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Understanding Activism

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Activists are people who actively work for social or political causes and especially those who work to encourage other people to support those causes. Mass collective action is unlikely to occur without the involvement of activists. Including recent research from Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and studies of global online activists, this issue highlights multi-method approaches to studying activists and activism across a variety of different regional, issue-based, and socio-political contexts. In addition to contributing to ongoing theoretical and empirical discussions, the issue addresses the policy and strategic implications of this research for social change agents and organizations.

Author Biography:

Craig Mcgarty is Professor and Head of Psychology at Western Sydney University. He was previously Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research and Director of the Social Research Institute at Murdoch University and Head of the School of Psychology at The Australian National University. His books include Categorization in Social Psychology and Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, The Message of Social Psychology and Stereotypes as Explanations. Anna Kende is an Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her research focuses on prejudice, intergroup relations, identity formation and political activism from a social psychological perspective. She has carried out several policy research projects about early selection in schools and worked as a policy advisor on educational integration of Roma people in Hungary. Nicola Curtin is an Assistant Professor at Clark University and a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center. Her research examines the role of life experiences, individual differences, and social identities in commitments to creating social change, with a particular emphasis on ally and coalitional activism. She is co-editor of the forthcoming, Feminist Perspectives on Building a Better Psychological Science of Gender (Springer).
Release date NZ
August 23rd, 2016
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Anna Kende
  • Edited by Craig McGarty
  • Edited by Nicola Curtin
Pages
190
Dimensions
152x229x9
ISBN-13
9781119320876
Product ID
25549708

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