Actions for Social movements : identity, culture, and the state

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Social movements : identity, culture, and the state / edited by David S. Meyer, Nancy Whittier, & Belinda Robnett

Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 366 pages)
Additional Creators
Meyer, David S., Whittier, Nancy, 1966-, and Robnett, Belinda, 1956-
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Language Note
English.
Contents
pt. I. Introduction. Opportunities and identities: bridge-building in the study of social movements / David S. Meyer -- pt. II. States and policies. State repression and democracy protest in three southeast Asian countries / Vincent Boudreau -- Mobilization on the South African gold mines / T. Dunbar Moodie -- Multiple meditations: the state and the women's movements in India / Manisha Desai -- The contradictions of gay ethnicity: forging identity in Vermont / Mary Bernstein -- Creating social change: lessons from the civil rights movement / Kenneth T. Andrews -- pt. III. Organization and strategies. The "meso" in social movement research / Suzanne Staggenborg -- Strategizing and the sense of context: reflections on the first two weeks of the Liverpool docks lockout, September-October 1995 / Colin Barker and Michael Lavalette -- Factions and the continuity of political challengers / Mildred A. Schwartz -- More than one feminism: organizational structure and the construction of collective identity / Jo Reger -- The development of individual identity and consciousness among movements of the left and right / Rebecca E. Klatch -- pt. IV. Collective identities, discourse, and culture. Toward a more dialogic analysis of social movement culture / Marc W. Steinberg -- Materialist feminist discourse analysis and social movement research: mapping the changing context for "community control" / Nancy A. Naples -- From the "beloved community" to "family values": religious language, symbolic repertoires, and democratic culture / Rhys H. Williams -- External political change, collective identities, and participation in social movement organizations / Belinda Robnett -- pt. V. Conclusion. Meaning and structure in social movements / Nancy Whittier.
Summary
Why do social movements take the forms they do? How do activists' efforts and beliefs interact with the cultural and political contexts in which they work? Why do activists take particular strategic paths, and how do their strategies affect the course and impact of the movement? "Social Movements" aims to bridge the gap between "political opportunities" theorists, who look at the circumstances and effects of social movement efforts, and "collective identity" theorists, who focus on the reconstruction of meaning and identity through collective action. The volume brings together scholars from a variety of perspectives to consider the intersections of opportunities and identities, structures and cultures in social movements. Representing a new generation of social movement theory, the contributors build bridges between political opportunities and collective identity paradigms, between analyses of movements' internal dynamics and their external contexts, between approaches that emphasize structure and those that emphasize culture. They cover a wide range of case studies from both the U.S. and Western Europe as well as from less developed countries.; Movements include feminist organizing in the U.S. and India, lesbian/gay movements, revolutionary movements in Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia, labor campaigns in England and South Africa, civil rights movements, community organizing, political party organizing in Canada, student movements of the left and right, and the Religious Right. Many chapters also pay explicit attention to the dynamics of gender, race, and class in social movements. Combining a variety of perspectives on a wide range of topics, the contributors' synthetic approach shifts the field of social movements forward in important new directions.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9780198032793 (electronic bk.)
019803279X (electronic bk.)
1423735315 (electronic bk.)
9781423735311 (electronic bk.)
1602564450
9781602564459
9780195143553
0195143558
9780195143560 (pbk.)
0195143566 (pbk.)
1280531428
9781280531422
Digital File Characteristics
data file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-346) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 43159041