reading list

Social Movements (Soc 122)

Reading List Spring 2014

This is the master reading list.  Each week in the semester, we will cover the topic in bold below.  You should choose any two articles under that topic as your reading for that week. 

Most of these articles are available via sociological abstracts.  If not available there, please check google scholar, jstor, and academic-ebsco.

Media and Movements

 Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation

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Multi-Issue, Internet-Mediated Interest Organizations and their Implications for US Politics: A Case of

MoveOn.org

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Reporting Conventions: Journalists, Activists, and the Thorny Struggle for Political Visibility

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Thigo, P. (2013). People, technology and spaces: Towards a new generation of social movements. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 31(2), 255-264. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2013.783755

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Making the News: Movement Organizations, Media Attention, and the Public Agenda

Andrews, Kenneth T; Caren, Neal. American Sociological Review75.6 (Dec 2010): 841-866.

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All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why SMO Families Appeared in the New York Times in the Twentieth Century

Amenta, Edwin; Caren, Neal; Olasky, Sheera Joy; Stobaugh, James E. American Sociological Review74.4 (Aug 2009): 636-656.

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THE USE OF NEWSPAPER DATA IN THE STUDY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Earl, Jennifer; Martin, Andrew; McCarthy, John D; Soule, Sarah A. Annual Review of Sociology30 (2004): 65-80.

Movements and Memory

Armstrong, Elizabeth A and Suzanna M Crage. 2006. "Movements and memory: the making of

the Stonewall myth." American Sociological Review 71,5: 724-751.

Benford, Robert D. 2002. “Controlling narratives and narratives as control within social

movements” Pp53-76 in Davis, Joseph. Stories of change: Narrative and social movements. Albany: SUNY Press.

Bromberg, Minna and Gary Alan Fine. 2002. "Resurrecting the Red: Pete Seeger and the

Purification of Difficult Reputations." Social Forces 80,4: 1135-1155.

Conway, Brian. 2003. "Active remembering, selective forgetting, and collective identity: The

case of Bloody Sunday." Identity: an international journal of theory and research 3:305-323.

Cunningham, David, Colleen Nugent, and Caitlin Slodden. 2010. "The durability of collective

memory: Reconciling the “Greensboro massacre”." Social Forces 88,4 :1517-1542.

Eyerman, Ron. 2004. "The Past in the Present Culture and the Transmission of Memory." Acta

Sociologica 47,2: 159-169.

Fine, Gary Alan. 1996. "Reputational entrepreneurs and the memory of incompetence: Melting

supporters, partisan warriors, and images of President Harding." American Journal of Sociology 101,5: 1159-1193.

Gill, Sandra. 2012. “Recalling a Difficult Past: Whites’ Memories of Birmingham.” Sociological

Inquiry 82, 1: 29–48. 

Gongaware, Timothy B. 2003. "Collective Memories and Collective Identities Maintaining Unity

in Native American Educational Social Movements." Journal of Contemporary

Ethnography 32,5: 483-520.

Gongaware, Timothy B. 2010. "Collective Memory Anchors: Collective Identity and Continuity

in Social Movements." Sociological Focus 43,3: 214-239.

Griffin, Larry J. 2004. "“Generations and Collective Memory” Revisited: Race, Region, and

Memory of Civil Rights." American Sociological Review 69,4 :544-557.

Griffin, Larry J and Kenneth A Bollen. 2009. "What do these memories do? Civil Rights

Rremembrance and Racial Attitudes." American Sociological Review 74,4: 594-614.

Isaac, Larry. 2008. "Movement of Movements: Culture Moves in the Long Civil Rights

Struggle." Social Forces 87,1: 33-63.

Jansen, Robert S. 2007. "Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories, Memory

Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures." American Journal of Sociology

112,4 :953-1007.

Larson, Jeff A and Omar Lizardo. 2007. "Generations, Identities, and the Collective Memory of

Che Guevara." Sociological Forum 22,4: 425-451.

McElroy, Kathleen. 2013. “You Must Remember This: Obituaries and the Civil Rights

Movement.” Journal of Black Studies 44,4: 335-355. 

Meyer, David S and Deana A Rohlinger. 2012. “Big Books and Social Movements: A Myth of

Ideas and Social Change.”  Social Problems 59,1: 136—153.

Polletta, Francesca. 1998. "Legacies and liabilities of an insurgent past: Remembering Martin

Luther King, Jr., on the House and Senate floor." Social Science History 22,4:479-512.

Schuman, Howard and Amy D Corning. 2000. "Collective knowledge of public events: The

Soviet era from the great purge to glasnost." American Journal of Sociology 105,4: :913-956.

Schuman, Howard, Barry Schwartz, and Hannah d’Arcy. 2005. "Elite Revisionists and Popular

Beliefs Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain?" Public Opinion Quarterly 69,1:2-29.

