期刊名称：Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
电子版ISSN：2330-1392
出版年度：2013
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：31-51
出版社：Punctum Books
摘要：Greece has been one of the countries which most severely suffered the consequences ofthe global economic crisis during the past two years. It has also been a country with along tradition of protest. The present paper reports a study in which we examined theways in which people talk about subjective power and deal with the outcome of collectiveaction in the context of defeat. Subjective power has recently become a prominent field ofresearch and its link to collective action has been studied mainly through the concept ofcollective efficacy. The current study explored questions based on recent social identityaccounts of subjective power in collective action. We examined participants’ experiencesof subjective power before and after Mayday 2012, in Greece. Two different collectiveaction events took place: a demonstration against austerity and a demonstration tosupport steel workers who were on strike. In total, 19 people were interviewed, 9 beforethe demonstrations and 10 after. Thematic analysis was carried out. Protest participantstalked about power in terms of five first-order themes: the necessity of building power,unity, emotional effects, effects of (dis)organization, and support as success. The steelworkers we spoke to experienced the events more positively than the other intervieweesand had different criteria for success. Theories of collective action need to take accountof the fact that subjective power has important emotional as well as cognitive dimensions,and that definitions of success depend on definitions of identity
关键词：empowerment; collective action; Greece; efficacy; social identity
