Radical Shifts
Prefiguring Activist Politicization through Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11257263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Curnow (0000-0003-1478-1322, University of Manitoba, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 553-566 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peabody Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-956X • E-ISSN: 1532-7930 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0161956x.2022.2125757 |
| OpenAlex | W4308145488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
In this paper, I unpack how youth organizers became politicized activists through their engagement in the prefigurative practices of the fair trade movement. Prefiguration refers to the practices of a movement that are embedded in and reproduce their shared political visions; prefigurative politics allows social movement groups to embody their politics through their interactional practices, their tactical repertoires, and their outwardly oriented campaigns. As novices within United Students for Fair Trade (USFT), through their immersion in the organization’s community of practice and their increasing participation in the prefigurative practices of the community, participants came to identify as and be identified as activists, shift their worldviews, and adopt new political philosophies. This paper examines the activist practices that supported legitimate peripheral participation, including group agreements, keeping stack, and antioppression interventions. The article concludes with a discussion of the ways that prefigurative politics enabled particular activist identities and philosophies and encourages further investigation into political identity development as a learning phenomenon
Aesthetics · Identity (music · Identity politics · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social movement · Sociology · Vision · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Public Administration
Re-Embedding Situatedness
“Look It, This is how You Know
Communities of Practice
Anarchism and Education
Resituating situated learning within racialized and colonial social relations
Teaching, as Learning, in Practice
Fight the power
Learning as peripheral participation in communities of practice
Community and Organization in the New Left (The Great Refusal)
SolidarityTM
Politicization in Process
Political Protest and Cultural Revolution
Doing is Believing
Rethinking Prefiguration
Situated Learning
Participation as Dis-Identification With/in a Community of Practice
The Primacy of the Ethical
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |