Patterns of Protest

Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements

Bibliographic Data

ID20002928
AuthorsCatherine Corrigall-Brown, Catherine Corrigall‐brown (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages177
Publication date2011-12-14
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePatterns of Protest (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11126/stanford/9780804774109.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236522048
Open LibraryOL24823279M
ISBN9780804774109
LanguageEN
Citations received38

Asked to name an activist, many people think of someone like Cesar Chavez or Rosa Parks—someone uniquely and passionately devoted to a cause. Yet, two-thirds of Americans report having belonged to a social movement, attended a protest, or engaged in some form of contentious political activity. Activism, in other words, is something that the vast majority of people engage in. This book examines these more common experiences to ask how and when people choose to engage with political causes. It shows how individual characteristics and life experiences impact the pathway of political participation, illustrating that the context and period in which a person engages are critical. This is the real picture of activism, one in which many people engage, in a multitude of ways and with varying degrees of continuity. This book challenges the current conceptualization of activism and pushes us to more systematically examine the varying ways that individuals participate in contentious politics over their lifetimes.

Political science · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Political Conflict and Governance · Political activists · Political participation · Social action · Social movements · Social reformers · united states