The past 20 years have seen an explosion of research and theory into the emotions of
protest and social movements. At one extreme, general theoretical statements about …

Until the 1970s, the study of social movements was firmly within a diverse sociological
tradition that explored the relationship between social structure and political behavior, and …

In recent years sociological research on social movements has identified emotional
dynamics in all the basic processes and phases of protest, and we are only beginning to …

Emotions are a part of all social action, yet they have been given little or no place in most
social-scientific theories. They have been considered too personal, too idiosyncratic, too …

The study of emotions in politics and protest has emerged (or reemerged) in the past decade
through a messy inductive process of recognizing the obvious: Emotions of many sorts …

" David Smilde has given us the most sophisticated and rigorous ethnography of
Evangelicalism in the Americas, north or south. And he uses that ethnography to generate a …

This paper situates sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university. Using data
from a 'composite ethnography'representing twelve years of research, I argue that …

Activism in any social movement group is, as Deborah Gould observes, a project of
collective 'world-making'. It is about changing the world out there by influencing policy and …

Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri
Lankan Tamils in Canada. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic …

Abstract Ideas shape human behavior in many circumstances, including those involving
political violence. Yet they have usually been underplayed in studies of the causes of armed …