Topic 3

Vocabulary flashcards covering the emergence of 1960s new social movements, western postwar stability and Cold War consensus, the Long Civil Rights Movement, Fraser's justice framework, and early Global South anti-imperialist feminist internationalism.

New Social Movements (NSMs)

A provisional category of post-World War II protest movements emerging in affluent western liberal democracies that shifted away from traditional material and economic labor struggles to politicize issues of gender, sexuality, race, peace, and ecology.

The Long Boom

The period of uninterrupted economic expansion and rising affluence in western industrialized nations between 1945 and 1973, marked by record low unemployment, mass consumer durable goods, and the rise of commercial youth culture.

Embedded Liberalism

The post-World War II international economic framework informing the Bretton Woods agreement, where commitments to open global trade and finance were paired with domestic state regulatory autonomy to safeguard employment and social welfare.

Democratic Pluralism

A political theory asserting that continuous negotiation, competition, and compromise between diverse, cross-cutting interest groups and the state diffuses societal tensions, rendering extra-institutional rebellion unlikely.

End of Ideology

A postwar intellectual consensus among western thinkers asserting that fundamental ideological conflicts between capitalism, fascism, and communism were obsolete because western welfare capitalism had established the definitive model of human society.

Protest Cycle (Cycle of Contention)

A period of heightened social mobilization across multiple sectors in which early movements generate, test, and diffuse strategies, tactical repertoires, and ideological frames that subsequent movements adopt and adapt.

Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation

Nancy Fraser's three-dimensional framework of justice combining the restructuring of wealth and social reproduction (redistribution), the cultural valuation of difference (recognition), and political voice and access (representation) into an integrated emancipatory struggle.

Solidarity of Commonalty

Elisabeth Armstrong's concept describing international feminist solidarity built around universal human rights and shared values spanning civil, political, economic, and social domains across all women.

Solidarity of Complicity

Elisabeth Armstrong's concept describing a feminist internationalist practice where women acknowledge unequal geopolitical and colonial power relations and hold their own national governments accountable for atrocities and imperialism committed in their name.

Solidarity of Possibility

A transnational exchange wherein Global South activist organizations share tactical innovations and organizational models, such as Indian communist women adopting the peasant-mobilization methods of Indonesia's Gerwani.

Politics of Knowledge Construction

The study of how historical narratives and policy evidence are mediated by power structures and institutional interests, determining which voices are preserved and which critical or marginalized voices are systematically excluded.

Socially embedded markets

The concept that markets are political institutions whose forms and functions for distributing resources are shaped by political, social, and religious practices and norms rather than operating in isolation.

Embedded liberalism

A post-World War II global economic order under Keynesianism and the Bretton Woods agreement, where open trade and finance were embedded in governance structures that preserved state autonomy to safeguard domestic objectives, especially employment.

1968 ('Year of the barricades')

A pivotal period of widespread political upheavals across multiple countries, where movements unexpectedly emerged despite the era's widespread affluence within liberal democracies.

Protest cycle (cycle of contention)

A dynamic where the tactics, organizational forms, and strategies developed by earlier social movements inform and inspire subsequent social movements.

Dominant narrative of the civil rights movement

A distorted historical account that confines the civil rights struggle strictly to the American South, reduces it to a single decade (mid-1950s to mid-1960s), limits its scope to legal reforms, and obscures structural racial inequalities.

The 'long civil rights movement'

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall's historical framing that civil rights began earlier, continued later, operated across the entire United States, centered women activists, and focused fundamentally on economic inequalities and resource redistribution.

Politics of redistribution (feminism)

The second-wave feminist project that pushed the boundaries of political debate regarding the allocation of wealth and economic resources to include social reproduction.

Politics of recognition (feminism)

A feminist focus that gained prominence in the 1980s alongside the rise of neoliberalism, centering primarily on valorizing cultural difference and identity.

Tripartite emancipatory framework (Fraser 2013)

Nancy Fraser's model combining redistribution, recognition, and representation into a unified emancipatory struggle rather than treating them as isolated demands.

Global South feminist mobilizations

Feminist movements examined by Armstrong (2015) that cannot be assimilated into Western narratives, having long integrated redistribution, recognition, and representation as mutually reinforcing struggles.

Bandung Conference (1955)

A pivotal Asian-African conference highlighting multifaceted regional cooperation and the agency of grassroots actors, such as peasant women, in challenging prevailing global orders.

Rightwing populist movements

Backlash movements characterized by nationalism, anti-immigration policies, and pro-security or law-and-order agendas that gain traction during periods of cultural and political contention.

Conservative patriarchal movements

Reactionary counter-movements organized in opposition to feminist gains, LGBTQI+ rights, and reproductive autonomy, often intersecting with rightwing electoral mobilization.

Politics of knowledge construction

The reality that structures through which history and knowledge are produced are imbued with power and conflict, which can be examined by uncovering marginal and critical voices.