Lexington Books
Pages: 122
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Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-5504-3 • Hardback • October 2018 • $99.00 • (£76.00)
978-1-4985-5505-0 • eBook • October 2018 • $94.00 • (£72.00)
Teal Rothschild is professor of sociology at Roger Williams University.
Preface
Introduction: Mobilization and Gun Violence Prevention
Part I: Gun Violence Prevention Activists and Identity
Chapter 1: Activism and Individual Identity
Chapter 2: Culture of Organization in Gun Violence Prevention
Chapter 3: Power and Interaction: Movement Scripts and Emotion
Part II: Contradictions and Position in Social Movements
Chapter 4: On the Ground Activist Ethnography
Chapter 5: Reflections on gun violence prevention activism
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
This book is rich in empirical content, derived from original in-depth research, and is framed by a clear understanding of its own research project and how this shapes the empirical content under review. The arguments of the book are clearly expressed and sensitively handled; neither overblown nor understated. There is a good balance between the in-depth research and the consequences that are drawn from the ethnographic work. It is a book replete with detailed insights into gun violence prevention activists, how identities are formed, navigated and contested within such movements and what this tells us about the culture of social movements in general, from the inside so to speak.
— Iain MacKenzie, University of Kent