An elusive "we" antidogmatism, democratic practice, and the contradictory identity of the german autonomen

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1042-1068

  Leach, Darcy K ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Extraparliamentary politics; German left; Participatory democracy; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868892539     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764208327674     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Anonymous. (1981). Thesen zur Autonomen Bewegung. ["Theses on the Autonomous Movement."] Online archives of German autonomous movement Retrieved on July 1, 2007, from http://autox.nadir.org/archiv/auto/81-1.html
2. Berger, B.M. (1981). The survival of a counterculture: Ideological work and everyday life among rural communards. Berkeley: University of California Press.
3. Bernstein, M. (1997). Celebration and suppression: The strategic uses of identity by the lesbian and gay movement. American Journal of Sociology, 103, 531-565.
4. Breines, W. (1980). Community and organization: The New Left and Michels' "Iron Law." Social Problems, 27, 419-429.
5. Bundesministerium des Innern. [Constitutional Protection Report] (2001). Verfassungsschutzbericht. Berlin.
6. Bundesministerium des Innern. [Constitutional Protection Report] (2003). Verfassungsschutzbericht. Berlin.
7. Bundesministerium des Innern. [Constitutional Protection Report] (2006). Verfassungsschutzbericht. Berlin.
8. Chong, D. (1991). Collective action and the civil rights movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
9. Cohen, J. (1985). Strategy or identity: New theoretical paradigms and contemporary social movements. Social Research, 52, 663-716.
10. Dalton, R.J. (1994). The green rainbow: Environmental groups in Western Europe. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
11. della Porta, D. (1992). Introduction: On individual motivations in underground political organizations. International Social Movements Research, 4, 3-28.
12. Downey, G.L. (1986). Ideology and the Clamshell identity: Organizational dilemmas in the anti-nuclear power movement. Social Problems, 33, 357-373.
13. Epstein, B. (2001). Anarchism and the anti-globalization movement. Monthly Review, 53, 1-14.
14. Epstein, B.L. (1991). Political protest and cultural revolution: Nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press.
15. Evans, S., & Boyte, H. (1986). Free spaces: The sources of democratic change in America. New York: Harper & Row.
16. Feenberg, A. (1986). Paths to failure: The dialectics of organization and ideology in the New Left. In A. L. Reed (Ed.), Race, politics, and culture: critical essays on the radicalism of the 1960s (pp. 119-143). Westport, CT: Greenwood.
17. Fine, G.A., & Sandstrom, K. (1993). Ideology in action: A pragmatic approach to a contested concept. Sociological Theory, 11, 21-38.
18. Geronimo. (2002). Feuer und Flamme: zur Geschichte der Autonomen. [Fire and Flames: on the History of the Autonomen] Berlin: ID Verlag.
19. Gould, R.V. (1998). Political networks and the local/national boundary in the Whiskey Rebellion. In M. Hanagan, L. P. Moch, & W. te Brake (Eds.), Challenging authority (pp. 36-53). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
20. Haunss, S. (2004). Identität in Bewegung. Prozesse kollektiver Identität signt bei den Autonomen und in der Schwulenbewegung. [Identity in Movement: Processes of Collective Identity in the Autonomen and in the Gay Movement] Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
21. Haunss, S. (2006). Commitment frames: Movement strategies to secure persistence over time. Unpublished manuscript.
22. Haunss, S., & Leach, D. (2007). Social movement scenes: Infrastructures of opposition in civil society. In D. Purdue (Ed.), Civil societies and social movements: Potentials and problems (pp. 71-87). London: Routledge.
23. Inglehart, R. (1990). Values, ideology, and cognitive mobilization in new social movements. In R. J. Dalton & M. Keuchler (Eds.), Challenging the political order: New social and political movements in Western democracies (pp. 43-66). New York: Oxford University Press.
24. Jasper, J.M. (1997). The art of moral protest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
25. Jenkins, C. (1983). Resource mobilization theory. Annual Review of Sociology, 9, 527-553
26. Katsiaficas, G.N. (1997). The subversion of politics: European autonomous social movements and the decolonization of everyday life. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
27. Kitschelt, H. (1985). New social movements in West Germany and the United States. Political Power and Social Theory, 5, 273-324.
28. Kitschelt, H., & Hellemans, S. (1990). Beyond the European Left: Ideology and political action in Belgian ecology parties. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
29. Klandermans, B., & Tarrow, S. (1988). Mobilization into social movements: Synthesizing European and American approaches. In International social movement research: Research in social movements, conflicts and change (Vol. 1, pp. 1-38). Greenwich, CT: JAI.
