Stephen Valocchi

Social Movements and Activism in the USA (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Social Movements and Activism puts 'front and center' the stories, rhetoric, and emotions of progressive activists from Hartford Connecticut, a post-industrial city in neo-liberal nation. Resisting the impulse to flatten the myriad voices of activism but refusing to leave these voices without context, Social Movements and Activism uses analytic concepts from social movement theory to assist these activists in telling us who they are, why and how they do activism, and what conflicts, tensions, and satisfactions they derive from it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135258528
• Artikelnr.: 49984013

Autorenporträt

Stephen Valocchi is Professor of Sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (with Robert C. Corber), and has also written numerous essays on progressive social movements in the United States, which have appeared in Mobilization, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, and Social Problems.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Scholars and Activists in Dialogue 2. Theory and Activism 3. The Context
of Hartford Progressive Activism 4. What Activists Do: Developing
Strategies, Conceptualizing Goals, Exploiting Opportunities 5. What
Activists Do: Gathering Resources, Forming Organizations 6. What Makes Them
Do It: Recruitment and Commitment to Social Movements 7. What Makes Them
Tired: Activist Burnout And Managing an Activist Life 8. Who They Are:
Collective Identity And Oppositional Consciousness 9. Rethinking Activists'
Questions And Scholars' Answers