Late modern institutions and collective action

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

12/04/2008

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Humanities/philosophy

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Summary :

Introduction.
Institutions and collective action theories.
Social movements and the new institutionalists.
Institutions, subjects and collective action.
The global and reflexive content of action in late modernity.
Exclusion and non-places: the experience of impasse.
1. Choosing.
2. Belonging.
3. Recognition.
Conclusion.

Abstract

There is no phenomenon more central or germane to the future of collective action than the conflict ridden process of institutionalization. This leads to an inquiry into a number of approaches in this contribution. Where does the institutionalization process begin, as it weaves itself deeper and deeper within a given process of collective action? Is collective action already embedded in the first institutional instance, and if so, how can we use this residual of action to better understand the late modern institution? What we hope to convey in this exploratory essay is that thinking about institutions and the process of institutionalization must embrace the new realities surrounding collective action. These are very much experientially coded around issues of subjectivity and its collective action spin-offs. A revision of institutional theories by way of social movement analyses has a special role to play in this late modern inquiry. Social movement theorists by observing grassroots groups, right wing movements and global movements have always, in one manner or another, been perched at the critical input valve of institutionalization processes. This has kept analysts focused on conflict laden processes of social transformation, in all its complexity. This vantage-point has led some theorists, particularly in the European social movement schools, to reassess the fundamental role of social movements in relation to social change, and or changes within a given system of political action.