'Social Movements and Activism in the USA' considers the stories, rhetoric, and emotions of progressive activists from Hartford Connecticut, a post-industrial city in a neo-liberal nation.
'Social Movements and Activism in the USA' considers the stories, rhetoric, and emotions of progressive activists from Hartford Connecticut, a post-in...
What can we learn when we listen closely to and engage in dialogue with social movement activists?
Social Movements and Activism in the USA addresses this question for a group of progressive activists in Hartford, Connecticut, who do community, labor, feminist, gay and lesbian, peace, and anti-racist organizing. Situated within the twenty-first-century landscape of post-industrialism and neo-liberalism and drawing on oral histories, the book argues for a dialogic and integrative approach to social movement activism. The dialogue between scholar and activist captures the...
What can we learn when we listen closely to and engage in dialogue with social movement activists?