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List of contents
IntroductionConceptual ProblemsTheoretical ProblemsTheories of VolunteerismAdvances: Theories of Social MovementsConceptual Problems Revisited: Empowering DistinctionsA FrameworkStructure of the Book: On Studying Disbanded AIDS OrganizationsReferencesTowards a Political Sociology of AIDS Service OrganizationsA First Premise: The Social Construction of AIDSThe (Non-)Emergence of AIDS OrganizationsA Second Premise: The Evolution of Public HealthQueer CorporatismProfessionalization and its DiscontentsPower in the Field: The Field of AIDS OrganizingAIDS Service Organizations as Political and Discursive AgentsConclusion: AIDS Service Organizations as a Form of PowerReferencesAIDS Organizations in GermanyParallels: A Brief Note on the AIDS Discourse in GermanyThe Role of Identity: The Emergence of AIDS Relief OrganizationsThe Power of Discourse: The Evolution of AIDS Policies in GermanyThe Stakes of AIDS Organizing and of its Political InclusionThe Evolution and Transformation of AIDS ReliefThe Normalization of AIDSDifferences – The German Case in ContrastConclusionReferencesMaking Sense of Neo-Corporatism and Neo-InstitutionalismNeo-Corporatism – Principle ConsiderationsThe Rationalist Premises of Neo-CorporatismNeo-InstitutionalismKey Assumptions of Neo-InstitutionalismNeo-Institutionalism and Social ChangeThe Sensemaking ApproachSensemaking: The Process of OrganizingSeven Characteristics and Some Sources of SensemakingConclusionReferencesSensemaking, Narrative Analysis, and EmotionsNarrative Methodology and AnalysisConvergences: Sen
About the author
Jochen Kleres is a postdoctoral researcher at the Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Summary
This book presents a perspective on non-profit organizations that analyses organizational development through the emotional sense-making of individual organizers, within the light of larger political processes and cultural contexts. To this end, this volume develops and applies a new methodology for researching emotions empirically.
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By curiously focusing on disbanded organizations and the emotions of the actors involved, rather than their imputed reasons or interests, Kleres' research opens new vistas of analysis and theorizing. This is an important book, innovative and insightful.
Jack Barbalet, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Based on a rich empirical research, Jochen Kleres develops an action-based theory of non-profit. Building upon social movement studies as well as studies of volunteerism, he convincingly argue for going beyond a rational choice approach, considering instead the motivational role of emotions. A very original and tought-provoking contribution to reflections in both fields and beyond.
Donatella della Porta, Professor of Political Science, Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences and Director of the PD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy
