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Patricia Stuelke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the reparative politics of central america Solidarity Movement culture
American Quarterly, 2014Co-Authors: Patricia StuelkeAbstract:This essay examines the affective structures of the Central America Solidarity Movement in the 1980s. Through an analysis of Movement photography, memoir, and Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees , the essay shows how the 1980s Central America Solidarity Movement was characterized by a disillusionment with the “hermeneutics of suspicion” and a valorization of sentimental reparative modes that emphasized affective connections between US and Central American subjects. This reparative orientation often required depoliticizing racial performances from Central Americans, anticipating the demands of neoliberal multiculturalism.
Prinsloo, Erna Louisa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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From Victims to Warriors: collective identity generation at cancer assemblies in South Africa
University of Cape Town, 2015Co-Authors: Prinsloo, Erna LouisaAbstract:Interest in this topic was awakened by the rapid growth of Relay For Life in South Africa and its striking ability to bond people during mass cancer gatherings. Questions were raised about the generation of collective identities during these assemblies, the nature of the activated identities, and how these relate to the broader debates about cancer and identity. This inquiry investigates the unexplored intersection of cancer and identity in the context of a burgeoning Solidarity Movement that has found a strong following countrywide. A contemporary hermeneutic perspective allowed a dual focus on the micro-sociological dimensions and the structural elements that converge to generate collective identities at assemblies. A theoretical scheme was synthesized out of the work of theorists who deal with collective identity, spaces set aside for people in crisis, social interaction during focused gatherings and illness narratives. A non-comparative case study was used to investigate the phenomenon at 20 cancer assemblies. Short-term ethnography, focus group interviews, photographs and YouTube videos provided the data that was analysed using the hermeneutic circle of interpretation. The findings showed that personal illness identities and situation-specific role identities interact with a potent cocktail of elements - ephemeral space, a shared focus on cancer, collective action, illusion and emotions - to activate three symbolic identities: a dominant collective identity that relies on heroic warrior mythology, a secondary collective identity that draws upon a transformation ideal, and a hidden identity which has its roots in the notion of being wounded. It is argued that assemblies rely on a dominant collective identity which is symbolic in nature and imposed on participants by the cancer Movement. Participants are portrayed as positive, hopeful heroic warriors tasked with vanquishing cancer. Although ubiquitous at cancer assemblies, the dominant collective identity is nevertheless sufficiently fluid to allow a measure of hybridization, inversion and contestation. This inquiry gives credence to other work on cancer and identity which recognizes that the dominant identity provides benefits not offered by a victim representation. It also expresses reservations about the wisdom of expecting affected people to maintain a brave exterior in the face of an illness that causes emotional disequilibrium.National Research Foundatio
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From victims to warriors: collective identity construction at cancer Movement assemblies in South Africa
Department of Sociology, 2015Co-Authors: Prinsloo, Erna LouisaAbstract:Includes bibliographical referencesInterest in this topic was awakened by the rapid growth of Relay For Life in South Africa and its striking ability to bond people during mass cancer gatherings. Questions were raised about the generation of collective identities during these assemblies, the nature of the activated identities, and how these relate to the broader debates about cancer and identity. This inquiry investigates the unexplored intersection of cancer and identity in the context of a burgeoning Solidarity Movement that has found a strong following countrywide. A contemporary hermeneutic perspective allowed a dual focus on the micro-sociological dimensions and the structural elements that converge to generate collective identities at assemblies. A theoretical scheme was synthesized out of the work of theorists who deal with collective identity, spaces set aside for people in crisis, social interaction during focused gatherings and illness narratives. A non-comparative case study was used to investigate the phenomenon at 20 cancer assemblies. Short-term ethnography, focus group interviews, photographs and YouTube videos provided the data that was analysed using the hermeneutic circle of interpretation. The findings showed that personal illness identities and situation-specific role identities interact with a potent cocktail of elements - ephemeral space, a shared focus on cancer, collective action, illusion and emotions - to activate three symbolic identities: a dominant collective identity that relies on heroic warrior mythology, a secondary collective identity that draws upon a transformation ideal, and a hidden identity which has its roots in the notion of being wounded. It is argued that assemblies rely on a dominant collective identity which is symbolic in nature and imposed on participants by the cancer Movement. Participants are portrayed as positive, hopeful heroic warriors tasked with vanquishing cancer. Although ubiquitous at cancer assemblies, the dominant collective identity is nevertheless sufficiently fluid to allow a measure of hybridization, inversion and contestation. This inquiry gives credence to other work on cancer and identity which recognizes that the dominant identity provides benefits not offered by a victim representation. It also expresses reservations about the wisdom of expecting affected people to maintain a brave exterior in the face of an illness that causes emotional disequilibrium
Hector Perla - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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heirs of sandino the nicaraguan revolution and the u s nicaragua Solidarity Movement
Latin American Perspectives, 2009Co-Authors: Hector PerlaAbstract:The 1979 triumph of the Sandinista Revolution and the Sandinista National Liberation Front’s resistance of U.S. efforts to oust it from power inspired thousands of individuals from all over the world to support Nicaragua’s struggle for self-determination. One of the most important constituencies to take up the Sandinista cause was a significant portion of the U.S. public. What moved this collection of individuals and organizations to join a Movement to oppose their own government’s policy and often even identify with the Sandinista cause? To date Latin Americanists have neglected this Movement and the role that Nicaraguans, both in their home country and in the United States, played in its rise and success. A transnational approach to the Movement’s origins and its relationship to Nicaraguan revolutionary social forces allows one to understand it as it really was: a transnational social Movement in which U.S. and Nicaraguan citizens acted together for a common purpose.
