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“ Social Movements as Politics ”

“ Social Movements as Politics ”. Charles Tilly. Introduction. By 21C SM recognized as Global phenomenon: Zimbabwe, EU, Jubilee 2000, Costa Rica to Canada This was not always so. Origins of Social Movements. Europe and North America in late 18C (1750+)

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“ Social Movements as Politics ”

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  1. “Social Movements as Politics” Charles Tilly

  2. Introduction • By 21C SM recognized as Global phenomenon: Zimbabwe, EU, Jubilee 2000, Costa Rica to Canada • This was not always so.

  3. Origins of Social Movements • Europe and North America in late 18C (1750+) • Popular uprisings have occurred for centuries, but SM, as a distinct form did not develop until the late 18C in Europe and N. America. • …

  4. Origins of Social Movements • Tilly: Traces SM as distinctive form of contentious politics, looks at its History • SM are contentious politics to the extent that: • Contentious: they“involve collective making of claims…that…conflict with someone’s else interests…” • Politics: “in the sense that governments of one sort or another figure…in the claim making…as claimants, objects of claims, allies of the objects, or monitors of the contention. ”

  5. Origins of Social Movements • Need to study History to Understand SM as Distinct form of Cont. Pols • Need to identify the origins, and the evolving outline of SM, as well as the surrounding forces that made SM possible.

  6. Defining Social Movements • Defining SM: Three (3) Elements: • 1) Campaigns: • 2) Repertoire: • 3) WUNC: (Worthiness, Unity, Numbers and Commitment)

  7. Defining Social Movements • Campaigns: sustained, organized public effort making collective claim on target authorities. • Link Claimants, objects of claims, and the “public” • Each has to be present in SM. Authorities or objects do not always have to be the govt, they could also be property owners, religious leaders.

  8. Defining Social Movements • Campaigns: Link Claimants, objects of claims, and the “public” Objects of Claimants (State, Corporation, religious leadership) Sustained Effort Public Claimants (SM)

  9. Defining Social Movements • Repertoire: development of special purpose associations which hold: • - Public meetings • - Processions • - Vigils • - Rallies • - Demonstrations • - Petition drives • - Media Campaigns • Have existed elsewhere, but must be integrated into sustained campaigns to be part of a SM.

  10. Defining Social Movements • Campaigns: Link Claimants, objects of claims, and the “public” Objects of Claimants (State, Corporation, Religious leadership) Repertoire Public Claimants (SM) Meetings, Processions, Vigils, Rallies, Demonstrations, Petitions, Media Campaigns

  11. Defining Social Movements • WUNC: Public representations of… • Worthiness: sober demeanor, neat clothing, presence of clergy, mothers • Unity: matching in rank, head bands, banners, singing and chanting • Numbers: headcounts, signatures on petitions, filling streets • Commitment: braving bad weather, state repression,

  12. Defining Social Movements • Campaigns: Link Claimants, objects of claims, and the “public” Objects of Claimants (State, Corporation, Religious leadership) Repertoire Public Claimants (SM) Worthiness, Unity, Numbers, Commitment

  13. Defining Social Movements • Campaigns: Link Claimants, objects of claims, and the “public” Objects of Claimants (State, Corporation, Religious leadership) Violence ? Public Claimants (SM) Worthiness, Unity, Numbers, Commitment

  14. Defining Social Movements • Campaigns: Link Claimants, objects of claims, and the “public” Objects of Claimants (State, Corporation, religious leadership) Violence ? Public Claimants (SM)

  15. Defining Social Movements • Interpretations of Social Movements • Lorenz Von Stein in his (1850) book, History of the French Social Movement from 1789 was first to use in SM in scholarly discussion. • Early Definitions: • Marx, Engels: Single, unitary (or entire) working class movement toward self-consciousness. (1840-1880s) • SM in the Plural: others spoke of multiple SMs.

  16. Defining Social Movements • Historical Episodes that Appear to Match characteristics of SM: 3 Mistakes • Too broad an application of the term SM: any prior collective action • Examples: • Women Movement: reading any political act of women into a coherent • movement spanning centuries. • Environmental Movement: any act on behalf of environment is part of the Environmental Movement. • Confuse SM collective action with existence of political organization.

  17. Defining Social Movements • Social Movement: Distinctive Form, with a Distinctive History • Social Movement Combine: • 1) Campaigns for collective claims to targeted authorities • 2) An array of claim-making performances • 3) Public representations of WUNC.

  18. Defining Social Movements • Contemporary Attempts to Define SM: Useful, but Incomplete • Many of these accounts are informative and useful, but “they do not provide a coherent history of SM as a political phenomenon…” • Even those who have worked on a definition, have typically “subordinated” within a broader analysis of democracy or some other subject. • No “Laws” of Social Movement:

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