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The Art of Moral Protest (Paperback, New edition)
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The Art of Moral Protest (Paperback, New edition)
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Protest has become an everyday part of modern societies, one of the
few recognized outlets for voicing and discussing basic moral
commitments. Protest movements shape our thinking about social
change and human agency. At a time when schools, the media, and
even religious institutions offer little guidance for our moral
judgments, protest movements have become a central source for
providing us with ethical visions and creative ideas. In this book,
James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest, from
19th-century boycotts to recent anti-nuclear, animal-rights, and
environmental movements, into an understanding of how social
movements operate. He highlights their creativity, not only in
forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing
organizational forms. The work stresses the role of individuals,
both as lone protesters and as key decision-makers, and it
emphasizes the open-ended nature of strategic choices as
protesters, their opponents, their allies, and the government
respond to each other's actions. The book also synthesizes the many
concepts developed in recent years as part of the cultural approach
to social movements, placing them in context and showing what they
mean for other scholarly traditions. Drawing on lengthy interviews,
historical materials, surveys, and his own participation in
protests, Jasper offers a systematic overview of the field of
social movements. He weaves together accounts of large-scale
movements with individual biographies, placing the movements in
cultural perspective and focusing on individuals' experiences.
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