Passionate Politics
Emotions and Social Movements
- Contents

Introduction: Why Emotions Matter
Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta
Part One - Theoretical Perspectives
1. Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention
Randall Collins
2. Putting Emotions in Their Place
Craig Calhoun
3. A Structural Approach to Social Movement Emotions
Theodore Kemper
4. The Business of Social Movements
Frank Dobbin
Part Two - Cultural Contexts
5. Emotions and Political Identity: Mobilizing Affection for the Polity
Mabel Berezin
6. A Revolution of the Soul: Transformative Experiences and Immediate Abolition
Michael P. Young
7. Revenge of the Shamed: The Christian Right’s Emotional Culture War
Arlene Stein
Part Three - Recruitment and Internal Dynamics
8. Rock the Boat, Don’t Rock the Boat, Baby: Ambivalence and the Emergence of Militant AIDS Activism
Deborah Gould
9. The Social Structure of Moral Outrage in Recruitment to the U.S. Central America Peace Movement
Sharon Erickson, Nepstad and Christian Smith
10. Fear, Laughter, and Collective Power: The Making of Solidarity at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdnask, Poland, August 1980
Colin Baker
11. The Felt Politics of Charity: Serving "the Ambassadors of God" and Saving "the Sinking Classes"
Rebecca Anne Allahyari
12. Animal Rights and the Politics of Emotion: Folk Constructions of Emotion in the Animal Rights Movement
Julian McAllister Groves
Part Four - The Emotions of Conflict
13. Emotional Strategies: The Collective Reconstruction and Display of Oppositional Emotions in the Movement against Child Sexual Abuse
Nancy Whittier
14. Finding Emotion in Social Movement Processes: Irish Land Movement Metaphors and Narratives
Anne Kane
15. The Emotional Benefits of Insurgency in El Salvador
Elisabeth Jean Wood
16. Emotion Work in High-Risk Social Movements: Managing Fear in the U.S. and East German Civil Rights Movements
Jeff Goodwin and Steven Pfaff
Conclusion: Second That Emotion? Lessons from Once-Novel Concepts in Social Movement Research
Francesca Polletta and Edwin Amenta
List of Contributors
References
Index
Political Science: Political Behavior and Public Opinion | Political and Social Theory
Sociology: Collective Behavior, Mass Communication | Individual, State and Society | Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology
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