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- Bosi, Lorenzo, et al.
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Collective Action Outcomes : Ways Forward for the Subfield
- 2021
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - : COORDINAMENTO SIBA. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 14:3, s. 987-997
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Given the growing interest in how collective action matters, this special issue seeks to push our understanding of collective action outcomes beyond the present state of knowledge and stimulate further developments. In doing this, it looks to improve and expand the theoretical and conceptual tools for studying the topic, suggest and explore methodological innovations to solve previous research problems and investigate new settings across various movements and countries.
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- Camps-Calvet, Marta, et al.
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SOWING RESILIENCE AND CONTESTATION IN TIMES OF CRISES : The case of urban gardening movements in Barcelona
- 2015
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 8:2, s. 417-442
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban gardens have been observed to multiply in response to crises. However, the meaning and motivations behind the emergence of gardening movements varies greatly over space and time. In this paper we argue that bottom up urban gardening initiatives taking place in Southern European countries in form of land occupation and communalization represent forms of resistance that enhance social cohesion and collective action in times of need. Specifically, this research examines the role of urban gardens in (i) building community resilience and (ii) articulating forms of resistance and contestation to development pressure and commodified urban lifestyles. Our research is based on data collected among 27 urban gardening initiatives in Barcelona, Spain, including 13 self-governed community gardens and 14 public gardens. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with gardeners and with staff from the Barcelona City Council. Our results show mechanisms through which urban gardens can contribute to build resilience by nurturing social and ecological diversity, generating and transmitting local ecological knowledge, and by creating opportunities for collective action and self-organization. We further examine collectively managed gardens as urban commons that emerge as a form of resistance to the privatization of public urban space, and that offer opportunities to experiment with new models of urban lifestyles. We show how gardening initiatives can be seen to represent an emerging form of urban green commons that provides a suitable ground to ` sow' resilience and contestation in times of crises and socio-ecological deterioration.
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- De Rosa, Salvatore Paolo, et al.
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Social Economy as Antidote to Criminal Economy: How Social Cooperation is Reclaiming Commons in the Context of Campania’s Environmental Conflicts
- 2015
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Ingår i: Partecipazione & Conflitto - The Open Journal of Sociopolitical Studies. - 2035-6609. ; 8:2, s. 531-554
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to ongoing debates on how bottom-up social cooperation can halt and reverse processes of environmental and human degradation, dispossession and impoverishment, by proposing a synchronization of resistance and of commoning practices. The article moves from the empirical case of social and ecological conflicts currently unfolding in the so-called Land of Fires, an area in Southern Italy infamous for the socio-environmental impacts of two decades of waste disposal, mismanagement and contamination. Within this context, a coalition of grassroots movements is struggling to resist livelihoods degradation through an alliance with anti-Mafia social cooperatives. We provide an in-depth analysis of emerging social and economic networks that connect the strategies of grassroots movements for environmental justice with the work of social cooperatives that reclaim lands and assets confiscated to Mafia. The interests of environmental activists meet the interests of social cooperatives at the crossroad of territory reclamation with the spheres of social and economic production and reproduction. Framing the case as a cultural and physical re-appropriation of territory, we provide an analysis of strategies and limits for a symbolic and practical project of social re-appropriation of the commons.
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- Della Rosa, Asia
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Amnesty for whom? How the invisibles became essentials
- 2021
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - : University of Salento. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 14:1, s. 359-372
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article analyses the new law decree on regularisation introduced in Italy during the Covid-19 crisis, which subsumes human rights protections for sans papiers to the economic imperatives of labour market needs. The new law decree in fact seems to be in line with a more utilitarian logic, oriented towards the preservation of productive sectors at risk. Apparently, those who up until now have been invisible, neglected, and forgotten have suddenly become essential, at least in the numbers necessary to provide for the needs of the labour market. The work presented here examines the Italian context before, during and after the application of the amnesty, which saw the regularization of a limited number of migrants working in the agricultural sector. We intend to argue here that the regularization put into practice by the Italian government must be critically challenged, both in the premises and in the effects produced.
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- Hobbins, Jennifer, et al.
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Between evasion and activism. A qualitative inquiry into the political behaviour of German and Swedish long-term unemployed
- 2015
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - : Universita degli Studi del Salento. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 8:3, s. 788-813
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This comparative article aims to understand the patterns underlying the political behavior of young German and Swedish long-term unemployed individuals. Based on almost 40 qualitative interviews, the analysis follows a grounded theory approach and shows that “unemployment” is not an objective reality that imposes uniform living conditions. Social and political activities diverge considerably, even though our respondents experience similar pressures and sanctions by public opinion, political parties, public administrations, relatives and/or acquaintances. The consequences of unemployment depend on individual mind-sets, support networks and coping strategies. This study identifies informal networks of social relations as one main factor influencing unemployed young peoples’ political behavior. Three types of political involvement are shaped by the routines and norms reproduced within their web of social relations in everyday life: evasion, civic minimalism and reluctant activism. The similarities between the German and the Swedish respondents overshadowed the national differences.
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- Johansson, Håkan, et al.
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Social Movements and Interest Groups Compared : How organisational type matters for explaining Swedish organisations’ advocacy strategies
- 2019
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - : University of Salento. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 12:2, s. 353-381
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The divide between interest groups and social movement studies runs deep, but present developments call for a renewed focus on the relevance of these analytical categories. Both of these two forms of collective action relate to organisations that are assumed to follow distinctive logics and strategies for political influence. This article aims to contribute to the debates on the analytical difference between interest groups and social movements by comparing their political strategies and addressing the relevance of the typology for explaining organisations’ use of political strat-egies. The paper draws on a dataset resulting from a large survey among Swedish civil society organisations among which clear cases of interest group organisations and “old” and “new” social movement organisations (SMOs) were identified. The results show that the distinction between interest groups and social movement organisations has some analytical value when it comes to explaining the use of different types of strategies: e.g. direct lobbying and media-based and protest-based strategies. Also, the distinction between old and new SMOs is shown to be relevant because old SMOs seem to be in a way “in between” interest groups and new SMOs suggesting that social movements tend to develop over time and to become more similar to interest groups.
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- Jämte, Jan, 1979-, et al.
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STRATEGIC INTERPLAY IN TIMES OF CRISIS : Opportunities and challenges for state-civil society interaction during the Swedish "Refugee Crisis" of 2015-2016
- 2019
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - : Coordinamento SIBA. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 12:2, s. 410-435
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- From mid-2015 to early 2016, more than a million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe, after having crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Sweden quickly emerged as one of the main destinations they aspired to reach. During the so-called refugee crisis of 2015-2016, the city of Malmo became the management center for the reception of refugees. In this context, a series of interplays emerged between governmental institutions (GIs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and social movement organizations (SMOs) involved in helping the refugees. Looking at the refugee crisis in Malmo through the lens of an interactionist approach to contentious politics, this article analyzes the strategic interplay between SMOs, NGOs, and GIs in the different phases of the crisis, as well as scrutinizes the conditions that facilitated or hindered cooperation among the actors. Results show that the crisis initially strengthened the role of SMOs, but that in order to enter into lasting and established forms of cooperation with NGOs and institutionalized politics, SMOs had to meet three conditions: 1) have a clear organizational structure, 2) downplay their political ideology, and 3) assume a complementary position to the other actors involved. For most SMOs, this limited their maneuverability, leading them to adopt one of three possible strategies: adapting to the new conditions, challenging the rules and players of the arena, or exiting the arena altogether.
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- Mai, Yên, et al.
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Blogging Activism of Young Educated and Global Women in Tunisia and Vietnam : a two-case study
- 2016
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 9:3, s. 893-917
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article studies the blogging activism of two young, educated women who grew up in societies that emphasize traditional values. Through their blogging activities, these females embody a space for identity creation and recovery, and challenge the obedience to gender norms, authority, and religion in their home cultures. Though coming from two different societies (Tunisia and Vietnam), both subjects identify themselves within a global citizenship framework through their everyday life and blog-ging that emphasizes connection, harmony, and respect for diversity. The method of this study is a combination of autoethnography, ethnography, and blog research, transforming the researcher also into the subject of analysis. Personal experiences and life stories of the author are analysed in conjunction with data provided by the informant. The data includes personal blogs, writings, drawings, interviews, and collective discussions, which provide an intimate approach to the inner life of the study subjects. Through our analysis, we conclude that blogging may open new political spaces for culturally oppressed differences and become a practical space for girls to exercise their own control of self-representation. Girls who have difficulties in being heard or acknowledged in their everyday circumstances may create new types of expressions and activism through their blogging activity, where they find new belonging and strengthen their identity formation.
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- Martinez, Miguel A., Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology, 1970-, et al.
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Squatting and Urban Commons : Creating Alternatives to Neoliberalism
- 2020
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - : Universita degli Studi del Salento. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 3:13, s. 1244-1251
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Here we introduce the special issue of Partecipazione e Conflitto concerning the theme "Squatting and Urban Commons: Creating Alternatives to Neoliberalism". In particular, we present the context and origins of this edition, the rationale behind these theoretical and empirical concerns, and the main contents of the gathered articles.
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- Martinez, Miguel A., Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology, 1970-
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Urban Commons from an Anti-Capitalist Approach
- 2020
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 13:3, s. 1390-1410
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many of the contemporary debates on urban commons lack an anti-capitalist approach. In addition, a number of misunderstandings regarding the common wealth, the city, the state, and the public sphere do not help to clarify the meaning of the commons. As a response to these problems, I first devise two useful concepts that stem from Marx's original insights: primary and extended commons. Secondly, I critically examine the institutionalist views on urban commons due to their limitations in advancing anti-capitalist perspectives while also identifying some problems with the Marxist accounts. The different expressions of cooperative housing and squatting serve to illustrate how anti-capitalist urban commons are actually highly developed, despite significant restrictions that are also examined here. Hence, I argue that both the analysis and politics of urban commoning should focus on the joint contentious, cooperative, and democratic practices of the global working class when they deal with essential reproductive work and means of production which are widely independent from state rule and exploitative capitalist relations.
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