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Moving politics : emotion and act up's fight against AIDS / Deborah B. Gould.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gould, Deborah B. (Deborah Bejosa)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- ACT UP (Organization)--History.
- ACT UP (Organization).
- AIDS activists--United States.
- AIDS activists.
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Social movements--Psychological aspects.
- Social movements.
- Emotions--Political aspects.
- Emotions.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Voluntary Health Agencies--history.
- Dissent and Disputes.
- Health Policy.
- Politics.
- Social Behavior.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- United States.
- Voluntary Health Agencies--history.
- Dissent and Disputes.
- Health Policy.
- Politics.
- Social Behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 524 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2009]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In this first book to analyze the emergence, development, and decline of the direct-action AIDS movement ACT UP, Deborah B. Gould explores a factor that only recently has entered the sights of social movement scholars and is still largely ignored in the social sciences in general: emotion. An inquiry into the affective stimuli and blockages to political activism, Moving Politics provides an in-depth analysis of the emotional dimensions of contentious politics.
- Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author's time as a member of ACT UP, Moving Politics explores political imaginaries and their conditions of possibility; the psychic effects of oppression; ambivalence and activism; social movements as sites of collective world-making; the erotics, humor, and intensities of activism; solidarity and its fracturing; and political despair. Gould not only documents a disappearing history, she also plumbs that history with an eye toward opening imaginative possibilities for the present.
- Contents:
- I The Affects and Emotions of Mobilization 49
- Chapter 1 Pride and Its Sisters in Early AIDS Activism 55
- Chapter 2 A Shifting Emotional Habitus and the Emergence of the Direct-Action AIDS Movement 121
- II Activism as World-Making 177
- Chapter 3 The Pleasures and Intensities of Activism; or, Making a Place for Yourself in the Universe 181
- Chapter 4 The Emotion Work of Movements 213
- III The Feelings of Decline 267
- Chapter 5 Openings and Movement Decline 273
- Chapter 6 Solidarity and Its Fracturing 328
- Chapter 7 Despairing 395.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780226305318
- 0226305317
- Publisher Number:
- 99974638305
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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