Organization between movement and institution

Donati, Paolo

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“…The need to build the movement's credibility and influence as institutional actors within an authoritarian and closing political opportunity structure was the overriding concern. This remains an ongoing dilemma for the institutional arm of all movements, and the shifting sands that are an inevitable part of the process of gaining formal state recognition as an institutional representative of a broader social movement (see Donati, 1984).…”

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Surviving the Assault? The Australian Disability Movement and the Neoliberal Workfare State

Soldatić

Chapman

2010

Social Movement Studies

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This article provides an analysis of the key areas of struggle for the Australian disability movement during the Howard years of government. After providing a brief overview of the Australian disability movement and its historical development, we then move to situate the struggles of the Australian disability movement within the broader context of welfare to work, one of the central tenets of neoliberal social policy restructuring. From here, three sites of struggle emerge that have been central to the Australian disability movement's struggles for representation, recognition and redistribution and principally include state restructuring of disability open labour market supports, state legitimation of disability sheltered workshops and, finally, the pensionercategorization of disability within social security law and policy.

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Surviving the Assault? The Australian Disability Movement and the Neoliberal Workfare State

Soldatić

Chapman

2010

Social Movement Studies

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“…Shared ideology provides a sense of collective identity that is a prerequisite for collective action (Buechler, 1990). Furthermore, the type of organizational structure adopted embodies the collective identity of the social movement and the meaning its members attribute to their actions (Donati, 1984;Gundelach, 1984;Melucci, 1989). Second, NGO Forum'95 leaders were attempting to consolidate the power of women's movements in order to gain and retain influence in the UN arena.…”

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Fostering transnational dialogue: Lessons learned from women peace activists

Snyder¹

2006

Globalizations

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Given the incredible diversity of the anti-globalization movement, developing inclusive and participatory spaces is an enormous challenge. Inequities in power, resources, and experience between Northern and Southern activists are of particular concern to a movement that values democratic participation. Dialogue is seen as a critical new way of addressing conflicts within the movement. For three decades, women's organizations dealt with similar issues at the UN World Conferences on Women. It was not until the 1990s that a global women's movement emerged. This paper, which is based on a qualitative study of women's peace organizations gathered at the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in 1995, addresses the development of positive coalition dynamics. The focus on individual activist stories fills in gaps left by studying organizations as units of analysis or on transnational movements as a whole. My research shows that if transnational activists use constructive approaches, conflict can assist in building coalition dynamics necessary for effective and equitable cooperation. I conclude that a commitment to respond to conflict in a constructive manner is as important for coalition building as formal processes or mechanisms that foster dialogue.

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“…The decline in protest impetus means that movement areas return to a state of latency. But as their infrastructure does not dissolve, they remain ready for remobilizing (Melucci, 1984;Donati, 1984). Some of the groups and organizations representing the movement area in the coordination committee were institutionalized in the context of earlier protest waves concerning different issues (e.g.…”

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Organizational interlocks between new social movements and traditional elites: the case of the West German peace movement

Schmitt

1989

European J Political Res

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Abstract. This paper deals with the question of whether the concept of elites is a fruitful category for the analysis of new social movements. It is proposed that mobilizations of new social movements are to be understood as dynamic interaction processes between mass constituencies and movement entrepreneurs, mediated by organizational communication networks. Taking the case of the West German peace movement, it is shown that such leadership roles can be identified as parts of the movement's internal division of labour. Furthermore, it is shbwn that movement entrepreneurs of the peace movement are also linked to established elite sectors.

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Organization between movement and institution

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Surviving the Assault? The Australian Disability Movement and the Neoliberal Workfare State

Surviving the Assault? The Australian Disability Movement and the Neoliberal Workfare State

Fostering transnational dialogue: Lessons learned from women peace activists

Organizational interlocks between new social movements and traditional elites: the case of the West German peace movement

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