Kai Heidemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4388462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kai Heidemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kai |
| FAMILY NAME | Heidemann |
| SIGNATURE | HEIDEMANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8821-8295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pathways of participation
How do civic associations devoted to community-based adult education enhance the presence and impacts of broader-level social movements in democratic societies? This article utilizes the concepts of 'free space' and 'pathways of participation' to investigate how the educational actions deployed by several women's associations in the southern Netherlands generate strategic connections to the feminist and women's movements. Drawing on a qualitative…
Converging forces
This article looks at how social movements in francophone Belgium shaped the institutional contours of adult education ‘from below’. It focuses on the integral role played by progressive social movements in the creation of a regional state-based system of adult education in 1976, known as the Service de l’Éducation Permanente (SdEP). Blending historical and sociological methods, it is shown that the SdEP emerged when a movement-based legacy of po…
Pedagogies of Solidarity
Sociological scholarship on social movements has shed important light on the role of knowledge production for processes of collective action and mobilization. However, much of this research overlooks the question of how movement-based knowledge emerges from within institutionalized settings of formal education. Drawing on a qualitative case study, this article examines the repertoire of knowledge-building practices mobilized from within a state-b…
Overcoming Uncertainty
This article examines how grassroots actors initiate and engage in collective action to transcend dramatic situations of large-scale societal crisis. Merging strands of sociolinguistic scholarship with social movement theory, the concepts of stance and stance-taking are presented to reveal how individuals collectively exert their agency during episodes of macrostructural instability and uncertainty. Stance is defined as the agentive and solidaris…
From ‘seeing’ to ‘seizing’ opportunity
This article examines how social movement actors carry out the transition from ‘seeing’ to ‘seizing’ critical events as empowering structures of political opportunity. Drawing on qualitative data, the discussion looks at how Basque language activists affiliated with the ikastola schooling movement in France engaged with a chain of events linked to the rise of democracy and autonomy in the Spanish Basque Country from 1975 to 1987. The analysis sho…
In the Name of Language
This article explores the mobilization dynamics of a school-based minority language revitalization initiative in the French Basque Country, known as the Ikastola Movement. Bringing the study of language revitalization into dialogue with social movement theory, I discuss how the solidarity of Basque language activists was influenced by state-level structures of power. Focusing on an early phase of mobilization from 1975 to 1981, I consider how pol…
The View from Below
This article explores how Basque language activists in France have evaluated and engaged with European-level minority language policies in relative terms of "opportunity." Focusing upon the social construction of political opportunity from below, I consider how actors affiliated with a community-based schooling initiative cultivated a strategic stance toward the Council of Europe's Charter for Regional or Minority Languages between 1997 and 2007.…
Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe
Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe: Evidence from the Euromosaic Project . Glynn Williams. Palgrave Macmillian: New York. 2005. 251 pages. ISBN: 1403998167 (paper
Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy
Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy. Dennis Ager. Multilingual Matters LTD: Clevedon 2001 21 ODD
The View from Below
This article explores how Basque language activists in France have evaluated and engaged with European-level minority language policies in relative terms of "opportunity." Focusing upon the social construction of political opportunity from below, I consider how actors affiliated with a community-based schooling initiative cultivated a strategic stance toward the Council of Europe's Charter for Regional or Minority Languages between 1997 and 2007.…
Pedagogies of Solidarity
Sociological scholarship on social movements has shed important light on the role of knowledge production for processes of collective action and mobilization. However, much of this research overlooks the question of how movement-based knowledge emerges from within institutionalized settings of formal education. Drawing on a qualitative case study, this article examines the repertoire of knowledge-building practices mobilized from within a state-b…
In the Name of Language
This article explores the mobilization dynamics of a school-based minority language revitalization initiative in the French Basque Country, known as the Ikastola Movement. Bringing the study of language revitalization into dialogue with social movement theory, I discuss how the solidarity of Basque language activists was influenced by state-level structures of power. Focusing on an early phase of mobilization from 1975 to 1981, I consider how pol…
Overcoming Uncertainty
This article examines how grassroots actors initiate and engage in collective action to transcend dramatic situations of large-scale societal crisis. Merging strands of sociolinguistic scholarship with social movement theory, the concepts of stance and stance-taking are presented to reveal how individuals collectively exert their agency during episodes of macrostructural instability and uncertainty. Stance is defined as the agentive and solidaris…
Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy
Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy. Dennis Ager. Multilingual Matters LTD: Clevedon 2001 21 ODD
Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe
Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe: Evidence from the Euromosaic Project . Glynn Williams. Palgrave Macmillian: New York. 2005. 251 pages. ISBN: 1403998167 (paper
The View from Below
This article explores how Basque language activists in France have evaluated and engaged with European-level minority language policies in relative terms of "opportunity." Focusing upon the social construction of political opportunity from below, I consider how actors affiliated with a community-based schooling initiative cultivated a strategic stance toward the Council of Europe's Charter for Regional or Minority Languages between 1997 and 2007.…
From ‘seeing’ to ‘seizing’ opportunity
This article examines how social movement actors carry out the transition from ‘seeing’ to ‘seizing’ critical events as empowering structures of political opportunity. Drawing on qualitative data, the discussion looks at how Basque language activists affiliated with the ikastola schooling movement in France engaged with a chain of events linked to the rise of democracy and autonomy in the Spanish Basque Country from 1975 to 1987. The analysis sho…
In the Name of Language
This article explores the mobilization dynamics of a school-based minority language revitalization initiative in the French Basque Country, known as the Ikastola Movement. Bringing the study of language revitalization into dialogue with social movement theory, I discuss how the solidarity of Basque language activists was influenced by state-level structures of power. Focusing on an early phase of mobilization from 1975 to 1981, I consider how pol…
Overcoming Uncertainty
This article examines how grassroots actors initiate and engage in collective action to transcend dramatic situations of large-scale societal crisis. Merging strands of sociolinguistic scholarship with social movement theory, the concepts of stance and stance-taking are presented to reveal how individuals collectively exert their agency during episodes of macrostructural instability and uncertainty. Stance is defined as the agentive and solidaris…
Pedagogies of Solidarity
Sociological scholarship on social movements has shed important light on the role of knowledge production for processes of collective action and mobilization. However, much of this research overlooks the question of how movement-based knowledge emerges from within institutionalized settings of formal education. Drawing on a qualitative case study, this article examines the repertoire of knowledge-building practices mobilized from within a state-b…
Converging forces
This article looks at how social movements in francophone Belgium shaped the institutional contours of adult education ‘from below’. It focuses on the integral role played by progressive social movements in the creation of a regional state-based system of adult education in 1976, known as the Service de l’Éducation Permanente (SdEP). Blending historical and sociological methods, it is shown that the SdEP emerged when a movement-based legacy of po…
Pathways of participation
How do civic associations devoted to community-based adult education enhance the presence and impacts of broader-level social movements in democratic societies? This article utilizes the concepts of 'free space' and 'pathways of participation' to investigate how the educational actions deployed by several women's associations in the southern Netherlands generate strategic connections to the feminist and women's movements. Drawing on a qualitative…
Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social movement (6 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Collective action (3 works) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works)