Cox, Laurence and Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (2005) Why do activists need theory? Euromovements Newsletter.

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Abstract

In this paper, we retrace in concepts a path that we’ve followed in the experience and practice of our own lives: from activism to theory, and back again to activism, now understood in a new light. Like many people, we’ve found ourselves moving towards activism as we discovered the boundaries that our kind of societies place in the way of living fully human lives. Over time, we found ourselves asking broader questions of the world and ourselves than could be answered within the activist frameworks we had available to us at the time, and moved to draw on the theoretical resources of the past, specifically Marxism. We are now moving back towards activism, through our own participation and through social movements research. In this paper we want to see what we can bring back from our theorizing that will help us and other activists in our practice.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	activism; activists; Marxism;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	445
Depositing User:	Dr. Laurence Cox
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2006
Journal or Publication Title:	Euromovements Newsletter
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://www.euromovements.info/html/index...
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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