Description

Frames of Protest brings together important empirical research and theoretical essays by leading sociologists, political scientists, and media specialists that focus on social movement frames and framing practices. Frames are new ways of understanding political and social relations that emphasize injustice and the need for change. As such, they are crucial for the development of social movements and protest. Frames of Protest is the only book to focus exclusively on this major research perspective in social movement and protest studies.
Thirteen chapters encompass the major themes in the framing perspective to offer a state-of-the-art review. Three chapters present evidence for the determining influence of framing in social movement mobilization. Next, framing activities by the state and the mass media are analyzed. Then, two research reports examine the effect of political opportunities on framing-in Poland under the Communists and in New York City's ethnic politics. Several chapters by leading theorists present a lively debate about the relationship of ideologies to collective action frames. The book closes with a hands-on discussion about analyzing textual materials and interview transcripts to do frame analysis that lends itself to longitudinal and cross-case comparisons.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Frames of Protest: A Roadmap to a Perspective
Part 2 I Framing and Mobilization Processes
Chapter 3 Explaining Suffrage Mobilization: Balance, Neutralization, and Range in Collective Action Frames
Chapter 4 Collective Action Frames in the Gay Liberation Movement, 1969-1973
Chapter 5 Strategic Framing, Emotions, and Superbarrio-Mexico City's Masked Crusader
Part 6 II Non-Movement Framing: The State and Media
Chapter 7 Official Frames in Social Movement Theory: The FBI, HUAC, and the Communist threat in Hollywood
Chapter 8 Mobilizing the White March: Media Frames as Alternatives to Movement Organizations
Part 9 III Framing and Political Opportunities
Chapter 10 Framing, Political Opportunities, and Eastern European Mobilization
Chapter 11 Political Opportunities and Framing Puerto Rican Identity in New York City
Part 12 IV Refining the Perspective
Chapter 13 What a Good Idea! Ideology and Frames in Social Movement Research
Chapter 14 Clarifying the Relationship between Framing and Ideology
Chapter 15 Breaking the Frame
Chapter 16 Strategic Imperative, Ideology, and Frame
Chapter 17 Comparative Frame Analysis
18 Index
19 About the Contributors

Product details

Published Jun 17 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 280
ISBN 9780742538078
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 252 x 183 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Hank Johnston

Anthology Editor

John A. Noakes

Contributor

Lyndi Hewitt

Contributor

Hank Johnston

Contributor

Padraic Kenney

Contributor

Jan Massens

Contributor

Cathy Schneider

Contributor

David A. Snow

Contributor

David L. Westby

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