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This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements over time, by developing analytical tools to study how social movement heterogeneities are simultaneously acknowledged and articulated together, through collective narration and practices. With a unique empirical analysis of one particular narrative - the story of Brazil's Landless Movement - this Briefs portrays a narrative revisited and revised by movement participants, a story revived through enactment. This Briefs addresses the increasing academic audience seeking to study, and theorize, the multi-colored phenomena of resistance and social movements.
List of contents
Preface.- Chapter 1. Dimensions of Resistance.- Chapter 2. In Dialogue with the Past.- Chapter 3. The Story.- Chapter 4. Narrative Enactment.- Chapter 5. Making History, Making Resistance.
About the author
Dr. Markus Lundström currently teaches and supervises at the Department of Economic History, Stockholm University. Lundström’s publications on resistance encompass organized social movements, contingencies of urban riots, as well as historical and contemporary mobilizations of radical nationalism. In his ongoing research, Lundström explores intersectional anarchist critiques of nationalism, speciesism and marketization..
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This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements over time, by developing analytical tools to study how social movement heterogeneities are simultaneously acknowledged and articulated together, through collective narration and practices. With a unique empirical analysis of one particular narrative – the story of Brazil’s Landless Movement – this Briefs portrays a narrative revisited and revised by movement participants, a story revived through enactment. This Briefs addresses the increasing academic audience seeking to study, and theorize, the multi-colored phenomena of resistance and social movements.
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“Markus Lundström’s innovative analysis of the role of historical narrative in this success story of the MST makes for fascinating reading. … his book would be part and parcel of a very recent trend to analyse the relationship between social movements and memory that is undertaken both by memory study scholars and social movement studies scholars.” (Stefan Berger, Moving the Social, Vol. 62, 2019)
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"Markus Lundström's innovative analysis of the role of historical narrative in this success story of the MST makes for fascinating reading. ... his book would be part and parcel of a very recent trend to analyse the relationship between social movements and memory that is undertaken both by memory study scholars and social movement studies scholars." (Stefan Berger, Moving the Social, Vol. 62, 2019)
