Blurring boundaries:: Recognizing knowledge-practices in the study of social movements
Blurring boundaries:: Recognizing knowledge-practices in the study of social movements
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DOI：
10.1353/anq.2008.0006
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发表时间：
2008-12-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Powell, Dana E.
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作者：
Casas-Cortes, Maria Isabel;Osterweil, Michal;Powell, Dana E.
社会运动正在意想不到的地方兴起，产生的影响通常与我们对政治或运动的传统理解无关。运动不再，也许永远不会，仅仅是对国家的高度可见的、现代主义的抵抗，运动不仅通过抗议和文化争论来制定政治，而且还产生了各种各样的知识。从对意大利反全球化运动意义的激烈争论；到芝加哥合作书店精心制定直接行动策略；到美洲原住民环境正义问题会议，当代运动，以及知识创造、重塑和传播的重要场所。我们称之为“知识实践”。基于跨学科的方法来研究社会运动，我们认为，当我们认识到运动是知识产生、修改和动员的过程时，我们就获得了对当代运动政治的重要见解。这种认识也具有重要的方法论意义。它要求我们改变研究的参与模式，模糊既定的社会科学界限，促进一种更加关系对称的方法。
Social movements are arising in unexpected places, producing effects not normally associated with our traditional understandings of either politics or movements. No longer, and perhaps never, solely the highly visible, modernist expressions of resistance to the state, movements are not only enacting politics through protest and cultural contestation, but are generating diverse knowledges. From heated debates over the meaning of Italy's alter-globalization movement; to careful direct-action strategizing in Chicago's cooperative bookstores; to conferences on Native American environmental justice issues, contemporary movements ore important sites of knowledge creation, reformulation and diffusion. We call these "knowledge-practices." Building on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of social movements, we argue that when we recognize movements as processes through which knowledge is generated, modified and mobilized, we gain important insights into the politics of contemporary movements. This recognition also has important methodological implications. It requires that we shift the mode of engagement in our research, blurring established social scientific boundaries and promoting a more relational-symmetrical approach.