Identity Work in Social Movements
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Identity Work in Social Movements
By (Author) Jo Reger
Edited by Daniel J. Myers
Edited by Rachel L. Einwohner
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
14th October 2008
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social classes
303.4
Physical Properties
Paperback
312
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 18mm
Description
Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field.
This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants. Featuring case studies that range widelyfrom Jewish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Poland to antigay Christian movements in the United States to online white supremacy groupsthe essays show how participants set aside issues of personal identity in order to merge together and how these processes affect mobilization and the attainment of goals.
Contributors: Mary Bernstein, Kimberly B. Dugan, Elizabeth Kaminski, Susan Munkres, Kevin Neuhouser, Benita Roth, Silke Roth, Todd Schroer, Verta Taylor, Jane Ward.
