Forging Radical Alliances across Difference

Coalition Politics for the New Millennium

Autor: Jill M. Bystydzienski

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Rowman & Littlefield

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As we enter the twenty-first century, scholars, activists and others concerned with social change in...

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Autor

Jill M. Bystydzienski

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2001

strony

288

EAN

9780742510579

ISBN

0742510573

Enbook ID

04904164

Wydawca

Rowman & Littlefield

Waga

530

Wymiary

160 x 236 x 27

Pełny opis

As we enter the twenty-first century, scholars, activists and others concerned with social change increasingly realize that in order to transform society effective coalitions among different groups working for social justice need to be created and maintained. However, most of the research and writing about coalitions provide rather limited approaches to the study and understanding of radical alliances; i.e.: coalitions whose goals are to fundamentally change interpersonal relations and social structure in order to achieve equality and true social justice. This anthology challenges dominant approaches of explaining social movements and coalition building. Based on numerous case studies of alliances created between disparate peoples and among a variety of groups, the authors show that both resource mobilization theories and identity politics frameworks for the most part are inadequate for conceptualizing how alliances have been and can be created across boundaries of gender, race/ethnicity, class, nationality, ideology, sexual orientation, and age. The theoretical approach we propose suggests that coalitions are fluid sites of collective behavior where the blending of multiple identities with political activism interact with structural conditions to influence the development of commitments, strategies and specific actions. This analogy makes a contribution to a body of knowledge that aims to understand and explain how radical coalitions work in order to enable the development of visions and plans for change that advance and sustain political and social activity.

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