Collective Identity, Solidarity, and Commitment

Hund, Scott A.; Benford, Robert A.

doi:10.1002/9780470999103.ch19

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“…Literature has recognized collective identity as an important component of group cohesion (Cohen, 1985;Fominaya, 2010;Hunt & Benford, 2004;Polletta & Jasper, 2011;Snow, 2001). Polletta and Jasper (2011) defined collective identity as "...an individual's cognitive, moral, and emotional connection with a broader community" (p. 285).…”

Section: Identity-oriented Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Building a Climate Movement Through Relational Organizing

Divakaran

Nerbonne

2017

IJPS

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Community organizing is a process for achieving social change through the mobilization of resources and the formation of collective identity. Relational community organizing is a particular approach to developing new leaders and building organizational capacity for sustaining a powerful movement, and is especially relevant in the climate justice movement because relationships serve to bring actors from isolation and despair toward communal identity and hopeful action. Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light (MNIPL) is a community organization that is using relational organizing to activate faith communities to take action on climate change. This paper describes the design and first phase of evaluation of MNIPL's Movement Builder Program, a networked distributed leadership model that uses peer mentors to increase the efficacy of new organizers. Can a peer-to-peer network increase the leverage of organizers? Will supportive relationships move people to increased action and to develop the leadership of others? We provide an introduction to this inquiry as well as the foundational frameworks and historical context of this new approach.

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Section: Identity-oriented Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Building a Climate Movement Through Relational Organizing

Divakaran

Nerbonne

2017

IJPS

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“…Despite the increased attention to identity in the social movements literature in recent decades (e.g., Hunt & Benford, 2004;Johnston & Klandermans, 1995;Stryker, Owens, & White, 2000), the concept remains rather ambiguous (see, for example, Jasper, 1997, p. 85;Snow & McAdam, 2000, p. 41). To promote conceptual clarity and empirical precision, Dunlap and McCright (2008) examine selected frameworks that enumerate key dimensions of identity (e.g., Gamson, 1991;Hunt et al, 1994;Jasper, 1997;.…”

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A Social Movement Identity Instrument for Integrating Survey Methods Into Social Movements Research

2017

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Given increasing scholarly recognition of the need to better understand the factors that influence identification with or participation in social movements, we build upon recent work that integrates public opinion methods and analytical techniques into social movements research. Specifically, we revise an existing measure of environmental movement identity into a general measure of identification with a broad range of movements. Our analyses show that this new instrument captures meaningful variation across levels of identification with 20 major U.S. social movements and also helps distinguish among three movement identity clusters that largely align with key movement families. Furthermore, we provide strong evidence that our instrument has construct validity, as selected predictors explain variation in the three movement identity clusters in ways expected by previous research. We close by proposing an agenda for future research that helps advance our understanding of public support for or engagement with social movements.

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“…They do this through engaging in e.g. identity talk (Hunt and Benford, 1994), using narratives, memories or stories (Gongaware, 2001;Nepstad, 2001;in Hunt & Benford, 2004) and utilising emotions such as moral outrage, indignation and fear (e.g. Kane, 2001;Young, 2001) to raise or transform consciousness.…”

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Ethnicity, popular democratic movements and labour in Malaysia

Croucher

Miles

2016

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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We use framing theory to examine how activists and trade unions have framed labour's political agenda in Malaysia. A polity grounded in ethnicity continues to hinder the formation of cross-ethnic collective worker identities and labour politics. However, inclusive popular democratising movements have strengthened in recent years, providing a favourable context for greater emphasis on non-ethnic political action by trade unions. The latter have shifted in this direction, adopting elements of the popular movement's 'human rights' internationalism. Thus, the democratic movement's frame 2 | P a g e influenced that of the trade unions, with implications for framing theory.

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Collective Identity, Solidarity, and Commitment

Cited by 208 publications

References 64 publications

Building a Climate Movement Through Relational Organizing

Building a Climate Movement Through Relational Organizing

A Social Movement Identity Instrument for Integrating Survey Methods Into Social Movements Research

Ethnicity, popular democratic movements and labour in Malaysia

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