Reimagining Social Movements

Antimo L Farro is Professor of Sociology, University of Rome (La Sapienza). He is the author of I Movimenti Sociali and editor of Sociologia in Movimento. Henri Lustiger-Thaler is a specialist in the emerging field of collective memory and movements scholar at Ramapo College, in New Jersey USA. He is author of Political Arrangements: Power and the City and co-editor of Globalization and Social Movements and Urban Movements in a Globalizing World.

The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, namely resource mobilization, framing, collective identity, and new social movements. It is now, however, increasingly clear that we are experiencing a profound period of social transformation associated with online interactivity, informationalization and globalization. This book explores emerging forms of movement and action not only in terms of the industrialized countries of the North Atlantic, but recognizes the importance of globalizing forms of action and culture emerging from other continents and societies.

Contents: Introduction: subjectivity and collective action, Antimo Luigi Farro and Henri Lustiger-Thaler. Part I Subjectivity, Memory, and Collective Action: A new era for collective movements: the subjectivization of collective action, Antimo Luigi Farro; Occupying human values: memory and the future of collective action, Henri Lustiger-Thaler; The emergence of the migrant subject, Yvon Le Bot; Grassroots mobilizations for sustainable consumption, Paola Rebughini; Social movement in Japan: split mentalities and memory, Daishiro Nomiya; Emotions, memory, and new cultural movements in Turkey, Deniz Gÿnce Demirhisar; Memory and sociology: subjectivization a de-subjectivization, Michel Wieviorka. Part II Contentious Cultures: Violence and the Egyptian Revolution, Farhad Khosrokhavar; Citizens' movement in South Korea and reflexive modernization, Han Sang-Jin; Social movement activism in South Africa: ebbs and flows, 2000-2010, Marcelle C. Dawson and Virginia Setsmedi; Beyond institutionalization: urban movements in Rome, Massimo Allulli and Ernesto d'Albergo; Brazilian social movements in the Latin American context, Maria da Glória Gohn; Market, legitimacy, and the politics of risk: the candlelight protest in South Korea, Chang Dukjin and Shin Jin-Wook; Civil society, democratization, and globalization in Latin America, Ilán Bizberg; Religion and land takeovers in Mexico: collective miracle discourses and the building of community, Marie Christine Doran; Taking everything back: CasaPound, a far Right movement in Italy, Daniele di Nunzio and Emanuele Toscano; Group formation, riots, and immigrants: social movements in Britain, Danièle Joly. Afterword: Globalization and the war of gods, Alain Touraine; Index.