The New Anti-war Protests and Miscible Mobilizations |
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Authors: | Ion Bogdan Vasi |
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Institution: | 1. Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs , New York, USA bv2125@Columbia.edu |
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Abstract: | This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the relative success of the recent mobilizations against war despite the peace movement organizations' weakness and unfavorable political opportunity structures. I argue that these anti-war protests were shaped by two factors: first, by trigger events which created new grievances and, second, by the use of new information technologies such as the Internet. These factors contributed to what I call miscible mobilizations, or simultaneous mobilization efforts by movements with compatible ideologies and shared activist communities and SMOs. Results from an extensive study of the anti-war protests from September 2001 in the USA support this notion and call attention to the need to develop a synthesis between traditional resource mobilization, political process, and new social movement theories of mobilization and to focus research on the fluid processes of miscible mobilizations. |
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Keywords: | Social movements peace protests mobilization Internet |
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