Reassembling Activism, Activating Assemblages

ISBN-13: 9780367336103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 110 str.

Israel Rodriguez-Giralt; Isaac Marrero-Guillamon; Denise Milstein

Opis

Drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and its sibling notion of assemblage, this book offers a conceptual and methodological alternative to dominant social movement theory. It was originally published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Reassembling activism, activating assemblages  1. Welcoming sound: the case of a noise complaint in the weekly assembly of el Campo de Cebada  2. The syntax of social movements: jam, boxes and other anti-mafia assemblages  3. We are all foreigners in an analogue world: cyber-material alliances in contesting immigration control in Stockholm’s metro system  4. The materiality of data transparency and the (re)configuration of environmental activism in the Brazilian Amazon  5. Bringing animals within political communities: the citizens/swans association that fractured Chile’s environmental framework  6. Down to earth social movements: an interview with Bruno Latour