Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-48140-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4182 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses their advantages and shortcomings, drawing links to anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. Each contribution's approach is illustrated with recent cases of mobilization.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baumgarten, B.

Ullrich, P.

Daphi, P.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Protest and Culture: Concepts and Approaches in Social Movement Research. An Introduction; Peter Ullrich, Priska Daphi, and Britta Baumgarten PART I: THEORIZING CULTURE FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM 2. Feeling - Thinking: Emotions as Central to Culture; James Jasper 3. 'A Whole Way of Struggle?': Western Marxisms, Social Movements and Culture; Laurence Cox 4. Reassessing the Culture Concept in the Analysis of Global Social Movements: An Anthropological Perspective; June Nash PART II: CULTURE AS A FRAMEWORK FOR MOVEMENT ACTIVITY 5. Culture and Activism Across Borders; Britta Baumgarten 6. Comparing Discourse between Cultures: A Discursive Approach to Movement Knowledge; Peter Ullrich and Reiner Keller 7. Culture and Movement Strength from a Quantitative Perspective: A Partial Theory; Jochen Roose PART III: INTERNAL MOVEMENT CULTURE 8. Movement Space: A Cultural Approach; Priska Daphi 9. Movement Culture as Habit(us): Resistance to Change in the Routinized Practices of Resistance; Cristina Flesher Fominaya 10. Memory and Culture in Social Movements; Nicole Doerr 11. Embodying Protest: Culture and Performance within Social Movements; Jeffrey Juris PART IV: IMPACT OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ON CULTURE 12. Moving Culture: Transnational Social Movement Organisations as Translators in a Diffusion Cycle; Olga Malets and Sabrina Zajak 13. Memory Battles over May '68: Interpretative Struggles as Cultural Re-Play of Social Movements; Erik Neveu

Über Autor(innen)

Laurence Cox, National University of Ireland Maynooth

Nicole Doerr, Mount Holyoke College, USA

Cristina Flesher, University of Aberdeen, UK

James M. Jasper, University of New York, USA

Jeffrey S. Juris, Northeastern University, USA

Reiner Keller, Augsburg University, Germany

Olga Malets, Technische Universität München, Germany

June Nash, City University of New York, USA

Erik Neveu, Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Rennes, France

Jochen Roose, Free University Berlin, Germany

Sabrina Zajak, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany