Gillian Edwards
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 106684 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gillian Edwards |
| NOMBRES | Gillian |
| APELLIDO | Edwards |
| FIRMA | EDWARDS G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0507-7384 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 197 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Prophets With Enchantment
This paper argues for a re-enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities. We employ a social movement framing perspective to discover the nature of this ‘interpretative work’ using data from a survey ( n = 319) and in-depth interviews ( n = 62) with Anglicans and Catholics in…
Asymmetries at play
This article examines race, racism, and anti-racism in an historical example of British radical theatre-in-education in the 1980s: Pit Prop Theatre's Brand of Freedom (1984). We argue that while the programme's aims prefigured contemporary moves toward decolonising drama and theatre education, its theatrical representation of Black experience also reproduced a ‘racial calculus’ [Hartman, 6] that limited Black personhood, centred whiteness, and en…
Time for change
This introductory article sets out the core concerns of this special issue on time and temporality in relation to social movements. It examines three areas: historical times, events, and sequences. In each area, we examine the ways that time and temporality are (often implicitly) embedded in existing social movement scholarship. We then introduce some of the problems raised by our contributors, and the ways in which they utilise greater sensitivi…
Cases, Mechanisms and the Real
In this paper we make a methodological case for mixed method social network analysis (MMSNA). We begin by both challenging the idea, prevalent in some quarters, that mixing methods means combining incompatible epistemological or theoretical assumptions and by positing an ontological argument in favour of mixed methods. We then suggest a methodological framework for MMSNA and argue for the importance of 'mechanisms' in relational-sociological rese…
Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets
The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and \ntheir contacts as its starting point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. \nThis is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net research, from \nconception, through research design and data gathering to analysis. It starts with the basics, \nassuming no prior knowledge of social network analysis, but then moves on…
Project Backpage
The sex industry occurs in many venues, ranging from the highly visible survival sex trade on the street to venues such as regulated massage parlors and strip clubs, to less visible escort agencies making use of hotel venues, and the highly invisible exploitation that occurs through trick pads and microbrothels operating out of homes, apartments, or condos. In many communities, outreach efforts have focused primarily on direct face-to-face contac…
Social Movements and Protest
This lively textbook integrates theory and methodology into the study of social movements, and includes contemporary case studies to engage students and encourage them to apply theories critically. A wide range of protest cases are explored, from American, European and global arenas, including contemporary examples of political violence and terrorism, alter-globalisation, social networking and global activism. Key chapter features encourage stude…
Infectious Innovations? The Diffusion of Tactical Innovation in Social Movement Networks, the Case of Suffragette Militancy
This paper explores the diffusion of a tactical innovation – militancy – within the British Suffrage Movement, 1905–1914. It concentrates upon the influences that arise from personal social networks and which affect ego's decision about whether to adopt the new tactic. UCINET is used to map and visualise the activist networks of two suffragettes who made different adoption decisions. This reveals that ‘weak ties’ to ‘innovation champions’ (i.e. s…
Covert social movement networks and the secrecy-efficiency trade off
Habermas and Social Movement Theory
This article outlines Habermas’ social movement–related ideas and reviews the critical reception of them from within critical theory and social movement studies more widely. Criticism of Habermas’ explanation of the new social movements has been wide‐ranging and persuasive. There have however been some contemporary critical engagements with Habermas’ ideas within social movement studies. The direction they take suggests (1) the concept of ‘coloni…
Measures and Meanings
In this paper we discuss the personal network or ‘ego-net’ of Helen Kirkpatrick Watts, a militant suffragette and one of the founder members of the Nottingham Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Our aims are fourfold. Firstly, we want to make a contribution to the growing literature, briefly reviewed, on the significance of social networks in relation to social movements. Secondly, we want to make a contribution to the academic literature …
Public sector trade unionism in the UK
This article explores the potential contribution of Habermas's social theory to debates on union decline and renewal in the UK public sector. It employs data relating to 2004-5 research on the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to suggest that two of Habermas's concepts are particularly valuable when considering strategies to increase membership activity. The concept of 'communicative action' is useful for highlighting the importance of spaces for …
The 'Lifeworld' as a Resource for Social Movement Participation and the Consequences of its Colonization
Habermas may be best known for a 'structural strain' approach to movement mobilization, but he also offers an untapped 'resource' focused appproach which this article seeks to unearth. Social networks, collective identities, and cultural formations have been seen as key resources shaping participation in social movements. These three types of resources map on to what Habermas calls 'the lifeworld': society, personality, and culture. Combining the…
