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The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest - Grassroots activism in the English Defence League (Paperback)
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The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest - Grassroots activism in the English Defence League (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
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Activism in any social movement group is, as Deborah Gould
observes, a project of collective 'world-making'. It is about
changing the world out there by influencing policy and public
opinion, but is also about the way it transforms the lives of
participants - activists generate new identities, cultures, social
ties, rich and varied emotional experiences and interpretations of
the world around them. Movements are more likely to be able to
attract and sustain support when as projects of collective
world-making they feel compelling to activists and would-be
activists. In this book Busher explores what has made activism in
the English Defence League (EDL), an anti-Muslim protest movement
that has staged demonstrations across the UK since 2009, so
compelling to those who have chosen to march under its banner.
Based on sixteen months of overt observation with grassroots
activists, he explores how people became involved with the group;
how they forged and intensified belief in the EDL cause; how they
negotiated accusations that they were just another racist, far
right group; and how grassroots EDL activism began to unravel
during the course of 2011 but did not do so altogether. Providing a
fresh insight as to how contemporary anti-minority protest
movements work on the inside, this book will be of interest to
students, scholars and activists working in the areas of British
politics, extremism, social movements, community relations and
current affairs more generally.
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