Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses their advantages and shortcomings, drawing links to anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. Each contribution's approach is illustrated with recent cases of mobilization.

1. Protest and Culture: Concepts and Approaches in Social Movement Research. An Introduction; Peter Ullrich, Priska Daphi, and Britta Baumgarten PART I: THEORIZING CULTURE FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM 2. Feeling - Thinking: Emotions as Central to Culture; James Jasper 3. 'A Whole Way of Struggle?': Western Marxisms, Social Movements and Culture; Laurence Cox 4. Reassessing the Culture Concept in the Analysis of Global Social Movements: An Anthropological Perspective; June Nash PART II: CULTURE AS A FRAMEWORK FOR MOVEMENT ACTIVITY 5. Culture and Activism Across Borders; Britta Baumgarten 6. Comparing Discourse between Cultures: A Discursive Approach to Movement Knowledge; Peter Ullrich and Reiner Keller 7. Culture and Movement Strength from a Quantitative Perspective: A Partial Theory; Jochen Roose PART III: INTERNAL MOVEMENT CULTURE 8. Movement Space: A Cultural Approach; Priska Daphi 9. Movement Culture as Habit(us): Resistance to Change in the Routinized Practices of Resistance; Cristina Flesher Fominaya 10. Memory and Culture in Social Movements; Nicole Doerr 11. Embodying Protest: Culture and Performance within Social Movements; Jeffrey Juris PART IV: IMPACT OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ON CULTURE 12. Moving Culture: Transnational Social Movement Organisations as Translators in a Diffusion Cycle; Olga Malets and Sabrina Zajak 13. Memory Battles over May '68: Interpretative Struggles as Cultural Re-Play of Social Movements; Erik Neveu