The Resource Context of Social Movements

Edwards, Bob; McCarthy, John; Mataic, Dane R.

doi:10.1002/9781119168577.ch4

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“…There are also opportunities to adopt coaching and mentoring in social movements to tackle particular issues (Edwards, McCarthy & Mataic, 2019), as well as promote examples of more issue or cause based coaching and mentoring (Rhize and the Social Change agency) to address climate change and social disadvantage. Practice suggests both areas have been able to diffuse their ideas and approaches into society.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying the Lens of Social Movements to Coaching and Mentoring

Gannon¹

2021

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The rise and development of coaching and mentoring in recent decades has led to a plethora of debates around their theoretical and disciplinary roots. Alongside these debates are deliberations about the role of coaching and mentoring in contemporary threats, such as the financial crisis, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as wider societal issues of inequality and disadvantage, and empowerment and democratization. In this theoretical paper, I draw on theories and ideas from the field of social movements to explore coaching and mentoring, and their deployment in relation to these contemporary societal, economic and political threats. By exploring key conceptualizations and themes from social movement theory, as well as the classification of social movements, it is possible to reflect on the maturity of coaching and mentoring and its potential to deliver social change. Such insights offer exciting and thought-provoking insights for coaching and mentoring practitioners, commissioners, professional bodies, trainers and educators, mentees and coachees as well as social movements.

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Applying the Lens of Social Movements to Coaching and Mentoring

Gannon¹

2021

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“…Social movements generally refer to collectives of actors who engage in some form of joint action to pursue common goals (Snow, Soule, Kriesi, & McCammon, 2019). The concept of strategic actors refers to the fact that social movement strategies are usually formulated and driven by a group of core actors who cannot control the social movement in a strict sense (Scharpf, 1997) but who have specific resources, such as finances, an organizational base, experience, knowledge, and networks, to significantly shape the movement's strategy (Edwards, McCarthy, & Mataic, 2019). It is the strategic actors who take the lead in formulating and implementing strategic orientations within given strategic contexts (Ganz & McKenna, 2019;Morris & Staggenborg, 2004).…”

Section: Framework: Analyzing Strategy Formation Of Social Movement Actorsmentioning

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New Climate Activism between Politics and Law: Analyzing the Strategy of the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

Keller¹,

Bornemann

2021

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Since 2016, a group of senior women organized in the association KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz have been trying to legally force the Swiss government to take stronger climate protection measures. Parallel to the pursuit of a climate lawsuit, the KlimaSeniorinnen have developed into a growing social movement that is present in the media and participates in the public debate on climate change. Building on this specific climate litigation case, the present article analyzes the strategy formation of new actors in the field of climate governance. Based on existing concepts of social movement research, the strategy formation of the KlimaSeniorinnen is reconstructed in terms of a strategic actor who pursues certain strategic orientations in given strategic contexts. The empirical analysis of the strategic context (by means of opportunity structures), the strategic orientations (via collective action frames), and the strategic actor (by means of interviews) shows a double strategy. On the one hand, the KlimaSeniorinnen attempt to address a specific legal opportunity structure with an ‘injustice frame,’ which emphasizes human rights and the special vulnerability of older women to intense heat waves. On the other hand, they want to mobilize public support for an ambitious climate policy by additionally promoting a ‘grandchildren frame,’ which articulates altruistic values, such as responsibility towards future generations. Based on this analysis, both practical implications and consequences for future research on a new climate politics, which is increasingly taking shape between and across different arenas, are discussed.

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“…Although the epistemic community framework has primarily been used to describe how expert opinion guides decision makers, it can and has also been applied to situations in which other political agents such as environmental NGOs (Newell, 2009), international organizations (Lidskog & Sundqvist, 2014;Lövbrand, 2014), or lobby groups (Schreurs, 2019) influence beliefs of political elites or the general public (Gough & Shackley, 2001). Besides epistemic community theory, social movement theories have also examined the resources that civil society groups require to shape public opinion, both within (Edwards et al, 2019;Lang, 2014) and across (Bob, 2019;Soule & Roggeband, 2019) different countries.…”

Section: International Politics and Individual Beliefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Democracy and Public Opinion Formation: How Illiberal Regimes Suppress Climate Change Concern

Levi¹,

Goldberg²

2021

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Climate change concern varies widely across countries. In 2019, 80% of Greeks were at least somewhat worried about climate change, compared to 20% of Egyptians. We argue that variation in climate change concern is partially caused by differences in democracy. Civil liberties protect climate communicators from state repression, censorship, and violence. We offer empirical evidence for the causal effect of democracy on climate change concern using data from 611,909 individuals from 118 countries collected between 2007 and 2019. Exploiting variation in civil liberties across countries and time, we find one unit change in the 7-point civil liberty index to influence climate change concern by 2.3 [95% CI: ±1] percentage points. The effect is much stronger in wealthy countries and less educated cohorts. We also present evidence for our causal pathway using qualitative interviews and by modeling the association between democracy, climate protest, media coverage, and climate concern with simultaneous equations.

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The Resource Context of Social Movements

Cited by 35 publications

References 43 publications

Applying the Lens of Social Movements to Coaching and Mentoring

Applying the Lens of Social Movements to Coaching and Mentoring

New Climate Activism between Politics and Law: Analyzing the Strategy of the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

Democracy and Public Opinion Formation: How Illiberal Regimes Suppress Climate Change Concern

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