Oneself as Another: From Social Movement to Experience Movement

McDonald, Kevin

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“…Nor does it mean that researchers should focus solely on the micro-history of small groups or -instructive as they are -localized cases like Slade Colliery. Sociological narrative identity theory, for example, has productively been applied to social movements (see McDonald 2004). Far from prohibiting analysis of large-scale phenomena, or precluding path-dependence, the historical variant of narrative inquiry admits of these analytical possibilities, but promotes surfacing the 'historical conceptions of temporality' that are being employed (Sewell 2005, 15).…”

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Rating tales: An evaluation of divergent views of occupational identification

Reveley

McLean

2008

Management & Organizational History

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This article evaluates two divergent views of the future of occupation identification by core industry employees. The first asserts that occupational identities are waning as identity-challenging managerial techniques reshape classic worker identities. The second contends that frontline workers are developing new repertoires of resistance that sustain robust occupational identities. Underlying these views, respectively, is an implicit teleology and a cyclical notion of labour history that posits trade unions as the locus of identity formation and resistance. Contemporary instances of occupational identification render these assumptions problematical. Drawing from an underground coalmining industry case study, we show how miners achieve a shared occupational identity through narrative resistance to individuating managerial techniques. We conclude that (a) labour movement decline and heightened managerialism spell neither the end of occupational identification nor of oppositional resistance, and (b) the historical unidirectionality and labour organizational essentialism contained in the two rival accounts of occupational identification are untenable.

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Rating tales: An evaluation of divergent views of occupational identification

Reveley

McLean

2008

Management & Organizational History

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“…Yet many others have seen in the movement a new mode of political resistance, irreducible to the kinds of images of collective consciousness suited to an earlier politic (see McDonald, 2004;Escobar, 2000).…”

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Laughing with the Yes Men: the Politics of Affirmation

Hynes¹,

Sharpe

Fagan

2007

Continuum

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“…Publicly performing 'straight edge' is the core constitutive task of the movement. McDonald's (2004) discussion of anti-globalization movements, new Islamic movements, and Falun Gong in China reveals that in some cases the public experience of self becomes more important than collective identification with the movement itself.…”

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Practicing Birchism: The Assumption and Limits of Idiocultural Coherence in Framing Theory

Hart

2008

Social Movement Studies

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Social movement theory and research over the past twenty years have utilized the concepts incorporated under the rubric of Framing Theory in order to draw attention to the cultural 'meaning work' within a social movement or social movement organization. Underlying Framing Theory is an assumption of what I term idiocultural coherence -that for a movement organization to be successful, its members must come to agree cognitively with its cultural understandings and identify collectively with it. Drawing on an example of the John Birch Society, a very successful conspiratorial, anti-communist organization, I show how people may join a social movement organization not because they necessarily or fully agree with its collective action frames but because it provides an opportunity to act collectively and publicly perform a collective identity. I argue that a narrow focus on idiocultural processes obfuscates important cultural processes 'outside' of a movement organization that have an impact on how and why people join an organization and maintain membership.Though a number of scholars have questioned Framing Theory's (FT) explanation of how social movement actors make, communicate, and coordinate meaning (e.g. researching the processes whereby social movement actors orient and communicate their understandings of social problems, of culprits, and of solutions have continued relatively unabated in the tradition inspired by Snow and his colleagues' influential article on collective action frames (Snow et al., 1986). In 1986, and drawing on Goffman (1974), FT provided a much needed constructivist grounding to a field that viewed social movement actors as overly rationalistic, and that considered the operations of social movement organizations almost entirely within their organizational fields. FT made room for understanding how cultural meanings affected a variety of social movement processes (especially mobilization) at a time when the role of meaning in social movements was largely disregarded, at least in the leading social movement paradigm.

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Oneself as Another: From Social Movement to Experience Movement

Cited by 33 publications

References 34 publications

Rating tales: An evaluation of divergent views of occupational identification

Rating tales: An evaluation of divergent views of occupational identification

Laughing with the Yes Men: the Politics of Affirmation

Practicing Birchism: The Assumption and Limits of Idiocultural Coherence in Framing Theory

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