Identity Work in Social Movements

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Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers, Rachel L. Einwohner
U of Minnesota Press, 2008 - Social Science - 317 pages
Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants.
 

Contents

Identity Work Sameness and Difference in Social Movements
1
Part I Doing Identity Work
19
Part II Working through Identities
165
The Analytic Dimensions of Identity A Political Identity Framework
277
Contributors
303
Index
309
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