Towards a Beckian Approach to Social Movements
Between Surveillance and Subpolitical Counter-Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (0000-0002-0085-2321, Liverpool John Moores University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-20 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1177/13607804251332488 |
| OpenAlex | W4410453010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 44 |
By drawing upon concepts from Ulrich Beck's work on risk, reflexivity, contestation, and subpolitical power, this article produces an understanding of social movement−based critiques of surveillance and argues for the promise of Beckian (conceptual) approaches in analyses of social movements' power. While Beck argued, in his final book, that intensified surveillance constitutes a new epoch of the 'risk society', characterized by global digital freedom risks , little attention has been paid to how social movements contest such risks in 'risk societies'. Responding to calls for research on these risks' social consequences, thus filling this lacuna, this article advances our knowledge on Beck's social theory and surveillance-related critiques by using the empirical example of football supporter movements and their surveillance-related contestations. As argued, this case example reveals civil society, movement field coalitions, and digital freedom risks' emancipatory potential but historical significance
Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Collective Action and Football Fandom
Football Fans, Activism and Social Change
Digitised health, medicine and risk
Reframing Power in the Globalized World
Contesting Relations of Definition
World Risk Society and Constructing Cosmopolitan Realities
Activists and activism success
Theorizing surveillance and social spacing through football
Standing here
Governing climate change
Assisted’ facial recognition and the reinvention of suspicion and discretion in digital policing
Security is Coming Home
Contestations over risk expertise, definitions and insecurities
The moral economy of the English football crowd
Ecology, politics, and risk
Living in the Risk Society
Risk, Reflexivity and Sub-politics
Counter-conducts
Saying Something
Not knowing, emancipatory catastrophism and metamorphosis
Interactive Diffusion
Governing Terrorism Through Risk
Introduction
The reinvention of politics
Livin' in the future
Preserving and Extending the Commodification of Football Supporter Relations
From 'Goods' to 'Bads'? Revisiting the Political Economy of Risk
Parrhesia
Prophet of a new modernity
Ulrich Beck
Rethinking Subpolitics
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies
Emancipatory catastrophism
Reappraising the Risk Society Thesis
Risk and Environment as Legitimatory Discourses of Technology
After Snowden
Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security, Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes
Living in the world risk society
The paradox of victory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |