Passionate politics
Subtitle: emotions and social movements
By: edited by Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta.
Contributors: Goodwin, Jeff.; Jasper, James M., 1957-; Polletta, Francesca.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Social movements; Emotions; Political science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social movements and the focus of emotional attention / Randall Collins; title: Putting emotions in their place / Craig Calhoun; title: A structural approach to social movement emotions / Theodore Kemper; title: The business of social movements / Frank Dobbin; title: Emotions and political identity: mobilizing affection for the polity / Mabel Berezin; title: A revolution of the soul: transformative experiences and immediate abolition / Michael P. Young; title: Revenge of the shamed: the Christian right's emotional culture war / Arlene Stein; title: Rock the boat, don't rock the boat, baby: ambivalence and the emergence of militant AIDS activism / Deborah Gould; title: The social structure of moral outrage in recruitment to the U.S. Central America peace movement / Sharon Erickson Nepstad and Christian Smith; title: Fear, laughter, and collective power: the making of solidarity at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, August 1980 / Colin Barker; title: The felt politics of charity: serving "the ambassadors of God" and saving "the sinking classes" / Rebecca Anne Allahyari; title: Animal rights and the politics of emotion: folk constructions of emotion in the animal rights movement / Julian McAllister Groves; title: Emotional strategies: the collective reconstruction and display of oppositional emotions in the movement against child sexual abuse / Nancy Whittier; title: Finding emotion in social movement processes: Irish land movement metaphors and narratives / Anne Kane; title: The emotional benefits of insurgency in El Salvador / Elisabeth Jean Wood; title: Emotion work in high-risk social movements: managing fear in the U.S. and East German civil rights movements / Jeff Goodwin and Steven Pfaff; title: Conclusion: second that emotion? Lessons from once-novel concepts in social movement research / Francesca Polletta and Edwin Amenta.