An Insider's Critique of the Social Movement Framing Perspective*

Benford, Robert D.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-682x.1997.tb00445.x

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“…Cabe mencionar que, aunque la teoría del encuadre (frame analysis) ha contribuido a dar un giro en el análisis de los movimientos sociales durante las últimas décadas, ha sido objeto de múltiples críticas, entre las principales: reducir la riqueza de los movimientos sociales, por mostrar una visión demasiado estática de éstos, por basarse en clichés para el estudio de las cuestiones ideológicas vinculadas a los movimientos sociales, por utilizar estos clichés como sinónimos o sustitutos de la ideología, y por omitir consideraciones de carácter emotivo (Jasper, 1997;Benford, 1997;Oliver y Johnston, 2000).…”

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La gráfica política y los marcos de acción colectiva en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas (2010-2013)

Gómez-Abarca

2018

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El objetivo de este artículo es interpretar la gráfica política realizada en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, integrada por composiciones que generalmente incluyen texto e imágenes. Se realizó, inicialmente, un análisis elemental de tipo semiótico visual a un registro fotográfico (2010-2013) de 63 producciones visuales, el cual fue complementado, posteriormente, con una interpretación desde la perspectiva de los marcos de acción colectiva. Se concluye que estas intervenciones, además de ser un vehículo de expresión política, constituyen marcos interpretativos que orientan las acciones colectivas de los diferentes actores políticos que confluyen en la ciudad.

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La gráfica política y los marcos de acción colectiva en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas (2010-2013)

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2018

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“…The frames that a social movement adopts are likely to change over time and between institutional arenas (Benford 1997). For example, an economic cost-benefit analysis rooted in neoliberal legal principles might seem the most resonant for advocates in the policy arena, whereas grassroots mobilizations may very well take a broader social justice-oriented frame (Ferree 2012).…”

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‘They come here to work’: an evaluation of the economic argument in favor of immigrant rights

Gleeson

2015

Citizenship Studies

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Advocates commonly highlight the exploitation that hard-working undocumented immigrants commonly suffer at the hands of employers, the important contribution they make to the US economy, and the fiscal folly of border militarization and enhanced immigration enforcement policies. In this paper, I unpack these economic rationales for expanding immigrant rights, and examine the nuanced ways in which advocates deploy this frame. To do so, I rely on statements issued by publicly present immigrant rights groups in six places: California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC. I also draw on interviews with immigrant advocates in San Jose, CA and Houston, TX, press releases from two alternative national immigrant rights organizations, and an ethnographic photo-documentation of immigrant rights mobilizations in 2012-2014. Economic rationales, I emphasize, can be found in each of these contexts, but are not mutually exclusive to other justifications, including narratives about civil, human, and family rights for immigrants. However, I argue that an economic framing of immigrant rights nonetheless runs the risk reifying work over conventional understandings of criminality, often relies on a narrow definition of economic worth, and could have negative consequences for coalition building. Advocates commonly highlight the exploitation that hard-working undocumented immigrants commonly suffer at the hands of employers, the important contribution they make to the US economy, and the fiscal folly of border militarization and enhanced immigration enforcement policies. In this paper, I unpack these economic rationales for expanding immigrant rights, and examine the nuanced ways in which advocates deploy this frame. To do so, I rely on statements issued by publicly present immigrant rights groups in six places: California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC. I also draw on interviews with immigrant advocates in San Jose, CA and Houston, TX, press releases from two alternative national immigrant rights organizations, and an ethnographic photo-documentation of immigrant rights mobilizations in 2012-2014. Economic rationales, I emphasize, can be found in each of these contexts, but are not mutually exclusive to other justifications, including narratives about civil, human, and family rights for immigrants. However, I argue that an economic framing of immigrant rights nonetheless runs the risk reifying work over conventional understandings of criminality, often relies on a narrow definition of economic worth, and could have negative consequences for coalition building.

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“…Collective action frames relate to the ideational aspect of mobilisation and can be defined as systems of shared beliefs that underpin social movements (Benford, 1997). They are concerned with the mobilisation of 'consensus' and 'action' amongst movement adherents and participants (see Klandermans, 2007, p. 369-370).…”

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Occupy: In Theory and Practice

Bates¹,

Ogilvie²,

Pole³

2016

Critical Discourse Studies

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Relations programmes. His work focuses on the following areas interrelated areas: first, the constitution of modes of political subjectivity (in 'radical', liberal, neoliberal and conservative forms), and the relationship with dominant economic structures and forms of social identity, and second, the philosophical understanding of social movements (including anti-globalisation, anti-capitalism, Occupy, etc.) with specific reference to Marxist, post-Marxist, post-anarchist, and autonomist perspectives. Correspondence address:School AbstractThis paper situates the discourse of the Occupy movement within the context of radical political philosophy. Our analysis takes place on two levels. First, we conduct an empirical analysis of the 'official' publications of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and Occupy London (OL). Operationalising core concepts from the framing perspective within social movement theory, we provide a descriptive-comparative analysis of the 'collective action frames' of OWS and OL. Second, we consider the extent to which radical political philosophy speaks to the discourse of Occupy. Our empirical analysis reveals that both movements share diagnostic frames, but there were notable differences in terms of prognostic framing. The philosophical discussion suggests that there are alignments between anarchist, post-anarchist and post-Marxist ideologies at the level of both identity and strategy. Indeed, the absence of totalising anti-capitalist or anti-statist positions in Occupy suggests that -particularly with Occupy Londonalignments are perhaps not so distant from typically social democratic demands.

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An Insider's Critique of the Social Movement Framing Perspective*

Cited by 626 publications

References 67 publications

La gráfica política y los marcos de acción colectiva en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas (2010-2013)

La gráfica política y los marcos de acción colectiva en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas (2010-2013)

‘They come here to work’: an evaluation of the economic argument in favor of immigrant rights

Occupy: In Theory and Practice

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