Struggling Movements in Dubious Opportunities - An Afterword to ‘Surviving Neoliberalism: The Persistence of Australian Social Movements’

摘要

The experience of Australian social movements during the Howard government stimulates reflections on the strategies that critical dissenters adopt in order to maximize their mobilizing capacity and chances of success under unfavourable political conditions. It also prompts a reconsideration of our analytic categories in at least two directions. First, by suggesting that other modes of coordination of collective action such as those based on community networks or ad hoc coalitions may prove effective also when it is difficult to build large-scale social movements. Second, by pointing at the variable impact of movements with a different class basis.