%0 Journal Article
%T Ideias versus redes sociais: ativismo ¨¤ distancia na Inglaterra do s¨¦culo XVIII Ideas versus social networks: long-distance activism in eighteenth-century England
%A Peter Stamatov
%J Tempo Social
%D 2012
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%X Quais s o as fontes hist¨®ricas das mobiliza  es em torno de quest es distantes - uma caracter¨ªstica t¨ªpica da modernidade? Este artigo examina a dinamica social que produziu os primeiros casos de campanhas sustentadas em torno de quest es distantes na Gr -Bretanha do s¨¦culo XVIII. O surgimento dessas campanhas ¨¦ muitas vezes entendido como determinado pela ascens o nesse per¨ªodo de novas ideologias de compaix o humanit¨¢ria. Para testar o papel dessas ideologias, comparo dois conjuntos de campanhas: o impeachment de Warrant Hastings por Edmund Burke e a s¨¦rie de mobiliza  es religiosas iniciada com o movimento contra o tr¨¢fico de escravos colonial. Embora ambos os conjuntos fossem impulsionados por idiomas culturais de preocupa  o humanit¨¢ria semelhantes, a iniciativa de Burke falhou em produzir engajamento popular e as campanhas religiosas foram capazes de mobilizar amplas audi¨ºncias de apoiadores. Essa diferen a surpreendente destaca a importancia das redes associativas religiosas para o surgimento dos primeiros casos modernos de mobiliza  o em torno de quest es distantes. What are the historical sources for mobilizations around distant issues - one of the characteristic features of modernity? This article examines the social dynamics that led to the first sustained campaigns on distant issues in late eighteenth-century Britain. Their emergence is often understood to have been determined by the rise of new ideologies of humanitarian compassion during the period. To test the role of these ideologies, I compare two sets of campaigns: Edmund Burke's impeachment of Warrant Hastings and the series of religious mobilizations initiated with the movement against the colonial slave trade. While both campaigns were driven by similar cultural idioms of humanitarian concern, Burke's initiative failed to produce popular engagement, while the religious campaigns were able to mobilize wide groups of public supporters. This striking difference highlights the importance of religious associational networks for the emergence of the first modern instances of mobilization on distant issues.
%K Redes associativas
%K Ativismo ¨¤ distancia
%K Abolicionismo
%K Associative neworks
%K Distance activism
%K Abolitionism
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