Practice Movements

Eckert, Julia (2023). Practice Movements. In: Snow, David A.; della Porta, Donatella; McAdam, Doug; Klandermans, Bert (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (pp. 1-3). Wiley 10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm611

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Practice movements are forms of unorganized collective action that have always been and are central sites of politics. Their goals are expressed in practices rather than in words, and their often “pre-ideological” practices directly and pragmatically aim at transforming or redistributing access to goods, whether material or symbolic. They are transgression rather than resistance in that they transgress restrictions inherent in the material organization of space, property relations, status orders, and normative regulations, be they laws, morals, or customs. Practice movements are above all about access and participation; they thus have an ambiguous relation to the transformation of the status quo. Their politics are transformative in as much as they challenge forms of exclusion and inequality. They can produce temporary or lasting changes in the material grounds or in the regulation of the everyday life of those who pursue them, and potentially of the normativity and the organization of the wider social order.

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