From Solidarity to Fluidarity: Social movements beyond 'collective identity'--the case of globalization conflicts

McDonald, Kevin

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Section: Changes Related To Globalization Have Resulted In the Growinmentioning

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“…This may involve individuals resisting formal membership but joining in selected actions (Bimber et al 2005;Flanagin et al 2006). It may also include the desire to display such personalized action publicly, what McDonald (2002) describes as the pursuit of public experiences of the self rather than of collective solidarity.There are, to be sure, several different forms of personalization and personalized politics.Some involve relatively autonomous action, while others entail a high degree of coordination. In addition, some personalized action repertoires involve merging of multiple issues and others involve intense engagement in a single cause.…”

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Digital Media and the Personalization of Collective Action

Bennett

Segerberg

2011

Information, Communication & Society

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Changes related to globalization have resulted in the growing separation of individuals in late modern societies from traditional bases of social solidarity such as parties, churches, and other mass organizations. One sign of this growing individualization is the organization of individual action in terms of meanings assigned to lifestyle elements resulting in the personalization of issues such as climate change, labour standards, and the quality of food supplies. Such developments bring individuals' own narratives to the fore in the mobilization process, often requiring organizations to be more flexible in their definitions of issues. This personalization of political action presents organizations with a set of fundamental challenges involving potential trade-offs between flexibility and effectiveness. This paper analyses how different protest networks used digital media to engage individuals in mobilizations targeting the 2009 G20 London Summit during the global financial crisis. The authors examine how these different communication processes affected the political capacity of the respective organizations and networked coalitions. In particular, the authors explore whether the coalition offering looser affiliation options for individuals displays any notable loss of public engagement, policy focus (including mass media impact), or solidarity network coherence. This paper also examines whether the coalition offering more rigid collective action framing and fewer personalized social media affordances displays any evident gain in the same dimensions of mobilization capacity. In this case, the evidence suggests that the more personalized collective action process maintains high levels of engagement, agenda focus, and network strength.Several broad trends are associated with the globalization of social and economic issues such as labour market inequities, trade practices, and climate change. First, government control over many issues has become both complex and dispersed, reflecting the need for social pressure to be applied to diverse national and transnational governing institutions as well as to corporations that have used global business models to gain autonomy from government regulation. Second, both within nations and transnationally, political issues are interrelated in ways that may cut across conventional social movement sectors: labour and human rights often occupy common agendas, and economic development initiatives may align with environmental causes. The resulting organizational incentives for greater flexibility in defining issues and protest strategies are magnified by a third factor involving the growing separation of individuals in late modern societies from traditional bases of social solidarity such as parties, churches, and other mass organizations.One sign of this growing individualization is the tendency to engage with multiple causes by filtering the causes through individual lifestyles (Giddens 1991;Inglehart 1997;Bennett 1998;Touraine 2000;Beck & Beck-Gernsheim 2002;Micheletti 2003;della Po...

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Digital Media and the Personalization of Collective Action

Bennett

Segerberg

2011

Information, Communication & Society

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“…Trata -se de uma forma social que não passa necessariamente pela condição proxémica, circunscrita e estática inerente às tradicionais noções de "tribo" ou "comunidade", mas por uma conglomeração de teias sociais, justapostas e fluidas, por onde os jovens se movem, ancoradas em universos sociais e simbólicos que podem ir além das fronteiras geográficas e situações territorialmente delimitadas, quando integradas e apropriadas no ciberespaço (MCDONALD, 2002).…”

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Ondas, cenas e microculturas juvenis

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2008

Plural (São Paulo, Online)

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Resumo: As microculturas juvenis de hoje não configuram um "nós" do mesmo modo que propunham as tradicionais teorias subculturais, onde a acção dos membros das "subculturas" surgia em relação e em função da colectividade. A fragmentação intricada e reticular das sociabilidades microculturais contemporâneas não permite identificar uma unidade de "grupo", um nós associativo de que se é membro, mas nós sociativos conexos, fundados em relações concretas com outros pessoalizados, que se estabelecem temporariamente com base em afinidades e afectividades electivas. Destes "nós" os jovens não exigem semelhança mas, sobretudo, reconhecimento da sua diferença, fractalmente partilhada em termos de identificações, experiências e relações sociais. Perceber como se estruturam as práticas de sociabilidade no âmbito destes micro -contextos sociais juvenis e as dimensões de afinidade electiva em torno dos quais são produzidas, é o objectivo primordial deste artigo. Palavras

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“…Not all the animal advocates, instead, pursue (at least consciously) forms of political consumerism (Tosi 2006;Rucht 2007;Pleyers 2011) by conducting their diet and lifestyle. In the same antispeciesist area, the one with a higher percentage of vegans and individuals with a more "political" approach to animal issue, different members and groups appear to be distant from that kind of approach, and is therefore more accurate to simply identify their adhesion to veganism as a form of personalization of protest (Inglehart 1977;Giddens 1991;McDonald 2002;Micheletti 2003).…”

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