Identity Work in Social Movements

Klappentext Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field.This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants. Featuring case studies that range widely-from Jewish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Poland to antigay Christian movements in the United States to online white supremacy groups-the essays show how participants set aside issues of personal identity in order to merge together and how these processes affect mobilization and the attainment of goals.Contributors: Mary Bernstein, Kimberly B. Dugan, Elizabeth Kaminski, Susan Munkres, Kevin Neuhouser, Benita Roth, Silke Roth, Todd Schroer, Verta Taylor, Jane Ward. Zusammenfassung Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional! as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants.

Product details

• Authors: Jo Einwohner Reger, Jo Myers Reger, Joanne Einwohner Reger
• Assisted by: Rachel L. Einwohner (Editor), Daniel J. Myers (Editor), Jo Reger (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2008
• EAN: 9780816651405
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-5140-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention; Social Movements, Protest, and; Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research