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This project is developed within a PhD scholarship with the funding reference 2022.14040.BD.
Translocal networks (TLNs) of social movements hold a central role in alternative approaches to governance and the ways in which citizens can become active actors in the current social and global challenges. However, the relationship between TLNs, participatory citizenship, cross-cultural relations and glocal governance remains underexplored. This research aims to explore and collect existing collaborative learning experiences in TLNs and what is emerging in their new social practices and crossculturally embedded challenges to tangibly achieve visions of a better future: social justice and inclusive innovation, just transition and regenerative development, deep cultural change with a scaleup networked impact. The research then intends to make an exploratory analysis of two relevant TLNs, the differences between their attitudinal cultures, memoire legacies transported which affect the relationship with different actors, including challenges in diffusion processes throughout their repertoires of knowledge, power and governance. The weight of the cultural imprints that are embedded in their multi-level alternative milieus identities and the exploration of the cultural dilution or conditioning within these TLNs will be a central axis of the research. Given the emergent nature of the research topic, a case-study analysis of Transition Movement and Global Ecovillage Networks is performed, using a combination of multiple methods inspired by Constructive Grounded Theory to analyse their network context-sensitive basis and embedded intercultural relations. By investigating the role of TLNs in the process of establishing and diffusing just transitions and social change, the project aims to contribute empirical and theoretical insights to current debates on civil society organisations, social movements and alternative milleus related to transition studies, and thus to political-cultural processes, theorisations and innovations. To this end, metamodernism will be conceptually1 explored: It draws on aspects of all three previous epistemes2 , and its central tenet3 is to protect inner, subjective, felt experience from the ironic distance of postmodernism, scientific reductionism of modernism, and impersonal inertia of tradition4 . By using this cultural turn lens, the bridge to the intercultural axis of research mentioned above is established, which also aims to stimulate its further research and its development in the social sciences. Recognising the importance of enabling practical action and producing new academic knowledge, without compromising scientific integrity, the research will be open about the researcher's positionality and as an ally of the networks by ethically including the value of translocal collaboration and promoting its potential value. Lastly, the bridge to academic research, practice and glocal governance will be made through the use of reflexivity and participatory research methods, producing diverse outputs for multiple audiences.
Keywords: Translocal Networks of Social Movements; Decentralised Governance of Shared Power; PoliticoCultural imprints in Transitions; Technologies of the Self for Social Change; Emerging Countercultures of Metamodernism.
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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| CEI-Iscte | Sustainable Societies | Partner | 2022-11-01 | -- |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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| Amandine Gameiro | PhD Scholar (CEI-Iscte); | PhD Scholar | 2022-11-01 | -- |
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