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Bert Klandermans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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telling the Collective story moroccan dutch young adults negotiation of a Collective Identity through storytelling
Qualitative Sociology, 2013Co-Authors: J A Prins, Francesca Polletta, Jacquelien Van Stekelenburg, Bert KlandermansAbstract:Researchers taking a social constructionist perspective on Identity agree that identities are constructed and negotiated in interaction. However, empirical studies in this field are often based on interviewer–interviewee interaction or focus on interactions with members of a socially dominant out-group. How identities are negotiated in interaction with in-group members remains understudied. In this article we use a narrative approach to study Identity negotiation among Moroccan-Dutch young adults, who constitute both an ethnic and a religious (Muslim) minority in the Netherlands. Our analysis focuses on the topics that appear in focus group participants’ stories and on participants’ responses to each other’s stories. We find that Moroccan-Dutch young adults Collectively narrate their experiences in Dutch society in terms of discrimination and injustice. Firmly grounded in media discourse and popular wisdom, a Collective narrative of a disadvantaged minority Identity emerges. However, we also find that this Identity is not uncontested. We use the concept of second stories to explain how participants negotiate their Collective Identity by alternating stories in which the Collective experience of deprivation is reaffirmed with stories in which challenging or new evaluations of the Collective experience are offered. In particular, participants narrate their personal experiences to challenge recurring evaluations of discrimination and injustice. A new Collective narrative emerges from this work of joint storytelling.
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Identity processes in Collective action participation farmers Identity and farmers protest in the netherlands and spain
Political Psychology, 2002Co-Authors: Bert Klandermans, Jose Manuel Sabucedo, Mauro Rodriguez, Marga De WeerdAbstract:This study tested the assumption that a sense of Collective Identity stimulates participation in Collective action. Contextual circumstances supposedly make a Collective Identity more salient and compel people to act as members of the group; protest participation is more likely among people with a strong Collective Identity. Group identification and participation in Identity organizations were used as indicators of Collective Identity in a study of 248 farmers from Galicia (Spain) and 167 farmers from the Netherlands. The farmers were interviewed three times at intervals of 1 year. The longitudinal design also allowed a test of causality. A sense of Collective Identity appeared to stimulate preparedness to take part in farmers’ protest. Action preparedness leads to action participation, which in turn appears to foster Collective Identity.
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Politicized Collective Identity: A social psychological analysis.
The American psychologist, 2001Co-Authors: Bernd Simon, Bert KlandermansAbstract:This article develops a social psychological model of politicized Collective Identity that revolves around 3 conceptual triads. The 1st triad consists of Collective Identity, the struggle between groups for power, and the wider societal context. It is proposed that people evince politicized Collective Identity to the extent that they engage as self-conscious group members in a power struggle on behalf of their group knowing that it is the more inclusive societal context in which this struggle has to be fought out. Next, 3 antecedent stages leading to politicized Collective Identity are distinguished: awareness of shared grievances, adversarial attributions, and involvement of society at large. This sequence culminates in the final triad because the intergroup power struggle is eventually triangulated by involving society at large or representatives thereof. Consequences of politicized Collective Identity are discussed.
Peter J Katzenstein - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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why is there no nato in asia Collective Identity regionalism and the origins of multilateralism
International Organization, 2002Co-Authors: Christopher M Hemmer, Peter J KatzensteinAbstract:In this paper, we explain why the U.S. government chose multilateral security arrangements in Europe and bilateral ones in Asia in the 1940s and 1950s. After reviewing the inadequacies of a number of universal and indeterminate explanations, we put forward three explanations—great power status, efficient responses to threats, and regional Identity—which rely on the combination of material and social forces for their explanatory power. Starting with common rationalist explanations that focus on material capabilities and institutional efficiency to explain the forms of international cooperation, we add to them the important effect that America's Collective Identity had on the formulation of its foreign policy goals. U.S. policymakers believed that the United States was a natural part of the North Atlantic community but that Southeast Asia was part of an alien political community. This difference helped drive the U.S. government to adopt divergent policies in two regions that, far from being natural, were constructed politically only in the 1940s. We conclude by pointing to the advantage of eclectic combinations of rationalist and constructivist insights, with an extension to the politics of regional Collective Identity in the 1990s.
