Between the Spillover and the Spillout: Tracing the Evolution of the Czech Global Justice Movement

• Authors: Jiří Navrátil
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article conceptually and empirically focuses on various dimensions of the Czech Global Justice Movement (GJM) dynamics. In discussions on the Western GJM it is possible to distinguish two main perspectives on the movement’s evolution, which were formulated in different contexts. One view claims that no such single movement exists anymore; it has already declined (or ‘spilled out’ into different field of activism). The other view argues that the movement is undergoing profound changes but its major principles and identity – at least latently – have survived. The aim of this article is twofold. First, it strives to re-introduce the concepts of ‘spillover’ and ‘spillout’ as multidimensional social processes and operationalise them to apply to the evolution of the Czech GJM in 2003–2009. Second, the article empirically traces the thematic shift of the Czech GJM towards anti-war activism and demonstrates that it is the movement’s collective identity that constitutes a key obstacle to its spillout in an unfavourable environment.

Keywords

EN

contentious politics; collective identity; social movement spillover; global justice movement; anti-war activism; Czech Republic

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 913-944

Contributors

author

Jiří Navrátil

• Institute for Comparative Political Research, Faculty of Social Studies, Joštova 10, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic,