Constructing identity and oppositional knowledge: The framing practices of peace movement organizations during the Persian gulf war

Coy, Patrick G.; Woehrle, Lynne M.

doi:10.1080/02732173.1996.9982134

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“…This thing encompasses a perception of shared goals, interests, and characteristics; it acts as a 'shorthand reference point for insiders and outsiders that encapsulates key movement frames, issues, tactics, identities, ideologies, and orientations' (Flesher Fominaya, 2010, p. 397). Activists use identity in this way when they make decisions about emphasizing or downplaying group characteristics (Coy & Woehrle, 1996). I argue that activists also use collective identity as a product when they rule out potential strategies and tactics because they are in conflict with what the group represents.…”

Section: Collective Identity Previous Experience and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I Hate It, But It Still Sounds Good’: Collective Identity and the Evaluation of Oppositional Frame Resonance

Trumpy

2015

Social Movement Studies

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Section: Collective Identity Previous Experience and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I Hate It, But It Still Sounds Good’: Collective Identity and the Evaluation of Oppositional Frame Resonance

Trumpy

2015

Social Movement Studies

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“…The multiple audiences that observe an organization hold default expectations that help to form and define the organization's identity (Hsu and Hannan 2005, p. 476). Like other types of organizations, social movement organizations are tenaciously attentive to the ways that their identities are understood by the multiple audiences that observe them (Barakso 2010;Coy and Woehrle 1996;Engel 2007;Heaney and Rojas 2006;Lipsky 1968;Polletta and Jasper 2001). These audiences include members, supporters, volunteers, staff, other social movement organizations, foundations, government officials, mass media, and the public at large.…”

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Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multimovement Environment

Heaney

Rojas

2014

American Journal of Sociology

105

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Antiwar movements mobilize in environments in which many of their potential supporters maintain loyalties to other social movements. Social movement organizations must find ways to attract supporters from these allied movements if peace demonstrations are to achieve critical mass. We argue that organizations with hybrid identities -those whose organizational identities span the boundaries of the antiwar movement and one or more other social movements -are vital to mobilizations for peace. Our analysis draws upon original data from surveys of 5,410 antiwar demonstrators conducted in 2007-2009, combined with publicly available data on 526 organizations that helped to mobilize them. Regression analysis using a two-stage mixed-process estimator shows that individuals with past involvement in non-antiwar movements are more likely to join hybrid organizations than are individuals without involvement in non-antiwar movements. Regression analyses using Tobit and Negative Binomial panel estimators establish that organizations with hybrid identities occupy relatively more central positions in interorganizational co-contact networks within the antiwar movement, and contact significantly more participants in demonstrations, than do their peer organizations. A movementlevel examination of the distribution of hybrid organizations helps to pinpoint some of the strengths and weaknesses in antiwar organizing. For example, numerous hybrid organizations form on the basis of gender and religious identities, but few organizations form to connect with environmental, African-American, and Latino activists. We conclude by proposing a broader research agenda on hybrid organizations, as well as on the role of individual biographies in social movements. Keywords

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“…Most of the literature to date has focused on framing's role in the collective identity of social movements (Benford, 1993;Coles, 1999;Coy & Woehrle, 1996;Hunt, Benford, & Snow, 1994). However, I will argue here that it applies just as well to the collective identity of a political party or a nation and, more important, to individual identity building.…”

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Building the Clinton Legacy Through Frame Alignment

Coles

2001

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Constructing identity and oppositional knowledge: The framing practices of peace movement organizations during the Persian gulf war

Cited by 55 publications

References 15 publications

‘I Hate It, But It Still Sounds Good’: Collective Identity and the Evaluation of Oppositional Frame Resonance

‘I Hate It, But It Still Sounds Good’: Collective Identity and the Evaluation of Oppositional Frame Resonance

Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multimovement Environment

Building the Clinton Legacy Through Frame Alignment

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