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Comments on Dieter Rucht’s “Social Movements: A Theoretical Approach”
No full textThis review is part of Global Perspectives Review Symposium on Dieter Rucht, Social Movements: A Theoretical Approach
Communication in progressive movement parties: against populism and beyond digitalism
Full text linkIn this article, I discuss the conceptualization of movement parties and bridge it with that of communication practices. In particular, I show how the analysis of communication practices within movement parties allows going beyond the technological determinism implicit in concepts such as online populism or digital parties. At different moments in history, social movements entered institutions by forming political parties. When this happened with progressive movements, movement parties were characterized by an appeal to broaden participation through the inclusion of new groups among the population within representative institutions. This general trend is to be kept in mind when addressing the latest wave of movement parties, in particular, the progressive ones, that build upon the history of left-wing party families. Based on these reflections, I critique analyses that, with a specific focus on the core subject of this special issue, have addressed communication strategies, depicting movement parties–including those on the Left–as online populist parties or digital parties. Considering alternative (less technological and more political) explanations, I suggest instead that the effects of the technology are filtered through activists’ agency, the movement parties’ evolution being influenced by movements’ dynamics and competition in the party system. In particular, the concept of communication practices, as developed in social movement studies, will be referred to in order to move beyond some stereotypes coming from either mass media or digital media studies, and so allowing for an historical account of the evolution of movement parties’ communication
Still the resurgence of class conflict? New identities, new interests, new worker mobilisations in the work of Alessandro Pizzorno
No full textAfter the 1970s, on one side industrial relations studies have paid decreasing attention to institutions than to mobilisation, and on the other sides social movement studies, given the perceived decline of the labor movement, had turned their focus away from economic conflicts and their structural determinants. Yet recently issues such as social struggles for global justice and against austerity, point to the importance of the social bases of protest. The study of these developments calls for the integration of these approaches. Alessandro Pizzorno’s analysis of the emergence and re-emergence of social struggles for recognition in the 1960s and 1970s was an example of such integrated approach than could be useful today as it was for the study of the Hot Autumn in Italy (Pizzorno et al 1973). In particular, from that research program we can learn how to combine attention to the transformation of the class bases of conflicts with consideration of class organizational tradition and innovation, the evolution of the repertoire of action, and the emergence of class consciousness among emerging social groups. The article first addresses the concept of struggles of recognition as a central concept in Pizzorno’s theorization, the cyclical transformation in the modes of representation and the emergence of a class struggle «in action» as they are presented in the work of Alessandro Pizzorno and his collaborators at that time
Social Movements and Public Administration: citzens' sponateous comittees in Florence
No full textanalysis of the interactions between local civil society organizations and local public administration
Introduction : solidarities in motion : hybridity and change in migrant support practices
Full text linkThe so-called ‘Eurozone’ and ‘migration’ crises mark critical moments in Europe’s recent political history and share similarities to the extent that they both have increased political conflict, mobilised large parts of civil society, and put renewed attention upon the notion of ‘solidarity’. Focusing on the specific case of solidarity with migrants, this articles argues that times of crises have increasingly blurred the lines between contentious and non-contentious forms of civil society engagement. Scrutinising these dynamics of hybridisation, we bridge diverse, yet largely disconnected literatures, including social movement, civil society and humanitarian studies. In particular, we suggest that the disciplinary and analytical distinction between volunteering and non-profit activities on the one hand and social movements and political activism on the other is too rigid and does obscure parts of a complex phenomenon, which is characterised by activities that often intersect between humanitarian practices and contentious politics
Corruzione politica e amministrazione pubblica. Risorse, attori, meccanismi
No full textIl volume collega lo studio della pubblica amministrazione a uno dei temi cruciali del dibattito politico italiano. la corruzione politica. Muovendo da un approccio di tipo economico e politologico, sono portati alla luce le radici profonde della corruzione italiana, i suoi nessi con le reti di scambi occulti che hanno condizionato il sistema politico ed economico, nonché il funzionamento della pubblica amministrazione. Utilizzando un'ampia gamma di materiale giudiziario, sono analizzate le risorse che entrano in gioco negli scambi corrotti, i meccanismi decisionali che permettono la diffusione progressiva del fenomeno, gli attori pubblici e privati che da essa si traggono vantaggi diretti e indiretti
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