30. Kongreßlesebuch-Gruppe. (1995). Der Stand der Bewegung: 18 Gespräche Über linksradikale Politik. Lesebuch zum Autonomie-Kongreß 1995. [The State of the Movement: 18 Conversations about Radical Leftist Politics. Reader for the Autonomy Congress 1995] Berlin: Eigendruck im Selbstverlag.
31. Koopmans, R. (1993). The dynamics of protest waves: West Germany, 1965 to 1989. American Sociological Review, 58, 637-658.
32. Koopmans, R. (1995). Democracy from below: New social movements and the political system in West Germany. Boulder, CO: Westview.
33. Koopmans, R. (1997). The dynamics of protest waves: West Germany, 1965 to 1989. In D. McAdam & D. A. Snow (Eds.), New social movements and political opportunities in Western Europe (pp. 367-387). Los Angeles: Roxbury.
34. Leach, D.K., & Haunss, S. (in press). Scenes and social movements. In H. Johnston (Ed.), Culture and social movements, and protest. Surrey, England. Ashgate Publishing.
35. Lichterman, P. (1996). The search for political community: American activists reinventing commitment. New York: Cambridge University Press.
36. Lichterman, P. (2009). Social capacity and the styles of group life: Some inconvenient wellsprings of democracy. American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (6). 846-866.
37. Lyons, M. (1988). The "grassroots" network: Radical nonviolence in the Federal Republic of Germany 1972-1985. Ithaca, NY: Center for International Studies, Cornell University.
38. Mansbridge, J. (2003). Consensus in context: A guide for social movements. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 24, 229-253.
39. McAdam, D. (1986). Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of Freedom Summer. American Journal of Sociology, 92, 64-90.
40. McCarthy, J.D., & Zald, M.N. (1973). The trend of social movements in America. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.
41. McCarthy, J.D., & Zald, M.N. (1977). Resource mobilization and social movements. American Journal of Sociology, 82, 1212-1241.
42. Melucci, A. (1989). Nomads of the present: Social movements and individual needs in contemporary society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
43. Melucci, A. (1995). The process of collective identity. In H. Johnston & B. Klandermans (Eds.), Social movements and culture: Social movements, protest, and contention (Vol. 4, pp. 41-63). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
44. Offe, C. (1985). New social movements: Challenging the boundaries of institutional politics. Social Research, 52, 817-868.
45. Oliver, P., & Johnston, H. (2000). What a good idea: Frames and ideologies in social movements. Mobilization, 5, 37-54.
46. Olsen, M. (1971). The logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
47. Platt, G.M., & Williams, R.H. (2002). Ideological language and social movement mobilization: A sociolinguistic analysis of segregationists' ideologies. Sociological Theory, 20, 328-359.
48. Polletta, F. (2001). " This is what democracy looks like." A conversation with direct action network activists David Graeber, Brooke Lehman, Jose Lugo, and Heremy Varon. Social Policy, 31, 25-30.
49. Polletta, F. (2002). Freedom is an endless meeting: Democracy in American social movements. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
50. Polletta, F. (2005). How participatory democracy became White: Culture and organizational choice. Mobilization, 10, 271-288.
51. Polletta, F., & Jasper, J.M. (2001). Collective identity and social movements. Annual Review of Sociology, 27, 283-305.
52. Reger, J. (2002). More than one feminism: Organizational structure and the construction of collective identity. In J. Reger (Ed.), Social movements (pp. 171-184). New York: Oxford University Press.
53. Rosner, M., & Blasi, J.R. (1985). Theories of participatory democracy and the Kibbutz. The Kibbutz, 11, 11-27.
54. Roth, B. (1998). Feminist boundaries in the feminist-friendly organization: The Women's Caucus of ACT UP/LA. Gender Sociology, 12, 129-145.
55. Rothschild, J., & Whitt, J.A. (1986). The cooperative workplace: Potentials and dilemmas of organizational democracy and participation. New York: Cambridge University Press.
56. Rothschild-Whitt, J. (1979). The collectivist organization: An alternative to rational-bureaucratic models. American Sociological Review, 44, 509-527.
57. Rucht, D. (1990). The strategies and action repertoires of new movements. In R. J. Dalton & M. Keuchler (Eds.), Challenging the political order: New social and political movements in Western democracies (pp. 156-175). Cambridge, UK: Polity.
58. Rupp, L., & Taylor, V. (1987). Survival in the doldrums: The American women's rights movement, 1945 to the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press.
59. Steinberg, M.W. (1993). Rethinking ideology: A dialogue with Fine and Sandstrom from a dialogic perspective. Sociological Theory, 11, 314-320.
60. Swidler, A. (1986). Culture in action: Symbols and strategies. American Sociological Review, 51, 273-286.
61. Tarrow, S.G. (1994). Power in movement: Social movements, collective action, and politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
62. Teske, N. (1997). Political activists in America: The identity construction model of political participation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.