Diversifying Networks: Webbing Heterogeneous Actors and Their Plural Campaigns

Abstract

In mobilization, participant and campaign diversity is as important as webbing multiple, yet fragmented, actions. A networked approach to mobilization, however, does not mean centralizing actions through top-down institutional arrangements; rather, it means creating healthy, sustaining ecosystem of polycentric structures where power emanates from multiple centers of influence. Under an overarching vision of a common good, climate actions and their actors would interact, interconnect, and cohere with each other in this ecosystem-while acknowledging that this will be messy and contested processes. As many climate action participants and their respective campaigns interconnect their diverse sources of power, capacities and practices—while remaining respectful of each other’s contributions, expertise, and experience—the climate action movement projects itself as a Movement of all Movements.