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si nicaragua vencio el salvador vencera central american agency in the creation of the u s central american peace and Solidarity Movement
Latin American Research Review, 2008Co-Authors: Hector PerlaAbstract:Throughout the 1980s one of the Reagan administration's most contested foreign policy initiatives was that toward Central America, where it attempted to defeat the Salvadoran guerrillas and overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Reagan's policy was challenged by civil society organizations, whose efforts to undermine support for Reagan's policy came to be known as the Central American Peace and Solidarity Movement (CAPSM). What were the origins of this Movement? I argue that previous explorations of the CAPSM's emergence are inadequate because they neglect the role played by Central Americans as purposive actors in the Movement's rise and development. This article documents the ways in which Nicaraguans and Salvadorans, both in Central America and in the United States, played crucial roles in this transnational Movement's creation and growth.
Jonas Toubol - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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inequality in interaction equalising the helper recipient relationship in the refugee Solidarity Movement
Voluntas, 2020Co-Authors: Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Nicole Doerr, Jonas ToubolAbstract:In this paper, we supplement existing scholarship on the interactional process within volunteering with one that focuses on how inequality between volunteer and recipient of help is handled and (re)produced through interactions within voluntary groups. We focus on how empowerment projects with different interactional styles produce different forms of (in)equality on an interactional level despite dealing with very similar structural inequalities. We define interactional inequality as taking place along four dimensions: role distribution, framing rights, competencies, and sacrifice. Drawing on two different empowerment projects in the refugee Solidarity Movement in Denmark, we show how these dimensions of inequalities play out in the interaction between volunteers and refugees. We identify two strategies for overcoming the initial inequality between refugee and volunteer, one based on mutuality and another based on collectivity. Lastly, we show how these strategies produce interactional inequalities of their own.
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from democratic participation to civic resistance the loss of institutional trust as an outcome of activism in the refugee Solidarity Movement
British Journal of Sociology, 2019Co-Authors: Jonas ToubolAbstract:Adding to the literature on non-institutional political action and trust, this article argues that the loss of institutional trust is not only a cause but also an outcome of political activism. Studying the Danish refugee Solidarity Movement in a mixed-methods research design including survey and qualitative interview data, the article shows that three kinds of activism - political activism, humanitarian activity, and civil disobedience - relate differently to the loss of trust in the institutions of the Parliament, the legal system, and the police. Political activism primarily affects a loss of trust in the Parliament due to low external efficacy and a closed political opportunity structure. Civil disobedience affects a loss of trust in the legal system and the police due to a perceived lack of procedural justice. Humanitarian activity does not affect a loss of institutional trust because it does not imply interaction with the institutions to the same extent as the other kinds of activism. The consequence of losing trust in the political institutions is not an abandonment of democratic values, nor political apathy, but rather a change in civic engagement from a mode of democratically legitimizing participation in the institutions to a mode of contending and questioning the legitimacy of the political institutions. This finding indicates that in turn loss of institutional trust may cause an increase in extra-institutional political action which is consistent with the commonly assumed causality in the literature. This leads to a final integrating argument for conceptualizing activism and loss of institutional trust as reinforcing factors in a process where, in line with the main finding of this study, activism may cause a loss of institutional trust which, in turn, may cause additional activism, as argued in the existing literature.
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high and low risk activism differential participation in a refugee Solidarity Movement
Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 2019Co-Authors: Peter Gundelach, Jonas ToubolAbstract:This article presents a quantitative study of differential participation in low- and high-risk activism in the Danish refugee Solidarity Movement. Distinguishing between low- and high-risk activism...
Ramah Awad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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bds as the baseline of Solidarity toward a model of co struggling with palestinians in their Movement for justice and liberation
Human Geography, 2020Co-Authors: Ramah AwadAbstract:The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement has made enormous gains for the Palestine Solidarity Movement by raising political consciousness about Palestine, shifting the public discourse...