Society Movement Research Articles

ГРОМАДСЬКІ ОБ’ЄДНАННЯ ЯК ІНСТИТУЦІОНАЛІЗОВАНА ФОРМА СУСПІЛЬНИХ РУХІВ: УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ КОНТЕКСТ

The article attempts to determine the characteristics of social movements through their organizational (institutionalized) form – public associations. In the conditions of the emergence of a «new» type of society, the network, it is shown that it is public movements are becoming new institutions of public interest representation through to the crisis of traditional mechanisms of representation of interests. In connection with the complexity of the analysis of social movements, which is associated with the main characteristics of the latter: dynamic nature, absence of a clear organizational structure, the availability of various forms (protests, flashmobs , revolutions, various actions ), diverse scale of manifestation, mostly not a sufficiently long existence – it is proposed to consider the institutionalized form of social movements – public associations (organizations). It was determined the expediency of the specifics of such an approach, which consists primarily in the presence of definite correlations between social movements and public organizations. To achieve the goal of the study, it is first proposed to pay attention to two main characteristics relating to the activities of public organizations - their number and level of citizen involvement. Analysis of the results of sociological research and statistical data showed some discrepancies between official data and personal opinion of citizens regarding their participation in public organizations, which is most likely related to the specifics of the activities of these organizations in Ukrainian society. As a result, we came to the conclusion that today, social movements in Ukrainian society act primarily through a network of public organizations (women's, environmental movement, etc.) Also, social movements appear as a certain form of interaction, which is associated with crisis periods as a whole in society and in its individual spheres. It is noted that the participation of citizens in public associations in Ukraine today remains more formalized.

Civil Society and Anti-Corruption Movement in India-A Critical Appraisal of India Against Corruption, 2011

Civil Society and Anti-Corruption Movement in India-A Critical Appraisal of India Against Corruption, 2011

ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESSES OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE MAIN PROVISIONS OF EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT IN THE MOVEMENT OF SOCIETY FROM INDUSTRIAL TO POST-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY

The article describes the methodological problems that determine the effectiveness of the development of industrial enterprises in the post-industrial economy. The tendencies and regularities of transformation of the basic provisions of effective management in the movement of society from industrial to post-industrial economy are revealed. The article presents the results of analytical studies of the transformation of the provisions of effective management in the movement of society from industrial to post-industrial economy, processed by the affine diagram using the network diagram model.

Penumbangan Rezim melalui Gerakan Masyarakat Dunia Maya (Media Sosial) di Timur Tengah

Social media has become a new alternative in the field of communication in the circle of people's lives in the Middle East which offers freedom especially in terms of self-expression, something that has been hindered by the censorship of anti-critic dictatorial regimes. Unpredictably, the expression of disappointment expressed by Middle Eastern society towards the government through social media can be a lighter revolution that hit the Middle East countries in 2011. The purpose of this research is to know, explore, and describe some of the links between the revolution, the public sphere, and the movement of society through social media in the Middle East. A revolution in Tunisia in 2011 has been a generator of community movements in overthrowing the muscle rigid regimes in some Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt and Libya.

Tracing Kolkata's cinephilic encounters: An analysis of alternative cinema in the city

Abstract This article attempts to delineate the cartography of alternative cinematic productions in the region of Kolkata, which, being a nodal juncture that shapes the cultural milieu of Bengal, offers the technological and cultural infrastructures and the scope for cinephilic engagement crucial to the production of non-mainstream cinemas. To explore the gradual development of independent and amateur films in Kolkata, this article emphasizes the cinephilic tradition of the city that not only triggered cinematic movements (such as the film society movement and the Super-8 movement) but also ushered in the institution of film festivals in the region. Despite the mutations due to technological shifts, both film societies (in altered forms) and film festivals occupy central positions in the contemporary city's cinephilic culture. This article analyses the cinephilic legacies of the film society and the Super-8 movements that have historically fostered the contemporary cinephilic ecology of Kolkata, spurring peripheral media products.

