Affective and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary social movements in South West England |
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| Authors: | Peter Jowers Jorge Dürrschmidt Richard O'Docherty Derek Purdue |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Senior Lecturer in Politics , The University of the West of England , Bristol;2. Lecturer in Sociology , The University of the West of England , Bristol;3. Principle Lecturer in Economics , The University of the West of England , Bristol;4. Research assistant in the Faculty of the Built Environment , The University of the West of England , Bristol |
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| Abstract: | The paper examines contemporary social movement activity within South West England. It is argued that much social movement analysis has been too nation‐state orientated, that it has too readily framed diverse contemporary practices within a narrow, politically reductive and instrumentally rational frame. Increasingly, aesthetic and affective dimensions of everyday life must be examined if any coherent theoretical account of such activity is to be offered. Altering relations between states and their citizens in a global age and the emergence of an extended civil society are linked to a weakening of the capacity of nation states to manage identity formation. A series of excursuses link theoretical analysis of the expressive dimensions of the region's social movement activity, to these more extended global transformations. |
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