Description
Book SynopsisExamines how strategies within social movements develop and work
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
An Introduction to Strategy in Action
Gregory M. Maney, Kenneth T. Andrews, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana A. Rohlinger, and Jeff Goodwin
I. Conceptual Foundations and Agendas
1. Thinking about Strategy
David S. Meyer and Suzanne Staggenborg
2. Choice Points, Emotional Batteries, and Other Ways to Find Strategic Agency at the Microlevel
James M. Jasper
3. Three Mechanisms By Which Culture Shapes Movement Strategy: Repertoires, Institutional Norms, and Metonymy
Francesca Polletta
II. Activist Engagement and Movement Relevant Research
4. Raising Public Awareness of Domestic Violence: Strategic Communication and Movement Building
Charlotte Ryan, Karen Jeffreys, and Linda Blozie
5. Mobilizing the Generation Gap: Transnational Coalitions and Insider/Outsider Strategy in the Climate Action Network
Anna-Liisa Aunio
6. Local Strategies for Global Change: Working for Human Rights and Economic Empowerment in the Midwest
Jackie Smith
III. Formation and Development of Strategy
7. The Politics of Coming Out: Visibility and Identity in Activism against Child Sexual Abuse
Nancy Whittier
8. Agreeing for Different Reasons: Ideology, Strategic Differences, and Coalition Dynamics in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement
Gregory M. Maney
9. Marketing for Justice: Corporate Social Movement Organizations
Belinda Robnett and Jessica Ayo Alabi
IV. Strategy and the Consequences of Movements
10. Land Struggles in the Global South: Strategic Innovations in Brazil and India
Kurt Schock
11. Similar Strategies, Different Outcomes: Institutional Histories of the Christian Right of Canada and of the United States
Tina Fetner and Carrie Sanders
12. Strategic Choices in Cross-National Movements: A Comparison of the Swedish and British Plowshares Movements
Sharon Erickson Nepstad and Stellan Vinthagen
Conclusion: Conceptualizing Strategy in an Interactive Processional Model
Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum
Contributors
Index