Memories of Action: Tracing Film Society Cinephilia in India

The inception stories of early film societies in India from the 1940s to the 1960s reveal how these groups initiated an access to international, art and alternative cinemas through a network of circulation and exhibition created separately from mainstream cinema markets thereby forming a parallel network of societies, foreign consulates, embassies, government institutions and the National Film Archive of India (NFAI). This paper navigates the early history and memories of film societies in an attempt to map the cinephiliac energy of the film society movement through their erstwhile network of film travel. Using experiences, criticism and narratives of nostalgia published in film society journals, this paper reimagines the routes traversed by art cinemas and their cinephiles, enumerating specific activities around the film object. Observing urban film societies where film society cultures were initially conceptualized, thrived and whose histories are relatively renowned but also traces some significant small town societies which made the most of these circuits of film travel reaching out to non-metropolitan centers effectively transforming backyards into screening spaces and widening the scope of community participation around art cinemas.

40 Years at the Baldy Center: A Law and Society Hub in Buffalo

The University at Buffalo’s Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy just turned 40. That’s 40 years of groundbreaking sociolegal research, conferences, teaching, support for graduate students and much more. To commemorate the Center’s many accomplishments, this monograph traces through its history, showing that it helped put (and keep) Buffalo on the map as a hub in the Law and Society movement. The monograph draws on a year’s worth of research and interviews with the key characters in the Baldy Center’s story. Thousands of pages of University at Buffalo archives, court records, academic papers, historical documents and more were reviewed to piece together a narrative showing the Baldy Center’s tremendous impact on institutions, the academic literature and people’s careers. What emerges is a picture of a place where interdisciplinary collaboration and unique ideas find a home that wouldn’t exist if not for an endowment created by a civic-minded Buffalo lawyer who died in the mid-20th century and couldn’t have imagined the legacy that awaited him.

Social Entrepreneur: A ‘Coin’ Fundraising Model for Social Organizations

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The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings

ABSTRACT The adoption of electoral quotas for politically under-represented groups has become a prominent policy worldwide. An increasing number of states have adopted youth quotas, which aim to foster the election of young members of parliament under 35 to 40 years of age. To date, youth quotas only occur in tandem with simultaneously or previously adopted gender quotas. Why do states adopt youth quotas? Are the driving actors similar as in the adoption of gender quotas? Using causal process tracing based on a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles, parliamentary debates, and interviews, this article investigates the adoption of youth quotas in Tunisia and Morocco after the Arab uprisings in 2011. The findings suggest that, contrary to the respective gender quotas, youth quotas were not part of civil society movements’ agendas, but top-down initiatives from actors from within the domestic political elites.

Rescuing Welfare Society: Political Strategies for Mobilizing Civil Society in Denmark, 2010–2018

The article analyzes how civil society is constructed in two Danish civil society strategies from 2010 to 2017, the governmental programmes of the governments in question and the role civil society plays in the proposed upcoming reform of the Danish public sector, the Cohesion Reform. The article approaches civil society from a Foucauldian perspective meaning that it on the one hand analyzes civil society as a transactional reality, something which does not exist as such, but must be continually produced as a given thing with certain values. On the other hand, it means analyzing civil society as a central part of a governmental rationality, or governmentality, which represents the natural movements of society and which government must respect and govern according to. This means that the natural, vital and originary processes of civil society becomes a measurement for good and right government in contradistinction to the artificial, cold and bureaucratic state and thereby posited as the rescuer of welfare society.

The Spiritual Dimensions of the Permaculture Movement in Cuba

Following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, Cuba experienced an acute economic crisis in the 1990s known as the “Special Period”. This crisis challenged not only the state’s ability to provide for Cubans’ material needs, but also the moral vision of creating a “New Human” within the Revolution’s political framework. During the Special Period, a variety of new religious and civil society movements emerged to meet both the material and spiritual needs of Cubans. Permaculture, a holistic design system that arrived from Australia in 1993, promotes more harmonious relationships between human beings and nature through a set of three ethical principles: (1) Care for the Earth; (2) Care for People; and (3) Sharing Resources. Within the Cuban context, the growing permaculture movement is part of a larger set of religious and civil society revivals since the fall of the Soviet Bloc. Using qualitative fieldwork, this paper argues that permaculture is functioning as a religious-like movement in Cuba because it provides both spiritual and material benefits to individuals through networks of mutual aid and social solidarity. The permaculture movement also provides flexibility for individual perspectives about nature as sacred and having intrinsic value apart from usefulness to humans.

