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A Political Psychology Approach to Militancy and Prefigurative ActivismAtivismo and Prefigurative Activities: The Sit-Ins in the State of São Paulo

A Political Psychology Approach to Militancy and Prefigurative Activism: Ativismo and... [Between November 2015 and January 2016, students occupied more than 200 public high school facilities in the state of Sao Paulo to prevent the state from closing their schools. As had happened in June 2013, this young generation of protesters refused to use the word militante to define their political endeavors and instead embraced the term ativismo. In this chapter, I use distinct kinds of evidence to build a case study to explain how these ativistas’ insurrections are distinct from the traditional Brazilian militante modes of protest. First, I connect the Brazilian sit-ins with the broader transformations in contentious politics taking place around the world to suggest that the commitment to prefigurative activities sets the ativista movement apart from the militante one. Then, I use a sociohistorical approach to human development to discuss the relevance of future-oriented actions, commitments, and agency to understand how people grow and change throughout their lives. In conclusion, I invite psychologists and researchers in the social sciences to address the challenge of theorizing how people interpret their world while changing it.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Political Psychology Approach to Militancy and Prefigurative ActivismAtivismo and Prefigurative Activities: The Sit-Ins in the State of São Paulo

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
ISBN
978-3-031-25033-0
Pages
19 –39
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-25034-7_2
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Between November 2015 and January 2016, students occupied more than 200 public high school facilities in the state of Sao Paulo to prevent the state from closing their schools. As had happened in June 2013, this young generation of protesters refused to use the word militante to define their political endeavors and instead embraced the term ativismo. In this chapter, I use distinct kinds of evidence to build a case study to explain how these ativistas’ insurrections are distinct from the traditional Brazilian militante modes of protest. First, I connect the Brazilian sit-ins with the broader transformations in contentious politics taking place around the world to suggest that the commitment to prefigurative activities sets the ativista movement apart from the militante one. Then, I use a sociohistorical approach to human development to discuss the relevance of future-oriented actions, commitments, and agency to understand how people grow and change throughout their lives. In conclusion, I invite psychologists and researchers in the social sciences to address the challenge of theorizing how people interpret their world while changing it.]

Published: Mar 7, 2023

Keywords: Brazil; militância; Militancy; ativismo; Activism; Agency; Prefigurative praxis; Transformative Activist Stance; June 2013; Protests; Political Psychology

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