Informal Organizations as Agents of Change
Notes From The Contemporary Women's Movement in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6304780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manisha Desai (0000-0001-9032-8509, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-173 |
| Publication date | 1996-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilization An International Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1086-671X • E-ISSN: 1938-1514 |
| Publisher | Mobilization Journal (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17813/maiq.1.2.r6g2895h98402m71 |
| OpenAlex | W2345311319 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 9 |
Some social movement scholars suggest a division of outcomes between bureaucratic and collective organizations. Bureaucratic organizations are more likely to achieve political and mobilization outcomes because of their ability to mobilize resources, while the structural flexibility of smaller collective organizations is more suitable for cultural goals. Others argue that women's movement organizations incorporate elements of both bureaucratic and collective structures. This article brings new empirical evidence from the women's movement in India to the debate. Based on an analysis of two informally structured movement organizations, it demonstrates that informal organizations can achieve both political outcomes as well as cultural outcomes. In India, they did so by working at two levels: the national or regional level, mobilizing action with other social movement organizations to achieve political goals; and the local level, mobilizing consensus to initiate cultural innovation. Low cost, informal structures also facilitated a punctuated survival pattern marked by periods of activity alternating with inactivity
Action (physics · Bureaucracy · Collective action · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Management · Mobilization · Movement (music · Political economy · Political opportunity · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Resource mobilization · Social movement · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Social Movement Networks Virtual and Real
Being and Belonging in Transnational Salafism
Essentially Political
Social Movement, Action and Change
Nonviolence beyond the state
Instagram and social capital
Local To Global
Improving evidence on women's groups
The Indian Women's Movement
Generations, Microcohorts, and Long-Term Mobilization
Grassroots groups and poor women's empowerment in rural India
Feminist organizations
India's political economy, 1947-1977
Controversy and coalition
Poor People's Movements
Community and Organization in the New Left (The Great Refusal)
Stability and Innovation in the Women's Movement
Coalition Work in the Pro-Choice Movement
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |