Free Spaces

Evans, Sara M.

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“…Free spaces are defined as "smallscale settings within a community or movement that are removed from the direct control of dominant groups, are voluntarily participated in, and generate the cultural challenge that precedes or accompanies political mobilization" (Polletta 1999:1). Originally developed by Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte (1986), the concept has found wide resonance among movement scholars (e.g. Taylor 1995;Routledge 2000).…”

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“…Taylor 1995;Routledge 2000). Despite Evans and Boyte's (1986) emphasis on the physical characteristics of free spaces, social movement scholars mainly examine them as social spaces. In this vein, Francesca Polletta observes that "it is the character of the ties that are established or reinforced in those settings, rather than the physical space itself, that the free space concept has sometimes successfully captured" (1999:25).…”

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Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

2014

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Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology addresses contemporary themes in the field of Political Sociology. Over recent years, attention has turned increasingly to processes of Europeanization and globalization and the social and political spaces that are opened by them. These processes comprise both institutional-constitutional change and new dynamics of social transnationalism. Europeanization and globalization are also about changing power relations as they affect people's lives, social networks and forms of mobility.The Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology series addresses linkages between regulation, institution building and the full range of societal repercussions at local, regional, national, European and global level, and will sharpen understanding of changing patterns of attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups, the political use of new rights and opportunities by citizens, new conflict lines and coalitions, societal interactions and networking, and shifting loyalties and solidarity within and across the European space. We welcome proposals from across the spectrum of Political Sociology including on dimensions of citizenship; political attitudes and values; political communication and public spheres; states, communities, governance structure and political institutions; forms of political participation; populism and the radical right; and democracy and democratization. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-38578-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

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Section: Four Dimensions Of Spacementioning

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Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

2014

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“…Could the mas' camp be one of those "free spaces" where scholars such as Evans and Boyte (1992), Weis (1996), and Levinson Foley, and Holland (1996) found that learning and teaching were taking place? Could these findings contribute to a Trinidad and Tobago postcolonial educational system that was struggling to find new ways of getting students more involved and committed to learning?…”

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Trying to Return Home: A Trinidadian's Experience of Becoming a “Native” Ethnographer

Fournillier

2008

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In this article, the author draws on the experiences of doing an ethnography of mas' making practices in Trinidad Carnival mas' camps to explore and dialogue with her perception of self as a becoming native ethnographer and her valuing of the perceptions of a member of the community's view of her role as another colonizer. She addresses the tensions between contestation, arrogant perceptions, and deep dialogue; the various forms of identification that informed the research process; and the various ways in which she positioned herself. She adapts and interprets some of the theoretical concepts she gained as a member of the community of educational researchers as she explores the challenges she faced as a native-born Trinidadian, educator, mas' player, and a becoming ethnographer.

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“…She theorizes that these are formed, ironically, out of the very exclusionary practices of the public sphere. We, too, have found that in the midst of disengagemen t by the public sector and relocation of private sector jobs``down south,' ' or, more likely overseas, it is into these newly constructed``free spaces' ' as Evans and Boyte (1992) would call them, that poor and working-class men and women, boys, and girls have¯ed from sites of historical pain and struggle, and reconstituted new identities. It is to these``free spaces' ' that we have been led.…”

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Extraordinary conversations in public schools

Weis¹,

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2001

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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This article reviews two ethnographic studies in which``disruptive pedagogies' ' are engaged in public schools, designed to enable youth to work across categories of diå erence toward a grounded sense of social critique and participation. Respectfully challenging/extending the premises of reproduction theory, it is argued that educational researchers not only need to theorize the means of (re)production by which public schools insure class, race, ethnic and gender strati® cation, but also to theorize how counter-hegemonic moments in school, in which educators undertake disruptive pedagogies, aå ect social consciousness and community.

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Free Spaces

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Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

Trying to Return Home: A Trinidadian's Experience of Becoming a “Native” Ethnographer

Extraordinary conversations in public schools

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