Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 244
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7425-6447-3 • Hardback • December 2008 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-0-7425-6448-0 • Paperback • November 2009 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
978-0-7425-6572-2 • eBook • December 2008 • $47.50 • (£37.00)
Lynne M. Woehrle is associate professor of sociology at Mount Mary College.
Patrick G. Coy is director and associate professor at the Center for Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University.
Gregory M. Maney is associate professor of sociology at Hofstra University.
Chapter 1 Section One: Peace Discourses in a War Culture
Chapter 2
Chapter 1: Creating Oppositional Knowledge and Promoting an Active Democracy
Chapter 3
Chapter 2: To Harness or to Challenge Hegemony? Peace Movements at a Cultural Crossroads
Chapter 4
Chapter 3: Reconstructing Patriotism
Chapter 5 Section Two: Contesting Emotions and Identities in War and Peace
Chapter 6
Chapter 4: Capturing Hearts and Minds: Emotions and Peace Appeals
Chapter 7
Chapter 5: Gods of War, Gods of Peace
Chapter 8
Chapter 6: Mobilizing the Margins: Race, Class, Gender and Religion
Chapter 9 Section Three: The Changing Present and an Uncertain Future
Chapter 10
Chapter 7: Real Solutions for a Safer World
Chapter 11
Chapter 8: Going Global?: Discourses Beyond the Nation-State
Chapter 12
Chapter 9: Peace Movement Discourse: Unraveling Hegemony, Spinning New Threads
It is a 234-page serving of some much needed analysis of the modern American peace movement, more specifically, how it has managed to play an important role in balancing the popular discourse about war and patriotism. . . . It is a work of great significance in an area of research that, as the authors themselves point out, has been neglected for far too long....
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How to persuade Americans, who are legitimately worried about terrorist attacks, that our current policies provoke more terrorism and are not in the national interest? The authors here make a valuable contribution to the study of how peace and justice movements grapple with these important questions. In the process, they also show it is time for the universities to devote more resources to conflict resolution studies....
— Tom Hayden
Peace movement organizations operate in a diverse social and political climate, one distorted by rhetoric of fear and lies. That's why the peace movement has hungered of late for an informed, analytic framework to assess where we are and where we go next.Woehrle, Coy and Maney provide rich, deep, but fully accessible research that will sharpen our focus, increase our effectiveness, and provoke our community to smart growth through self-reflection. This is a very timely gift. It will give us direction with its GPS-like utility, and it offers encouragement in its C. Wright Mills-like sensibility for social change as a legitimate expression of patriotism...
— Mark C. Johnson
In an era when U.S. nationalism and unilateralism are arguably the biggest threats to world peace and security, Woehrle, Coy, and Maney offer an important analysis of how culture can be used as a strategic tool for those seeking to promote a more peacefuland just world....
— Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh
We wring our hands about the culture of violence that pervades our nation, and some of us expend enormous energy trying to change our country's rhetoric from one of war to one of peace. We act locally and from within esteemed national peace groups such asthe Fellowship of Reconciliation, Pax Christi, War Resisters League, and the American Friends Service Committee. But the wars-and the worries-persist. What should we do? And how? Contesting Patriotism gives us a language to talk about our dilemmas. In it, Lynne Woehrle, Pat Coy, and Greg Maney describe the rhetoric used by peace organizations and then give us real solutions as we look to the future. Contesting Patriotism is an academic book, complete with an 11-page bibliography, but it's written by professors who are themselves activists and is eminently readable. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to move from wailing about strategy to truly working for peace..
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Woehrle, Coy, and Maney have performed a notable public service with Contesting Patriotism. Readers get solid evidence for the authors’ claims that historical context, organizational identity, and perceived audience matter as PMOs produce oppositional knowledge and fight hegemony. We are reminded that PMO discourse work is strategic, varying with political climate and political space...The authors show us that peace protest is among the highest forms of patriotism.
— Policy Sciences