Social movement

About: Social movement is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 23103 publications have been published within this topic receiving 653076 citations. The topic is also known as: movement & syndical movement.

Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: The framing function of movement tactics: Strategic dramaturgy in the American civil rights movement

Abstract: In his essay introducing Part III, Mayer Zald seeks to refine our understanding of the concept of“framing processes” by identifying five topics that have often been confounded or otherwise blurred in previous discussions of the concept. These five topics are (1) the cultural tool kits available to activists for framing purposes, (2) the strategic framing efforts of movement groups, (3) the frame contests that arise between the movement and other collective actors, (4) the role of the media in shaping these frame contests, and (5) the cultural impact of the movement in modifying the available“tool kit.” In this chapter I hope to advance our understanding of topics 2–4 in this list. Specifically, I aim to do four things: (1) review the existing work on“strategic framing efforts,” (2) critique what I see as the“ideational bias” in our understanding of framing processes, (3) discuss the framing function of movement tactics, and (4) conclude by using the concrete case of the American civil rights movement to illustrate the way in which tactics were consciously used to“frame” action and thereby attract media attention and shape public opinion in ways that led to a decisive victory in the movement's“frame contest” with federal officials and Southern segregationists. FRAMING AND FRAME ALIGNMENT PROCESSES Among the most provocative and potentially useful of the works on the cultural dimensions of social movements have been the writings of David Snow and various of his colleagues (Snow et al., 1986; Snow and Benford, 1988, 1992) on the role of“framing” or“frame alignment processes” in the emergence and development of collective action.

States, parties, and social movements

Abstract: Part I. States and Social Movements: 1. Countermovements, the state, and the intensity of racial contention in the American south Joseph Luders 2. State vs. social movement: FBI counterintelligence against the new left David Cunningham 3. Setting the state's agenda: church-based community organizations in American urban politics Heidi J. Swarts 4. State pacts, elites, and social movements in Mexico's transition to democracy Jorge Cadena-Roa Part II. Parties and Social Movements: 5. Parties out of movements: party emergence in post-communist Eastern Europe John K. Glenn 6. From movement to party to government: why social policies in Kerala and West Bengal are so different 7. Parties, movements, and constituencies in categorizing race: state-level outcomes of multiracial category legislation Kim Williams 8. Protest cycles and party politics: the effects of elite allies and antagonists on student protest in the United States, 1930-90.

Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice

Abstract: In 2014, a dedicated activist movement — Black Lives Matter (BLM) — ignited an urgent national conversation about police killings of unarmed Black citizens. Online tools have been anecdotally credited as critical in this effort, but researchers are only beginning to evaluate this claim. This research report examines the movement’s uses of online media in 2014 and 2015. To do so, we analyze three types of data: 40.8 million tweets, over 100,000 web links, and 40 interviews of BLM activists and allies. Most of the report is devoted to detailing our findings, which include: *Although the #Blacklivesmatter hashtag was created in July 2013, it was rarely used through the summer of 2014 and did not come to signify a movement until the months after the Ferguson protests.*Social media posts by activists were essential in spreading Michael Brown’s story nationally.* Protesters and their supporters were generally able to circulate their own narratives on Twitter without relying on mainstream news outlets.* There are six major communities that consistently discussed police brutality on Twitter in 2014 and 2015: Black Lives Matter, Anonymous/Bipartisan Report, Black Entertainers, Conservatives, Mainstream News, and Young Black Twitter.* The vast majority of the communities we observed supported justice for the victims and decisively denounced police brutality.* Black youth discussed police brutality frequently on Twitter, but in ways that differed substantially from how activists discussed it.* Evidence that activists succeeded in educating casual observers on Twitter came in two main forms: expressions of awe and disbelief at the violent police reactions to the Ferguson protests, and conservative admissions of police brutality in the Eric Garner and Walter Scott cases.* The primary goals of social media use among our interviewees were education, amplification of marginalized voices, and structural police reform.In our concluding section, we reflect on the practical importance and implications of our findings. We hope this report contributes to the specific conversation about how Black Lives Matter and related movements have used online tools as well as to broader conversations about the general capacity of such tools to facilitate social and political change.

Performing politics Image, embodiment, and affective solidarity during anti-corporate globalization protests

Abstract: This article brings together the anthropological, sociological, and related literature on media, emotion, and performance to explore the role of counter-summit protests within anti-corporate global...