社会运动的策略与后果

在社会运动研究中,主流政治过程理论的结构主义倾向与狭隘的政治关注面经常遭致批评。对这些缺陷的修正并不在于抛弃"政治契机结构"概念,而是拓宽契机的类型,包括政治契机、经济契机和话语契机,并将其动态化为行动的一部分。这一论点以计算机回收运动为案例,其重大成就同它与经济、政治和话语契机结构之间的灵活互动密切相关。

Strategies and Consequences of Social Movements

Political process theory has been criticized for being overly structuralist and for only focusing on political movements.Instead of abandoning the concept of political opportunity structure, this article proposes to expand the notion of opportunity,which contains political opportunity,economic opportunity,discursive opportunity,and to understand it in the context of action.The theoretical proposal is illustrated by a case study of the rise and consequences of the U.S.Computer TakeBack Campaign.The campaign'...