Florence Passy, Gian-Andrea Monsch

Contentious Minds

How Talk and Ties Sustain Activism

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY NC ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Contentious Minds, Florence Passy and Gian-Andrea Monsch explain how cognitive and relational processes allow activists participate in and sustain their commitment to activism. Based on a wide array of survey and interview data with activists engaged in protest, volunteering and unions, they highlight how a commitment community develop shared values, identities, and meanings through interaction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780190078027
• ISBN-10: 0190078022
• Artikelnr.: 58568281

Autorenporträt

Florence Passy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Gian-Andrea Monsch is a Senior Researcher at FORS, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences based at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Contentious Minds in Action
Chapter 2: A Cognitive-Relational Process
Chapter 3: Synchronized Minds
Chapter 4: Common Good and Intentionality
Chapter 5: Politics and Intentionality
Chapter 6: Networks as "Islands of Meanings"
Chapter 7: Culture in Mind
Appendix
References
Index