Molarization and singularization: social movements, transformation and hegemony.

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dc.contributor.authorMontgomery, Nicholas
dc.contributor.supervisorWalker, R. B. J.
dc.contributor.supervisorMagnusson, Warren
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-06T21:17:11Z
dc.date.available2011-01-06T21:17:11Z
dc.date.copyright2010en
dc.date.issued2011-01-06T21:17:11Z
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Political Scienceen
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis presents a critique of counterhegemony, arguing that imperatives of unity and coherence in social movement theory and practice tend to limit potentials for transformation. I use the 'new social movement theory' of Alberto Melucci and Alain Touraine in order to foreground the problem of intelligibility. Laclau and Mouffe’s conception of articulation is used to develop the problem of intelligibility, and helps to avoid reification. However, I argue that their concept of counterhegemony presents a blackmail where social movements either represent themselves in universal terms, or are cast as merely fragmented and particular. The Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts molarization and molecularization are used to argue that social movements that appear fragmented or vague may in fact be transformative in unexpected ways. The final chapter focuses on a recent guerilla garden at the University of Victoria, and I argue that it is significant in its capacity to foreground problems and suspend commonsense habits, without presenting a coherent and unified programme.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3187
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjectDeleuzeen
dc.subjectGuattarien
dc.subjectMassumien
dc.subjectLaclauen
dc.subjectactivismen
dc.subjectprotesten
dc.subjectsingularityen
dc.subjectmolaren
dc.subjectmolecularen
dc.subjectpoliticsen
dc.subjectpoliticizationen
dc.subjectcounterhegemonyen
dc.subjectnonhegemonicen
dc.subjectpostanarchismen
dc.subjectpoststructuralismen
dc.subjectarticulationen
dc.subjectpolitical spaceen
dc.subjectMagnussonen
dc.subjectmarxismen
dc.subjectpostmarxismen
dc.subjectuniversalityen
dc.subjectparticularityen
dc.subjectUniversity of Victoria (B.C)en
dc.subjectguerrilla gardenen
dc.subjectUVicen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Political Scienceen
dc.titleMolarization and singularization: social movements, transformation and hegemony.en
dc.typeThesisen

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