The Social Organization of Disease: Emotions and Civic Action

ISBN-13: 9780367873004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 220 str.

Jochen Kleres

Opis

This book presents a perspective on non-profit organizations that analyses organizational development through the emotional sense-making of individual organizers, within the light of larger political processes and cultural contexts. To this end, this volume develops and applies a new methodology for researching emotions empirically.

Spis treści

Introduction

Conceptual Problems

Theoretical Problems

Theories of Volunteerism

Advances: Theories of Social Movements

Conceptual Problems Revisited: Empowering Distinctions

A Framework

Structure of the Book: On Studying Disbanded AIDS Organizations

References

Towards a Political Sociology of AIDS Service Organizations

A First Premise: The Social Construction of AIDS

The (Non-)Emergence of AIDS Organizations

A Second Premise: The Evolution of Public Health

Queer Corporatism

Professionalization and its Discontents

Power in the Field: The Field of AIDS Organizing

AIDS Service Organizations as Political and Discursive Agents

Conclusion: AIDS Service Organizations as a Form of Power

References

AIDS Organizations in Germany

Parallels: A Brief Note on the AIDS Discourse in Germany

The Role of Identity: The Emergence of AIDS Relief Organizations

The Power of Discourse: The Evolution of AIDS Policies in Germany

The Stakes of AIDS Organizing and of its Political Inclusion

The Evolution and Transformation of AIDS Relief

The Normalization of AIDS

Differences – The German Case in Contrast

Conclusion

References

Making Sense of Neo-Corporatism and Neo-Institutionalism

Neo-Corporatism – Principle Considerations

The Rationalist Premises of Neo-Corporatism

Neo-Institutionalism

Key Assumptions of Neo-Institutionalism

Neo-Institutionalism and Social Change

The Sensemaking Approach

Sensemaking: The Process of Organizing

Seven Characteristics and Some Sources of Sensemaking

Conclusion

References

Sensemaking, Narrative Analysis, and Emotions

Narrative Methodology and Analysis

Convergences: Sen

O autorze

Jochen Kleres is a postdoctoral researcher at the Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.