles of mobilization of the square occupation. We argue that a crucial aspect of this evolution lies in the creation of a social infrastructure of alternative (re)productive projects in the form of commons. We call this type of outcomes "social" in order to distinguish them from the cultural, political and biographical outcomes underlined in typologies on the consequences of social movements. Bridging social movement studies with the literature on the commons, we build a conceptual framework of their relationship. Through a comparative analysis of the movements in Athens and Barcelona, we show how the commoning practices of the square encampments gave rise to more durable commons disseminated across cities´ social fabrics. We identify both direct and indirect mechanisms of movements´ transmutation into commons, and distinguish the former into transplantation, ideation, and breeding processes. Our second aim is to scrutinize the political dimension of these commons in relation to what has been framed as the "post-political condition". We maintain that the post-square commons constitute political and politicizing actions for activists and users for their effects on everyday life, for their capacity to link their practices with broader, structural dynamics of injustice, inequality and exclusion, and for their selective engagement with counter-austerity politics.

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Section: C) Integrating Commons and Social Movementsmentioning

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Commons: a social outcome of the movement of the squares

Varvarousis

Asara

Akbulut

2020

Social Movement Studies

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“…Cities have been identified as incubators of social movements. Increasingly, processes of politicization and depoliticization are studied in relation to urban contexts ( De Moor, 2020 ), and it is established that there is an interplay between post-political forces, which depoliticize, and those that re-politicize through acts of opposition to the status quo ( Novák, 2020 ).…”

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“…Very often, the eviction of a squatted space leads to the proliferation of other squats ( Dadusc, 2019b ). Therefore, instead of using direct forms of repression, institutions sometimes use more subtle governance strategies and offer negotiations to squatted spaces ( Dadusc, 2019a ; Lauri, 2019 ; De Moor, 2020 ). The institutionalization of many of the spaces as an alternative to eviction and because of these negotiations, ends up leading to control and surveillance, depoliticization of the movement and even police infiltration of social movements ( Dadusc, 2019b ; De Moor, 2020 ; Novák, 2020 ).…”

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“…Therefore, instead of using direct forms of repression, institutions sometimes use more subtle governance strategies and offer negotiations to squatted spaces ( Dadusc, 2019a ; Lauri, 2019 ; De Moor, 2020 ). The institutionalization of many of the spaces as an alternative to eviction and because of these negotiations, ends up leading to control and surveillance, depoliticization of the movement and even police infiltration of social movements ( Dadusc, 2019b ; De Moor, 2020 ; Novák, 2020 ). Direct and indirect repression socially isolates squatted spaces, preventing them from accessing their necessary social bases ( González et al, 2020 ).…”

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Counter hegemony, popular education, and resistances: A systematic literature review on the squatters’ movement

Ballesteros-Quilez

Rivera-Vargas²,

Jacovkis³

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The squatting movement is a social movement that seeks to use unoccupied land or temporarily or permanently abandoned buildings as farmland, housing, meeting places, or centers for social and cultural purposes. Its main motivation is to denounce and at the same time respond to the economic difficulties that activists believe exist to realize the right to housing. Much of what we know about this movement comes from the informational and journalistic literature generated by actors that are close or even belong to the movement. However, there is also a significant diversity of knowledge and scientific evidence on the squatters’ movement that is being produced by academia and that is worth knowing and grouping together. With the aim of defining and understanding how the squatters’ movement is constituted and organized, and how it acts, this research analyzes what the scientific literature affirms about it. Through qualitative research based on the systematic literature review (SLR) method, information was sought in the Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus databases. The initial universe of 262 articles was finally reduced to a sample of 32 articles. These have been analyzed by means of a categorized classification content analysis. The results obtained allow us to establish the state of the art on the squatting movement, placing special emphasis on its dynamics of resistance, its process of political subjectivation and its mechanisms of action and self-management. The study suggests that the movement is understood based on collective actions with a political role of resistance to neoliberalism and the inequalities it generates, and of response to the basic and social needs of the communities through self-management.Systematic review registration[doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7179670], identifier [7179670].

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“…To identify the above-mentioned dynamics and examine their relationship in a specific local context, the paper focuses on the Fridays For Future-Barcelona local group. As done in previous research (de Moor 2020;Díaz-Pérez et al, 2021;Dupuis-Déri 2021), this article uses a local group of the global Youth Climate Movement as a case study. The context of Barcelona, a city with a rich ecosystem of social movements and mobilizations 1 , offers an ideal opportunity to study the interactions of the local movement with other organizations and struggles.…”

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“Glocal” and Transversal Engagement in Youth Social Movements: A Twitter-Based Case Study of Fridays For Future-Barcelona

Terren

Soler‐i‐Martí

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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In the last decade, there has been a significant rise in the number of global social movements, generating claims of a new networked era of global social movements, in which young people often play a central role. Young generations and social movements tend to identify with a diverse set of social and political issues on both a global and local scale, while often displaying a progressive and transversal outlook. Among these youth social movements, we find Fridays For Future, a youth climate organization noted for its unique scope and tactics as well as for illustrating the prominence of environmental issues in youth activism. Since 2018, the movement has progressively grown into a network composed of many local and national groups across the world. Beyond analysis of the global character of the movement and the profile and motivations of its activists, it seems opportune to look at how—at the organizational level—these local groups evolve and position themselves. Based on a social network and a content analysis of Fridays For Future-Barcelona’s Twitter account since its creation, this article explores the organization’s “glocal” and transversal dynamics, the relationship that might exist between these two, and the potential influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on these processes. The results show that, stemming from a global preoccupation for climate change, this Youth Climate Movement organization has been increasingly oriented towards local-level networking, anchoring its activism in local struggles and realities. They also show a positively-associated process—reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic—of increasing transversality, reflecting aspirations for global justice and the idea of an interdependency between climate change and other social, political and economic issues.

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Alternatives to Resistance? Comparing Depoliticization in Two British Environmental Movement Scenes

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

Commons: a social outcome of the movement of the squares

Commons: a social outcome of the movement of the squares

Counter hegemony, popular education, and resistances: A systematic literature review on the squatters’ movement

“Glocal” and Transversal Engagement in Youth Social Movements: A Twitter-Based Case Study of Fridays For Future-Barcelona

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