POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Collective Action, Public Space, Intentionality
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Social non-movements: there are 2 key identifying points to it, collective actions of non-collective actors. Slum example if the slum dweller try to get electricity he is engaging in social non movement (a shared practice done by a number of different people: trigger much social change. Electricity example after a while of this happening, it can cause many problems. Their struggle is not a politics of protest but a politics of redress struggle for immediate improvement of their lives a goal that seeks to readdress from the government. Quiet encroachment: a form of a non social movement, basic features, quiet, largely atomized and prolonged mobilization. Bayat argues that quiet encroachment as a form of a social non-movement is a political act. Generally in developing nations, the state may not have the capacity to engage in surveillance of such behaviour while in developed they do generally. He says that these kinds of state responses usually come too late and are ineffective.
