Gilda Zwerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 159704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilda Zwerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilda |
| FAMILY NAME | Zwerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZWERMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Old Westbury |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-2999-5015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Death of White Sociology and the Academic Awakening of a Ghetto Jew
Commemorating the 50 th anniversary of Joyce Ladner’s ground-breaking text, this essay traverses the border between book review and autobiography. The narrative, written in the first person, begins in Brownsville, Brooklyn in the mid-1960s. The author is a third generation Eastern European Jew who was nurtured by Black activist elders and became a white beneficiary of the educational opportunities created by the civil rights and Black power movem…
Women in War: The Micro-Processes of Mobilization in El Salvador
Persona: Psychodynamic and Sociological Dimensions of a Project on US Activism and Political Violence
In 1985, I began a series of interviews with Judy Clark, a 1960s radical serving a 75-year to life prison sentence. Over three decades, the project evolved into a four-nation, longitudinal study of clandestine organizations, political violence, and New Left protest. This self-reflexive narrative essay revisits the study’s psychodynamic origins, and illustrates how fantasy was a motivational force in selecting the research subject. It uses the psy…
Persona
Passer puis renoncer à l’action violente: Les mouvements de la nouvelle gauche aux États-Unis et au Japon face à la répression
Cette étude examine les trajectoires de vie des militants de la nouvelle gauche aux États-Unis et au Japon à la fin des années 1960, qui ont investi l’action armée, sont entrés en clandestinité ou ont connu l’exil au sommet du cycle de protestation. Basée sur des données collectées pendant plusieurs années auprès de plus de 100 militants engagés dans 12 organisations armées clandestines, l’analyse est centrée sur la relation conflictuelle de ces …
The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity
This article examines disengagement from political violence and the persistence of a movement identity as concurrent and interrelated processes. Our inquiry is based on long-term qualitative data on 90 individuals associated with twelve underground organizations in the United States and Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. We find that as armed activists face the challenges of arrest and detention, trial, and imprisonment, the network of trial suppo…
When Activists Ask For Trouble: State—Dissident Interactions And The New Left Cycle Of Resistance In The United States And Japan
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Violence
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in The Cycle of new Left Protest in The U.S., Japan, Germany, and Italy
Research on social movements has paid little attention to the dynamics of clandestine mobilization as an integral element ofprotest cycles. Studies ofsixteen New Left clandestine groups in Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States demonstrate strong commonalities in the processes ofgoing underground and staying underground. Activists move from the public to the clandestine realm as a result of increased repression at the protest cycle's peak, …
Mothering on the Lam: Politics, Gender Fantasies and Maternal Thinking in Women Associated with Armed, Clandestine Organizations in the United States
Since the emergence of the contemporary women's movement, activists and scholars have been interested in women who engage in political violence, particularly in the context of left-wing, nationalist and progressive social movements. As part of the new scholarship in women's studies in the early 1970s, researchers investigated the lives of women who played prominent roles in anarchist, socialist and feminist movements of the late nineteenth and ea…
Housing ethnic and racial minorities in New York City: Jews and blacks in Brownsville
Obstacles to research in a state prison: Regulated, segregated and under surveillance
Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory.Lise Vogel
Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in The Cycle of new Left Protest in The U.S., Japan, Germany, and Italy
Research on social movements has paid little attention to the dynamics of clandestine mobilization as an integral element ofprotest cycles. Studies ofsixteen New Left clandestine groups in Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States demonstrate strong commonalities in the processes ofgoing underground and staying underground. Activists move from the public to the clandestine realm as a result of increased repression at the protest cycle's peak, …
The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity
This article examines disengagement from political violence and the persistence of a movement identity as concurrent and interrelated processes. Our inquiry is based on long-term qualitative data on 90 individuals associated with twelve underground organizations in the United States and Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. We find that as armed activists face the challenges of arrest and detention, trial, and imprisonment, the network of trial suppo…
Obstacles to research in a state prison: Regulated, segregated and under surveillance
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Violence
Mothering on the Lam: Politics, Gender Fantasies and Maternal Thinking in Women Associated with Armed, Clandestine Organizations in the United States
Since the emergence of the contemporary women's movement, activists and scholars have been interested in women who engage in political violence, particularly in the context of left-wing, nationalist and progressive social movements. As part of the new scholarship in women's studies in the early 1970s, researchers investigated the lives of women who played prominent roles in anarchist, socialist and feminist movements of the late nineteenth and ea…
Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory.Lise Vogel
Obstacles to research in a state prison: Regulated, segregated and under surveillance
Housing ethnic and racial minorities in New York City: Jews and blacks in Brownsville
Mothering on the Lam: Politics, Gender Fantasies and Maternal Thinking in Women Associated with Armed, Clandestine Organizations in the United States
Since the emergence of the contemporary women's movement, activists and scholars have been interested in women who engage in political violence, particularly in the context of left-wing, nationalist and progressive social movements. As part of the new scholarship in women's studies in the early 1970s, researchers investigated the lives of women who played prominent roles in anarchist, socialist and feminist movements of the late nineteenth and ea…
Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in The Cycle of new Left Protest in The U.S., Japan, Germany, and Italy
Research on social movements has paid little attention to the dynamics of clandestine mobilization as an integral element ofprotest cycles. Studies ofsixteen New Left clandestine groups in Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States demonstrate strong commonalities in the processes ofgoing underground and staying underground. Activists move from the public to the clandestine realm as a result of increased repression at the protest cycle's peak, …
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Violence
When Activists Ask For Trouble: State—Dissident Interactions And The New Left Cycle Of Resistance In The United States And Japan
The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity
This article examines disengagement from political violence and the persistence of a movement identity as concurrent and interrelated processes. Our inquiry is based on long-term qualitative data on 90 individuals associated with twelve underground organizations in the United States and Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. We find that as armed activists face the challenges of arrest and detention, trial, and imprisonment, the network of trial suppo…
Passer puis renoncer à l’action violente: Les mouvements de la nouvelle gauche aux États-Unis et au Japon face à la répression
Cette étude examine les trajectoires de vie des militants de la nouvelle gauche aux États-Unis et au Japon à la fin des années 1960, qui ont investi l’action armée, sont entrés en clandestinité ou ont connu l’exil au sommet du cycle de protestation. Basée sur des données collectées pendant plusieurs années auprès de plus de 100 militants engagés dans 12 organisations armées clandestines, l’analyse est centrée sur la relation conflictuelle de ces …
Persona: Psychodynamic and Sociological Dimensions of a Project on US Activism and Political Violence
In 1985, I began a series of interviews with Judy Clark, a 1960s radical serving a 75-year to life prison sentence. Over three decades, the project evolved into a four-nation, longitudinal study of clandestine organizations, political violence, and New Left protest. This self-reflexive narrative essay revisits the study’s psychodynamic origins, and illustrates how fantasy was a motivational force in selecting the research subject. It uses the psy…
Persona
Women in War: The Micro-Processes of Mobilization in El Salvador
The Death of White Sociology and the Academic Awakening of a Ghetto Jew
Commemorating the 50 th anniversary of Joyce Ladner’s ground-breaking text, this essay traverses the border between book review and autobiography. The narrative, written in the first person, begins in Brownsville, Brooklyn in the mid-1960s. The author is a third generation Eastern European Jew who was nurtured by Black activist elders and became a white beneficiary of the educational opportunities created by the civil rights and Black power movem…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)