Making Sense of the Law and Society Movement

This article aims to deepen scholarly understanding of the Law and Society Movement (L&S) and thereby strengthen debates about the relation between Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) and L&S. The article departs from the observation that ELS, understood as an initiative that emerged in American law schools in the early 2000s, has been quite successful in generating more attention to the empirical study of law and legal institutions in law schools, both in- and outside the US. In the early years of its existence, L&S – another important site for the empirical study of law and legal institutions – also had its center of gravity inside the law schools. But over time, it shifted towards the social sciences. This article discusses how that happened, and more in general explains how L&S became ever more diverse in terms of substance, theory and methods.

WARÔNG KUPI SEBAGAI PUBLIC SPHERE DAN PENGARUHNYA TERHADAP SOCIAL MOVEMENT MASYARAKAT DI KABUPATEN ACEH BARAT

This study aims to find out how the representation of Warong Kupi as a Public Sphere among the people of West Aceh District. Using a qualitative approach based on constructivist paradigm, this research would like to find out how the subjective meaning of representation warong kupi in aceh and its relation with social movement of society. The object of research studied in this research is coffee shop as public sphere facility itself and involving parties that have been determined by base method in writing this research. The results obtained from this research is Warong kupi ultimately became the arena of discourse various themes of conversation. The topics of Kupi warong talks became very diverse ranging from politics, social, economic, and so forth. However, the political theme dominates the discourse of warong kupi in Aceh Barat. This is due to the interest of the people of West Aceh on the political theme, although in contrast not all West Aceh people boast of their political literacy level. Keyword :: Public Sphere, Warong Kupi, Politic of Representation.

Peningkatan Kesadaran Demokrasi dalam Organisasi Badan Eksekutif Mahasiswa Universitas Pasir Pengaraian

This research is motivated by the low level of student's democratic awareness, especially the Pasir Pengaraian University Student Executive Board in participating in various activities carried out on campus, therefore it is necessary to increase students' democratic awareness through Citizenship Education as a social cultural domain which is a civil society movement. This study aims (1). To find out the condition of democratic awareness in the Pasir Pengaraian University Student Executive Board (BEM) Organization (2). To find out the process of increasing democratic awareness in the Pasir Pengaraian University Student Executive Board (BEM) Organization. This study uses a qualitative approach to the case study method. Data and information collection techniques are carried out through observation, interviews and documentation studies. The results of this study are: (1). Conditions of democratic awareness of the Pasir Pengaraian University Student Executive Board include: freedom of organization and the establishment of cooperation, opportunities in expressing opinions, mutual trust and mutual respect, and having equality in the organization. (2). Student democracy awareness raising at Pasir Pengaraian University Student Executive Board includes: Application of persuasive approach, conducting reasoning activities, leadership and cadre training and effectiveness of activities carried out by the Student Executive Board in enhancing democratic awareness capable of the performance of the Pasir Pengaraian University BEM board.

Islamic Counter-Hegemonic Legal Knowledge and Its Unofficial Interpretation and Glocal Dissemination

Despite the Kemalist repressive secularism, several Islamic groups and Sufi brotherhoods have either continued to exist or new ones in addition to modern ones such as faith-based civil society organizations (to satisfy both the official and unofficial laws) have emerged. All these have their own knowledge bases, religious outlooks and interpretation mechanisms. Gulen Movement, albeit being the most known one, is only one of these myriad number of religious or religio-secular societal formations. It is an Islamic civil society movement originated in Turkey. It has mainly focused on science and secular education. It is urbanite, composed of mainly educated participants. The movement has created its own spaces such schools, hospitals, dormitories, universities, cultural centers, think tanks, newspapers, TV stations, web portals and political lobbying associations to form and express an identity of a modern Sufistic Turkish Muslimhood. Even though Gulen is the main actor in the movement who has engaged with producing new Islamic knowledge in his constant responses to the socio-political affairs and challenges by reinterpreting Islamic sources in tune with contemporary time and space, the movement participants contribute to this process in different ways, such as by giving transferring knowledge to him from their own local contexts or by contextualizing and disseminating the knowledge produced by Gulen. There are interesting outcomes of these processes. For instance, many of the movement participants are of the view that something that I dubbed as “Muslim Secularism” is possible, an idea that unofficial Islamic law is compatible with Alfred Stepan’s twin tolerations. Similarly, following the maqasid conceptualization, many movement participants support universal human rights, liberal and/or social democracy and equal citizenship regardless of religious affiliation. There are also several expert participants in the movement who have been producing knowledge as theologians, social scientists and intellectuals in different parts of the world. Some of these are critical engagement with the movement itself and their critical stance on some actions of the movement (e.g. the movement’s Turkish nationalism, its existence within the Turkish bureaucracy, its close but problematic proximity to the AKP politicians until 2013, its media’s poor democratic performance, transparency and accountability problems) sometimes faces anti-expert sentiments from some other movement participants.

