The recent proliferation of scholarship on collective action frames and framing processes in
relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded …

In the last decade the framing perspective has gained increasing popularity among social
movement researchers and theorists. Surprisingly, there has been no critical assessment of …

In this chapter, we attempt to address what we believe to be a pressing need in
constructionist analysis. Namely, we seek to provide an explication of how a truly public …

Existing frameworks tend to break down when applied to the analysis of urban squatting.
Five basic configurations—combinations of features that fit together well and are therefore …

Many US Christians were profoundly moved by the liberation struggles in Central America in
the 1980s. Most learned about the situation from missionaries who had worked in the area …

15 February 2003 was a remarkable day in world politics. An Americandominated 'coalition
of the willing'was poised to launch a military assault on Iraq. America and its allies alleged …

As social problems become increasingly global, activists are working across state
boundaries and forming transnational social movements. However, there is little information …

Throughout the 1980s one of the Reagan administration's most contested foreign policy
initiatives was that toward Central America, where it attempted to defeat the Salvadoran …

Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign
earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the survival of the Nigerian state …

This paper offers elaborations on current knowledge about social‐movement framing
processes and cognitive liberation, especially regarding technical controversies and not‐in …