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Strategies for Social Change.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (359 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816680160
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.4
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- An Introduction to Strategies for Social Change -- I. Conceptual Foundations and Agendas -- 1. Thinking about Strategy -- 2. Choice Points, Emotional Batteries, and Other Ways to Find Strategic Agency at the Microlevel -- 3. Three Mechanisms by Which Culture Shapes Movement Strategy: Repertoires, Institutional Norms, and Metonymy -- II. Activist Engagement and Movement-Relevant Research -- 4. Raising Public Awareness of Domestic Violence: Strategic Communication and Movement Building -- 5. Mobilizing the Generation Gap: Transnational Coalitions and Insider/Outsider Strategy in the Climate Action Network -- 6. Local Strategies for Global Change: Working for Human Rights and Economic Empowerment in the Midwest -- III. Formation and Development of Strategy -- 7. The Politics of Coming Out: Visibility and Identity in Activism against Child Sexual Abuse -- 8. Agreeing for Diffierent Reasons: Ideology, Strategic Diffierences, and Coalition Dynamics in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement -- 9. Marketing for Justice: Corporate Social Movement Organizations -- IV. Strategy and the Consequences of Movements -- 10. Land Struggles in the Global South: Strategic Innovations in Brazil and India -- 11. Similar Strategies, Diffierent Outcomes: Institutional Histories of the Christian Right of Canada and of the United States -- 12. Strategic Choices in Cross-National Movements: A Comparison of the Swedish and British Plowshares Movements -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Strategy in an Interactive Processional Model -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Examines how strategies within social movements develop and work.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- An Introduction to Strategies for Social Change -- I. Conceptual Foundations and Agendas -- 1. Thinking about Strategy -- 2. Choice Points, Emotional Batteries, and Other Ways to Find Strategic Agency at the Microlevel -- 3. Three Mechanisms by Which Culture Shapes Movement Strategy: Repertoires, Institutional Norms, and Metonymy -- II. Activist Engagement and Movement-Relevant Research -- 4. Raising Public Awareness of Domestic Violence: Strategic Communication and Movement Building -- 5. Mobilizing the Generation Gap: Transnational Coalitions and Insider/Outsider Strategy in the Climate Action Network -- 6. Local Strategies for Global Change: Working for Human Rights and Economic Empowerment in the Midwest -- III. Formation and Development of Strategy -- 7. The Politics of Coming Out: Visibility and Identity in Activism against Child Sexual Abuse -- 8. Agreeing for Diffierent Reasons: Ideology, Strategic Diffierences, and Coalition Dynamics in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement -- 9. Marketing for Justice: Corporate Social Movement Organizations -- IV. Strategy and the Consequences of Movements -- 10. Land Struggles in the Global South: Strategic Innovations in Brazil and India -- 11. Similar Strategies, Diffierent Outcomes: Institutional Histories of the Christian Right of Canada and of the United States -- 12. Strategic Choices in Cross-National Movements: A Comparison of the Swedish and British Plowshares Movements -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Strategy in an Interactive Processional Model -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Examines how strategies within social movements develop and work.

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