Habermas, Activism, and Acquiescence
Habermas's idea of a conflict shift from ‘old’ to ‘new’ social movements has been a point of ongoing contention in the field of sociology. The criticisms aimed at his idea of ‘newness’ are numerous and persuasive. Rather than reiterating these debates, this paper argues that the next logical step is to apply Habermas to an analysis of the contemporary labour movement. In order to do this, I develop the notion of the ‘colonization of the lifeworld…
Habermas and Social Movements
Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets
The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and \ntheir contacts as its starting point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. \nThis is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net research, from \nconception, through research design and data gathering to analysis. It starts with the basics, \nassuming no prior knowledge of social network analysis, but then moves on…
Covert social movement networks and the secrecy-efficiency trade off
Cases, Mechanisms and the Real
In this paper we make a methodological case for mixed method social network analysis (MMSNA). We begin by both challenging the idea, prevalent in some quarters, that mixing methods means combining incompatible epistemological or theoretical assumptions and by positing an ontological argument in favour of mixed methods. We then suggest a methodological framework for MMSNA and argue for the importance of 'mechanisms' in relational-sociological rese…
Time for change
This introductory article sets out the core concerns of this special issue on time and temporality in relation to social movements. It examines three areas: historical times, events, and sequences. In each area, we examine the ways that time and temporality are (often implicitly) embedded in existing social movement scholarship. We then introduce some of the problems raised by our contributors, and the ways in which they utilise greater sensitivi…
The 'Lifeworld' as a Resource for Social Movement Participation and the Consequences of its Colonization
Habermas may be best known for a 'structural strain' approach to movement mobilization, but he also offers an untapped 'resource' focused appproach which this article seeks to unearth. Social networks, collective identities, and cultural formations have been seen as key resources shaping participation in social movements. These three types of resources map on to what Habermas calls 'the lifeworld': society, personality, and culture. Combining the…
Measures and Meanings
In this paper we discuss the personal network or ‘ego-net’ of Helen Kirkpatrick Watts, a militant suffragette and one of the founder members of the Nottingham Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Our aims are fourfold. Firstly, we want to make a contribution to the growing literature, briefly reviewed, on the significance of social networks in relation to social movements. Secondly, we want to make a contribution to the academic literature …
Infectious Innovations? The Diffusion of Tactical Innovation in Social Movement Networks, the Case of Suffragette Militancy
This paper explores the diffusion of a tactical innovation – militancy – within the British Suffrage Movement, 1905–1914. It concentrates upon the influences that arise from personal social networks and which affect ego's decision about whether to adopt the new tactic. UCINET is used to map and visualise the activist networks of two suffragettes who made different adoption decisions. This reveals that ‘weak ties’ to ‘innovation champions’ (i.e. s…
Public sector trade unionism in the UK
This article explores the potential contribution of Habermas's social theory to debates on union decline and renewal in the UK public sector. It employs data relating to 2004-5 research on the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to suggest that two of Habermas's concepts are particularly valuable when considering strategies to increase membership activity. The concept of 'communicative action' is useful for highlighting the importance of spaces for …
Habermas and Social Movements
Habermas and Social Movement Theory
This article outlines Habermas’ social movement–related ideas and reviews the critical reception of them from within critical theory and social movement studies more widely. Criticism of Habermas’ explanation of the new social movements has been wide‐ranging and persuasive. There have however been some contemporary critical engagements with Habermas’ ideas within social movement studies. The direction they take suggests (1) the concept of ‘coloni…
Habermas, Activism, and Acquiescence
Habermas's idea of a conflict shift from ‘old’ to ‘new’ social movements has been a point of ongoing contention in the field of sociology. The criticisms aimed at his idea of ‘newness’ are numerous and persuasive. Rather than reiterating these debates, this paper argues that the next logical step is to apply Habermas to an analysis of the contemporary labour movement. In order to do this, I develop the notion of the ‘colonization of the lifeworld…
Project Backpage
The sex industry occurs in many venues, ranging from the highly visible survival sex trade on the street to venues such as regulated massage parlors and strip clubs, to less visible escort agencies making use of hotel venues, and the highly invisible exploitation that occurs through trick pads and microbrothels operating out of homes, apartments, or condos. In many communities, outreach efforts have focused primarily on direct face-to-face contac…
Habermas and Social Movements
Habermas, Activism, and Acquiescence
Habermas's idea of a conflict shift from ‘old’ to ‘new’ social movements has been a point of ongoing contention in the field of sociology. The criticisms aimed at his idea of ‘newness’ are numerous and persuasive. Rather than reiterating these debates, this paper argues that the next logical step is to apply Habermas to an analysis of the contemporary labour movement. In order to do this, I develop the notion of the ‘colonization of the lifeworld…
