Strategies for Social Change

✍ Scribed by Gregory M. Maney (editor), Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum (editor), Deana A. Rohlinger (editor), Jeff Goodwin (editor)

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The theory and practice of social movements come together in strategy—whether, why, and how people can realize their visions of another world by acting together. Strategies for Social Change offers a concise definition of strategy and a framework for differentiating between strategies. Specific chapters address microlevel decision-making processes and creativity, coalition building in Northern Ireland, nonviolent strategies for challenging repressive regimes, identity politics, GLBT rights, the Christian right in Canada and the United States, land struggles in Brazil and India, movement-media publicity, and corporate social movement organizations.

Contributors: Jessica Ayo Alabi, Orange Coast College; Kenneth T. Andrews, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Anna-Liisa Aunio, U of Montreal; Linda Blozie; Tina Fetner, McMaster U; James M. Jasper, CUNY; Karen Jeffreys; David S. Meyer, U of California, Irvine; Sharon Erickson Nepstad, U of New Mexico; Francesca Polletta, U of California, Irvine; Belinda Robnett, U of California, Irvine; Charlotte Ryan, U of Massachusetts–Lowell; Carrie Sanders, Wilfrid Laurier U; Kurt Schock, Rutgers U; Jackie Smith, U of Pittsburgh; Suzanne Staggenborg, U of Pittsburgh; Stellan Vinthagen, U West, Sweden; Nancy Whittier, Smith College.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
An Introduction to Strategies for Social Change
I. Conceptual Foundations and Agendas
1. Thinking about Strategy
2. Choice Points, Emotional Batteries, and Other Ways to Find Strategic Agency at the Microlevel
3. Three Mechanisms by Which Culture Shapes Movement Strategy: Repertoires, Institutional Norms, and Metonymy
II. Activist Engagement and Movement-Relevant Research
4. Raising Public Awareness of Domestic Violence: Strategic Communication and Movement Building
5. Mobilizing the Generation Gap: Transnational Coalitions and Insider/Outsider Strategy in the Climate Action Network
6. Local Strategies for Global Change: Working for Human Rights and Economic Empowerment in the Midwest
III. Formation and Development of Strategy
7. The Politics of Coming Out: Visibility and Identity in Activism against Child Sexual Abuse
8. Agreeing for Diffierent Reasons: Ideology, Strategic Diffierences, and Coalition Dynamics in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement
9. Marketing for Justice: Corporate Social Movement Organizations
IV. Strategy and the Consequences of Movements
10. Land Struggles in the Global South: Strategic Innovations in Brazil and India
11. Similar Strategies, Diffierent Outcomes: Institutional Histories of the Christian Right of Canada and of the United States
12. Strategic Choices in Cross-National Movements: A Comparison of the Swedish and British Plowshares Movements
Conclusion: Conceptualizing Strategy in an Interactive Processional Model
Contributors
Index
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