‘Don’t just do something, sit there’: contemplative activism and ‘being political’ as prefigurative politics
Social Movement Studies June 8, 2023 Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg 14 citations
ABSTRACT In recent years, scholars have considered how activists are ‘being the change they want to see in the world’ and have developed the concept of prefigurative politics to describe how movements for social change align the means of their changemaking practices with the end goals of their organisations. Whereas being and embodiment seem to be central to this slogan, relatively little...