Understanding Activism
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-1-119-32087-6 (ISBN)
Description
Activists are people who actively work for social or political causes and especially those who work to encourage other people to support those causes. Mass collective action is unlikely to occur without the involvement of activists. Including recent research from Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and studies of global online activists, this issue highlights multi-method approaches to studying activists and activism across a variety of different regional, issue-based, and socio-political contexts. In addition to contributing to ongoing theoretical and empirical discussions, the issue addresses the policy and strategic implications of this research for social change agents and organizations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-32087-6 (9781119320876)
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Persons
Craig Mcgarty is Professor and Head of Psychology at Western Sydney University. He was previously Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research and Director of the Social Research Institute at Murdoch University and Head of the School of Psychology at The Australian National University. His books include Categorization in Social Psychology and Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, The Message of Social Psychology and Stereotypes as Explanations.
Anna Kende is an Associate Professor at Eoetvoes Lorand University, Budapest. Her research focuses on prejudice, intergroup relations, identity formation and political activism from a social psychological perspective. She has carried out several policy research projects about early selection in schools and worked as a policy advisor on educational integration of Roma people in Hungary.
Nicola Curtin is an Assistant Professor at Clark University and a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center. Her research examines the role of life experiences, individual differences, and social identities in commitments to creating social change, with a particular emphasis on ally and coalitional activism. She is co-editor of the forthcoming, Feminist Perspectives on Building a Better Psychological Science of Gender (Springer).
Anna Kende is an Associate Professor at Eoetvoes Lorand University, Budapest. Her research focuses on prejudice, intergroup relations, identity formation and political activism from a social psychological perspective. She has carried out several policy research projects about early selection in schools and worked as a policy advisor on educational integration of Roma people in Hungary.
Nicola Curtin is an Assistant Professor at Clark University and a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center. Her research examines the role of life experiences, individual differences, and social identities in commitments to creating social change, with a particular emphasis on ally and coalitional activism. She is co-editor of the forthcoming, Feminist Perspectives on Building a Better Psychological Science of Gender (Springer).
Content
Understanding Activism
Issue Editors: Craig McGarty, Anna Kende, and Nicola Curtin INTRODUCTION
Expanding on Psychological Theories of Engagement to Understand
Activism in Context(s)
Nicola Curtin and Craig McGarty
SECTION I: THE ACTIVIST UP CLOSE The "Activist Identity" and Activism across Domains: A Multiple
Identities Analysis
Winnifred R. Louis, Catherine E. Amiot, Emma F. Thomas, and Leda Blackwood
Navigating Multiple Identities: The Simultaneous Influence of Advantaged and Disadvantaged Identities on Politicization
and Activism
Nicola Curtin, Anna Kende, and Judit Kende
Does Civic Participation Stimulate Political Activity?
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Bert Klandermans, and Agnes Akkerman
SECTION II: ALLIES Acting in Solidarity: Cross-Group Contact between Disadvantaged Group Members and Advantaged Group Allies
Lisa Droogendyk, Stephen C. Wright, Micah Lubensky, and Winnifred R. Louis
Institutional Allyship for LGBT Equality: Underlying Processes and
Potentials for Change
Glenda M. Russell and Janis S. Bohan
SECTION III: IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in
Mexico and Chile
Huseyin Cakal, Anja Eller, Andre?s Pe?rez, and David Sirlopu?
How Activists Respond to Social Structure in Offline and Online Contexts
Lisa K. Hartley, Girish Lala, Ngaire Donaghue, and Craig McGarty
SECTION IV: CONCLUSION Separating Social Science Research on Activism from Social Science as Activism
Anna Kende
Issue Editors: Craig McGarty, Anna Kende, and Nicola Curtin INTRODUCTION
Expanding on Psychological Theories of Engagement to Understand
Activism in Context(s)
Nicola Curtin and Craig McGarty
SECTION I: THE ACTIVIST UP CLOSE The "Activist Identity" and Activism across Domains: A Multiple
Identities Analysis
Winnifred R. Louis, Catherine E. Amiot, Emma F. Thomas, and Leda Blackwood
Navigating Multiple Identities: The Simultaneous Influence of Advantaged and Disadvantaged Identities on Politicization
and Activism
Nicola Curtin, Anna Kende, and Judit Kende
Does Civic Participation Stimulate Political Activity?
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Bert Klandermans, and Agnes Akkerman
SECTION II: ALLIES Acting in Solidarity: Cross-Group Contact between Disadvantaged Group Members and Advantaged Group Allies
Lisa Droogendyk, Stephen C. Wright, Micah Lubensky, and Winnifred R. Louis
Institutional Allyship for LGBT Equality: Underlying Processes and
Potentials for Change
Glenda M. Russell and Janis S. Bohan
SECTION III: IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in
Mexico and Chile
Huseyin Cakal, Anja Eller, Andre?s Pe?rez, and David Sirlopu?
How Activists Respond to Social Structure in Offline and Online Contexts
Lisa K. Hartley, Girish Lala, Ngaire Donaghue, and Craig McGarty
SECTION IV: CONCLUSION Separating Social Science Research on Activism from Social Science as Activism
Anna Kende