ABSTRACT
Most research on social movements has ignored the significance of emotions. This edited volume seeks to redress this oversight and introduces new research themes and tools to the field of emotions and social movements.
Sociologists and political activists around the world will find this volume to be of great interest due to its wide-ranging approach and its unique emphasis on the role of emotion in protest, dissent and social movements.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|22 pages
Breaching events and the emotional reactions of the public
Women in Black in Israel
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chapter 5|20 pages
Emotional events and the transformation of collective action
The Chinese student movement
1
chapter 7|16 pages
The problem of emotion in care
Contested meanings from the Disabled People's Movement and the Feminist Movement
1
chapter 8|15 pages
The emotional significance of solidarity for social movement communities
Sustaining Catholic worker community and service
chapter 10|19 pages
The entanglements of shame
An emotion perspective on social movement demobilization
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