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The 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests highlighted with sharp
clarity the role of race in social conflict and social movements.
Building on more than a century of political and sociological
scholarship, Race and Space considers the connections between race
as a descriptor of physical differences between humans and space as
a geographic location, and their subsequent impact on the human
experience. The chapters address racialized issues spanning from
how the characteristics of our community shape whether we
experience police or immigrant violence, whether first-hand
experience (or lack thereof) of this violence is likely to shape
one's choice to engage in ethno-racial justice activism, to
analysing how the space of the prison shapes one's sense of self
and political possibility post-incarceration. Drawing together key
drivers of activism such as flaws within the criminal justice
system, race, ethnicity, and citizenship, this collection
demonstrates how these elements interact to shape immigration
policy and the experience of being accepted as a full member of
one's society. Emphasising location-specific human experience and
incorporating insights from geography, Race and Space's careful
study of the differences of physical spaces gives rise to more
complete explanations for social issues and variances in social
movements.
Power and Protest presents chapters that analyse the dynamics of
power in social movements. Examining how marginalized groups use
their identities, resources, cultural traditions, violence and
non-violence to assert power and exert pressure, this volume shines
a light on the interaction of these groups with governments,
international organizations, businesses and universities. Including
chapters which draw from multidisciplinary theories and utilise
quantitative and qualitative research to examine how power shapes
the context and experiences of protest, the authors analyse
movements in Asia, South Africa, Arab nations, the United States
and Argentina to offer insights into the power utilised by average
citizens, and particularly members of marginalized groups. With
contributors serving up findings based on uprisings, strikes and
activist activity across the globe, the first section provides
theoretical insights into the power of protest campaigns against
governments or corporations. Moving on to an examination of
nongovernmental institutions and cultural traditions, the authors
in the second section explore the role of business and education in
bringing down illegitimate governments, investigates the clashes of
transnational norms, government policy and the heritage industry,
and examines student protests against university policies. This
volume encourages readers to reconsider their assumptions about
which groups can successfully wield power in social movements.
The 43rd Volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and
Change continues the series' tradition of publishing peer reviewed
chapters, which advance our understanding of peace, political
contention, and social change, by offering new ways to research and
theorize attempts to challenge divides. Dedicated to the memory of
Gregory M. Maney, Bringing Down Divides engages with and continues
Maney's work on international conflicts, peace and justice
movements, and community-based research. The volume is organized
around three types of divides: Attributional divides, meaning the
quality or feature of people around which resources, rights, and
powers are distributed unequally, such as race, gender, and
ethno-nationality. Ideological divides which encompass the systems
of meaning, ideas, and beliefs that split and polarize people, such
as conservative vs. progressive and antiwar vs. pro-war.
Epistemological divides, namely the types, productions, and usages
of knowledge over which conflicts occur, such as the
academic-activist divide. The contributions to each of these
sections focus on a variety of global issues, including the
changing nature of political murals in Northern Ireland; armed
actors' responses to civilian demands in Colombian peace
territories; boundary-blurring in Turkey's leftwing-Islamist
movement; and community-based action research. This makes Bringing
Down Divides essential reading for those working and researching
within the social movement field.
This study explores how narcissistic attention seeking behaviors in
face-to-face conversation contribute to marital quality and
partner's mental health over the transition to parenthood.
Narcissism, considered a personality disorder, is defined as an
all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity in fantasy or behavior.
Central features of narcissism include a need for admiration and a
lack of empathy. The concept of narcissism has been extended beyond
mental illness and is now considered a personality trait (Raskin
& Terry, 1988). It follows then that narcissistic tendencies
might affect ones communication style. This research elaborates the
concept of narcissism, and discusses the ways that narcissistic
patterns in interpersonal relationships have been studied. Finally,
drawing upon social exchange theory, it finds that conversational
narcissism characterizes 78 percent of marriages, frequently
renders spouses invisible, and predicts maladaptive dialogue and
divorce at 7 years.
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