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Towards a Theory of Global Collective Action and Institutions

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Our intent here is to begin a rethinking of the institution as a global phenomenon for the sociology of social movements. That which we have long understood to be the main function of institutions, for example, normative regulation associated with the spatiality of the city or nation-state, is being re-routed through a growing awareness of the ambivalences contained in systems of human action more and more configured through complex processes of globalization. One result has been a move away from the study of structural features of institutions to a focus on the way institutional actors and new collectivities recognize and acknowledge each other as players in a diversity of social/cultural practices which are more and more institutionally defined in global terms. Institutionalization, as an agonistic, conflict-laden process, constrains and enables the experience of cultural practices. Hence, it is infinitely more inscribed with meaning than that captured in approaches which point to the routinization of the emergent norm, or in Weber’s term, the unfolding of instrumental rationality as the basis for a social relationship. Indeed, with the advent of globalization the institution has become a concept that requires re-theorization. The present chapter is a modest contribution to this overall task.

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  1. Henri Lustiger-Thaler
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Montreal, Canada

    Pierre Hamel (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Ramapo College, USA

    Henri Lustiger-Thaler (Associate Professor of Sociology) (Associate Professor of Sociology)

  3. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Jan Nederveen Pieterse (Associate Professor of Sociology) (Associate Professor of Sociology)

  4. University of Leeds, UK

    Sasha Roseneil (Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies) (Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies)

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Lustiger-Thaler, H., Maheu, L., Hamel, P. (2001). Towards a Theory of Global Collective Action and Institutions. In: Hamel, P., Lustiger-Thaler, H., Pieterse, J.N., Roseneil, S. (eds) Globalization and Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554443_3

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