Schwartz, Barry. 2009. "Collective forgetting and the symbolic power of oneness: The Strange

Apotheosis of Rosa Parks." Social Psychology Quarterly 72,2:123-142.

Seidman, Gay. 2001. "Guerrillas in their midst: Armed struggle in the South African Anti-

Apartheid Movement." Mobilization 6,2: 111-127.

Taylor, Verta, Leila J Rupp, and Joshua Gamson. 2005. "Performing protest: Drag shows as

tactical repertoire of the gay and lesbian movement." Research in Social Movements,

Conflicts and Change 25:105-137.

Wagner-Pacifici, Robin and Barry Schwartz. 1991. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial:

Commemorating a Difficult Past." American Journal of Sociology 97,2: 376-420.

Movement Processes

The political consequences of social movements

E Amenta, N Caren, E Chiarello… - … Annual Review of Sociology, 2010 -

 

Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960–19951

DJ Wang, SA Soule - American journal of sociology, 2012 

Activism as a Career, Calling, and Way of Life

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 Presidential Address: The Art of Activism..

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Political Reform and the Historical Trajectories of U.S. Social Movements in the Twentieth Century

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Ethical and Political Challenges of Participatory Action Research in the Academy: Reflections on Social

Movements and Knowledge Production in South Africa

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Parading Protest: Orange Parades in Northern Ireland and Temperance Parades in Antebellum

America 93

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HOW DO VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS FOSTER PROTEST? THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL

INVOLVEMENT ON INDIVIDUAL PROTEST PARTICIPATION.

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Playing and Protesting: Sport as a Vehicle for Social Change

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How Strong Are Strong Ties? The Conditional Effectiveness Of Strong Ties In Protest Recruitment

Attempts

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Protestival: Global Days of Action and Carnivalized Politics in the Present..

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Protest and Policymaking: Explaining Fluctuation in Congressional Attention to Rights Issues, 1960-

1986.

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Walker, E. T., & Mccarthy, J. D. (2010). Legitimacy, strategy, and resources in the survival of community-based organizations. Social Problems, 57(3), 315-340. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sp.2010.57.3.315

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How Social Movements Do Culture Roy, William G. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society23.2-3 (Sep 2010): 85-98.

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Nathanson, C. A. (1999). Social movements as catalysts for policy change: The case of smoking and guns. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 24(3), 421-488. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/60073313?accountid=10349

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Doing Democracy: The Social Psychological Mobilization and Consequences of Collective Action

Thomas, Emma F; Louis, Winnifred R. Social Issues and Policy Review7.1 (Jan 2013): 173-200.

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Transforming Citizenship: The Subjective Consequences of Local Political Mobilization

Meyer, Rachel. Political Power and Social Theory23 (2012): 147-188. 

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A Social Movement Generation: Cohort and Period Trends in Protest Attendance and Petition Signing

Caren, Neal; Ghoshal, Raj Andrew; Ribas, Vanesa. American Sociological Review76.1 (Feb 2011): 125-151.

Animal Rights

Shifting Symbolic Boundaries: Cultural Strategies of the Animal Rights Movement

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Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights

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Framing the Issue: Religion, Secular Ethics and the Case of Animal Rights Mobilization

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Walby, K., & Monaghan, J. (2011). Private eyes and public order: Policing and surveillance in the suppression of animal rights activists in canada. Social Movement Studies, 10(1), 21-37. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2011.545225

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5.  Munro, L. (2012). The animal rights movement in theory and practice: A review of the sociological literature. Sociology Compass, 6(2), 166-181. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00440.x

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Munro, L. (2001). Caring about blood, flesh, and pain: Women's standing in the animal protection movement. Society & Animals, 9(1), 43-61. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/60490918?accountid=10349

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 “Recruiting Strangers and Friends: Moral Shocks and Social Networks in Animal Rights and Anti-Nuclear Protests,”

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Jacobsson, K., & Lindblom, J. (2013). Emotion work in animal rights activism: A moral-sociological perspective. Acta Sociologica (London), 56(1), 55-68. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001699312466180

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Wrenn, C. L. (2013). Resonance of moral shocks in abolitionist animal rights advocacy: Overcoming contextual constraints.Society & Animals, 21(4), 379-394. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341271

Education

Hotbeds of activism: Locations of student protest

N Van Dyke - Social Problems, 1998 - JSTOR

Crossing movement boundaries: Factors that facilitate coalition protest by American college students, 1930-1990
N Van Dyke
Social Problems 50 (2), 226-250

Protest cycles and party politics: The effects of elite allies and antagonists on student protest in the United States, 1930-1990
N Van Dyke
States, parties, and social movements, 226-245

Pathways to Collective Protest: Calculation, Identification, or Emotion? A Critical Analysis of the Role of Group‐Based Anger in Social Movement Participation

S Stürmer, B Simon - Journal of Social Issues, 2009 - Wiley Online Library

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"Just say No": Organizing Against Militarism in Public Schools................................................................. 69

52. Students for Peace: Contextual and Framing Motivations of Antiwar Activism

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The Discursive Turn in School Desegregation: National Patterns and a Case Analysis of Cleveland,

1973-1998

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Social networks and student activism: on the politicising effect of campus connections

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Reconciling Research, Rallies, and Citizenship: Reflections on Youth-Led Diversity Workshops and

Intercultural Alliances.

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Manufacturing Dissent: Labor Revitalization, Union Summer and Student Protest

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Policing Disorderly Campus Protests and Convivial Gatherings: The Interaction of Threat, Social

Organization, and First Amendment Guarantees

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The Microlevel Discourse Of Social Movement Framing: Debating Antiwar Protests On A University

Listserv.

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THE COLLEGE SPORTS REFORM MOVEMENT: Reframing the 'Edutainment' Industry.

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The Rebirth of the Chicago Teachers Union and Possibilities for a Counter-Hegemonic Education Movement

Gutstein, Eric; Lipman, Pauline. Monthly Review65.2 (Jun 2013): 1-10.

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Schools for Democracy: Labor Union Participation and Latino Immigrant Parents' School-Based Civic Engagement

Terriquez, Veronica.American Sociological Review76.4 (Aug 2011): 581-601.

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Crossley, N. (2008). Social networks and student activism: On the politicising effect of campus connections. Sociological Review,56(1), 18-38. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00775.x

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"If There is No Struggle, There is No Progress": Transformative Youth Activism and the School of Ethnic Studies

Cabrera, Nolan L; Meza, Elisa L; Romero, Andrea J; Cintli Rodriguez, Roberto.The Urban Review45.1 (Mar 2013): 7-22.

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Schools for Democracy: Labor Union Participation and Latino Immigrant Parents' School-Based Civic Engagement

Terriquez, Veronica. American Sociological Review76.4 (Aug 2011): 581-601.

Environment

Managing Dissent: How Swarthmore College's Administration and Board of Managers Respond to Student Activists (student thesis of divestment campaign – see google scholar)

The politicization of climate change and polarization in the American public's views of global warming, 2001–2010

AM McCright, RE Dunlap - The Sociological Quarterly, 2011 - Wiley Online Library

 

Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998

Erik W. Johnson and Scott Frickel

Social Problems
Vol. 58, No. 3 (August 2011), pp. 305-329

The Founding of Environmental Justice Organizations Across U.S. Counties during the 1990s and 2000s: Civil Rights and Environmental Cross-Movement Effects

Paul B. Stretesky, Sheila Huss, Michael J. Lynch, Sammy Zahran and Bob Childs

Social Problems
Vol. 58, No. 3 (August 2011), pp. 330-360

Power games: environmental protest, news media and the internet

EA Lester, B Hutchins - Media, Culture & Society, 2009 - ecite.utas.edu.au

National and global origins of environmental association

W Longhofer, E Schofer - American Sociological Review, 2010 - asr.sagepub.com

From metabolic rift to “metabolic value”: Reflections on environmental sociology and the alternative globalization movement

A Salleh - Organization & Environment

Reflexive Research Ethics for Environmental Health and Justice: Academics and Movement Building

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Rally the People: Building Local Environmental Justice Grassroots Coalitions and Enhancing Social

Capital*

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 Movement Organizations, Synergistic Tactics and Environmental Public Policy

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COMPETING FRAMES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION: INFLUENCES ON GRASSROOTS

COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION.

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Charting a Discursive Field: Environmentalists for U.S. Population Stabilization

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Lounsbury, M., Ventresca, M., & Hirsch, P. M. (2003). Social movements, field frames and industry emergence: A cultural-political perspective on US recycling. Socio-Economic Review, 1(1), 71-104. Retrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/60486999?accountid=10349

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Beehner, L. (2013). Cycles of protest: How urban cyclists act like insurgents. Theory in Action, 6(2), 52-86. Retrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/1373428391?accountid=10349

Labor / Sweatshops

Global governance and labor rights: Codes of conduct and anti-sweatshop struggles in global apparel factories in Mexico and Guatemala

CA Rodriguez-Garavito - Politics & Society, 2005

Multinationals and anti-sweatshop activism

A Harrison, J Scorse - The American Economic Review,

The Anti‐Sweatshop Movement: Constructing Corporate Moral Agency in the Global Apparel Industry

R DeWinter - Ethics & International Affairs, 2001

Students and the Anti‐Sweatshop Movement

AJ Cravey – Antipode

The student anti-sweatshop movement: Limits and potential

JR Mandle - The annals of the American academy of political and …, 2000 

Workers of the world unite? The contemporary anti-sweatshop movement and the struggle for social justice in the Americas

R Armbruster-Sandoval - Work and Occupations, 2005

Weak Coffee: Certification and Co-Optation in the Fair Trade Movement

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Insurgent Images: Genre Selection and Visual Frame Amplification in IWW Cartoon Art.

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Laws of Attraction: Regulatory Arbitrage in the Face of Activism in Right-to-Work States

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 Interaction Ritual Chains and the Mobilization of Conscientious Consumers

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Union Threat, Countermovement Organization, and Labor Policy in the States, 1944-1960..................... 100

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Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change: Making the American Labor Problem Novel... 104

Food

Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism

AH Alkon, KM Norgaard - Sociological Inquiry, 2009

Frame Brokerage in the Pure Food Movement, 1879-1906.

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Cultural Modeling in Two Eras of U.S. Food Protest: Grahamites (1830s) and Organic Advocates

(1960s-

70s

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Lee, R. P. (2013). The politics of international agri-food policy: Discourses of trade-oriented food security and food sovereignty. Environmental Politics, 22(2), 216-234. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2012.730266

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 Raynolds, L. T. (2012). Fair trade: Social regulation in global food markets. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(3), 276-287. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.03.004

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Fixing our Global Food System: Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform

Rosset, Peter. Monthly Review61.3 (Jul 2009): 114-128. 

Food sovereignty, urban food access, and food activism: contemplating the connections through examples from Chicago

DR Block, N Chávez, E Allen, D Ramirez - Agriculture and Human Values

Saving Food: food preservation as alternative food activism

MA Click, R Ridberg - Environmental Communication, 2010

Learning democracy through food justice movements

CZ Levkoe - Agriculture and Human Values, 2006

Beyond recruitment: Predictors of differential participation in a national antihunger organization

SE Barkan, SF Cohn, WH Whitaker - Sociological Forum, 1995

Activists against hunger: Membership characteristics of a national social movement organization

SF Cohn, SE Barkan, WH Whitaker - Sociological Forum, 1993

'Waving the banana'at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York's 'freegan'dumpster divers

AV Barnard - Ethnography, 2011 

Criminal Justice

The Determinants of Executions since 1951: How Politics, Protests, Public Opinion, and Social

Divisions Shape Capital Punishment

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. Wooldredge, J. (2012). Distinguishing race effects on pre-trial release and sentencing decisions. Justice Quarterly, 29(1), 41-75. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2011.559480

Sociological Criminology and the Mythology of Hispanic Immigration and Crime

John Hagan and Alberto Palloni

Social Problems

Vol. 46, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 617-632

Dollars, Sense, and Penal Reform: Social Movements and the Future of the Carceral State

Gottschalk, Marie. Social Research74.2 (Jul 2007): 669-694.

Criminal Justice System Reform and Wrongful Conviction

Zalman, Marvin. Criminal Justice Policy Review17.4 (Dec 2006): 468-492.

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The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States

American behavioral scientist [0002-7642] Grattet, Ryken yr:2001 vol:45 iss:4 pg:668 -696

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HATE CRIME REPORTING AS A SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL MOVEMENT OUTCOME

McVeigh, Rory; Bjarnason, Thoroddur; Welch, Michael R. American Sociological Review68.6 (Dec 2003): 843-867.

Peace

Oppositional Identities: The Military Peace Movement's Challenge to Pro-Iraq War Frames

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Pursuing Political Persuasion: War and Peace Frames in the United States after September 11th.......... 105

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Alliance Building across Social Movements: Bridging Difference in a Peace and Justice Coalition.......... 107

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The Coalition of the Unwilling: Contentious Politics, Political Opportunity Structures, and Challenges for the Contemporary Peace Movement

Carty, Victoria. Peace and Conflict Studies18.1 (Apr 2011): 79-115.

Mobilizing Gender to Promote Peace: The Case of Machsom Watch

Beamish, Thomas D., Harvey Molotch, and Richard Flacks. 1995. “Who supports the troops?

Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Making of Collective Memory.” Social Problems 42,3: 344-360.

Theory

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PROTEST AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES

Meyer, David S. Annual Review of Sociology30 (2004): 125-145.

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Collective identity and social movements

Polletta, Francesca; Jasper, James M. Annual Review of Sociology27 (2001): 283-305.

Framing processes and social movements: An overview and assessment

Benford, Robert D; Snow, David A. Annual Review of Sociology26 (2000): 611-639.

Was it worth the effort? The outcomes and consequences of social movements

Giugni, Marco G. Annual Review of Sociology24 (1998): 371-393.