Engagement between UK NGOs and social movements on climate and environmentalism

英国非政府组织与气候和环保社会运动的互动

• 批准号: 2751892
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2751892
• 关键词: Engagement; between; UK; NGOs; social

Summary (no more than 500 words) I will investigate the nature of UK NGOs' engagement with social movements in light of new waves of civic activism in the UK. Through semi-structured interviews, co-creation workshops, and secondary data collection, I will explore the following research questions:How and why do UK NGOs and UK social movements engage with each other? What effects do these engagements have on policy processes? How have the practices of NGOs and their engagement strategies changed since the wave of civic activism in 2011? I developed this research proposal based on my current professional position as Oxfam who, along with many other NGOs, has committed to closer partnership with informal civil society groups in the UK and around the world. Yet, as I've witnessed first-hand, NGOs often have a strained or even combative relationship with informal movements. An initial review of the literature shows pro-democracy movements of the Arab Spring and anti-austerity and anti-capitalist movements from 2011 garnered wide attention and sparked a broad literature. This included examinations of protestors' demands and aspirations (Calhoun 2013; Kaldor and Selchow 2012), similarities and differences from previous waves of activism (Calhoun, 1993; Cammaerts 2021; Togral, 2016), and their utilisation of new communication networks and social media platforms (Castells, 2012). An important aspect of so-called 'new-new social movements' is their practice of prefigurative politics, that is the notion, rooted in anarchist thought, that rather than simply protesting against a dominant regime, activists are "perform[ing] their vision of a 'better world' to come" (Jeffery and Dyson, 2020). For progressive movements this means, for example, adopting a leaderless or less hierarchical structure, and making greater use of direct action and new forms of contestation and disruption (Cammaerts, 2021).An important, yet under researched, area relates to what this new activism, including more prefigurative forms of action, means for formal civil society actors, including NGOs, which are traditionally more institutionalised. How are NGOs, in particular, responding to these more fluid practices?I focus on the UK as it is a particularly interesting and timely context for research. Climate change is a prominent political issue in the UK and, while the UK has one of the most established civil societies in the world - there are concerns that UK civic space is newly under threat. Exploring what the changing nature of civic space in the UK means for NGO/movement relations will be a timely and original contribution to the literature. I also expect my findings to be of relevance to stakeholders beyond the UK. Most of the NGOs listed above operate in multiple countries and activism and social movements are also increasingly international in scope.

摘要（不超过500字） 我将根据英国新一轮的公民行动主义浪潮来调查英国非政府组织参与社会运动的性质。通过半结构化访谈、共同创造研讨会和二次数据收集，我将探讨以下研究问题：英国非政府组织和英国社会运动如何以及为何相互接触？这些参与对政策进程有什么影响？自2011年公民行动浪潮以来，非政府组织的实践及其参与策略发生了怎样的变化？我根据我目前作为乐施会的专业地位制定了这项研究计划，乐施会与许多其他非政府组织一起致力于与英国和世界各地的非正式民间社会团体建立更密切的伙伴关系。然而，正如我亲眼所见，非政府组织经常与非正式运动保持紧张甚至对抗的关系。对文献的初步审查显示，阿拉伯之春的民主运动以及2011年以来的反紧缩和反资本主义运动引起了广泛关注并引发了广泛的文献报道。这包括对抗议者的要求和愿望的审查（Calhoun，2013；Kaldor 和 Selchow，2012）、与之前的激进主义浪潮的异同（Calhoun，1993；Cammaerts 2021；Togral，2016），以及他们对新通信网络和社交媒体的利用平台（Castells，2012）。所谓“新新社会运动”的一个重要方面是他们的象征性政治实践，即植根于无政府主义思想的观念，即活动家不是简单地抗议统治政权，而是“执行他们的愿景”。一个‘更美好的世界’即将到来”（Jeffery 和 Dyson，2020）。对于进步运动来说，这意味着，例如，采用无领导或等级较低的结构，并更多地利用直接行动以及新形式的争论和破坏（Cammaerts，2021）。一个重要但仍在研究的领域与这一新的内容有关激进主义，包括更多象征性的行动形式，对于包括非政府组织在内的正式民间社会行为者而言意味着传统上更加制度化。特别是非政府组织如何应对这些更加流动的做法？我关注英国，因为它是一个特别有趣且及时的研究背景。气候变化是英国的一个突出政治问题，尽管英国拥有世界上最成熟的公民社会之一，但人们担心英国的公民空间正面临新的威胁。探索英国公民空间性质的变化对非政府组织/运动关系意味着什么，将是对文献的及时和原创贡献。我还希望我的发现能够与英国以外的利益相关者相关。上面列出的大多数非政府组织在多个国家开展业务，激进主义和社会运动的范围也日益国际化。