The strategic interactions between protestors and their targets shape the world around us in profound ways. The editors and contributors to Protesters and Their Targets—all leading scholars in the study of social movements—look at why movements do what they do and why their interactions with other societal actors turn out as they do. They recognize that targets are not stationary but react to the movement and require the movement to react back.
This edited collection analyzes how social movements select their targets, movement-target interactions, and the outcomes of those interactions. Case studies examine school closures in Sweden, the U.S. labor movement, Bolivian water and Mexican corn, and other global issues to show the strategic thinking, shifting objectives, and various degrees of success in the actions and nature of these protest movements.
Protesters and Their Targets seeks to develop a set of tools for the further development of the field’s future work on this underexplored set of interactions.
Author(s): Brayden G King, James Jasper
Publisher: Temple University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 231
City: Philadelphia
Contents
Preface-James M. Jasper
Introduction: The Dance of Interaction-James M. Jasper and Brayden G King
Part I: How Social Movements Select Targets
1. Disruptive Movements and the Play of Politics-Frances Fox Piven
2. Why Did They Keep Quiet? Missing Protests against School Closures in Sweden-Katrin Uba
Part II: Movement-Target Interactions
3. Protests, Precariousness, and Democracy: Cities and “Service Delivery” in the Global South-Gay Seidman
4. Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me: Targets, Repertoires, and Democracy in the U.S. Labor Movement-Kim Voss and Pablo Gastón
5. Protest Episodes: Shifting Actors and Targets in Local Movements-Kenneth T. Andrews and Sarah Gaby
Part III: Outcomes of Interactions
6. How Targets Influence the Influence of Movements: An Institutional Mediation Approach-Edwin Amenta and Nicole Shortt
7. Bolivian Water, Mexican Corn: State Response to Subsistence Protests-Erica S. Simmons
8. Missing Targets: Contemporary Slaveholder Responses to Human Rights Advocacy-Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Contributors
Index
