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GLOBAL ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE LECTURE WEEK 6 TUTORIAL WORKBOOK   

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Apply to feminism What if it does not have a specific organisation? 1 task – readings in week 1 – how does it fit social movement scholarship criteria – address each question. Theories of collective action and how does it apply. One of event? Or more? How does it manifest? Who is it opposing? How? What does it challenge? What change does it seek? 2 task – example or organisation within movement. How does ideology drive and define the movement? Role of feminism in driving the movement. Framing – diagnostic, prognostic or motivational. How are they defined and used by the movement? 3 task – week 7. Institutionalised components. Resisted or adapted? 4 task – stories, who? E.g. me too as driven by stories. Refs – at least 4 primary sources

INSTITUTIONALISING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS EXAMPLE: FEMINISM Representing international women’s day. Good example. Reveals tensions around process of institutionalising. Having breakfast does not achieve anything. It does not longer fit the movement? It is no longer a social movement? When ideas are absorbed by government they can either lose force or create legal frameworks, results, etc. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS HAPPEN IN STAGES OVER TIME.

Mobilisation happens in waves.

A movement might also change tactics over time. Sydney Tirer theorises that initial most disruptive. As it continues, they begin to radicalise to gather institutional attention and then ease of. Institutionalisation can mean death for the movement. Institutionalisation: Social movements theories have looked into many aspects of social movements. Institutionalisation can mean diferent things. It could be movements becoming stablished interest groups headed by professional leaders. Goals becoming mainstream or conservative? Operating within social institutions and organisations. Social movement are formed outside of gov and institutions. Some social movements org. are professional and bureaucratic and build links with institutions and become integrated in administrative and legislative bodies and blurred the line between the traditional notions of social movements and institutional forms of the movement. “I define movement institutionalization as a process of social movements traversing the official terrain of formal politics and engaging with authoritative institutions such as the legislature, the judiciary, the state, and political parties to enhance their collective ability to achieve the movement's goals. Once institutionalized, social movement activists take posts within the government and work toward their goals from inside institutions; they modify their goals in ways that make them attainable through bureaucratic, legislative, and judicial procedures; and they regularize and moderate their collective action repertoires to persuade or pressure the government to enact policies and laws that reflect movement priorities” (Suh 2016, p. 443). -Established interest groups -Formalized structure -Headed by professional leaders -People working for the movement are being paid -Incorporation into mainstream institutions/practices These things play diferently in diferent parts of the world. VIDEO: MODERN WESTERN FEMINSIM 1800 MARRIED WOMEN COULD NOT VOTE OR OWN PROPERTY – RIGHTS FOR WOMEN AND EDUCATION 1848 – WOMENS RIGHT CONVENTION – FIRST WAVE END WWII ANTIFEMINISM MOVEMENTS. 2ND EARLY 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE – CREATED NEW WAY OF WOMEN SELF EXPRESSIONA ND ASPIRATION – 2ND WAVE THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL FEMINSIM – MALE DOMINANCE AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

EQUAL PAY, FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE, TRADITIONAL BEAUTY CHALLENGED, PILL, ABORTION LAWS, ETC. ANTIFEMINIST WAVES WE SEE WOMEN CHAINING THEMSELVES TO BARS, WOMEN APPOINTED TO GOVERNMENT, RANGE OF PRATICES AND THEORIES. SO MANY WAYS IN WHICH KEY THUNERS CONTRIBUETD TO CHANGING THE THINKING ABOUT FEMISNISM. CONCIOUSNESS CHANGING GROUPS. E.G. GROUPS OF WOMEN TALKING ABOUT THEUR EXPERIENCES. CHALLENGING ROLE OF WOMEN – MARRIAGE, CHILDREN, WHY? COMING TOGETHER AND SHARING FORMS OF OPPRESSION EXPERIENCES. THEROIES ABOUT PATRIARCHY, NATURE OF WOMEN’S OPPRESSION, MARXIST IDEAS, WORK LABOUR AND EXCHANGE, WOMEN’S ROLE IN REPRODUCTIVE CARE, OTHER PEOPLE ADVOCATE POLITICAL LESBIANISM, DETACTHMENT FROM PATRIARCHY. MANY GROUPS WITHIN THE MOVEMENTS. LACK OF SERVICES REALISED. WOMEN NEED SUPPORT. EMERGENCE OF RALLIES AND MESSAGE GOING OUT THERE.

OPERATING WITHIN SEXIST INSTITUIONS? E.G. POLICE IS THIS STILL PART OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT?

ISSUES. E.G. HOW DOES SELF-DEFENCE CONTRIBUTE TO THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT? IS IT NOT PARADOXICAL THAT YOU ARE PUTTING THE REPSONSIBILITY ON THEM TO DEFEND THEMSELVES RATHER THAN BLAMING WHO’S GUILTY? http://institutionalharvest.net/ https://interactive.unwomen.org/multimedia/timeline/womenunite/en/index.html#/ THINK ABOUT HOW MOVEMENT ENGAGE WITH SERVICE PROVISION TO WHAT EXTENT ARE ORGANISATIONS CONSIDERED PART OF THE MOVEMENT DEATH OF FEMINSIM CHANGED WITH ME TOO MOVEMENT INTITUTIONALISED FORMS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS NOT ACCEPTED AS PART OF MOVEMENT IS THERE A FOURTH WAVE OF FEMINSIM? INVOLVEMENT AND OWNERSHIP CO-OPTION / ABSOLVING ISTITUTIOS E.G. CONSENTR MATTERS AT UC GENDER MAINSTREAMING https://interactive.unwomen.org/multimedia/timeline/womenunite/en/index.html#/ INTEGRAING GENDER INTO POLICIES – MAKING SURE WOMEN AND MAN INETREST ARE EQUALLY ADDRESSED IN ENERGY, SPORTS AND EDUCATIONS TO PREVENT GENDER SERGRATION

WHAT ARE INSTITUTIONS MISSING? WHO ARE THEY LEAVING OUT? HOW ARE THEY DEALING WITH THE STUD-QUO? IS TEHRE A ROBLEM WITH THEIR APPROACH?...