The 'Lifeworld' as a Resource for Social Movement Participation and the Consequences of its Colonization
Habermas may be best known for a 'structural strain' approach to movement mobilization, but he also offers an untapped 'resource' focused appproach which this article seeks to unearth. Social networks, collective identities, and cultural formations have been seen as key resources shaping participation in social movements. These three types of resources map on to what Habermas calls 'the lifeworld': society, personality, and culture. Combining the…
Habermas and Social Movement Theory
This article outlines Habermas’ social movement–related ideas and reviews the critical reception of them from within critical theory and social movement studies more widely. Criticism of Habermas’ explanation of the new social movements has been wide‐ranging and persuasive. There have however been some contemporary critical engagements with Habermas’ ideas within social movement studies. The direction they take suggests (1) the concept of ‘coloni…
Measures and Meanings
In this paper we discuss the personal network or ‘ego-net’ of Helen Kirkpatrick Watts, a militant suffragette and one of the founder members of the Nottingham Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Our aims are fourfold. Firstly, we want to make a contribution to the growing literature, briefly reviewed, on the significance of social networks in relation to social movements. Secondly, we want to make a contribution to the academic literature …
Public sector trade unionism in the UK
This article explores the potential contribution of Habermas's social theory to debates on union decline and renewal in the UK public sector. It employs data relating to 2004-5 research on the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to suggest that two of Habermas's concepts are particularly valuable when considering strategies to increase membership activity. The concept of 'communicative action' is useful for highlighting the importance of spaces for …
Covert social movement networks and the secrecy-efficiency trade off
Social Movements and Protest
This lively textbook integrates theory and methodology into the study of social movements, and includes contemporary case studies to engage students and encourage them to apply theories critically. A wide range of protest cases are explored, from American, European and global arenas, including contemporary examples of political violence and terrorism, alter-globalisation, social networking and global activism. Key chapter features encourage stude…
Infectious Innovations? The Diffusion of Tactical Innovation in Social Movement Networks, the Case of Suffragette Militancy
This paper explores the diffusion of a tactical innovation – militancy – within the British Suffrage Movement, 1905–1914. It concentrates upon the influences that arise from personal social networks and which affect ego's decision about whether to adopt the new tactic. UCINET is used to map and visualise the activist networks of two suffragettes who made different adoption decisions. This reveals that ‘weak ties’ to ‘innovation champions’ (i.e. s…
Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets
The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and \ntheir contacts as its starting point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. \nThis is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net research, from \nconception, through research design and data gathering to analysis. It starts with the basics, \nassuming no prior knowledge of social network analysis, but then moves on…
Project Backpage
The sex industry occurs in many venues, ranging from the highly visible survival sex trade on the street to venues such as regulated massage parlors and strip clubs, to less visible escort agencies making use of hotel venues, and the highly invisible exploitation that occurs through trick pads and microbrothels operating out of homes, apartments, or condos. In many communities, outreach efforts have focused primarily on direct face-to-face contac…
Cases, Mechanisms and the Real
In this paper we make a methodological case for mixed method social network analysis (MMSNA). We begin by both challenging the idea, prevalent in some quarters, that mixing methods means combining incompatible epistemological or theoretical assumptions and by positing an ontological argument in favour of mixed methods. We then suggest a methodological framework for MMSNA and argue for the importance of 'mechanisms' in relational-sociological rese…
Time for change
This introductory article sets out the core concerns of this special issue on time and temporality in relation to social movements. It examines three areas: historical times, events, and sequences. In each area, we examine the ways that time and temporality are (often implicitly) embedded in existing social movement scholarship. We then introduce some of the problems raised by our contributors, and the ways in which they utilise greater sensitivi…
Asymmetries at play
This article examines race, racism, and anti-racism in an historical example of British radical theatre-in-education in the 1980s: Pit Prop Theatre's Brand of Freedom (1984). We argue that while the programme's aims prefigured contemporary moves toward decolonising drama and theatre education, its theatrical representation of Black experience also reproduced a ‘racial calculus’ [Hartman, 6] that limited Black personhood, centred whiteness, and en…
Prophets With Enchantment
This paper argues for a re-enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities. We employ a social movement framing perspective to discover the nature of this ‘interpretative work’ using data from a survey ( n = 319) and in-depth interviews ( n = 62) with Anglicans and Catholics in…
Sociology (13 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Social movement (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)