Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research [electronic resource] /
Baumgarten, B.editor.
Daphi, P.editor.
Ullrich, P.editor.
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.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Protest and Culture: Concepts and Approaches in Social Movement Research - An Introduction; Part I: Theorizing Culture from Different Perspectives beyond the Mainstream; 2 Feeling-Thinking: Emotions as Central to Culture; 3 "A Whole Way of Struggle?": Western Marxisms, Social Movements, and Culture; 4 Reassessing the Culture Concept in the Analysis of Global Social Movements: An Anthropological Perspective; Part II: Culture as a Framework for Movement Activity; 5 Culture and Activism across Borders
6 Comparing Discourse between Cultures: A Discursive Approach to Movement Knowledge7 Culture and Movement Strength from a Quantitative Perspective: A Partial Theory; Part III: Internal Movement Culture; 8 Movement Space: A Cultural Approach; 9 Movement Culture as Habit(us): Resistance to Change in the Routinized Practices of Resistance; 10 Memory and Culture in Social Movements; 11 Embodying Protest: Culture and Performance within Social Movements; Part IV Impact of Social Movements on Culture; 12 Moving Culture: Transnational Social Movement Organizations as Translators in a Diffusion Cycle
13 Memory Battles over Mai 68: Interpretative Struggles as a Cultural Re-Play of Social MovementsIndex
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Political science.
Political sociology.
Social sciences.
Cultural studies.
Political communication.
Political Science.
Political Sociology.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Cultural Studies.
Political Communication.
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.