POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Soup Kitchen, Public Space, Arson
POLB91 – lecture 3
Social non-movements and resistance
• Understand what a social non-movement is and give examples
• Identity the key features of weapons of the weak and how everyday resistance is diff
from social movements
• Explain why weapons of the weak is ore tha a olletio of idiidual ats
Social non-movement
• Brazil eaple. Big eets for razil the tr to lear these faela’s (ugl poor ppl plaes.
Temp homes in camp)
• Form of self help
• This is social non-movement bc of the aggregation of this
• Significant and political problem on ur hands (bare 11.4 mill ppl in them)
• Cumulative effect and aggregation of individual actors is political
• The collective actions of non-collective actors: shared practices of large #s of ordinary
ppl
o Ex. Cumulative of self-dwelling
o Ppl all doing these individual acts constitutes a political action
• Fragmented but similar activities trigger much social change, even without recognisable
leadership or an organizational basis
• Passive networks
o Ppl recognise shared identity and goals by virtue by being in the same space
o Shared understanding by being in the same place
o Unspoken level
o Ex. Street vendor illegal & 2 women in restaurant filled with men
Quiet encroachment
• Quiet, largely atomised and prolonged mobilisation
• Only collective action from time to time but not a bedrock of existence
• Episodic collective action
• Open and fleeting struggles without clear leadership, ideology, or structured
organisations
• A form of self-help with a goal of redistribution of social goods and attaining autonomy
What is the states response?
• In developed countries, the state has the capacity to monitor and minimise quiet
encroachment
• In developing countries, that state may be unable to monitor and thus tolerate such
behaviour
• Tipping point too costly or politically threatening
Street politics
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Document Summary
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