Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus
| dc.contributor.author | Khasnabish, Alex | |
| dc.contributor.author | Haiven, Max | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-04T18:22:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-10-04T18:22:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article explores the ways social movement “successes” and “failures” are conceived of and measured, particularly in relation to research that strives to act in solidarity with such movements . Reviewing some of the best examples of politically - engaged research , we contend that even these assume normative categories of “success” and “failure” with respect to both move ment and research outcomes. Drawing on o ur work in the Radical Imagination Project, a politically - e ngaged social movement research project in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, we argue that social movements typically dwell not at the poles of the success/failure binary but in the “hiatus” between “not - success” and “not - failure.” We contend that a more dynamic mapping of social movement success an d failure produces a richer and more robust und erstanding of social movements, the significance of their activity, and social change. This reconceptualization and remapping of success and failure also has important implications for the way researchers seek ing to work in solidarity with social movements can productively reimagine their own measures of succes s and failure . | en_US |
| dc.format.availability | Citation only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Khasnabish, A., & Haiven, M. (2013). Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus. Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements 5(2): 472-498. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Interface-5-2-Haivenand- Khasnabish.pdf. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10587/1657 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |