Reconceptualizing Social Movements and Power: Towards a Social Ecological Approach

Au, Anson

doi:10.1080/00380253.2017.1331714

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“…Throughout, the first author screened for attitudinal fallacy (Jerolmack & Khan, 2014) by measuring the meanings he observed as an insider against his interpretations as an outsider to triangulate an account of what they mean, what they say, and how they feel. That is, a familiarity with local cultural characteristics allowed the first author to unpack the multilayered meanings behind the slang, sayings, and terminology participants used to package their responses, as well as the tone and emotional charge intended with their use; it also allowed the first author to design interview questions to tap into topics locals were typically hesitant to talk about openly, such as local politics (Au, 2017). Moreover, it helped facilitate a closeness to understand contradictions in respondent accounts.…”

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How Do You Feel? Managing Emotional Reaction, Conveyance, and Detachment on Facebook and Instagram

Chew

2017

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

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Studies of social media and its uses have focused on how it shapes behavior but less so with emotion. Overcoming this limitation, this article investigates the role of emotion in understanding and shaping actions online, and how, conversely, different uses of social media are leveraged to manage and express emotions, focusing on Facebook and Instagram. To this end, this article draws on 24 in-depth interviews with youth users in Hong Kong to excavate practices of emotional labor and management online, which reveal (1) strategies to manage emotional reactions, centering on critical distance; (2) strategies to manage emotional conveyance by manipulating the temporality of the content they produce; and (3) the creation of a digital blasé that consisted of the atmosphere of Facebook and Instagram, sustained by general emotional detachment, the perceived need to detach, and a sense of “watchedness”. Throughout, emotional detachment was the default state that users entered into when using Facebook and Instagram, as an anticipatory reaction to the emotional exhaustion imposed by imagined content and into which they inevitably returned.

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How Do You Feel? Managing Emotional Reaction, Conveyance, and Detachment on Facebook and Instagram

Chew

2017

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

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“…More than a potential Hawthorne effect born of a researcher’s influence on the actions of their subjects (Contreras, 2012), Goffman’s (2014) ethnography showcases the unsung importance of class in gaining access to participants and improving one’s transition from a full observer to a participant (Au, 2017; Wieder, 2001). Above all, it shows how ethnography can become a research method of privilege that anticipates inequality.…”

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What a highly controversial ethnography says about tensions, problematizations and inequality in contemporary ethnographic practice and regulation

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illuminate how inequality – in the way ethnography as a research tool itself is used – underwrites many of the methodological tensions in the recently published and widely-debated On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman. Design/methodology/approach The author conducts an in-depth, critical analysis of On the Run as an epistemological case to visualize methodological and moral challenges that burden ethnographic practice at large. Findings The author opens dialogue on undercover ethnography, the overreach of institutional review boards, privilege in the use of ethnography as a research tool, “Othering” and the exoticization of the underclass, and the boundary shift from observer to participant roles with deep immersion. The author unpacks these areas of contention toward the construction of a potential alternative combining public sociology with what is called a sociology of compassion. Originality/value While the book provides an intimate, rich account of the experience of law among the underclass, the author demonstrates that it constitutes an epistemological case ideal for examining how the issues of pre-fieldwork preparation, positionality and deep immersion are conceived – and problematized – in mainstream ethnographic practice.

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“…Particularly, I examine the evolution of symbols within protest sites and cyberspace, as an area for recruitment, from generating solidarity to introducing radicalism to the Hong Kong movement. Protest spaces themselves are, after all, milieus saturated with symbols and cultural norms that come to shape organizational strategies within them, both online and offline (Au 2016(Au , 2017.…”

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Collective Identity, Organization, and Public Reaction in Protests: A Qualitative Case Study of Hong Kong and Taiwan

2017

Social Sciences

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Abstract:Mainstream structuralist and new social movement theoretical approaches to studying social movements in Western sociological traditions fail to explain why the Sunflower movement fostered solidarity among the Taiwanese while Occupy Central caused public division in Hong Kong. In response, I argue that the successes and failures of both were a function of the consolidation and division of collective identity. Using a qualitative case study, this article analyzes the discursive constructions of collective identity as they intersect with protest spaces, drawing out the events in their protest cycles and identifying the mechanisms within them that constructed and deconstructed collective identity. In doing so, I illustrate three phases of collective identity construction: the creation of collective claims, recruitment strategies, and expressive decision-making. Ultimately, this explicates the movements' differing outcomes, and how their decline both narrowed and broadened identity in ways that provide a repertoire of ideological narratives usable as recruitment strategies in future mobilizations.

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Reconceptualizing Social Movements and Power: Towards a Social Ecological Approach

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

How Do You Feel? Managing Emotional Reaction, Conveyance, and Detachment on Facebook and Instagram

How Do You Feel? Managing Emotional Reaction, Conveyance, and Detachment on Facebook and Instagram

What a highly controversial ethnography says about tensions, problematizations and inequality in contemporary ethnographic practice and regulation

Collective Identity, Organization, and Public Reaction in Protests: A Qualitative Case Study of Hong Kong and Taiwan

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