Struggling Movements in Dubious Opportunities – An Afterword to ‘Surviving Neoliberalism

The Persistence of Australian Social Movements

Bibliographic Data

ID6220628
AuthorsM Diani (0000-0002-3104-3834, University of Trento, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume9
Issue2
Pages229-233
Publication date2010-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial movement studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14742831003603414
OpenAlexW2076192902
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited5

The experience of Australian social movements during the Howard government stimulates reflections on the strategies that critical dissenters adopt in order to maximize their mobilizing capacity and chances of success under unfavourable political conditions. It also prompts a reconsideration of our analytic categories in at least two directions. First, by suggesting that other modes of coordination of collective action such as those based on community networks or ad hoc coalitions may prove effective also when it is difficult to build large-scale social movements. Second, by pointing at the variable impact of movements with a different class basis

Action (physics · Collective action · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Neoliberalism (international relations · New social movements · Order (exchange · Persistence (discontinuity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Resource mobilization · Scale (ratio · Social movement · Sociology · Irish and British Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Conflict and Governance

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