Title

How to change the world? Social movements and fact

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2012.15.2.4

Document Type

Review

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

Palabra Clave

Abstract

A contemporary version of social movements should emphasize the possibilities of creating resistances that focus on the prospect of achieving other lifestyles or modes of living. "e authors propose a factual or event-based (évènementiel) perspective of social movements that leaves no room for culturalist connotations founded on the assumption that emancipation processes manifest de-identification in a search for ways to achieve other, "be$er" identities. If an a$empt at a factual or event-based definition of social movements is worthwhile, it is because we harbor the hope they o%er a be$er fate. What ma$ers is the freedom and the collective creation of ethical alternatives concerning how to build another life. "e idea is to defend an event-based approach as the basis for understanding social movements. "e question is: What policy implications or consequences can be drawn from considering social movements, assuming they re!ect a cruelty in life and an inevitable violence that breaks worlds apart, but demands the construction of others?

Volume

15

Issue

2

First Page

280

Last Page

317

ISSN

01228285

Identifier

SCOPUS_ID:84866094339

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