POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Black Church, Resource Mobilization, E. P. Thompson
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Persuading someone that it is in their interest to let you social movement flourish or achieve the goals of your movement: facilitation. Persuade and facilitate government to give you resources to help you and facilitate you with their movement: bargaining. A form of reutilization: coercion, insider. Boy cots, leaf lidding, lobbying, petitions etc: outsider. Features of tactical repertoires: sites of contestation. Social media and mass media are used to amplify this approach - Protestors are very rarely facing opponents face to face: intentionality. Meaning they cant be adopted by accident or you have to have the intention of enacting social change. Social non movements are not acts of resistance but rather acts that are not intended for social change. You need to have the intention of social change and you need to be aware that you are participating in a social movement: solidarity/consciousness. Factors influencing tactical repertoires: macro historical conditions: