Social reproduction in European Environmental Protest Camp Movements: Ende Gelände and Reclaim the Power

欧洲环境抗议营运动中的社会再生产：Ende Gelände 和 Reclaim the Power

• 批准号: 2286068
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2286068
• 关键词: Social; reproduction; European; Environmental; Protest

The most recent UN report has warned that there are only twelve years left to limit severe climate change (IPCC, 2018). How we organise in response becomes a pertinent question particularly in relation to grassroots political organising. This proposal aims to analyse how two of the most prominent social movement organisations in Germany and the UK are supported and sustained in order to understand the dynamics, potential and limitations of the contemporary grassroots political responses to the climate crisis. It will bring together arguments from social movement studies and feminist political theory in order to contribute to understandings of how organisations use alternative institutions, events and cultural practices for the social reproduction of their political activity. In particular, it examines the role of protest camps, temporary occupations that are used increasingly by movements as bases for political activity and for experimenting with and demonstrating alternative models of society. Research questions1. How can feminist theory inform better understanding of social movements everyday reproduction, and their success?2. What role do movement institutions, practical projects & infrastructure play within these protest camp movements?3. What is the political significance of protest camps in understanding contemporary direct action?Empirical Research MethodsThe project uses a set of qualitative research methods to explore the social reproduction, social relations and infrastructural resourcing of the case studies described above. For each of these methodological components my position in the movements will be significant: as a researcher who has been a part of the British climate movement for some time, it will be far less challenging for me to uncover key issues, tensions and emotions (Denscombe, 2017, p.83).Firstly, ethnographic participant observation of both movements will be used, based on several periods of study situated in the protest camps and participating in the activity of both movements. Ethnographic participant observation will 'capture the subjective mood, feeling, and tone' of events'contributing descriptive flesh to what might otherwise read as dry, distant, and disengaged analytic accounts.' (Juris and Khasnabish, 2013, p.3). I will focus on the role of the activists as knowledge producers encouraging them to map various aspects of the camps including their movement histories, the formation of the camps and the targets they have focussed on, with this component of the research providing much of the data for addressing RQ1 but also feeding into RQ2 and RQ3. Second, semi-structured interviews will be made with 10-15 activists from each group to provide insight into the various experiences and organisational techniques used, in particular helping address RQ2. Interviews will focus on the campers' interpretation of the camps and their accounts of the social interaction within them (Blaikie, 2010, p.207). They will be chosen based on their level of experience in organising the protest camps. Finally, documentary data from the camps will be analysed including 'external' communication and publicity put out by the camps and 'internal' guides and discussion documents used within the camps. Critical discourse analysis will relate discursive practices, events and texts to wider social and cultural systems (Fairclough in Locke, 2004, p.1). These texts will help uncover the debates, infrastructural practices, repertoires and understandings of the organisers of their geopolitical imaginations of how the world is, where they fit into it and how they would like it to change.

联合国最新报告警告说，限制严重气候变化的时间只剩下十二年了（IPCC，2018）。我们如何组织起来应对成为一个相关问题，特别是在草根政治组织方面。该提案旨在分析德国和英国两个最著名的社会运动组织如何得到支持和维持，以了解当代草根政治应对气候危机的动力、潜力和局限性。它将汇集社会运动研究和女权主义政治理论的论点，以有助于理解组织如何利用替代机构、事件和文化实践来实现其政治活动的社会再生产。特别是，它考察了抗议营地的作用，这些临时职业越来越多地被运动用作政治活动的基地以及实验和展示替代社会模式的基地。研究问题1.女权主义理论如何帮助人们更好地理解社会运动的日常再生产及其成功？2．运动机构、实际项目和基础设施在这些抗议营运动中发挥什么作用？3.抗议营对于理解当代直接行动的政治意义是什么？实证研究方法该项目使用一套定性研究方法来探讨上述案例研究的社会再生产、社会关系和基础设施资源。对于这些方法论组成部分中的每一个，我在运动中的地位都将是重要的：作为一名参与英国气候运动一段时间的研究人员，对我来说揭示关键问题、紧张局势和情绪的挑战性要小得多（Denscombe，2017，第83页）。首先，基于位于抗议营地并参与这两个运动活动的几个时期的研究，将使用对这两个运动的人种学参与观察。民族志的参与观察将“捕捉事件的主观情绪、感觉和语气”，“为原本可能被解读为枯燥、遥远和脱离的分析叙述提供描述性的内容”。 （Juris 和 Khasnabish，2013 年，第 3 页）。我将重点关注活动家作为知识生产者的作用，鼓励他们绘制营地的各个方面，包括他们的运动历史、营地的形成和他们关注的目标，研究的这一部分提供了解决 RQ1 的大量数据，但也为 RQ2 和 RQ3 提供了数据。其次，将与每个小组的 10-15 名积极分子进行半结构化访谈，以深入了解所使用的各种经验和组织技术，特别是帮助解决 RQ2。访谈将重点关注营员对营地的解释以及他们对营地内社交互动的描述（Blaikie，2010，p.207）。他们将根据组织抗议营地的经验水平来选择。最后，将对营地的文献数据进行分析，包括营地发布的“外部”沟通和宣传以及营地内使用的“内部”指南和讨论文件。批判性话语分析将话语实践、事件和文本与更广泛的社会和文化系统联系起来（Fairclough in Locke，2004，p.1）。这些文本将有助于揭示辩论、基础设施实践、保留曲目以及组织者对地缘政治想象的理解，这些想象包括世界是什么样子、他们融入其中以及他们希望世界如何改变。