WHY ONLY SOME LIFESTYLE ACTIVISTS AVOID STATE-ORIENTED POLITICS: A CASE STUDY IN THE BELGIAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT*

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2017-06-29 DOI:10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-245

J. D. Moor, Sofie Marien, M. Hooghe

引用次数: 15

Abstract

Lifestyle politics are often defined as a political strategy used to avoid state-oriented politics. However, recent studies indicate that in some cases, lifestyle activists engage in actions that target the state. This study investigates why some lifestyle activists combine these forms of engagement, while others do not. We explore whether such differences can be explained by variations in activists' perceptions of the political opportunity structure. In particular, we consider whether perceptions of input structures and output structures offer relevant predictors for combining lifestyle politics with state-oriented actions. The article presents an in-depth case study of a Belgian environmental lifestyle movement organization, using a mixed methods approach including participant observation, qualitative interviewing, and surveys. The findings reveal that lifestyle activists' perceptions of the openness of the system matter, but that beliefs in the state's ability to act are more diverse and therefore have...

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为什么只有一些生活方式活动家避免国家导向的政治:比利时环境运动的案例研究*

生活方式政治通常被定义为一种政治策略，用于避免国家导向的政治。然而，最近的研究表明，在某些情况下，生活方式活动家会采取针对国家的行动。这项研究调查了为什么一些生活方式活动家将这些参与形式结合在一起，而另一些人则没有。我们探讨了这种差异是否可以用活动家对政治机会结构的看法的变化来解释。特别是，我们考虑对投入结构和产出结构的感知是否为将生活方式政治与国家导向的行动相结合提供了相关的预测因素。本文采用参与者观察、定性访谈和调查等混合方法，对比利时一家环境生活方式运动组织进行了深入的案例研究。研究结果表明，生活方式活动家对制度开放性的看法很重要，但对国家行动能力的信念更为多样，因此。。。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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3.80

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.