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Summary:

Review: "What can we learn when we listen closely to and engage in dialogue with social movement activists? Social Movements and Activism in the USA addresses this question. Situated within the twenty-first-century landscape of post-industrialism and neo-liberalism and drawing on oral histories, the book argues for a dialogic and integrative approach to social movement activism. The dialogue between scholar and activist captures the interpretive nature of activists' identity, the variable ways activists decide on strategies and goals, the external constraints on activism, and the creative ways activists maneuver around these constraints."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Scholars and Activists in Dialogue
• 2. Theory and Activism
• 3. The Historical and Contemporary Context of Hartford Progressive Activism
• 4. What Activists Do: Developing Strategies, Conceptualizing Goals, Exploiting Opportunities
• 5. What Activists Do: Gathering Resources, Forming Organizations
• 6. What Makes Them Do It: Recruitment and Commitment to Social Movements
• 7. What Makes Them Tired: Activist Burnout and Managing an Activist Life
• 8. Who They Are: Collective Identity and Oppositional Consciousness
• 9. Rethinking Activists' Questions and Scholars' Answers.

Author/Creator:

Valocchi, Stephen M., 1956-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Social movements and activism in the USA [by Valocchi, S.M.]

Subjects:

Community activists — United States

Social reformers — United States

Social movements — United States

Community activists

Social reformers

Social movements

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

194 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

HN59.2 .V35 2010

ISBNs:

9780415461580 (hbk.)
0415461588 (hbk.)
9780415461597 (pbk.)
0415461596 (pbk.)
9780203873984 (ebk.)
020387398X (ebk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009002840

OCLC Numbers:

277196062