Diez propuestas para el estudio de las movilizaciones colectivas. De la experiencia al compromiso

Abstract

The present article reviews a number of works available, both in Europe and the United States, and proposes two shifts in the analysis of collective mobilizations. First, it takes as guiding principle the notion of inherited experience of the phenomenology and hermeneutics. To understand what happens in collective mobilizations it is necessary to investigate about actors’ contexts of experience. Second, rather than focusing attention on social movements, aspiring to the status of collective subjects, attention is shifted to problematic situations. Trying to define and control them, different actors become mobilized, come into complex relationships of cooperation and conflict, and shape public arenas focused on public issues. The general objective of this article is not to invalidate existing models, but rather to reorganize them under a different perspective.