Re-Thinking Urban Social Movements, ‘Riots’ and Uprisings: An Introduction

Thörn, Håkan; Mayer, Margit; Thörn, Catharina

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“…At first sight, the turn puts the distinctiveness of contention further into question by undermining some of the core assumptions about what contention looks like. It thereby rearticulates and expands an established critique of the artificial boundary between protests, riots, and crime (Oliver 2008;Cloward 1979, 1992;Thörn et al 2016). The turn to practice has revealed alternative forms of contention that break with notions of universal truths (Graeber 2009:221), a progressive time (Maeckelbergh 2011), or a public subjectivity (Haenfler 2019).…”

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“…contention whose approaches to time, truth, and subjectivity challenge our conventional understanding of contention (Flesher Fominaya 2015;Gillan 2020;Graeber 2009;Yates 2015). In this way, the turn to practice resonates with a much older debate concerning the boundaries between protests, riots, and crime (Oliver 2008;Piven and Cloward 1979;Thörn, Mayer, and Thörn 2016;Turner 1969). In broadening the study of contention, these developments raise the question of what exactly is so distinctive about it.…”

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A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention

Gøtzsche-Astrup

2022

Sociological Theory

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Contention in the form of protests, riots, and direct action is a central political practice in contemporary democracies. It is also a staple of sociological analysis, after slowly crystallizing as a distinct object of analysis from the 1970s onward. Lately, however, it has become unclear what this distinctiveness consists of and how it may help guide studies of contention: What distinguishes contention from other practices? I argue that contention can be seen as an ontologically distinctive experience. What sets this experience apart is that it expresses a potential for conflict that underlies all social formations. We can take these expressions of conflict as objects of analysis. This means asking how the conflict expressed in contentious practices is ascribed meaning. I develop this perspective theoretically and show how it may facilitate new empirical analyses of contention’s boundaries, its relation to truth, and ethical relations in contention.

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A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention

Gøtzsche-Astrup

2022

Sociological Theory

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“…These may include localised and idealised imaginaries of their own identity, a refusal to accept a subordinate role in their neighbourhood, perceived insecurity caused by linguistic, cultural and racial differences or changes in political and administrative structures. While conflicts and protest about transformation are highly contingent and dependent upon context, conflict over the control, production and effects of structures and processes (Thörn et al , 2016) can happen in any specific, localised neighbourhoods undergoing complex transitions due to mobile groupings arriving, transiting or settling (Tsundoda and Mendlinger, 2009). While residents largely navigate through neighbourhood change with nuance and complexity (Doucet and Koenders, 2018; Stienmetz et al , 2020), overtourism discourse often pits tourists against residents, and rarely addresses (pre-)existing socio-cultural divisions and spatial injustices.…”

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Unpacking overtourism as a discursive formation through interdiscursivity

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Choe

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Purpose As tourism destinations grapple with declines in tourist arrivals due to COVID-19 measures, scholarly debate on overtourism remains active, with discussions on solutions that could be enacted to contain the excessive regrowth of tourism and the return of “overtourism”. As social science holds an important role and responsibility to inform the debate on overtourism, this paper aims to understand overtourism by examining it as a discursive formation. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores recurring thematic threads in scholarly overtourism texts, given the phrases coherence as a nodal-point is partially held in place by a collective body of texts authored by a network of scholars who have invested in it. The paper uses interdiscursivity as an interpretative framework to identify overlapping thematic trajectories found in existing discourses. Findings Overtourism, as a discursive formation, determines what can and should be said about the self-evident “truths” of excessive tourist arrivals, the changes tourists bring to destinations and the range of discursive solutions available to manage or end overtourism. As the interpellation of these thematic threads into scholarly texts is based on a sense of crisis and urgency, the authors find that the themes contain rhetoric, arguments and metaphors that problematise tourists and construct them as objects in need of control and correction. Originality/value While the persistence of the discursive formation will be determined by the degree to which scholarly and other actors recognise themselves in it, this paper may enable overtourism scholars to become aware of the limits of their discursive domain and help them to expand the discourse or weave a new one.

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“…Other scholars have supported the notion of this phenomenon by suggesting that previous dispositions in which the individuals have been occupied and to which they have been adjusted for a long time will cause 'contentious resistance' (Guichaoua, 2012;Hardy, 2008;Swartz, 1997). Contentious resistance is found in many social movement studies and may take the form of activism, but generally, scholars refer to activism as acts involving infrastructure destruction, riots (Hung, 2013;Philipps, 2016;Snow et al, 2007;Thörn et al, 2016); arson (Barnhardt, 2014;Loadenthal, 2013) and rebellion (Andreas, 2007;Goodwin, 1997), which in most cases may take many years to normalize.…”

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Environmental activists’ hysteresis as a driving force for establishing environmental actions against urban forest privatization in Bandung, Indonesia

Alam

2021

International Sociology

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Despite the huge and growing environmental movement to protect urban forests in Indonesia, the tensions between environmental activists’ past engagements with nature and the emerging environmental problems are under-studied. The inner contradiction between the intensive nature of the connections and experiences that the actor maintains and the recent external threat to the environment is the key energizer of an environmental movement. Through Pierre Bourdieu’s seminal concept of hysteresis, this article explores how activists’ previous experiences with nature suffer disjuncture caused by the threat of urban forest privatization occurring in their neighborhood. Drawn from in-depth interviews with the co-founders of an environmental movement organization, the activist narratives in this article reveal that the development of their current struggles was driven by feelings of disappointment, anxiety, anger and a fear of losing the urban forest. The urban forest, for them, not only constitutes a physical space, but serves social and spiritual purposes, represents local identity and is the basis for everyday life.

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Re-Thinking Urban Social Movements, ‘Riots’ and Uprisings: An Introduction

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention

A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention

Unpacking overtourism as a discursive formation through interdiscursivity

Environmental activists’ hysteresis as a driving force for establishing environmental actions against urban forest privatization in Bandung, Indonesia

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