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why is there no nato in asia Collective Identity regionalism and the origins of multilateralism
International Organization, 2002Co-Authors: Christopher M Hemmer, Peter J KatzensteinAbstract:Regional groupings and regional effects are of growing importance in world politics. Although often described in geographical terms, regions are political creations and not e xed by geography. Even regions that seem most natural and inalterable are products of political construction and subject to reconstruction attempts. Looking at specie c instances in which such constructions have occurred can tell us a great deal about the shape and the shaping of international politics. In the aftermath of World War II, the United States attempted to create and organize both a North Atlantic and a Southeast Asian region. The institutional forms of these regional groupings, however, differed dramatically. With its North Atlantic partners, the United States preferred to operate on a multilateral basis. With its Southeast Asian partners, in contrast, the United States preferred to operate bilaterally. Why? Perceptions of Collective Identity, we argue, played an underappreciated role in this decision. Shaped by racial, historical, political, and cultural factors, U.S. policymakers saw their potential European allies as relatively equal members of a shared community. America’ s potential Asian allies, in contrast, were seen as part of an alien and, in important ways, inferior community. At the beginning of the Cold War, this difference in mutual identie cation, in combination with material factors and considerations of efe ciency, was of critical importance in dee ning the interests and shaping the choices of U.S. decision makers in Europe and Asia. Different forms of cooperation make greater or lesser demands on shared identities. Multilateralism is a particularly demanding form of international coop
Debasish Chowdhury - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mobilizing Collective Identity to reduce hiv risk among sex workers in sonagachi india the boundaries consciousness negotiation framework
Social Science & Medicine, 2008Co-Authors: Toorjo Ghose, Dallas Swendeman, Sheba George, Debasish ChowdhuryAbstract:The significantly low rate of HIV infection and high rate of condom use among sex workers in Kolkata, India is partially attributable to a community-led structural intervention called the Sonagachi Project which mobilizes sex workers to engage in HIV education, formation of community-based organizations and advocacy around sex work issues. This research examines how Sonagachi Project participants mobilize Collective Identity and the manner in which Collective Identity influences condom use. Using purposive sampling methods, 46 Sonagachi Project participants were selected in 2005 for in-depth qualitative interviews. Taylor and Whittier's (Taylor, V & Whittier, N (1992). Collective identities in social movement communities: lesbian feminist mobilization. In A. Morris & C. Mueller (Eds.) Frontiers in social movement theory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press) model of Identity-formation through boundaries, consciousness and negotiation was used to interpret results. Subjects mobilized Collective Identity by (1) building boundaries demarcating in-group sex workers from out-group members, (2) raising consciousness about sex work as legitimate labor and the transformative change that results from program participation, and (3) negotiating Identity with out-group members. This research establishes a conceptual link between the boundaries, consciousness and negotiation framework of Collective Identity mobilization and condom use. Condom use among sex workers is motivated by each element of the boundaries, consciousness and negotiation model: condoms mark boundaries, enunciate the consciousness that sex with clients is legitimate labor, and help negotiate the Identity of sex workers in interactions with clients.
Borja Martinovic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Collective psychological ownership and intergroup relations
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2017Co-Authors: Maykel Verkuyten, Borja MartinovicAbstract:Whereas much social psychological research has studied the in-group and out-group implications of social categorization and Collective Identity (“we”), little research has examined the nature and r...
Cristina Flesher Fominaya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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creating cohesion from diversity the challenge of Collective Identity formation in the global justice movement
Sociological Inquiry, 2010Co-Authors: Cristina Flesher FominayaAbstract:Collective Identity formation is important because it plays a crucial role in sustaining movements over time. Studying Collective Identity formation in autonomous groups in the Global Justice Movement poses a challenge because they encompass a multiplicity of identities, ideologies, issues, frames, Collective action repertoires, and organizational forms. This article analyzes the process of Collective Identity formation in three anti-capitalist globalization groups in Madrid, Spain, based on 3 years of ethnographic fieldwork. The author argues that for new groups practicing participatory democracy the regular face-to-face assemblies are the crucial arena in which Collective Identity can form and must be both effective and participatory in order to foster a sense of commitment and belonging. The article raises the possibility that scholars should consider what seems to be an oxymoron: the possible benefits of "failure" for social movements.
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Collective Identity in social movements central concepts and debates
Sociology Compass, 2010Co-Authors: Cristina Flesher FominayaAbstract:The concept of Collective Identity has been used extensively by social movement scholars seeking to explain how social movements generate and sustain commitment and cohesion between actors over time. Despite its wide application, Collective Identity is a notoriously abstract concept. This article focuses on the use of the concept in the literature on contemporary social movements and offers a comprehensive theoretical overview. The central elements of Collective Identity in the social movement literature are developed, and some key differences in interpretations are highlighted. Finally, some contemporary debates around the continuing usefulness and limitations of the concept of Collective Identity are explored, with a special emphasis on the challenges of applying the concept to movements that define themselves in terms of heterogeneity, diversity and inclusiveness.
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the role of humour in the process of Collective Identity formation in autonomous social movement groups in contemporary madrid
International Review of Social History, 2007Co-Authors: Cristina Flesher FominayaAbstract:This article draws on ethnographic research to analyse the role of humour in the process of Collective Identity formation within autonomous anti-capitalist groups in Madrid. Autonomous groups embrace the principles of horizontality, openness, diversity, participatory democracy, self-organization, and direct action, so defining themselves in contradistinction to more “vertical” movement organizations of the institutional left. The process of Collective-Identity formation involves both generating a sense of internal cohesion, and projecting an alternative Identity. Autonomous groups in Madrid face a double challenge, for they must integrate ideologically heterogeneous activists, and they must define themselves as being alternatives to the much more consolidated groups of the institutional left. I shall analyse the different ways in which humour is used to address both those challenges: to sustain groups over time, to defuse tensions and try to resolve conflict, for myth-making, and to integrate marginal group members. I will also discuss the role humour plays in charismatic leadership and its use in the projection of an alternative political Identity in direct actions. Finally, I will discuss the contested nature of humour as a political tool in the context of the Madrid network.