The consequences of social movements: taking stock and looking forward

Bitter wins or a long-distance race? Social and political outcomes of the Spanish housing movement

“…As a consequence, this methodological approach does not uniquely rely on my first-hand qualitative material (interviews and observations) but also on a triangulation with secondary sources, and a critical interpretation of discourses, observed practices, factual data and relevant socio-political contexts, following similar attempts on the same subject (Flesher, 2015;García, 2015). I applied a deductive coding procedure based on my two research questions and categories borrowed from the literature on movement outcomes discussed above (Bosi, Giugni & Uba, 2016;Burstein et al, 1995;Giugni, 1998;Tilly, 1999). The units of analysis are either paragraphs, distinct sections in the interviewees' responses or full texts-documents where the research topics and associated contexts are referred to.…”

“…Therefore, I examine the five major claims expressed by the PAH and critically assess their achievement by contrasting the views of housing activists with other contextual features. However, between goals and results there is the mediation of the means adopted by activists (protest actions) as well as the political environment and meaningful frames where interpretations are produced (Benford & Snow, 2000;Bosi, Giugni & Uba, 2016;Giugni, 1998;McLeod, 2007). This suggests the need to disentangle the non-linearity between goals and results.…”

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“…The PAH "found in the web 2.0 and social networks a useful tool to communicate and mobilize […] and introduce their topics and frames in political and media agenda-setting" (Alonso-Muñoz & Casero-Ripollés, 2016: 26). Moreover, this cycle of mobilizations as a consequence of multi-dimensional crisis "have also contributed to change in the Spanish political system" (della Porta et al, 2017: 46) and given roots for new political parties (Bosi, Giugni & Uba, 2016, López-García, 2017. These social movements broke "the social and political consensus established in the political transition" and led the political opportunity (della Porta et al, 2017: 45).…”

Social Movements and Interrelated Effects: The Process of Social Change in the Post-Movement Lives of Provisional IRA Volunteers

“…Social movement impacts are not narrow paths leading from movement goals to success or failure (Bosi, Giugni and Uba 2016). Thus, we need to broaden our view of the interrelated effects of social movement outcomes, beyond their blackand-white borders, to embrace a far wider range of possibilities through which collective action affects social change, and we also need to look beyond short-term consequences to long-term changes (Sztompka 1995).…”

“…A number of theoretical and methodological problems are connected with this area of study: the problems of goal adaptation; time reference and effect stability; unintended and perverse effects; and causal attribution (Bosi and Uba 2009;Giugni and Bosi 2011;Bosi, Giugni and Uba 2016).…”