Conceptualizing culture in social movement research / edited by Britta Baumgarten, CIES Lisbon, Portugal, Priska Daphi, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Peter Ullrich, Technische Unversität Berlin, Germany.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumgarten, Britta, editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in European political sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Research.

Social movements.

Culture.

Physical Description:

xvii, 313 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Culture has become a prominent concept in social movement research. It is, however, often employed in an unsystematic and limited way. This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses advantages and shortcomings of existing concepts and introduces new approaches. In particular, it addresses facets of cultural theory that have hitherto been largely neglected in the literature on social movements. This includes ideas from anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. The chapters in this volume address three relationships between social movements and culture: culture as a framework for movements, social movements' internal culture, and culture and cultural change as a result of social movement activity. For the purpose of making concepts easily accessible, each contribution explains its approach to culture in an understandable way and illustrates it with recent cases of mobilization. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Protest and Culture: Concepts and Approaches in Social Movement Research - An Introduction / Peter Ullrich Ullrich, Peter, Priska Daphi Daphi, Priska, Britta Baumgarten Baumgarten, Britta 1

2 Feeling-Thinking: Emotions as Central to Culture / James M. Jasper Jasper, James M. 23

3 "A Whole Way of Struggle?": Western Marxisms, Social Movements, and Culture / Laurence Cox Cox, Laurence 45

4 Reassessing the Culture Concept in the Analysis of Global Social Movements: An Anthropological Perspective / June Nash Nash, June 67

Part II Culture as a Framework for Movement Activity

5 Culture and Activism across Borders / Britta Baurngarten Baurngarten, Britta 91

6 Comparing Discourse between Cultures: A Discursive Approach to Movement Knowledge / Peter Ullrich Ullrich, Peter, Reiner Keller Keller, Reiner 113

7 Culture and Movement Strength from a Quantitative Perspective: A Partial Theory / Jochen Roose Roose, Jochen 140

Part III Internal Movement Culture

8 Movement Space: A Cultural Approach / Priska Daphi Daphi, Priska 165

9 Movement Culture as Habit(us): Resistance to Change in the Routinized Practices of Resistance / Cristina Flesher Fominaya Fominaya, Cristina Flesher 186

10 Memory and Culture in Social Movements / Nicole Doerr Doerr, Nicole 206

11 Embodying Protest: Culture and Performance within Social Movements / Jeffrey S. Juris Juris, Jeffrey S. 227

Part IV Impact of Social Movements on Culture

12 Moving Culture: Transnational Social Movement Organizations as Translators in a Diffusion Cycle / Olga Malets Malets, Olga, Sabrina Zajak Zajak, Sabrina 251

13 Memory Battles over Mai 68: Interpretative Struggles as a Cultural Re-Play of Social Movements / Erik Nevni Nevni, Erik 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137385789

1137385782

OCLC:

870896422