Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Protest and Culture: Concepts and Approaches in Social Movement Research — An Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Feeling-Thinking: Emotions as Central to Culture....Pages 23-44
“A Whole Way of Struggle?”: Western Marxisms, Social Movements, and Culture....Pages 45-66
Reassessing the Culture Concept in the Analysis of Global Social Movements: An Anthropological Perspective....Pages 67-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Culture and Activism across Borders....Pages 91-112
Comparing Discourse between Cultures: A Discursive Approach to Movement Knowledge....Pages 113-139
Culture and Movement Strength from a Quantitative Perspective: A Partial Theory....Pages 140-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Movement Space: A Cultural Approach....Pages 165-185
Movement Culture as Habit(us): Resistance to Change in the Routinized Practices of Resistance....Pages 186-205
Memory and Culture in Social Movements....Pages 206-226
Embodying Protest: Culture and Performance within Social Movements....Pages 227-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Moving Culture: Transnational Social Movement Organizations as Translators in a Diffusion Cycle....Pages 251-274
Memory Battles over Mai 68: Interpretative Struggles as a Cultural Re-Play of Social Movements....Pages 275-299
Back Matter....Pages 300-313