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Interpreting Protest and Social Movements

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Theories of protest and social movements have long incorporated culture, yet many of its central questions about meaning, interpretation and emotion remain underexplored. How do movements define grievances, identify victims and villains and communicate their...
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Theories of protest and social movements have long incorporated culture, yet many of its central questions about meaning, interpretation and emotion remain underexplored. How do movements define grievances, identify victims and villains and communicate their cause to wider publics? And how do these processes shape outcomes across political arenas?

This interdisciplinary book develops a new strategic–interactionist perspective on social movements, focusing on how multiple ‘players’ interpret themselves. Bringing emotion more fully into cultural analysis, it examines how mobilization unfolds through storytelling, symbols, media, discourse and interaction across diverse arenas.

Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, the book offers a rich, multi-perspective account of how meaning is made, contested and transformed within contemporary movements.

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Price: $127.95
Pages: 272
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Series: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
Publication Date: 23 March 2027
ISBN: 9781529250558
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political ideologies and movements, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social theory, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action
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Guya Accornero is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at University Institute of Lisbon.

James M. Jasper is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Introduction: Forty Years of Culture - Guya Accornero and James M. Jasper

Part I: Mobilizing Players

1. Identity and Social Movements - Aidan McGarry

2. Customs, Frameworks, and Strategies for Social Change - Matthew Coetzee, Erika Sum-Mers-Effler, and Justin Van Ness

Part II: Producing Action

3. Places and Protest - Montserrat Emperador Badimon and Guya Accornero

4. Objects in Struggles, Struggles over Objects - Bleuwenn Lechaux and Bartosz Ślosarski

5. Activism, Digital Media, and Artificial Intelligence - Alice Mattoni

Part III: Emotions of Engagement

6. Antiracist Discourse and Emotions - Teun A. Van Dijk

7. Emotional Policemen and the Control of Popular Protest - Diego Palacios Cerezales

Part IV: Outcomes

8. When Movements Change Common Sense - Francesca Polletta

9. Making Sense of Us Social Movements’ News Coverage - Edwin Amenta

10. The Cultural Bases of Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements - Benjamin Abrams

Part V: Contested Memories

11. Remembering and Forgetting past Mobilizations - Priska Daphi

12. Modern Subjects of the Golden Past: Moral Claims to Nationhood in Post-Revolutionary Egypt - Salma Moustafa-Kamel and Gary Alan Fine

Conclusions - Guya Accornero and James M. Jasper