Linking Collective Identity and Agency: Social Movements, Organisations and Strategic Choices

Abstract

This panel will investigate the issue of strategic choices made by Social Movements and Social Movement Oganisations. We shall focus on two broad categories of determinants, a) Time, memory and learning in movements, b) Strategy as an intertwinement of Agency and Structure. More specifically, with regard to category (a), we will address: Processes of evolution and learning in a cycle of protest; The spillover effect and the legacies of mobilisations; Mnemonic constructions and their use by social movements and SMOs; Path-dependency in repertoire and organisational choices. With regard to category (b): Organisational aspects: Social movements as organisational/strategic action fields; Movements' decision-making when dealing with strong structural constraints (i.e. under repressive/authoritarian regimes); Repertoires of actions: violence/nonviolence as a strategic choice; Cultural and institutional contexts' influence on movements' strategy. And in the crossroads between the two: The influence of movement tradition: its diffusion in the national and cross-national level; Events and eventful protests as movements' strategy determinants.

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