Social movements studies and social critique

Juan Pablo Rodríguez

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32108-6_4

Social movements studies and social critique

Juan Pablo Rodríguez^*

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School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies

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This chapter turns to an investigation of how the topic of ‘social critique’ has been tackled within social movements studies. Rodríguez synthesises some of the main strands of social movement studies, focusing particularly on the ‘return’ of capitalism to social movements studies. The chapter traces the trajectory of social movement studies and the response of scholars to the ‘common agenda’ and to ‘macro’ and reductionist accounts of collective action, sketching out possible areas of convergence between critical social theory and recent developments in social movement studies. Crucially, the idea of ‘critique in movement’ is introduced here as an articulating concept between critical social theory and social movement studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism in Chile
Subtitle of host publication	The Possibility of Social Critique
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	83-105
Number of pages	23
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-32108-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-32107-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32108-6_4
Publication status	Published - 19 Dec 2019

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Name	Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
ISSN (Print)	2524-7123
ISSN (Electronic)	2524-7131

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