Rebel Friendships

"Outsider" Networks and Social Movements
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47931-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4139 g

Rebel Friendships considers the interplay between individuals and their friendships with social movements. The intersections between individual and community, the ways we experiment with social change, explore, create, and reduce the harms of modern living are the work of social movements. Yet, the process is rarely simple. Through auto-ethnographic reflections of experiences with the Beats, ACT-UP, Occupy Wall Street, anti-consumer, queer rights, and non-polluting transportation movements Shepard explores the way friendship infuses social movements with the social capital necessary to move bodies of ideas forward. Such innovation is rarely seen in more institutionalized social arrangements. Rebel Friendships offers a new take on the ties between friends who are connected through affinity and efforts aimed at social change.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shepard, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Shepard is Associate Professor at New York City College of Technology at the City University of New York, USA.