Towards a Processual Social Movement Theory
Diachrony, Dialectics, and Danda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josie Bunting (University of Manchester), J G Bunting (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 748-763 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13607804241293732 |
| OpenAlex | W4405141515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
Interest in temporality and the effects of social movements over periods of time has increased over the past few years. This has created the need for diachronic approaches to the study of movements and accounts for how movements create social change and have an impact on the course of history. There have been some struggles to account for history in existing approaches to social movements, with eventful or ruptural accounts of social change remaining prominent in some recent works. This article proposes a conversational philosophy between African philosophies such as ubuntu and ibuanyidanda and Marxist humanism as an approach that can allow us to explore dynamic ontologies. Marxist approaches to social movement studies have so far yielded the most dynamic approaches to social change. I contend that ubuntu and ibuanyidanda offer ontological perspectives that allow us to understand humans and the societies they create as dynamic, changing, and interrelated, in a way that can complement, and enhance, the historical materialist model of a society created by collective human agency, albeit not in circumstances that they choose
Aesthetics · Dialectic · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · New social movements · Political science · Politics · Social change · Social movement · Social philosophy · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Temporality · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci
Tradition and Modernity
Making of the English Working Class
Social Movement Studies
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
It's About Time
Norbert Elias and Process Sociology
Patterns of Protest
Critical comments on Afro-communitarianism
Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming
Angelic Spirits of ‘68’
People and power in an African consensual democracy
Social Philosophy in Postcolonial Africa
Democracy Against Capitalism
The Poems of Shelley
Measures and Meanings
A Strategic Approach to Collective Action
Situating Movements Historically
What Is to Be Done? Agency and the Causation of Transformative Events in Ireland's 1916 Rising and 1969 Long March
An Intersectional Theory of Strategic Decisions
Now and again
Citing history
Time for change
Against African Communalism
Protests as critical junctures
Towards a Theory of Social Processes
Social Movement Continuity
An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn
Humans Involved
Posthuman, All Too Human
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |