Beyond Insurgency to Radical Social Change
The New Situation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12967307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Foran (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-25 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788 |
| Publisher | Brock University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26522/ssj.v8i1.1036 |
| OpenAlex | W1706881000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
The Arab Spring and U.S. Occupy movements surprised the world in 2011, showing that movements for radical social change remain viable responses to the intertwined crises of globalization: economic precarity, political disenchantment, rampant inequality, and the long-term fuse of potentially catastrophic climate change. These movements possess political cultural affinities of emotion, historical memory, and oppositional and creative discourses with each other and with a chain of movements that have gathered renewed momentum and relevance as neoliberal globalization runs up against the consequences of its own rapaciousness.Three paths to radical social change have emerged that differ from the hierarchical revolutionary movements of the twentieth century: 1) the electoral path to power pursued by the Latin American Pink Tide nations, 2) the route of re-making power at the local level or seeking change at the global level, both by-passing the traditional goal of taking state power, and 3) the occupation of public space to force out tyrants, as in Tunisia and Egypt.This paper assesses the strengths and limitations of each path, arguing that social movements and progressive parties together may possess the best chances for making radical social change in this new situation. These threads of resistance may also point toward a future of radical social change as we imagine their enduring results, self-evident and more subtle
Development economics · Disenchantment · Economics · Globalization · Inequality · Insurgency · New social movements · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social change · Social inequality · Social movement · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci
Revolutions and Movements for Radical Social Change
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution
Cross-Class and Cross-Ideological Convergences over Time
Following Indigenous Leadership
The Exemplary in Transnational Social Movements
Defeating Autocrats from below
Climate Justice Movement Building
Incriminatory utopias
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |