Statactivism

The French movement of statactivism advocates for the mobilization of statistics in support to social movements and agendas.

[1] The program of French statactivistts is to ‘fight against’ as well as ‘fight with’ numbers, using a variety of possible strategies:[2][3] Statactivism's intellectually belongs to the tradition of sociology of numbers.

[2][5][6][7] Following Alain Desrosières[7] and Theodore Porter,[8] statactivists use statistics as a “tool of weakness”, which offer to the weak members of society the opportunity to act against their oppression by making injustice visible.

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