Movement-relevant Theory: Rethinking Social Movement Scholarship and Activism
Movement-relevant Theory: Rethinking Social Movement Scholarship and Activism
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运动相关理论：重新思考社会运动学术和行动主义
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2005
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Chrishaya Dixon
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Douglas Bevington;Chrishaya Dixon
美国社会运动的主流学术已经脱离了对实际社会运动的关注。但近年来社会运动活动的急剧增长，特别是全球正义运动，正在为社会运动学术的新方向创造条件，该方向优先考虑此类工作与运动本身的相关性。当前社会运动文献中的一个问题是，不同的思想流派往往过分强调特定变量并使它们相互对立。与运动相关的方法不是简单地寻求强调社会运动生命周期中的不同变量，而是有可能超越这些分裂（例如结构与文化）。同时，这种方法并不是断然拒绝早期的理论观点，而是试图从这些早期的作品中收集对运动最有用的东西。同样，这一新兴方向需要积极参与运动参与者已经完成的研究和理论化工作。在本文中，我们探讨了与运动相关的学术日益趋同的现象，确定了运动参与者所使用的学术著作以及运动本身内部进行的分析，特别关注全球正义运动。
The dominant American social movement scholarship has become detached from the concerns of actual social movements. But the dramatic growth of social movement activity in recent years, especially the global justice movement, is creating the conditions for an emerging new direction in social movement scholarship which prioritizes the relevance of such work to the movements themselves. A problem in the current social movement literature is that the different schools of thought tend to overemphasize particular variables and pit them against one another. Rather than simply seeking to emphasize a different variable in the lifecycle of a social movement, a movement-relevant approach has the potential to transcend these schisms (such as structure versus culture). At the same time, this approach does not categorically reject earlier theoretical perspectives, but instead seeks to glean what is most useful for movements from these earlier works. Likewise, this emergent direction entails a dynamic engagement with the research and theorizing already being done by movement participants. In this paper, we explore this growing convergence of movement-relevant scholarship, identifying the academic work being used by movement participants as well as the analysis taking place within the movements themselves, with a particular focus on the global justice movement.