Statactivism
The French movement of statactivism advocates for the mobilization of statistics in support to social movements and agendas. Content. The program of French statactivistts is to ‘fight against’ as well as ‘fight with’ numbers, using a variety of possible strategies: Statactivism's intellectually belongs to the tradition of sociology of numbers. Following Alain Desrosières and Theodore Porter, 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.