Ó Donnabháin, St.John
(2014)
Ideological diversity and alliance building in Social Movements: The campaign against Shell in Ireland.
Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
This
thesis
asks
the
question:
How
can
social
movement
alliances
manage
to
acknowledge
and
work
across
difference
in
conflict
situations?
It
seeks
to
add
to
deeper
understandings
of
movements
by
examining
a
complex
multi-‐group
movement
context
in
which
complicated
and
very
layered
tensions
were
at
issue.
It
seeks
to
investigate
these
issues
through
a
case
study
of
tensions
between
movement
actors
within
the
campaign
against
Shell
in
North
West
Mayo,
Ireland,
between
English
ecological
activists,
Dublin
and
Cork
Shell
to
Sea
groups,
and
Irish
members
of
the
Rossport
Solidarity
Camp.
The
issue
of
how
to
acknowledge
and
work
with
difference
is
a
hugely
important
one
for
the
building
and
maintenance
of
contemporary
movement
alliances
for
practitioners,
and
is
also
an
area
of
interest
for
social
movement
scholars.
Connected
with
this,
alliance
is
largely
accepted
as
increasing
a
movement’s
chance
of
success,
and
is
usually
something
which
is
also
seen
as
desirable
by
movement
actors.
I
undertook
my
research
within
a
Participatory
Action
Research
(PAR)
frame.
As
such,
my
research
was
a
highly
involved
process,
within
the
frames
of
looking
at
dynamics
of
alliance
formation,
and
saw
its
main
themes
emerge
from
the
research
participants.
The
tensions
that
emerged
in
the
campaign
were
organised
around
a
discourse
of
colonialism
put
forward
by
members
of
Dublin
and
Cork
Shell
to
Sea,
but
the
issues
also
encompassed
differences
between
ecological
and
class-‐based
ideologies,
as
well
as
significant
differences
between
political
cultures
of
direct
action,
and
ones
based
around
political
organising.
This
work
is
done
with
the
aim
of
making
movement
participants
intelligible
to
each
other,
to
widen
movement
perspectives,
and
it
attempts
to
begin
a
process
of
dialogue
and
discussion
between
actors
in
the
campaign
against
Shell,
who
have
struggled
with
these
issues.
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(Masters)
|
| Additional Information: |
Submitted
in
part
fulfilment
of
the
requirements
for
the
MA
in
Community
Education,
Equality
and
Social
Activism |
| Keywords: |
Ideological diversity; alliance building; Social Movements; campaign; Shell; Ireland; MA
in
Community
Education,
Equality
and
Social
Activism; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Adult and Community Education |
| Item ID: |
12210 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
|
| Date Deposited: |
20 Jan 2020 15:04 |
| URI: |
|
| Use Licence: |
This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available
here |
Repository Staff Only(login required)
 |
Item control page |
Downloads per month over past year
Origin of downloads
Altmetric
Altmetric