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Title: Conceptualizing culture in social movement research
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2018
ISBN: 9781137385789
ISSN: 1474-2837
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2018.1516134
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Abstract: Culture has become a prominent concept in social movement research. It is, however, often employed in an unsystematic and limited way. This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses advantages and shortcomings of existing concepts and introduces new approaches. In particular, it addresses facets of cultural theory that have hitherto been largely neglected in the literature on social movements. This includes ideas from anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. The chapters in this volume address three relationships between social movements and culture: culture as a framework for movements, social movements' internal culture, and culture and cultural change as a result of social movement activity. For the purpose of making concepts easily accessible, each contribution explains its approach to culture in an understandable way and illustrates it with recent cases of mobilization. Theorizing culture from different perspectives beyond the mainstream. Feeling -- Thinking : emotions as central to culture -- 'A whole way of struggle?' Western Marxisms, social movements and culture -- Reassessing the culture concept in the analysis of global social movements : an anthropological perspective -- Culture as a framework for movement activity. Culture and activism across borders -- Comparing discourse between cultures : a discursive approach to movement knowledge -- Culture and movement strength from a quantitative perspective : a partial theory -- Internal movement culture. Movement space : a cultural approach -- Movement culture as habit(us) : resistance to change in the routinized practices.
Url: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14742837.2018.1516134
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Authors: Broadbent, Jeffrey
Periodical (Full): Social Movement Studies
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Pages: 749-751
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