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标题：Academics and Social Movements: Knowing Our Place, Making Our Space
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作者：Kelvin Mason ; Regional Planning
期刊名称：ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
印刷版ISSN：1492-9732
出版年度：2013
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：23-43
语种：English
出版社：ACME: Eine internationale Internet-Zeitschrift für kritische Geographie
摘要：This paper considers the place of academics in social movements, not as (predominantly) researchers or individuals but as activists acting collectively (Autonomous Geographies Collective, 2010). The notions of militant particularism and convergence space (Routledge, 2003; Cumbers et al. 2008) are deployed in relation to global justice networks, to analyze the discussions between academics planning direct action collectively and potentially with the network Climate Justice Action during the UN COP15 climate change summit in Copenhagen in December 2009. A notable tension in these debates centered on ‘radical’ versus ‘reformist’ action and how either might contribute to transformative social change. The discussions ultimately led to the action of an academic seminar blockade, analyzed as a form of constructive resistance based on mutable particularisms flowing between shifting scales of convergence space. The paper concludes with the proposal that scholar activists should make a long-term commitment to act collectively, develop our own militant particularisms, and bring these to the convergence spaces of global justice networks.
关键词：academics;social movement;activism;militant particularism;convergence space;global justice networks;Climate Justice Action;COP15;radical;reformist;social change;seminar blockade;convergence space