{"product_id":"the-identity-dilemma-9781439912522","title":"The Identity Dilemma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eCollective identities are politically necessary, or at least useful, as banners for recruiting others and engaging opponents and the state. However, not every member fits or accepts the label in the same way or to the same degree. \u003ci\u003eThe Identity Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e provides eight diverse case studies of social movements to show the benefits, risks, and tradeoffs when a group develops a strong sense of collective identity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The editors and contributors to this pathbreaking volume examine how collective identities can provide powerful advantages but also generate conflicts. The various chapters help to develop our understanding of collective identity from how strategic identities are developed for protest groups to how stigmatized groups negotiate identity dilemmas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eThe Identity Dilemma \u003c\/i\u003econtributes a new strategic approach to understanding social movements that highlights the choices and tensions that groups inevitably face in articulating their ideas an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrefaceIntroduction: The Identity Dilemma, Social Movements, and Contested Identity • James M. Jasper and Aidan McGarry1 Scholarly Research on Collective Identities • James M. Jasper, Marisa Tramontano, and Aidan McGarry Part I: Strategic Identities in Protest Movements2 “Sectarianism: Danger”: Nonsectarian Social Movements and Identity Politics in Divided Societies • John Nagle3 Autonomous Social Movements and the Paradox of Antiidentitarian Collective Identity • Cristina Flesher Fominaya4 The Challenges of Using Survey Instruments to Measure the Identities of Environmental Protesters • Clare Saunders5 Contested Identities in Struggles for Human Rights: A Long View • Neil StammersPart II: Stigmatized Groups and Collective Identity Dilemmas6 Survivors, Consumers, or Experts by Experience? Assigned, Chosen, and Contested Identities in the Mental Health Service User Movement • Marian Barnes7 Enacting Memory and the Hard Labor of Identity Formation: Rethinking the Romani Movement and Its Historiography • Huub van Baar8 Those Who Are Full Can Never Understand the Hungry: Challenging the Meaning of Infertility in Poland • Elzbieta Korolczuk9 Making the Extreme into the Ordinary: Cultural Legacies and the Identity Work of Hungary’s Right • Umut KorkutContributorsIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408311034199,"sku":"9781439912522","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-identity-dilemma-9781439912522","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}