New Book: Identity Work in Social Movements

Posted by on July 20, 2009

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From: Heather Skinner <skinn077@umn.edu>

IDENTITY WORK IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers, and Rachel L. Einwohner, Editors
University of Minnesota Press | 328 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-5139-9 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-5140-5 | paperback | $25.00
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 30

Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. This volume offers new scholarship that explores how people negotiate identity within social movements and examines issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants.

Contributors: Mary Bernstein, Kimberly B. Dugan, Elizabeth Kaminski, Susan Munkres, Kevin Neuhouser, Benita Roth, Silke Roth, Todd Schroer, Verta Taylor, Jane Ward.

“Scholarship on collective identity has tended to under-theorize issues of difference and conflict-Identity Work in Social Movements remedies that lack beautifully. A significant and unique collection.”
-Nancy Whittier, Smith College

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book’s webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/reger_identity.html

For more information on the Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/social.html

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