Moving the SocialPub Date : 2018-10-24DOI: 10.13154/mts.60.2018.5-26
Susanne Schregel
{"title":"Introduction: Social Movements, Protest, and Academic Knowledge Formation. Interactions since the 1960s","authors":"Susanne Schregel","doi":"10.13154/mts.60.2018.5-26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/mts.60.2018.5-26","url":null,"abstract":"This introductory paper seeks to stimulate discussion on entanglements between protest campaigns, social movements and academic processes of generating knowledge in the USA and Western Europe since the 1960s. It examines how protagonists from social movements and counterculture have contributed to understandings of academic knowledge formation and its relationship to the public sphere, the role of the scientist, and the practical processes involved in generating and acquiring knowledge. Focusing on drafts of both ‘alternative’ and ‘conventional’ science and their impact on each other, the paper in particular suggests enquiring into the creative and experimental aspects of alternative scientific projects and the media in which they took form. In pursuit of this goal, it proposes to transcend the existing compartmentalisation of research in social movements and the formation of knowledge into numerous specialities, and to further broaden the dialogue between the history of social movements and the history of science and of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122587875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2018-05-18DOI: 10.13154/MTS.59.2018.13-24
Giovanna Gilges
{"title":"Activism for Sex Workers in the Netherlands: Interview with Jan Visser about Foundation and End of De Rode Draad, 1976 to 2012","authors":"Giovanna Gilges","doi":"10.13154/MTS.59.2018.13-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.59.2018.13-24","url":null,"abstract":"By order of the Archive and Centre for the Documentation of Sex Work — Madonna (Bochum), I conduct interviews with sex workers and sex work activists as contemporary witnesses. In this context, I met the sociologist Jan Visser in January 2018 for a first conversation about his political work in connection with the de-criminalisation and de-stigmatisation of sex workers and sex work. For the Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements , an abbreviated excerpt of this conversation was written to trace a chronical arch from the development to the dissolution of the prostitutes’ rights organisation De Rode Draad. In 1985, a group of female sex workers formed De Rode Draad in Amsterdam, which was subsidised by the Dutch government from the get-go. De Rode Draad was involved in the development of a concept of decriminalisation of prostitution by regulation and integration of the sexwork into labour and employment laws. Their history, work and success is closely related to the Mr. A. de Graaf Foundation. Furthermore, the interview highlights the specific frictions and challenges, which a group is forced to deal with, when stigmatised sex work activists and academic allies who are no sex workers cooperate.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114293431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2018-05-18DOI: 10.13154/mts.59.2018.129-154
Darcy Ingram, S. Smart
{"title":"Governance, Politics, and Environmentalism in the Age of Mass Recreation: The Campaign Against ‘Village Lake Louise’","authors":"Darcy Ingram, S. Smart","doi":"10.13154/mts.59.2018.129-154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/mts.59.2018.129-154","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the successful environmental campaign against a massive ski resort development proposal known as ‘Village Lake Louise’ that was to be established in the 1970s in Banff National Park, Canada. Using postmaterialism and governance as conceptual lenses, the article presents this campaign as an early example of an environmental conflict that did not centre on primary resource extraction industries, for example forestry, mining, or hydroelectric development. At issue in this case was a growing recreation-based economy that drew on and reflected many of the same postmaterial values and perspectives that informed the environmentalists opposed to the project. In the process, the article demonstrates how the campaign against Village Lake Louise contributed to the institutionalisation of Canada’s environmental movement and to the development of a complex framework for environmental governance in that nation.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127510002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2018-05-18DOI: 10.13154/mts.59.2018.5-12
Mareen Heying
{"title":"Prostitutes’ Movements — the Fight for Workers’ Rights","authors":"Mareen Heying","doi":"10.13154/mts.59.2018.5-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/mts.59.2018.5-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127829344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2018-05-18DOI: 10.13154/MTS.59.2018.97-113
K. Hardy, Megan Rivers-Moore
{"title":"Compañeras de la calle: Sex Worker Organising in Latin America","authors":"K. Hardy, Megan Rivers-Moore","doi":"10.13154/MTS.59.2018.97-113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.59.2018.97-113","url":null,"abstract":"Latin America has an effervescent and strong sex worker rights movement, which has been frequently overlooked in existing analyses. In focusing on this region, it is possible to identify sex workers’ struggles that are currently leading the way in achieving change for cis-women working in the sex industry. In this article, we examine four countries: Argentina, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Colombia to argue three points. First, that sexworkers in the Global South have much to offer in terms of organising practices and experiences. Second, that while successful at the regional level, these successes have been uneven. Third, that it may be possible to explain these divergences by examining the organisational form adopted by groups, the relationships these organisations sustain with wider labour movements, and the wider political economy of violence in which they organise. We put forward this article as a conceptual framework for beginning to develop comparative methods for understanding sex worker movements.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116063021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2018-05-18DOI: 10.13154/MTS.59.2018.71-96
S. Beer
