Meetings

Abstract

Meetings are ubiquitous in social movements. Taking an active role in building a social movement coalition or organizing a protest event almost inevitably entails numerous meetings. Yet, in accounts of social movement processes, meetings often become invisible. The reason for such omissions is that meetings are a taken‐for‐granted phenomenon in modern societies and from a commonsense perspective, writing about them would appear as trivial. To make meetings more accessible for social movement research, this entry characterizes meetings by comparing them (i) to other forms of talk‐in‐interaction, (ii) between cultures, and (iii) over time.