Graeme Chesters
Biographic Data
| ID | 265442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Chesters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Chesters |
| SIGNATURE | CHESTERS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bradford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Complexity and Emergence
Complexity theory is a unifying theory of the natural and social sciences that seeks to describe and account for the properties of complex adaptive systems in the material, biological, and social worlds. Examples of such systems include neural networks, languages, business organizations, the Internet, economic globalization, and social movements. These systems in turn are characterized by emergent properties that are irreducible to the sum of the…
Social Movements and the Ethics of Knowledge Production
This article argues that whilst some academic disciplines have been richly innovative in both their approaches to, and work with movements, for the most part social movements are still considered as objects of knowledge for researchers and academics, rather than as knowledge producers in their own right. It considers the ethical and methodological dilemmas that arise from this situation and instead proposes an ethics of engagement with critical s…
Social Movements: The Key Concepts
Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s the rise of contemporary ‘…
Social Movements and Regeneration: Within, Without, Against
This article examines the relationship between social movements and regeneration in the context of globalisation by describing how the advent of a global civil society provides new modes of engagement and contestation with the political and economic forces that define and determine regeneration processes. The article argues that regeneration should be conceived as a dynamic field of relationships to which social movements can contribute new mater…
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos
Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-t…
Complexity and Social Movement(s): Process and Emergence in Planetary Action Systems
The rise of networked social movements contesting neo-liberal globalization and protesting the summits of global finance and governance organizations has posed an analytical challenge to social movement theorists and called into question the applicability to this global milieu of the familiar concepts and heuristics utilized in social movement studies. In this article, we argue that the self-defining alter-globalization movement(s) might instead …
Global Complexity and Global Civil Society
This paper argues that recent struggles against neoliberal axioms such as free trade and open markets have led to a militant reframing of global civil society by grassroots social movements. It contests that this struggle to invest the concept of global civil society with transformative potential rests upon an identifiable praxis, a “strange attractor” that disturbs other civil society actors, through its re-articulation of a politics that privil…
Rebel Colours: Framing' in Global Social Movements
This paper presents data gathered during and since the protests against the IMF and World Bank meetings in Prague in September 2000. It describes the interactional and deliberative processes that were undertaken by activists involved in framing the protests and the manifestation of this 'frame-work' in three separate marches denoted by different colours, which took place on September 26th during a 'global day of action'. The paper utilises ethnog…
The Neglected Art of Hitch-Hiking: Risk, Trust and Sustainability
This article explores the sociologically neglected practice of hitch-hiking. It demonstrates the paucity of research on what is potentially a fascinating instance of social interaction and it argues that hitch-hiking provides an interesting test case for the applicability of recent social theories of risk and trust. The reasons for the relative decline in hitch-hiking in Britain are discussed and comparisons are made with continental Europe and t…
Complexity and Social Movement(s): Process and Emergence in Planetary Action Systems
The rise of networked social movements contesting neo-liberal globalization and protesting the summits of global finance and governance organizations has posed an analytical challenge to social movement theorists and called into question the applicability to this global milieu of the familiar concepts and heuristics utilized in social movement studies. In this article, we argue that the self-defining alter-globalization movement(s) might instead …
Rebel Colours: Framing' in Global Social Movements
This paper presents data gathered during and since the protests against the IMF and World Bank meetings in Prague in September 2000. It describes the interactional and deliberative processes that were undertaken by activists involved in framing the protests and the manifestation of this 'frame-work' in three separate marches denoted by different colours, which took place on September 26th during a 'global day of action'. The paper utilises ethnog…
Social Movements and the Ethics of Knowledge Production
This article argues that whilst some academic disciplines have been richly innovative in both their approaches to, and work with movements, for the most part social movements are still considered as objects of knowledge for researchers and academics, rather than as knowledge producers in their own right. It considers the ethical and methodological dilemmas that arise from this situation and instead proposes an ethics of engagement with critical s…
Global Complexity and Global Civil Society
