Ethnography of Gun Violence Prevention Activists (eBook)

&quote;We are Thinking People&quote;

Teal Rothschild (Autor)

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2018
122 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5505-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book analyzes how activists in the gun violence prevention movement construct their own identities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic participatory research and interviews of activists in the movement, the relationships between self, group, and movement identity is explored.

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This work builds on established literature that is centered on how the activists see themselves, their groups, and the national movement promoting gun violence prevention. This study focuses on two contemporary social organizations that are working on the state level, who view themselves as ';gun violence prevention' advocates. Both of these groups are similar in their state focus of advocacy of gun violence prevention in a northeastern state in the United States. However, the two groups have two distinct memberships, missions, and hierarchies to carry out the activism. Although each organization shares similar visions of long term goals of a reduction of gun violence, each prioritizes the path to get there differently. Additionally, there are some explicit and implicit tensions between the movements that the activists both verbalize and ';act out' at rallies and public events. The focus on the conflict between activists within the larger movement of gun violence prevention activists is important, but do not necessarily thwart all progress for the cause. Rather, tension between the groups creates a reassessment of individual group goals and strategies that may be the most essential to advance the cause.

Autor

Teal Rothschild is professor of sociology at Roger Williams University.

Inhalt

PrefaceIntroduction: Mobilization and Gun Violence PreventionPart I: Gun Violence Prevention Activists and IdentityChapter 1: Activism and Individual IdentityChapter 2: Culture of Organization in Gun Violence PreventionChapter 3: Power and Interaction: Movement Scripts and EmotionPart II: Contradictions and Position in Social MovementsChapter 4: On the Ground Activist EthnographyChapter 5: Reflections on gun violence prevention activismAppendix 1Appendix 2Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Coalitions • Gun Control • gun violence prevention • Meaning making • mobilization • political communication • Political Science • Political Sociology • Protests • Social Movements • state-level • violence in society
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5505-5 / 1498555055
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5505-0 / 9781498555050