Description
Book SynopsisActivists are people who actively work for social or political causes and especially those who work to encourage other people to support those causes. Mass collective action is unlikely to occur without the involvement of activists. Including recent research from Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and studies of global online activists, this issue highlights multi-method approaches to studying activists and activism across a variety of different regional, issue-based, and socio-political contexts. In addition to contributing to ongoing theoretical and empirical discussions, the issue addresses the policy and strategic implications of this research for social change agents and organizations.
Table of ContentsUnderstanding Activism
Issue Editors: Craig McGarty, Anna Kende, and Nicola Curtin
INTRODUCTION
Expanding on Psychological Theories of Engagement to Understand
Activism in Context(s)
Nicola Curtin and Craig McGarty
SECTION I: THE ACTIVIST UP CLOSE
The “Activist Identity” and Activism across Domains: A Multiple
Identities Analysis
Winnifred R. Louis, Catherine E. Amiot, Emma F. Thomas, and Leda Blackwood
Navigating Multiple Identities: The Simultaneous Influence of Advantaged and Disadvantaged Identities on Politicization
and Activism
Nicola Curtin, Anna Kende, and Judit Kende
Does Civic Participation Stimulate Political Activity?
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Bert Klandermans, and Agnes Akkerman
SECTION II: ALLIES
Acting in Solidarity: Cross-Group Contact between Disadvantaged Group Members and Advantaged Group Allies
Lisa Droogendyk, Stephen C. Wright, Micah Lubensky, and Winnifred R. Louis
Institutional Allyship for LGBT Equality: Underlying Processes and
Potentials for Change
Glenda M. Russell and Janis S. Bohan
SECTION III: IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS
Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in
Mexico and Chile
Huseyin Cakal, Anja Eller, Andre´s Pe´rez, and David Sirlopu´
How Activists Respond to Social Structure in Offline and Online Contexts
Lisa K. Hartley, Girish Lala, Ngaire Donaghue, and Craig McGarty
SECTION IV: CONCLUSION
Separating Social Science Research on Activism from Social Science as Activism
Anna Kende
