Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Integrating Social Movement Theory and Practice
David Croteau, William Hoynes, and Charlotte Ryan
Part I: Activism and Research
1. The Question of Relevance in Social Movement Studies
Richard Flacks
2. Which Side Are You On?: The Tension between Movement Scholarship and Activism
David Croteau
3. Knowing What’s Wrong Is Not Enough: Creating Strategy and Vision
Cynthia Peters
4. Movement Strategy for Organizers
Richard Healey and Sandra Hinson
Part II: Bridging the Divide: Lessons from the Field
5. Housing Crisis: Gaining Standing in a Community Coalition
Kevin M. Carragee
6. Media Research and Media Activism
William Hoynes
7. Successful Collaboration: Movement Building in the Media Arena
Charlotte Ryan
8. Feminist Research and Activism: Challenges of Hierarchy in a Cross-National Context
Myra Marx Ferree, Valerie Sperling, and Barbara Risman
9. Building the Movement for Education Equity
Cassie Schwerner
10. Sweatshop Labor: (Re)Framing Immigration
Robert J. S. Ross
Part III: Implications for Theory and Scholarship
11. Scholarship that Might Matter
David S. Meyer
12. Building Bridges, Building Leaders: Theory, Action and Lived Experience
Adria D. Goodson
13. Falling on Deaf Ears: Confronting the Prospect of Non-Resonant Frames
David A. Snow and Catherine Corrigall-Brown
14. Crossing Boundaries in Participatory Action Research: Performing Protest with Drag Queens
Verta Taylor and Leila J. Rupp
Afterword
William A. Gamson
Contributors
Index