Social and Political Psychology of Protest Across and Within Cultures

This topical book explores the phenomenon of when and why people protest. Based in social and political psychology, the book takes a comparative approach across cultures and examines how human motivation and political and cultural contexts affects protests.

List of contents

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1:
An Introduction to This Volume: Motivations for Social Protest and the Contexts in Which They Are Embedded
Martijn van Zomeren
Section I: Motivations across Contexts
Chapter 2:
Engaging in the Struggle for Justice: Morality as an Essential Driving Force of Social Protest.
Marcos Dono, Mónica Alzate and José Manuel Sabucedo
Chapter 3:
Malleability and Change Motivation Beliefs in Social Protest (versus Conflict Resolution)
Smadar Cohen-Chen
Chapter 4:
Examining Nostalgia's Potential to Increase Solidarity-Based Protest against Ageism:
The Case of "Age Demands Action"
Inga Pauls*, Karolina Urbanska*, Martijn van Zomeren*, Keragan Cavolo, Medhi Marot, Tim Wildschut and Constantine Sedikides
Chapter 5:
Environmental Collective Action in Germany and Beyond: An Opportunity to Extend Theory and Practice
Karen Hamann, Sophia Dasch, and Anna-Sophie von Agris
Chapter 6:
A Unique Motivational Profile for Activists? Towards a More Comprehensive Social Identity Model of Collective Action
Ruthie Pliskin, Frederik Wermser, Eran Halperin and Martijn van Zomeren
Section 2: Motivations within Contexts
Chapter 7:
Toward System Change, But in Opposite Directions: The Reactionary-Progressive Tension in Italy
Valeria De Cristofaro & Valerio Pellegrini
Chapter 8:
Opre, Roma!: Discrimination, Misrecognition and Indifference as Challenges for Roma Activism and Allyship
Barbara Lášticová, Judit Ignácz, and Anna Kende
Chapter 9:
The Power in Numbers (PIN) Hypothesis: How Common Ingroup Identities Motivate Collective Action Among Groups that Face Violent Existential Threats
Huseyin Cakal, Faris Nadhmi, Abha Chauhan, Zafer Özkan, John Dixon and Martijn van Zomeren
Chapter 10:
Why They (Do Not) Protest: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective on Collective Action in Palestine
Siwar Hasan-Aslih & Sandra Peni¿
Chapter 11:
Social Protest in Chile: Moralization of Attitudes Through Politicization of Social Movement Identity
Ana Leal, Belén Álvarez, and Roberto González
Conclusion
Chapter 12:
Toward an Integrative Social and Political Psychology of Social Protest Within and Across Cultures
Martijn van Zomeren

About the author

Martijn van Zomeren is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He holds a chair in the political and cultural psychology of social relationships. His research interests fall broadly in the domain of human motivation and social behavior, and he is well known for his integrative theoretical and empirical work on core motivations for social protest.

Product details

• Authors: Martijn van Zomeren
• Assisted by: Martijn van Zomeren (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032743950
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274395-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Global Perspectives in Political Psychology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social, group or collective psychology, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Groups & group theory, Demonstrations & protest movements, Groups and group theory