Reimagining Social Movements

Antimo L Farro is Professor of Sociology, University of Rome (La Sapienza). He is the author of I Movimenti Sociali and editor of Sociologia in Movimento. Henri Lustiger-Thaler is a specialist in the emerging field of collective memory and movements scholar at Ramapo College, in New Jersey USA. He is author of Political Arrangements: Power and the City and co-editor of Globalization and Social Movements and Urban Movements in a Globalizing World.

• Contents: Introduction: subjectivity and collective action, Antimo Luigi Farro and Henri Lustiger-Thaler. Part I Subjectivity, Memory, and Collective Action: A new era for collective movements: the subjectivization of collective action, Antimo Luigi Farro; Occupying human values: memory and the future of collective action, Henri Lustiger-Thaler; The emergence of the migrant subject, Yvon Le Bot; Grassroots mobilizations for sustainable consumption, Paola Rebughini; Social movement in Japan: split mentalities and memory, Daishiro Nomiya; Emotions, memory, and new cultural movements in Turkey, Deniz Günce Demirhisar; Memory and sociology: subjectivization a de-subjectivization, Michel Wieviorka. Part II Contentious Cultures: Violence and the Egyptian Revolution, Farhad Khosrokhavar; Citizens’ movement in South Korea and reflexive modernization, Han Sang-Jin; Social movement activism in South Africa: ebbs and flows, 2000-2010, Marcelle C. Dawson and Virginia Setsmedi; Beyond institutionalization: urban movements in Rome, Massimo Allulli and Ernesto d’Albergo; Brazilian social movements in the Latin American context, Maria da Glória Gohn; Market, legitimacy, and the politics of risk: the candlelight protest in South Korea, Chang Dukjin and Shin Jin-Wook; Civil society, democratization, and globalization in Latin America, Ilán Bizberg; Religion and land takeovers in Mexico: collective miracle discourses and the building of community, Marie Christine Doran; Taking everything back: CasaPound, a far Right movement in Italy, Daniele di Nunzio and Emanuele Toscano; Group formation, riots, and immigrants: social movements in Britain, Danièle Joly. Afterword: Globalization and the war of gods, Alain Touraine; Index.

’This is an outstanding, timely and remarkably wide-ranging collection of articles on social movements, ranging across continents, and across a wide variety of movements, including rightwing movements. The editors and authors have considerable track records of social movement research and push the boundaries of social movement thinking.’ Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of California Santa Barbara, USA ’This is an important contribution by distinguished social movement scholars that addresses the contemporary impact of movements. To my mind, there has never been a book of this path-breaking quality in the field. The editors cull case studies from around the world as they frame new movement practices through existing tensions between collectives and individuals, politics and culture. A collection of this sort allows us to grasp the radical transformations occurring within contemporary societies. Reimagining Social Movements: From Collectives to Individuals is a great global example of the sociological imagination.’ Shujiro Yazawa, Emeritus Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Japan ’This book is the most important review of contemporary social movements around the world. It not only describes them in all their varieties, but also moves beyond well known classical dichotomies to explain them: structural vs subjectivity, discontent vs foundational. Here you will find a complex interaction between all these dimensions, showing in one and the same instance, the hopes and failures of movements. The question remains open as to their future. This book contains all the necessary theoretical and methodological tools to address that critical question.’ Manuel Antonio Garretón, University of Chile and Chilean National Prize of Humanities and Social Sciences