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From movement to category-based mobilizations: A shift in political mobilization after the 1960s?
Gay Liberation March in Times Square, 1969.
Crédits : Diana Davies

Vendredi 4 mai

From movement to category-based mobilizations: A shift in political mobilization after the 1960s?

Journée d'études du CENA

A hallowed narrative has long dominated the historiography of the civil rights movement in the United States: after its heyday in the mid-1960s, this movement is generally seen as having undergone an irreversible decline, falling short of the authentically democratic expectations it had raised and forsaking its inclusive approach to social change. Second-generation movements and category-based mobilizations of the 1970s, happening on a backdrop of rising conservatism and aiming for group-specific gains only, are often equated by actors of the civil rights themselves with pale imitations of their movement. This narrative is congruent with the analysis developed by political scientists, who tend to see a pattern of succession between protest politics and conventional politics. The distinction between social movements on the one hand, and lobbies, interest groups and political parties on the other, is another tenet of this analysis, which takes for granted that those social formations qualitatively differ in their level of institutionalization, professionalization and command of politics. To question this narrative, the symposium “From movement to category-based mobilizations?” wants to investigate the exchanges, cross-fertilization and overlaps that blur the boundaries between those different types of mobilization.

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