STRATEGIC AND PRE-FIGURATIVE POLITICS MERGED: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

• Authors: Moskvina Yuliya
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper explores the analytical benefits of the pragmatic sociology of critique for the study of autonomous movements. Based on a case study of public disputes concerning the Klinika social centre in Prague, it merges conceptual notions of social movement studies and the analysis of pre-figurative politics. These approaches differ in the data involved in analysis, researcher position, relationship between critique and hegemonic institutional order, and the publicity of the political actions. However, if understood from the pragmatic perspective of engagements, the two approaches feature different ontic levels of politics – strategic and pre-figurative. The paper claims that pragmatic sociology has much analytical capacity to include a wider range of data, emic and etic perspectives, and optically different types of politics. It also interprets institutional order as having agency and brings to light a plurality of urban meanings embedded in different levels of reality. However, the pragmatic approach is limited by its neglect of the spatial and temporal conditioning of public disputes.

Keywords

EN

SOCIAL MOVEMENT; PRAGMATIC SOCIOLOGY; POLITICS

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 544-568

Contributors

author

Moskvina Yuliya

• Institute for Sociological Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2022.54.6.19