Coalition‐building and the forging of solidarity across difference and inequality

Gawerc, Michelle I.

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“…Gamson's coalition work, forged in thinking about political conventions, continues to inform and stimulate research and theory on coalitions in social movements and elsewhere. Google Scholar notes more than 1,400 citations of his original article on the topic ("A Theory of Coalition Formation"), and, long after that first paper appeared, the study of coalitions became a vital area in the study of movements (e.g., Brooker and Meyer 2019;Gawerc 2020Gawerc , 2021McCammon and Moon 2015;Staggenborg 1986;Van Dyke and Amos 2017;Van Dyke and McCammon 2010;Zald and McCarthy 1980). The more recent work on coalitions often focuses less on formal expectations from coalition participation to the environmental and structural preconditions and mechanics of forging coalitions, making decisions, and holding different groups and/or organizations together.…”

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William A. Gamson and His Legacy for Academia and Social Movements

Gawerc¹,

Meyer²

2021

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William A. Gamson's career was nothing less than remarkable. A prolific scholar, Gamson wrote at least eight books and more than a hundred articles from 1961 to 2014. And he bequeathed social movement studies substantial theoretical contributions and methodological innovations in numerous areas including coalitions, resource mobilization, political opportunities, framing, and culture. His legacy also includes pioneering simulation games both for teaching and for use by social movements, novel pedagogies (in part inspired by his wife, sociologist, Zelda Gamson), and a well-articulated scholar-activist model that has—and will continue—to inspire. This article discusses his extraordinary career and his legacy for social movements, academia, and beyond.

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William A. Gamson and His Legacy for Academia and Social Movements

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Meyer²

2021

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“…Diverse coalitions have the ability to bridge societal divides [ 51 – 55 ] while promoting inclusivity. Students of color at predominantly White schools report unwelcoming environments, feelings of alienation, and a multitude of barriers to degree completion [ 56 – 59 ].…”

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Ten simple rules for creating and sustaining antiracist graduate programs

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Disla³

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PLoS Comput Biol

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In 2020, the combination of police killings of unarmed Black people, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought about public outrage over long-standing inequalities in society. The events of 2020 ignited global attention to systemic racism and racial inequalities, including the lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the academy and especially in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields. Racial and ethnic diversity in graduate programs in particular warrants special attention as graduate students of color report experiencing alarming rates of racism, discrimination, microaggressions, and other exclusionary behaviors. As part of the Graduate Dean’s Advisory Council on Diversity (GDACD) at the University of California Merced, the authors of this manuscript held a year-long discussion on these issues and ways to take meaningful action to address these persistent issues of injustices. We have outlined 10 rules to help graduate programs develop antiracist practices to promote racial and ethnic justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in the academy. We focus on efforts to address systemic causes of the underrepresentation and attrition of students from minoritized communities. The 10 rules are developed to allow graduate groups to formulate and implement rules and policies to address root causes of underrepresentation of minoritized students in graduate education.

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“…While it is certainly true that commonalities render coalition work easier, we find it limiting to think about a potential coalition only in terms of alignment. After all, coalitions across differences, while challenging to build, can be enriching and hold strategic value, since new perspectives and experiences are shared (Gawerc 2020;. We 40 https://netzwerk-oekonomischer-wandel.org/.…”

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Nurturing networks

Guerrero Lara

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The political dimension of community-supported agriculture (CSA), beyond prefiguring alternatives to the conventional, capitalist agri-food system, has remained largely unexplored by the scientific community. The large majority of studies on CSA have explored questions on societal change by investigating the internal dynamics at the initiative level, and detailed explorations of CSA as a social movement as a whole are largely lacking. Therefore, this thesis studied the political dimension of CSA at the level of the network organisation by conceptualising and analysing CSA from a social movement lens. Such a perspective broadened the view beyond local initiatives and shed light on the role that CSA can play as a collective political actor to bring about change towards more environmentally sound and socially just agri-food systems. This study focussed on the German CSA network, the Netzwerk Solidarische Landwirtschaft, as the main case study and asked to what extent and in what ways CSA networks form and act as a collective, political actor of societal transformation. To answer this question, several chapters of this thesis drew on different strands of social movement studies: Chapter 3 used the concept of boundary work to shed light on the process through which CSA networks become a collective actor. Subsequently, drawing on literature on political advocacy, Chapter 4 analysed how CSA networks act via advocacy work to induce change within capitalist agri-food systems. Building on the literature on coalition building, Chapter 5 then investigated how political action can be broadened by systematically analysing the potential of entering a coalition between the CSA and degrowth movements. Finally, Chapter 6 examined the transformation of agri-food systems more broadly through the lens of degrowth literature and identified pertinent avenues for future research. Taken together, these chapters generate novel insights and positions on the German CSA network as a collective, yet heterogenous actor. Adopting a social movement lens was instrumental for exploring how CSA initiatives with differing values, ways of organising, and political goals are positioned towards each other, including how tensions and factionalism arise within the movement and how they are mitigated. Furthermore, this thesis showed that the German CSA network, apart from an outspoken distancing from the far-right, welcomes diversity; a pragmatic decision that has allowed the movement to grow and spread within different circles. The heterogeneity of the German CSA network is also reflected in its politics; while the network engages predominantly in a prefigurative politics, different understandings of what it means to be political co-exist within the movement. In addition, it is politicised to different extents and the extent to which the movement wants to be political remains internally contested and debated. While further politicisation is necessary to support societal transformation processes, for a social movement that consists of heterogenous initiatives, this process is complex and problem-ridden. In sum, this thesis gave a nuanced view of the ways in which CSA networks can be understood as political and offered important insights into how a common identity, political strategies, claims, and struggles are negotiated and enacted.

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Coalition‐building and the forging of solidarity across difference and inequality

Cited by 12 publications

References 82 publications

William A. Gamson and His Legacy for Academia and Social Movements

William A. Gamson and His Legacy for Academia and Social Movements

Ten simple rules for creating and sustaining antiracist graduate programs

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