Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Antebellum Cincinnati

Ellingson, Stephen

doi:10.1086/230700

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“…They may use these interpretive schemata to legitimate their actions towards their opponents and also to mobilize non-governmental players and citizens to collaborate in resisting unwanted policies. The ongoing interactions with their allies and opponents as well as important events will affect their framing, as has been convincingly shown by Ellingson (1995).…”

Section: Governmental Activism As Strategic Interactionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Understanding governmental activism

Verhoeven

Duyvendak

2017

Social Movement Studies

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Section: Governmental Activism As Strategic Interactionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Understanding governmental activism

Verhoeven

Duyvendak

2017

Social Movement Studies

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“…Within the social movements literature, concern has been recently expressed about studies of framing that focus almost exclusively on meaning construction but fail to connect to the structural context in which this meaning-making occurs (Bartholomew and Mayer 1992;Benford 1993Benford , 1997Diani 1996;Ellingson 1995;Kubal 1998). In response to this concern, several researchers working in the framing perspective have aimed to show how frames are embedded in historical and material contexts (Ferree et al 2002;Oliver and Johnston 2000;Steinberg 1999).…”

Section: F Fr Ra Am MI In Ng G a An Nd D S Se En Ns Se Em Ma Ak Ki Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept

Fiss

Hirsch²

2005

Am Sociol Rev

382

226

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While the literature on framing has importantly expanded our understanding of frame creation and contests from an interpretive point of view, previous studies have largely neglected the structural contexts in which framing activities occur. In this study, we propose extending the framing approach by incorporating insights from the literature on sensemaking to examine how and when opportunities for meaning creation open up and how this affects subsequent discursive processes. Connecting framing and sensemaking better enables us to examine how structural factors prompt and bound discursive processes, affecting when and where frame contests emerge. We demonstrate the utility of this approach by examining changes in the discourse of globalization. Using qualitative and quantitative analyses of newspaper articles and corporate press releases, we trace the emergence of globalization discourse, its diffusion, and the increasing contention that surrounds it. Our findings show how and where globalization discourse emerged in response to greater U.S. involvement with the international economy, and how later frame contests over the meaning of globalization have depended on the interests of the actors involved.

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“…During this process, activists draw widely upon the discursive repertoires available to them while forming new repertoires of collective action (Auyero, 2004;Ellingson, 1995;Fine, 1995;Steinberg, 1998Steinberg, , 1999Tilly, 1978, p. 151). One possible tactic in this struggle is for weaker actors to borrow from the hegemonic discourses of stronger actors in an effort to co-opt powerful symbols, stories, and frames for their own ends.…”

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The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests near Fort Bragg

Heaney

Rojas

2006

Qual Sociol

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Social movement leaders regularly invoke geographic places-such as cities, parks, and monuments-as symbols in strategic efforts to frame social movement activity. This article examines how place affects framing processes inside a movement and counterprotester responses with an ethnography of anti-Iraq War protests in Fayetteville, North Carolina. We show how place attracts the attention of movement leaders, creates opportunities for local community members to assert their interests, suppresses some frames within the movement, and encourages opponents to co-opt the meaning of place for their own ends. The multiple meanings of place can broaden the scope of conflict and reduce a movement leader's ability unilaterally to define a movement's agenda and public image.

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Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Antebellum Cincinnati

Cited by 142 publications

References 44 publications

Understanding governmental activism

Understanding governmental activism

The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept

The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests near Fort Bragg

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