This paper argues that recent struggles against neoliberal axioms such as free trade and open markets have led to a militant reframing of global civil society by grassroots social movements. It contests that this struggle to invest the concept of global civil society with transformative potential rests upon an identifiable praxis, a “strange attractor” that disturbs other civil society actors, through its re-articulation of a politics that privil…
The Neglected Art of Hitch-Hiking: Risk, Trust and Sustainability
This article explores the sociologically neglected practice of hitch-hiking. It demonstrates the paucity of research on what is potentially a fascinating instance of social interaction and it argues that hitch-hiking provides an interesting test case for the applicability of recent social theories of risk and trust. The reasons for the relative decline in hitch-hiking in Britain are discussed and comparisons are made with continental Europe and t…
Complexity and Emergence
Complexity theory is a unifying theory of the natural and social sciences that seeks to describe and account for the properties of complex adaptive systems in the material, biological, and social worlds. Examples of such systems include neural networks, languages, business organizations, the Internet, economic globalization, and social movements. These systems in turn are characterized by emergent properties that are irreducible to the sum of the…
Social Movements and Regeneration: Within, Without, Against
This article examines the relationship between social movements and regeneration in the context of globalisation by describing how the advent of a global civil society provides new modes of engagement and contestation with the political and economic forces that define and determine regeneration processes. The article argues that regeneration should be conceived as a dynamic field of relationships to which social movements can contribute new mater…
The Neglected Art of Hitch-Hiking: Risk, Trust and Sustainability
This article explores the sociologically neglected practice of hitch-hiking. It demonstrates the paucity of research on what is potentially a fascinating instance of social interaction and it argues that hitch-hiking provides an interesting test case for the applicability of recent social theories of risk and trust. The reasons for the relative decline in hitch-hiking in Britain are discussed and comparisons are made with continental Europe and t…
Global Complexity and Global Civil Society
This paper argues that recent struggles against neoliberal axioms such as free trade and open markets have led to a militant reframing of global civil society by grassroots social movements. It contests that this struggle to invest the concept of global civil society with transformative potential rests upon an identifiable praxis, a “strange attractor” that disturbs other civil society actors, through its re-articulation of a politics that privil…
Rebel Colours: Framing' in Global Social Movements
This paper presents data gathered during and since the protests against the IMF and World Bank meetings in Prague in September 2000. It describes the interactional and deliberative processes that were undertaken by activists involved in framing the protests and the manifestation of this 'frame-work' in three separate marches denoted by different colours, which took place on September 26th during a 'global day of action'. The paper utilises ethnog…
Complexity and Social Movement(s): Process and Emergence in Planetary Action Systems
The rise of networked social movements contesting neo-liberal globalization and protesting the summits of global finance and governance organizations has posed an analytical challenge to social movement theorists and called into question the applicability to this global milieu of the familiar concepts and heuristics utilized in social movement studies. In this article, we argue that the self-defining alter-globalization movement(s) might instead …
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos
Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-t…
Social Movements and Regeneration: Within, Without, Against
This article examines the relationship between social movements and regeneration in the context of globalisation by describing how the advent of a global civil society provides new modes of engagement and contestation with the political and economic forces that define and determine regeneration processes. The article argues that regeneration should be conceived as a dynamic field of relationships to which social movements can contribute new mater…
Social Movements: The Key Concepts
Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s the rise of contemporary ‘…
Social Movements and the Ethics of Knowledge Production
This article argues that whilst some academic disciplines have been richly innovative in both their approaches to, and work with movements, for the most part social movements are still considered as objects of knowledge for researchers and academics, rather than as knowledge producers in their own right. It considers the ethical and methodological dilemmas that arise from this situation and instead proposes an ethics of engagement with critical s…
Complexity and Emergence
Complexity theory is a unifying theory of the natural and social sciences that seeks to describe and account for the properties of complex adaptive systems in the material, biological, and social worlds. Examples of such systems include neural networks, languages, business organizations, the Internet, economic globalization, and social movements. These systems in turn are characterized by emergent properties that are irreducible to the sum of the…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social movement (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Globalization (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)