Unit 5: Social Movements and Social Change Flashcards
Cycle of Struggle
Stages in a social movement where the common trajectory of the emergence, retreat, and re-emergence, not only in individual protest campaigns, but in greater cultural epochs of contention.
New Social Subjects
New social subjects are movement participants with their own organizations forms and new demands. The diversity of new social subjects had advanced their own demands within local social movements. The social actors include communities of immigrants and others among the “the dispossessed.”
-While these new social subjects are not completely foreign to old and new social movements, they are part of the fundamental socio-political economic transformations which have taken place in the last 30 years in the US and around the globe.
Community-based Organizations
A CBO is a locally based organization that draws membership, leadership, and staff from within its community. These organizations form to address common problems not being sufficiently addressed by other social institutions.
Extractivism
Those activities which remove large quantities of natural resources that are not processed (or processed only to a limited degree), especially for export. It is not only limited to minerals and oils, being present in farming, forestry, and even fishing.
Fossil Capitalism
An economy powered by fossil fuels.
The Anthropocene
Unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.
Solar Commons
Uniting specific social actors, or new historical subjects, to find alternatives to fossil capitalism in new and already existing relations, practices, and capacities.
System Change
At its core systems thinking requires a shift in mindset from linear thinking to embracing complexity and interconnectedness. It often involves the collaboration of a diverse set of social actors and can take place on a local, national, or global scale.
Information Ecology
Information ecology is an emerging, loosely-defined field generally concerned with modeling information processes in human systems. The term has been used in computer science and business management. In most cases, “ecology” is used metaphorically, rather than using actual tools or principles of modeling developed by biological ecologists. Anthropology has a long tradition of applying the science of ecology to human behavior and adaptation. Information Ecology builds on this tradition by explicitly including information in models of human ecosystems.
It considers the dynamics and properties of the increasingly dense, complex, and important digital informational environment.
