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Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of Freedom Summer.
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This paper argued for the importance of a distinction between "low-and high-risk/cost activism" and outlined a model or recruitment to the latter, emphasizing the import of low-risk and high-cost activism.Abstract:
This article proposes and argues for the importance of a distinction between "low-" and "high-risk/cost activism" and outlines a model or recruitment to the latter. The model emphasizes the importa...read more
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Predictors of Rank-and-File Feminist Activism: Evidence from the 1983 General Social Survey
TL;DR: For instance, this article used data from a nationally representative sample to identify predictors of rank-and-file feminist activism by women in the United States and found that there is an inverse relationship between the importance people place on movement goals and the importance of microstructural factors for recruitment.
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Student resistance to the Greek military dictatorship : subjectivity, memory, and cultural politics, 1967-1974
Abstract: evocation. At the time of her trial, Maria Kallergi, a student and RF member, gave a report to foreign correspondents in which she described the conditions o f her arrest. In between talking about the eighteen days of her being continuously tortured before being transferred to AverofF prison, Kallergi referred to the painful visit o f her father, a man who had participated in the Resistance, by saying: My father started crying. My father is a courageous man, he is an old freedom -filter. He was arrested by the Germans in Crete, while he was woridng for an English commando. He knows what it means to believe in an idea. I have always been proud o f him.^^^ Rigas manifesto also proposes a continuum of vanguard student action in all national struggles: We shall continue the great traditions o f students who fought in order to bring down Otto*s monarchy, who alongside Makriyiannis fought for the consolidation o f the Constitution.^^ Workers were also cited as part of a tradition of ‘heroic stmggles [...] of the pioneering workers’ movement’, and were described as ‘a volcano which boils quietly’ in a struggle parallel/common to that of the students. Lastly, in Rigas^ founding manifesto the Junta was accused of ‘obeying foreign bosses’ (^evoSouXti), meaning the imperialistic plans of the US. In the same spirit a later issue of Thourios reads that ‘the country is further sold to foreign interests, thus cementing our dependence on foreign capital’, echoing this well-known topos of the Greek Left throughout the post-war period: Quoted in Nerio Minuz2X>, piando arrivano i CoionnellL Rapporto dalla Grecia ̂MUan 1970, p. 108. Relations with the generation of the ’40s were not, however, always rosy. A generation gap is strongly expressed by Anagonstakis in a poem with the telling title Xto HepiOwpio ’68-^69 [At the margin] (1979), where he talks about how his old comrades were mistreated by their children. ‘Upon K.L.’s return to Ikaria he found his son, a man at that point, in a cinema school, with his studies unfinished.[...] On the fifth night, during a quarrel in the house, the young lad raised his fist and pulled it to his face, swearing at him and calling him a loser and a cuckold’. At the same time Anagnostakis reports that symbolic gestures had changed signifiers in a tragic way since the wartime period; this was the case, for example, with Tina ‘who was shaved by the Chites in ’45’ but whose daughter was ‘dancing yesterday in the club with her hair cut off very-very short in the trendy a-la-gar^on way’. The Rigas Feraios Alburn ̂Athens 1974, pp. 52-53. A similar line o f argument is to be found in the defences of some o f the founding members o f Rigas during their trials. So, for example, Nikos Kiaos: ‘Rigas is continuing the struggles o f students who fought in the front lines o f the people’s struggle in the p ast During the struggles for the country’s Constitution, the 1909 revolution, [during] the Resistance against the occupiers, [for] independence and self-determination for Cyprus, Democracy and 15%.* in Thourios [Battle-Song], December 1968. Thourios ̂April 1969. Ibid, September 1968.
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Civil Society Activists in a Protracted Conflict: Explaining Differences in Motivation to Engage in Intergroup Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
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Going all the way: Politicizing, polarizing, and radicalizing identity offline and online
TL;DR: The authors conceptualized radicalization as a collective process that evolves within the context of global, national, or local intergroup tensions and proposed an interpretative framework to analyze radicalizing collective identities.
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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, a multifactored model of social movement formation is presented, emphasizing resources, organization, and political opportunities in addition to traditional discontent hypotheses, and the McCarthy-Zald theory of entrepreneurial mobilization is critically assessed as an interpretation of the social movements of the 1960s-1970s.