Th e article is focused on the practical mechanisms of assembly manage- ment in egalitarian settings in a comparative perspective: on the one hand, I ex- amine assemblies in what may be termed classic ethnogra phic settings (principally East African pastoralists); on the other hand, I turn to meetings in recent social movements (the Occupy movement in the United States and Slovenia; the 15M in Spain; Greece and Bosnia). I have two principal aims. First, I wish to identify and evaluate similarities and diff erences in the running of meetings with regard to pro- cesses of consensus building; the coordination of assemblies through the creation of roles and the menace of leadership; and the management of place, time, and speech. Second, I aim to evaluate current social movements’ use of alterpolitics, intended as the practical and imaginary reference to group meetings of the histor- ical, sectarian, or ethnic other.

Assemblies and the struggle to diffuse power ethnographic examples and contemporary practices / Boni, Stefano. - In: FOCAAL. - ISSN 0920-1297. - STAMPA. - 2015:72(2015), pp. 9-22. [10.3167/fcl.2015.720102]

Assemblies and the struggle to diffuse power ethnographic examples and contemporary practices

BONI, Stefano
2015

Abstract

Th e article is focused on the practical mechanisms of assembly manage- ment in egalitarian settings in a comparative perspective: on the one hand, I ex- amine assemblies in what may be termed classic ethnogra phic settings (principally East African pastoralists); on the other hand, I turn to meetings in recent social movements (the Occupy movement in the United States and Slovenia; the 15M in Spain; Greece and Bosnia). I have two principal aims. First, I wish to identify and evaluate similarities and diff erences in the running of meetings with regard to pro- cesses of consensus building; the coordination of assemblies through the creation of roles and the menace of leadership; and the management of place, time, and speech. Second, I aim to evaluate current social movements’ use of alterpolitics, intended as the practical and imaginary reference to group meetings of the histor- ical, sectarian, or ethnic other.
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Assemblies and the struggle to diffuse power ethnographic examples and contemporary practices / Boni, Stefano. - In: FOCAAL. - ISSN 0920-1297. - STAMPA. - 2015:72(2015), pp. 9-22. [10.3167/fcl.2015.720102]
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