How Social Movement Actors Assess Social Change: An Exploration of the Consequences of Ukraine’s Local Maidan Protests

IF 1.8 Q2 SOCIOLOGY
O. Zelinska
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Abstract Social movements aim to change society, but whether they actually cause change is difficult for researchers to assess. A social constructionist approach can add to the understanding of social movement outcomes by allowing the activists themselves to define these consequences. I demonstrate the utility of this approach with a qualitative study of the social movement actors who attempted to change their society through Euromaidan in Ukraine. The movement in Kyiv grew into a nation-wide contention in which local Maidan actors issued their own demands to authorities. The larger consequence was the resignation of the President and new elections, followed by a military conflict in the east of the country. To examine the outcomes of Maidans from the participants’ point of view, I used primary documents issued by protest assemblies in 2013-2014 to select four local communities as case studies and, in 2018, held 24 interviews with 33 Maidan activists, representatives of local authorities, and observers. My findings suggest that local Maidans resulted in a rotation of local elites, but also in shifts of the receptiveness of local authorities to public opinion. These changes, however, mostly did not spread, which is due to the military conflict that ensued immediately after Maidan.
社会运动参与者如何评估社会变革:乌克兰地方独立广场抗议后果的探索
社会运动的目的是改变社会,但它们是否真的引起了变化,研究者很难评估。社会建构主义的方法可以增加对社会运动结果的理解,允许活动家自己定义这些结果。我通过对试图通过乌克兰亲欧盟运动改变其社会的社会运动参与者的定性研究来证明这种方法的实用性。基辅的这场运动发展成为一场全国性的争论,当地的独立广场参与者向当局提出了自己的要求。更大的后果是总统辞职,重新选举,随后在该国东部发生军事冲突。为了从参与者的角度考察独立广场运动的结果,我使用了2013-2014年抗议集会发布的主要文件,选择了四个当地社区作为案例研究,并在2018年与33名独立广场运动积极分子、地方当局代表和观察员进行了24次访谈。我的研究结果表明,当地的Maidans导致了当地精英的轮换,但也导致了地方当局对公众舆论接受程度的转变。然而,这些变化大多没有蔓延开来,这是由于独立广场之后立即发生了军事冲突。
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