New social movements directly resist the colonization of the lifeworld

Evidence

Habermas has in mind, of course, the ‘new social movements’ — feminists, ecologists, campaigners against nuclear power and for peace — which emerged in the 1970s, and which in many cases directly involve ‘resistance to tendencies toward a colonization of the lifeworld’. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 406

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretizes what ‘colonization of the lifeworld’ means in practice — the resistance movements that operationalize it.
• XREF: Connects to Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action, and to the Marx-vs-Habermas debate on whether these movements replace class struggle. — connects to: New social movements resist easy classification as products of or correctives to capitalism. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 705; The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165; Colonized peoples demand modernization while colonialists resist it — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 80 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• New social movements resist easy classification as products of or correctives to capitalism. #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 705
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #exemplifies (0.72) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165
• Colonized peoples demand modernization while colonialists resist it #qualifies (0.70) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 80