Foreword
Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
ISBN: 978-1-78635-078-7, eISBN: 978-1-78635-077-0
ISSN: 0163-786X
Publication date: 16 August 2016
Citation
(2016), "Foreword", Coy, P.G. (Ed.) Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 40), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. ix. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20160000040009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited
What does it mean to be human? Perhaps the answer is given away in the question, for the question itself suggests that identities are constitutive of the human experience. As such, they cut across most if not all of the meaningful aspects of human life, including of course the tripartite foci that are reflected in the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series.
Associate Professor Landon E. Hancock, my colleague at the Center for Applied Conflict Management and the Department of Political Science here at Kent State University, is an expert on identities and conflicts. He has put that expertise to fruitful use here by compiling an intriguing and ultimately significant volume centered on understanding the busy intersection between narratives of identity and the many influential roles they may play in conflicts, social movements, and the human propensity to change. Just two years ago, Volume 37 of the RSMCC series was focused on how intersectional analyses, which is itself identity-based, enrich our understandings of social movements, conflicts, and change. Now we are particularly pleased that this volume makes its own singular contribution to research on identities with its focus on identity narratives. In so doing, it ably extends the increasingly noteworthy body of scholarship produced in this series since its founding very nearly 40 years ago in 1977.
- Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
- Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
- Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
- Copyright Page
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: Narrative, Identity, and Social Movement Activism
- Section I: Narratives of Identity
- “Survivors get gacaca, we get nothing:” Constructing Victimhood in Rwanda
- Speak Up, Write Out: Language and Populism in Croatia
- It can be Helped: Survivor Docent Testimony at the Japanese American National Museum
- Using the Human Rights Framework as a Mobilizing Tool. The Case of Indigenous Women’s Movements in Post-Conflict Guatemala
- Section II: Conflict and Change in Social Movement Expression
- Opportunity, Threat, and Tactics: Collaboration and Confrontation by Latino Immigrant Challengers
- Time to Get Re-Organized! The Structure of the Portuguese Anti-Austerity Protests
- Activism, Terrorism, and Social Movements: The “Green Scare” as Monarchical Power
- Tweeting Resistance: The Evolution of Engagement Frameworks
- The Effect of New York Times Event Coding Techniques on Social Movement Analyses of Protest Data
- About the Authors