In this guide, you will learn what a movement of movements is. We explain how to strengthen connections between movements. We discuss how to bring together activists across countries, causes and strategies.

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Also make sure to read our guides on coalition-building and partnerships (guide not yet created). If you are interested in the practicalities of starting collaborations with other movements, we recommend you to check out those guides.

This guide on movement of movements will allow you to take a more birds-eye view and understand how various movements relate to each other.

Summary #

A movement of movements is a dynamic network of solidarity and collaboration among different social movements that challenge the same dominant systems of oppression and exploitation.

• ❤️‍🔥 What is a movement of movements?

• 🌏 Examples

• 🗺️ Movement mapping

• 💪 Strengthening relations

• 😅 Commons challenges

Analysing a movement of movements #

Strengthing a movement of movements #

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External resources #

Movement of movements #

• PDF: Movement of movements primer by Saïd Business School (2020)

• Book: The movements of movements. Part 1, What makes us move? edited by Jai Sen

• Book: A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible? edited by Tom Mertes

• Book: The Movement of Movements: A Last Chance to Save the Planet? by Christian Sarkar, Karthiga Ratnam and Philip Kotler

• Chapter: This Movement of Movements in 'Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger' by Julie Sze (2020)

• Academic: Appreciating the Movement of the Movements by Helen Hintjens (2006)

• Chapter: Movement of Movements, Resilient Strategies in the ‘Global South’ in 'Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis' by Kitty Zijlmans

• Roadmap: A Movement of Movements by Michael Nagler (2014)

• Academic: Movement of movements, toward a more democratic globalization (2007)

Social movement ecology #

• Social Movement Ecology and Its Implications: Unpacking the Natural Metaphor by Benjamin Case (2018)

• What is social movement ecology?

• Social movement ecology and its implications: unpacking the natural metaphor by Benjamin S. Case (2017)