When No “Official Record” Exists?

Social movements seek social and political change in very specific political, economic, and cultural contexts. Their very imperative for structural change means that they are nonbureaucratic, noninstitutional, fluid collectives that have no single head office and few formal records of their existenc...

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Published in:Politics & gender 2010-12, Vol.6 (4), p.622-629
Main Author: Grey, Sandra J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bureaucracy
Collectives
Culture
Economics
Political Change
Political science
Politics
Social activism
Social Movements
Studying Women's Movements
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Summary:Social movements seek social and political change in very specific political, economic, and cultural contexts. Their very imperative for structural change means that they are nonbureaucratic, noninstitutional, fluid collectives that have no single head office and few formal records of their existence. This poses a substantial problem for researchers—how do we locate, measure, and record the trajectories of these phenomena?
ISSN:1743-923X
1743-9248
DOI:10.1017/S1743923X10000413