Social movement, collective behavior and constituent power

Magnus Wennerhag

Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper, not in proceeding

Abstract

This paper mainly consists of two parts. The first one, originally written as an outline for the theoretical grounds of my thesis (that considers “the global justice movement”), consists in a discussion about the roots of the concept of social movements, and ends up in proposing three ways of conceiving social movements. The second part consists in an outline of one of these dimensions of social movements, with the focus on the theories of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and especially the concept constituent power, and how it relates to the movement concept.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages21
Publication statusUnpublished - 2006
EventWinter Symposium of NSU krets 8: “Samfunnskritikk og analyse under globalkapitalismen” - Paris
Duration: 2006 Feb 16 → …

Conference

ConferenceWinter Symposium of NSU krets 8: “Samfunnskritikk og analyse under globalkapitalismen”
Period2006/02/16 → …

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)

Free keywords

  • Antonio Negri
  • Michael Hardt
  • constituent power
  • the multitude
  • collective behavior
  • history of the social sciences
  • sociology
  • social movements
  • the global justice movement
  • Lorenz von Stein
  • Gustave Le Bon
  • sociologiska institutionen
  • sociologi

Cite this