Grasping the meaning of integration in an era of (forced) mobility: ethnographic insights from an informal refugee camp

ABSTRACTThe European refugee ‘crisis’ changed the migration dynamics of many EU member states. As a result of this mass movement of refugees, the Western Balkan Route was formed. Along this way, temporary settlement camps were created to cater to the needs of people on the move. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork that took place at the port of Piraeus (Athens, Greece) camp. Through insights from participant observation, it brings to the fore imaginaries of movement and inclusion in Central and North-Western European societies along with acts of temporary local integration as a result of arrested mobilities on the ground.

New Public Sphere dan Perkembangan Teknologi Media Sosial di Kawasan MENA (Middle East and North Africa): Studi Kasus Peranan Media InternasionalterhadapPembentukan Social Networking dalam Egyptian Revolution

<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p><p align="center"><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p align="center"><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Massive movement of the Egyptian people, called the Egyptian Revolution, is part of a wave of democratization of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa.The purpose of this essay is to provide information about the influence of new public sphere and media technology, to the civil society movement in the region. The public sphere is the space of communication of ideas and projects that emerge from society and are addressed to the decision makers in the institutions of society. The global civil society is the organized expression of the values and interests of society. The relationships between government and civil society and their interaction via the public sphere define the polity of society. This essay is a qualitative study using the case study method. The results of this study showed that the development of global communication media has a significant influence on the civil society to develop their skills in using information technology. This has led to the Arab Spring in Tunisia became a successful spark that triggered the revolution in Egypt. Phase emergence of Reformers in the Arab Spring wave of democratization in Egypt indicate that the movement of the Reformers strongly associated with one of the instruments of mass communication become public means of expression, to spread the idea, and eventually forms a networking in a short time</em>.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Keywords: New Public Sphere, social media, social movement, egyption revolution</em></strong></p>

New Public Sphere dan Perkembangan Teknologi Media Sosial di Kawasan MENA (Middle East and North Africa): Studi Kasus Peranan Media InternasionalterhadapPembentukan Social Networking dalam Egyptian Revolution

ABSTRACT Massive movement of the Egyptian people, called the Egyptian Revolution, is part of a wave of democratization of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa.The purpose of this essay is to provide information about the influence of new public sphere and media technology, to the civil society movement in the region. The public sphere is the space of communication of ideas and projects that emerge from society and are addressed to the decision makers in the institutions of society. The global civil society is the organized expression of the values and interests of society. The relationships between government and civil society and their interaction via the public sphere define the polity of society. This essay is a qualitative study using the case study method. The results of this study showed that the development of global communication media has a significant influence on the civil society to develop their skills in using information technology. This has led to the Arab Spring in Tunisia became a successful spark that triggered the revolution in Egypt. Phase emergence of Reformers in the Arab Spring wave of democratization in Egypt indicate that the movement of the Reformers strongly associated with one of the instruments of mass communication become public means of expression, to spread the idea, and eventually forms a networking in a short time. Keywords: New Public Sphere, social media, social movement, egyption revolution

К вопросу о функциях новых религиозных движений в современном обществе

К вопросу о функциях новых религиозных движений в современном обществе

THE INTERNET, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND NEW CIVIL SOCIETY IN INDONESIA: A LESSON FROM TWO TALES

This article discusses two legal cases happened in 2009: the cases of Prita Mulyasari and Bibit-Chandra. These cases are interesting as they involved the use of Internet as a medium for an effective civic engagement in controlling law enforcement. The response of the Indonesian public to the cases of Prita and Bibit-Chandra and their success stories in controlling the authorities indicate a significant existence of the so-called an “online parliament”, which signed an emergence of a new civil society movement in the modern Indonesia. This online parliament is much more inexpensive and independent than the conventional parliament. However, it might only work for political issues that attract much public attention and might be only accessible for those who have the access to the Internet.