• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Oneself as Another: From Social Movement to Experience Movement
  • Beteiligte: McDonald, Kevin
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2004
  • Erschienen in: Current Sociology, 52 (2004) 4, Seite 575-593
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/0011392104043492
  • ISSN: 0011-3921; 1461-7064
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  • Beschreibung: Social movements have been largely understood within western civilizational models emphasizing collective identity and a civic conception of action. This article explores two emerging forms of movement, the contemporary anti-globalization movement and the qigong movement that emerged in China over the 1980s. The qigong movement involves forms of embodiment and intensified personhood rather than collective identity. In the anti-globalization movement we encounter a break with representation, grammars of presence/absence rather than ‘we-ness’, and embodied communication. These movements underline singularity and experiences of oneself as another, suggesting a shift from ‘social movement’ to ‘experience movement’.