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Passionate politics : emotions and social movements

Jeff Goodwin (Editor), James M. Jasper (Editor), Francesca Polletta (Editor)
With its look at the history of emotions in social thought, examination of the internal dynamics of protest groups, and exploration of the emotional dynamics that arise from interactions and conflicts among political factions and individuals, this volume looks at the role of emotions in politics generally
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2001
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 370 pages ; 24 cm
9780226303987, 9780226303994, 0226303985, 0226303993
45963048
Introduction : why emotions matter / Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta
Part 1: Theoretical perspectives
Social movements and the focus of emotional attention / Randall Collins
Putting emotions in their place / Craig Calhoun
A structural approach to social movement emotions / Theodore Kemper
The business of social movements / Frank Dobbin
Part 2: Cultural contexts
Emotions and political identity : mobilizing affection for the polity / Mabel Berezin
A revolution of the soul : transformative experiences and immediate abolition / Michael P. Young
Revenge of the shamed : the Christian right's emotional culture war / Arlene Stein
Part 3: Recruitment and internal dynamics
Rock the boat, don't rock the boat, baby : ambivalence and the emergence of militant AIDS activism / Deborah Gould
The social structure of moral outrage in recruitment to the U.S. Central America peace movement / Sharon Erickson Nepstad and Christian Smith
Fear, laughter, and collective power : the making of Solidarity at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, August 1980 / Colin Barker
The felt politics of charity : serving "the ambassadors of God" and saving "the sinking classes" / Rebecca Anne Allahyari
Animal rights and the politics of emotion : folk constructions of emotion in the animal rights movement / Julian McAllister Groves
Part 4: The emotions of conflict
Emotional strategies : the collective reconstruction and display of oppositional emotions in the movement against child sexual abuse / Nancy Whittier
Finding emotion in social movement processes : Irish land movement metaphors and narratives / Anne Kane
The emotional benefits of insurgency in El Salvador / Elisabeth Jean Wood
Emotion work in high-risk social movements : managing fear in the U.S. and East German civil rights movements / Jeff Goodwin and Steven Pfaff
Conclusion : second that emotion? Lessons from once-novel concepts in social movement research / Francesca Polletta and Edwin Amenta
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