Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in the rationalistic, structural, and organizational models that dominate academic political analysis. With this new collection of essays, Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta reverse this trend, reincorporating emotions such as anger, indignation, fear, disgust, joy, and love into research on politics and social protest. The tools of cultural analysis are especially useful for probing the role of emotions in politics, the...
Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in...
In "Restless Nation," James M. Jasper isolates a narrative that lies very close to the core of the American character. From colonial times to the present day, Americans have always had a deep-rooted belief in the "fresh start" a belief that still has Americans moving from place to place faster than the citizens of any other nation."
In "Restless Nation," James M. Jasper isolates a narrative that lies very close to the core of the American character. From colonial times to the pres...
In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms. "A provocative perspective on the cultural implications of political and social protest." "Library Journal" "
In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinc...
In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms. "A provocative perspective on the cultural implications of political and social protest." "Library Journal" "
In "The Art of Moral Protest," James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements into a distinc...
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides--as well as the efforts to bridge them--closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social movements and to show the broader implications for sociology as a whole as it struggles with issues including...
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has ...
Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do they ultimately have on our world?
In this lively and compelling book, James Jasper, an international expert on the cultural and emotional dimensions of social movements, shows that we cannot answer these questions until we bring culture squarely into the frame. Drawing on a broad range of examples, from the Women's Movement to Occupy...
Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few...
Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do they ultimately have on our world?
In this lively and compelling book, James Jasper, an international expert on the cultural and emotional dimensions of social movements, shows that we cannot answer these questions until we bring culture squarely into the frame. Drawing on a broad range of examples, from the Women's Movement to Occupy...
Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few...
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, and the mass media--as well as potential allies, competitors, recruits, and funders. Discussing protestors and players as they interact within the "arenas" of specific social contexts, the essays show that the main constraints on what protestors can accomplish come not from social and political structures, but from other players with different goals and interests....
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic p...
Like its companion volume, "http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089647085-players-and-arenas.htmlt" target="_blank" > Players and Arenas, this book offers a new way of analysing politics as the interplay of various players within structured arenas.
Like its companion volume, "http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089647085-players-and-arenas.htmlt" target="_blank" > Players and Arenas, this book offers a ne...
Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so greatly in the following years? In answering this question, James Jasper challenges one of the most popular trends in political analysis: explanations relying exclusively on political and economic structures to account for public policies. Jasper proposes a new cultural and state-centered approach--one heeding not only structural factors but cultural meanings, individual biographies, and elite discretion. Surveying the period from the successful...
Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so g...
