This Is What Democracy Sounds Like: Protest Performances of the Citizenship Movement in Wisconsin and Beyond

Paretskaya, Anna

doi:10.1080/14742837.2014.995077

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“…For example, an organization can strengthen its collective identity by having its members participate in shared cultural activities such as playing games, sharing meals, and praying together (Bernstein, 2005; Braunstein et al, 2014; McNeill, 1995). Research on social movement organizations indicates that singing songs together builds solidarity (Danaher, 2010; Paretskaya, 2015; Roy, 2010). Members of organizations who participate in these types of activities tend to be more cohesive and committed to working together (Braunstein et al, 2014; Fredette et al, 2016).…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

Fulton

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Although extensive research has examined whether diversity hinders or improves organizational performance, the aggregate results remain inconclusive. Social bridging theories argue that diverse organizations perform better than homogeneous organizations, while social bonding theories argue that diverse organizations perform worse. When scholars test these competing theories, they often specify bridging and bonding as the inverse of one another. This study instead specifies them as distinct mechanisms and measures them independently using data from a national study of organizations containing information on the race, class, gender, and religion of each organization’s leadership team and the frequency, type, and content of their interactions. The analysis indicates that both bridging and bonding are positively associated with an organization’s performance; however, their respective performance benefits depend on the type of task being performed. The results suggest that social diversity facilitates performance related to accessing external resources and social interaction facilitates performance related to internal coordination.

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Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

Fulton

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Section: Engaging Social Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, research on social movement organizations indicates that singing songs together is a common way to build solidarity while engaging differences (Danaher 2010;Paretskaya 2015;Roy 2010). Determining which songs to sing at a particular event often involves members discussing the meaning and significance of the songs under consideration (Paretskaya 2015). Among socially diverse organizations, both these discussions and the act of singing the chosen songs together are likely to serve as forms of engaging the social differences connected to different song traditions (Yukich 2013).…”

Section: Engaging Social Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Differences: How Socially Diverse Organizations Can Mobilize Their Resources More Effectively

Fulton

2020

Social Forces

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Diversity is a goal for many organizations, yet it is not always connected to improved performance. This study advances diversity-performance research by examining the effect of engaging social differences. The analysis uses data from a national study of organizations containing information on the race, gender, class, and religion of each organization’s leaders as well as information on the type and content of interactions occurring among them. The data also contain multiple measures of organizational output, specifically the organization’s performance in forming alliances, developing strategies, organizing constituents, and mobilizing people. The analysis focuses on organizations with a diverse leadership team, examining the teams’ social interactions to assess whether engaging members’ social differences is associated with better performance. Additionally, qualitative data illustrate how engaging social differences impacts organizational outcomes. The study finds that teams whose members regularly participate in bridging cultural activities and discuss their social differences achieve greater output. Overall, this study indicates that an organization’s ability to realize the performance benefits of having a diverse leadership team is related to how the leaders interact with each other. The findings suggest that diverse organizations can improve their performance by ensuring that their members interact in ways that engage their social differences.

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“…This body of work shows how, as Taylor et al. (:866) put it, “social movements often adapt, create, and use culture—ritual, music, street theatre, art, the Internet, and practices of everyday life—to make collective claims.” Other examples include the use of “glitter bombs” in the LGBTQ movement (Galli ), singing in the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising (Paretskaya ), and street theater in AIDS activism (Gould ). Yet while these examples illustrate the performative aspect of protest clearly, we see all political acts as performance, whether they feature dramatic, eye‐catching displays or not.…”

Section: Politics and Protest As Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

After the March: Using Instagram to Perform and Sustain the Women's March

Einwohner

Rochford

2019

Sociological Forum

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The January 2017 Women's March was an example of the paradigmatic March on Washington, part of the repertoire of collective action used by social movements in the United States for decades. Similar marches were held on its first and second anniversary, in January 2018 and January 2019, respectively. One did not need to travel to the nation's capital to participate in these marches, however; activists also organized hundreds of “sister marches” across the United States and internationally. Yet, a sole focus on these one‐day, physical events misses a great deal of activity. In this article, we examine social media activity related to the Women's March on the platform Instagram that was posted well after the 2017 march was over but before the 2018 march was fully planned. We do so to gain purchase on how individuals and organizations use social media to maintain movements between large events. We analyze a systematic sample of Instagram posts from two sources: (1) individual Instagram users’ public posts with the hashtag #womensmarch and (2) posts from the official Instagram account of the Women's March. Conceptualizing these posts as political performances, we use our findings to draw implications for the study of contemporary protest.

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This Is What Democracy Sounds Like: Protest Performances of the Citizenship Movement in Wisconsin and Beyond

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

Engaging Differences: How Socially Diverse Organizations Can Mobilize Their Resources More Effectively

After the March: Using Instagram to Perform and Sustain the Women's March

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