Self-Experience in the Theme Park of Radical Action

Social Movements and Political Articulation in the Late-Modern Condition

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2397709
AutoresIngolfur Blühdorn (0000-0003-1774-5984, University of Bath, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume9
Fascículo1
Páginas23-42
Data de publicação2006-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431006060461
OpenAlexW1977695504
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas36

In accordance with the established view that the new social movements since the late 1960s have always pursued an agenda of comprehensive societal change, the new wave of movement activism since the late 1990s has widely been interpreted as evidence of the emergence of a new global movement for a radically different society. A critique of the one-sided reliance in social movement research on traditional actor-centred approaches leads to a systems-centred conceptualization of late-modern society, and via the diagnosis of its particular dilemmas, to the interpretation of contemporary social movements as a vital resource for the stabilization of the socioeconomic order of democratic consumer capitalism. As an addition to the existing social movement theories, the suggested approach contributes to a more complex understanding of non-conventional forms of political articulation and participation

Conceptualization · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · New social movements · Political science · Politics · Resource mobilization · Social change · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Media and Politics