{"title":"The Sex Worker Rights Movement in Canada: Challenging Legislation","authors":"S. Beer","doi":"10.13154/MTS.59.2018.71-96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.59.2018.71-96","url":null,"abstract":"Sex worker activists in Canada identify the criminalisation of various aspects of prostitution as a major source of oppression. In an effort to improve rights and safety, two groups of sex workers brought constitutional litigation to their respective provincial courts to strike prostitution-related laws from the Criminal Code of Canada. These actions counter what might be expected based on the extant literature on the sex worker rights movement, and despite successful litigation, conditions have become more punitive. The court process brought to light many achievements and ongoing obstacles facing sex workers in Canada. Drawing on original research with activists in multiple Canadian cities, this paper examines litigation from a social movement perspective.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129792539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2018-05-18DOI: 10.13154/MTS.59.2018.47-70
Joana Lilli Hofstetter
{"title":"Still We Rise — The Contemporary Sex Worker Movement in Europe in the Context of Neo-Abolitionism and Repressive Policies","authors":"Joana Lilli Hofstetter","doi":"10.13154/MTS.59.2018.47-70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.59.2018.47-70","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, sex worker activists across Europe celebrated the 40th anniversary of their political mobilisations. Despite having sustained and further institutionalised their transnational movement, these activists are currently confronted with an increasingly adversarial context formed by neo-abolitionist prostitution opponents and repressive policies. In this paper, I explore how sex workers in Europe engage in activism in this adversarial context and investigate how the latter impacts on their contemporary mobilisations. My analysis of the movement’s framing processes demonstrates that it is indeed strongly influenced by neo-abolitionism and repressive policies. Yet, activists continue to mobilise and adjust strategically in an attempt to reclaim self-representation, build coalitions, achieve legislative reform and ultimately, drive social change.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134219138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2018-05-18DOI: 10.13154/MTS.59.2018.25-45
Mareen Heying
{"title":"The German Prostitutes’ Movement: Hurenbewegung. From Founding to Law Reform, 1980 – 2002","authors":"Mareen Heying","doi":"10.13154/MTS.59.2018.25-45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.59.2018.25-45","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to present the German Hurenbewegung (‘Whores’ Movement’). I will explain the circumstances under which the first self-help groups for prostitutes and their supporters have formed since 1980, examining how they worked as a network while introducing the journals they published, which are used as primary sources in this historical overview. I will shed light on the claims the movement made and on the forms of its political action and examine how it argued for prostitutes’ legal and social equality. Focal points include their activism and, specifically, how the activists dealt with HIV, which became an important issue in the 1980s. The exchange with political parties in the 1990s intended to promote legal reform will be described, as will the movement’s reaction to the new prostitutions law of 2002; a reform which was influenced by the sex workers’ movement, as I discuss. In these years of activism the Hurenbewegung became institutionalised, and its focus shifted from political to social work. I will explore the circumstances which caused this shift, as well as the consequences that followed. Additionally, I will shortly demonstrate that there is a close link to feminist movements and give a very brief outlook on current activities by prostitutes in Germany.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123758567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-10-20DOI: 10.13154/MTS.58.2017.81-106
Juan L. Fernández
{"title":"Darwin goes to Sarajevo: Evolutionary Theories Underlying a Century of Historiography on the Outbreak of the First World War","authors":"Juan L. Fernández","doi":"10.13154/MTS.58.2017.81-106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.58.2017.81-106","url":null,"abstract":"Historiography on the outbreak of the First World War is a useful touchstone for understanding in practice the conceptual architecture of historical storytelling. Along with overarching narrative concepts such as Fritz Fischer’s German Bid for World Power ( Griff nach der Weltmacht ), historians could, and often did, employ implicit or explicit theoretical frameworks created in other disciplines such as economics or political science. Since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species , natural evolution was also one of the most widespread inspiring models. A century of study on the causes of the Great War shows three major narrative patterns with underlying evolutionary assumptions: (i) the struggle for existence; (ii) the self-destroying system; and (iii) the chain of mistakes. They correspond in part to the temporal development of interpretations: from early narratives focused on who-questions, responsibilities, and personified nations (G-stories, for ‘gigantomachy’); through syntheses aiming at why-questions, causes, and societies (D-stories, for ‘doom’); up to current analyses of how-questions, origins, and elite decision-making (M-stories, for ‘mistakes’). From G-stories to M-stories, Clio has been moving away from Darwin, thus reducing her explanatory capabilities. The paradox of a huge scientific effort ending in an unconquerable riddle could be overcome by linking D-stories to a nascent evolutionary social science.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123810903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-10-20DOI: 10.13154/MTS.58.2017.5-28
F. Mikkelsen
{"title":"Workers’ Activism and Industrial Democracy in Denmark in the 20th Century","authors":"F. Mikkelsen","doi":"10.13154/MTS.58.2017.5-28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.58.2017.5-28","url":null,"abstract":"The breakthrough of capitalism intensified the struggle between workers and employers over the control of the work process. The historical record reveals that worker participation in Denmark has fluctuated in intensity following economic and political cycles. Major actors have often been informal work groups and the left-wing opposition, which have forced the trade unions and even sometimes the Social Democratic Party to put workers’ participation on the industrial agenda. Overall, Danish workers and employees have enjoyed a significant influence on work place decision making mainly due to small production units and a large sector of skilled workers.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131207290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}