The Cultural Production of Social Movements offers a theory of cultural practices, protest tactics, strategic planning and deliberation, and movement organizational structures: “ideological contention.” It is a theory of ideology “from below.” The Cultural Production of Social Movements shows how conflicts―both with external political forces and disagreements, dissensus, and the decision-making process internal to social movements―produce knowledge and meanings that, in turn, impact upon and change the practices that contribute to how social movements are structured and organized. The Cultural Production of Social Movements theorizes the relationship between consciously held superordinate ideas, the changing composition of progressive and oppositional social struggles, and the social worlds they hope to inhabit. Analyzing the Black Panther Party, specifically Kathleen Cleaver’s break with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and her contributions to the Party, Operaismo (or Workerism) in Italy and the relationship between shifting organizational strategies, inventive tactics, and novel and expansive ways to theorize class struggles, and the communal composition of “Worker-Recovered Enterprise Movements” in contemporary Argentina, this book shows how movement ideologies change and how meanings structure organizations, mobilizations, and futures. In The Cultural Production of Social Movements ideology is neither a static set of principles, nor is an unconscious orientation towards power and governance. Rather, it is the contentious, democratizing, and deliberative processes―which become realized as tactics in protests, struggles, defeats, and victories―that makes the relationship between movements, and what they “mean” conscious to its participants.
Author(s): Robert F. Carley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 180
City: London
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Ideology, Cultural Studies, and Social Movements
Chapter Outline
References
Chapter 2: Ideological Contention
Social Movement Literature on Ideology
Framing and Ideology
Ideological Contention
Ideological Contention and Cultural Production
References
Chapter 3: Incipient Practice and Culture
An Outline of Incipient Practice
Raymond Williams: Cultural Production and Cultural Formations
Antonio Gramsci, Organic Intellectuals, Organicitá, and Cultural Production
References
Chapter 4: Incipient Practice, Class, and Ideology
W.F. Haug and Pit: Superordinate Ideas, Socialization, and Competencies
Workerism, Class Composition, and Contemporary Class–Capital Relations
References
Chapter 5: The Factory Without Bosses
Struggles in and Beyond the Factory
From Civil Society to Society: Instituting Activities of FaSinPat
Incipient Practice, Instituent Praxis, and Constituent Power
References
Chapter 6: Incipient Practice and Subaltern Groups
Crenshaw, Collins, Omi and Winant, Hall, and Bonilla-Silva
Contextualizing Structural Racism in Italy
Subaltern Groups: Categorization and Critique
Continuity of Struggle/Continuity of Organization: The Role of Subaltern Groups
Subaltern Groups, Incipient Practice, and Organizing Intersectional Struggles
References
Chapter 7: Conclusion
References
Index
