Collective identity and social movement activity

2009 ◽  
pp. 222-251
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Movement Activity

scholarly journals The work of a revolutionary: A psychobiography and careerography of Angela Y. Davis

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-209
Author(s):  
Jason D. Reynolds (Taewon Choi) ◽  
Bridget M. Anton ◽  
Chiroshri Bhattacharjee ◽  
Megan E. Ingraham
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Cognitive Career Theory ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Social Cognitive Career

Dr. Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, academician, and writer who has navigated and discussed issues of race, class, gender, and USA social policies across her 75 years of life. Davis’s activism established her as the icon of a larger social movement and further related to her decision-making and legacy. Using psychobiographical methods, data were gathered through publicly available sources to explore Davis’s personal, professional, and representational life, as well as understand Davis’s lived experience through a socio-cultural-historical perspective. Two established theories, Social Cognitive Career Theory and Politicized Collective Identity model, were applied to Davis’s life. Findings suggested that in addition to her unique intersectional identities, a confluence of factors including growing up in a family of activists, incarceration, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance, Communist Party involvement, marginalization within activist spaces, and practicing radical self-care impacted Davis committing to a life as an activist, academic, and the leader of a social movement.

The Panopticon of Bay Ridge

Arab New York ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 82-110
Author(s):  
Emily Regan Wills
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Movement Activity ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Constant Observation

This chapter explores young women’s experience of leadership in both community organizations and social movement activity. Using the Foucauldian concept of the panopticon, it demonstrates how both non-members of the Arab community and members of it engage in disciplinary tactics towards these young women for their behaviour, asking them to uphold contradictory standards of gendered behaviour. Young women are highly conscious of their position under constant observation, and use a variety of tactics to engage with it.

scholarly journals The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652093374
Author(s):  
Olu Jenzen ◽  
Itir Erhart ◽  
Hande Eslen-Ziya ◽  
Umut Korkut ◽  
Aidan McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of ‘social media imaginaries’, a derivative of the broader field of ‘media imaginaries’, our analysis seeks to offer new insights into activists’ relation to and conceptualisation of social media and how it shapes their digital media practices. Extending the concept of media imaginaries to include analysis of protestors’ use of aesthetics, it aims to unpick how a particular ‘social media imaginary’ is constructed and informs their collective identity. Using the Gezi Park protest of 2013 as a case study, it illustrates how social media became a symbolic part of the protest movement by providing the visualised possibility of imagining the movement. In previous research, the main emphasis has been given to the functionality of social media as a means of information sharing and a tool for protest organisation. This article seeks to redress this by directing our attention to the role of visual communication in online protest expressions and thus also illustrates the role of visual analysis in social movement studies.

Niche Activism: Constructing a Unified Movement Identity in a Heterogeneous Organizational Field

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Levitsky
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
Interorganizational Relations ◽  
Movement Activity ◽  
Organizational Field ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

This article draws on a study of interorganizational relations in the Chicago gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender movement to elaborate a theory for how activists integrate divergent organizational approaches to social reform into a coherent "movement identity." Departing from the resource mobilization and collective identity literatures, which tend to reduce organizational specialization either to a competition over resources or to ideological differences among movement participants, I argue that organizational interests and shared beliefs play interrelated, but nonreducible roles in the construction of movement identity. Activists understand social reform as requiring competencies in a wide range of cultural and political venues. Focusing on specific forms of movement activity, or niches, organizations develop proficiencies that activists share as part of a collective effort in which each organization is seen as playing a necessary, but insufficient part. Rather than undermining a unified movement identity, then, organizational specialization is seen here as producing it.

Institutional Distrust, Institutional Participation, and Protest Behavior in the European Social Movement Sector

Contention ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-75
Author(s):  
Matthew Schoene
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Movement Activity ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Institutional Participation

Institutional distrust has become a pervasive element of global society in general and European society in particular. Concurrently, participation in institutions is also declining, raising concerns about the effectiveness of civil society. Distrust of institutions like the political, education, legal-judicial, and law enforcement systems is linked to declining participation in mainstream political behaviors like voting, but it is unclear how individuals’ trust of and participation in certain institutions affects social movement activity and participation in protest. Here, I use recent European protest movements to better understand the link between institutional distrust, institutional participation, and social protest. Using the 7th wave of the European Social Survey, I construct several multilevel mixed-effects logistic regressions predicting participation in four forms of protest: signing petitions, boycotting products, wearing protest badges, and participating in demonstrations. It turns out that, while institutional distrust is moderately and positively linked to certain forms of protest, those who partake in mainstream political institutions are far more likely to participate in all forms of protest.

Continuity and Change in the Contemporary Canadian Feminist Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Political Generations ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Formative Experiences

AbstractThis article examines how the changing environment faced by and context within the Canadian feminist movement is reflected in the beliefs and strategies of recruits to the movement at a given point in time. The framework for the investigation is Whittier's generational approach (1997) that posits that different political generations—defined as cohorts of recruits who join a social movement during distinctive periods of protest—introduce change to its collective identity given the formative experiences faced by each generation. Using an original large sample data set, I provide evidence that the changes experienced by the Canadian feminist movement from the 1980s onwards are reflected in noticeable shifts in the collective identity and activist strategies of subsequent waves of feminist recruits. The findings suggest that further research into cohort recruitment and replacement is essential for understanding the forces at play in shaping the contemporary Canadian feminist movement.

Buying an Activist Identity: Reproducing Class through Social Movement Philanthropy

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira Silver
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
Racial Privilege ◽  
Community Organizers

Those who lack the financial means to organize for social change may turn to elite funders, yet in doing so risk having their goals co-opted. Activist philanthropy minimizes this threat because its grant decisions are made by movement insiders. This structure leaves donors occupying a precarious position. Their money is essential, yet their class position is discrediting. The Crossroads Fund raises its money by integrating donors as activists alongside community organizers. Even though community organizers have greater power inside the foundation, integrating donors requires that community organizers defer to donors' wider class and racial privilege. By showing that securing funding from donors hinges on legitimating their identity claims, this study bridges social movement theories about resource mobilization and collective identity formation.

Political Homophobia in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Bosia ◽  
Meredith L. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
State Building ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
State Actors ◽  
State Strategy

This introductory chapter discusses political homophobia as a state strategy, social movement, and transnational phenomenon, powerful enough to structure the experiences of sexual minorities and expressions of sexuality. It considers political homophobia as purposeful, especially as practiced by state actors; as embedded in the scapegoating of an “other” that drives processes of state building and retrenchment; as the product of transnational influence peddling and alliances; and as integrated into questions of collective identity and the complicated legacies of colonialism. In this analysis, unexpected forms of political homophobia must be examined as typical tools for building an authoritative notion of national collective identity, for mobilizing around a variety of contentious issues and empowered actors, and as a metric of transnational institutional and ideological flows.

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