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Zusatztext This book is an enormous breath of fresh air in an area that often recycles concepts and perspectives. Blee demonstrates her immense knowledge of the field of social movements and collective action but is bound by none of it. Eschewing the well-worn grooves of current perspectives in which most research is conducted, she offers a strikingly original approach to grassroots activism that will substantially reorient research in collective action and social movements. This is a path-breaking study that refocuses our attention on the processes of activism. Informationen zum Autor Kathleen M. Blee is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s and Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement Klappentext In Democracy in the Making, Kathleen M. Blee provides an in-depth look at modern grassroots activism, and reveals its simultaneous power and fragility. In the process, she examines the struggle between democratic vision and strategic reality that shapes each organization's trajectory and determines its ultimate success or failure. Zusammenfassung In Democracy in the Making, Kathleen M. Blee provides an in-depth look at modern grassroots activism, and reveals its simultaneous power and fragility. In the process, she examines the struggle between democratic vision and strategic reality that shapes each organization's trajectory and determines its ultimate success or failure. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Making Democracy Chapter 2: Theorizing the Emergence of Activism Chapter 3: Who Belongs? Chapter 4: What's the Problem? Chapter 5: How Should We Treat Each Other? Chapter 6: Lessons Appendices Bibliography
