The political morality of social movements

Abstract

Recent work on social movements in political theory has often focussed on ethical questions regarding when resistance might be justifiable. This panel broadens the conversation on resistance by attending to the internal dynamics of social movements, the implications of specific practices of resistance for the agents that engage in them, and the critical political analyses that enables resistors to diagnose the oppression they face. What do participants within social movements owe to each other? How might resistance transform the resistor? And how did members of oppressed groups conceptualise the interconnections between foreign and domestic oppression? Drawing on a variety of political traditions, this panel investigates the role of prefiguration and appropriation in resistance movements as well as the power of analytics generated by activists in understanding and contesting transnational forms of injustice.

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