Ethnography of Gun Violence Prevention Activists - We Are Thinking People

This book analyzes how activists in the gun violence prevention movement construct their own identities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic participatory research and interviews of activists in the movement, the relationships between self, group, and movement identity is explored.

List of contents

Preface

Introduction: Mobilization and Gun Violence Prevention

Part I: Gun Violence Prevention Activists and Identity

Chapter 1: Activism and Individual Identity

Chapter 2: Culture of Organization in Gun Violence Prevention

Chapter 3: Power and Interaction: Movement Scripts and Emotion

Part II: Contradictions and Position in Social Movements

Chapter 4: On the Ground Activist Ethnography

Chapter 5: Reflections on gun violence prevention activism

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bibliography

About the author

Teal Rothschild is professor of sociology at Roger Williams University.

Summary

This book analyzes how activists in the gun violence prevention movement construct their own identities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic participatory research and interviews of activists in the movement, the relationships between self, group, and movement identity is explored.

Product details

• Authors: Teal Rothschild, Rothschild Teal
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498555043
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5504-3
• No. of pages: 122
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society