Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Partecipazione e Conflitto Pub Date : 2021-09-09 DOI:10.1285/I20356609V14I2P530

Sophie Chamas

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article concerns itself with why and how activists persevere and manage to reproduce themselves as activists in contexts where they experience what is described as routine "failure", taking Lebanon's activist scene as its focus. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out when Lebanon's civil society was dominated by members of the country's cosmopolitan professional middle class, I emphasise the affective dimensions of activism, the role that personal desires, emotions and anxieties play in enabling activists to persist in the most stagnant of conjunctures but that also, at the same time, keep them from advancing their agendas.

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作为一种生活方式的激进主义：贝鲁特中产阶级社会运动的社会世界

这篇文章关注的是，在经历了被称为例行“失败”的背景下，活动家们为什么以及如何坚持并成功地将自己塑造成活动家，并将黎巴嫩的活动家场景作为其焦点。根据黎巴嫩公民社会由该国国际化的专业中产阶级成员主导时进行的民族志实地调查，我强调了激进主义的情感层面，个人欲望、情绪和焦虑在使激进主义者能够在最停滞的情况下坚持下来方面所起的作用，但同时，阻止他们推进他们的议程。

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Partecipazione e Conflitto POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

2.00

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： PArtecipazione e COnflitto [PArticipation and COnflict] is an International Journal based in Italy specialized in social and political studies. PACO houses research and studies on the transformations of politics and its key players (political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, unions, etc.), focusing in particular on the dynamics of participation both by individuals acting in conventional ways, and by those who prefer protest-oriented repertoires of action. Special attention is also paid to the dynamics of transformation of contemporary political systems, with an eye fixed on the processes of democratization besides on the spaces opening to the new forms of governance both at local and sub-national, and supra-national level. All are inscribed in that complex phenomenon represented by the trans-nationalization of social, political and economic processes, without neglecting the nation-state dimension. The journal emphasizes innovative studies and research of high methodological rigor, treasuring of the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social and political sciences.