Stable Resources of Protest Movements: The Multi-Organizational Field

Migrant Mobilization for Homeland Politics: A Social Movement Approach

“…Studies show that among migrants, dense family and village networks become the foundation for transnational social fields 5 (Basch, Schiller, and Blanc 1994;Boccagni 2010;Bousquet 1991;Bruneau 2010;Itzigsohn and Villacrés 2008;Portes, Guarnizo, and Landolt 1999). A related concept is multi-organizational field (Curtis and Zurcher 1973), which enables researchers to look at the embedding of a movement in its wider organizational environment and to identify alliance and conflict systems that promote or inhibit mobilization (Gerhards and Rucht 1992;Klandermans 1992). This field can expand and contract over time for different types of movements in cycles of protest.…”

Multi‐Organizational Fields and Social Movement Organization Frame Content: The Religious Fro‐Choice Movement*

“…This perspective offers an elaboration of the multi-organizational field perspective that may increase its analytical power. In its original exposition, likeminded organizations in the multi-organizational field were linked through a presumably preexisting and static ideology which then led to mobilization opportunities through the links (Curtis and Zurcher 1973) . Klandermans added opponents to the analysis and suggested that the structure of the field will affect the construction of meaning-but he does not suggest which characteristics of the field should have which effects (1992). The perspective outlined in this paper offers a number of field characteristic variables that affect this construction of meaning.…”

“…Klandermans has recently reintroduced the insight of the "multi-organizational field," defined as all of the groups in a society with which an SMO may establish a link, as a heuristic for understanding the targets of an SMO (1992; also see Curtis and Zurcher 1973). Groups can be broad categorizations of people who may never meet but are assumed to share characteristics (e.g., Southern Baptists) or smaller groups (e.g., First Baptist Church).…”

How Do Voluntary Organizations Foster Protest? The Role of Organizational Involvement on Individual Protest Participation

“…Specifically, members strongly attached should feel that the activities related to their organizations are more urgent, worthwhile, or necessary than members with a weak moral bond. The former should be more receptive to protest appeals displayed within the organization (Curtis and Zurcher 1973;Oberschall 1973) than the latter, hence, being overall more likely to protest (see also Fireman and Gamson 1979:32;Hirsch 1990).…”