How sustainable can a movement be? Structural conditions and contexts of engagement

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Marion Näser-Lather
University of Innsbruck
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4762-1889

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Abstract

My paper sheds light on influential factors regarding sustainability of activism on three levels: political and societal preconditions, movement structures and practices as well as individual resources and attitudes of activists related to socialization and living conditions. Drawing on approaches like resource mobilization theory, political opportunities, structural strains and emotions research, I show what factors facilitate and which hinder sustainability of activism.

Keywords: Sustainability, Movements, Activism, Longevity, Endurance

Biografia autore

Marion Näser-Lather, University of Innsbruck

is an Assistant Professor for European Ethnology at the Institute for History and European Ethnology of the University of Innsbruck. After completing her PhD on gender relations within the German armed forces, she held postdoc positions at Paderborn, Marburg, and Innsbruck, and has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Messina, Perugia and Hamburg. Her habilitation focused on the new Italian feminist movement ‘Se Non Ora Quando?’. Among her research interests are social movement research, gender studies, digitization, and methodological and ethical aspects of researching sensitive fields. Her last edited book, together with Timo Heimerdinger, Position beziehen, Haltung zeigen!? (2024) explores questions of positioning within cultural anthropology.

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Pubblicato

July 2, 2025