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Cultural and political sociologist, studying global nonviolent movements, women's movements, and political change.
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Case, Benjamin S. 2022. Street Rebellion: Resistance beyond Violence and Nonviolence . Chico, CA: AK Press. 280 pp., index. ISBN 978-1-8493-5486-8 (paperback), $22.00; ISBN 978-1-8493-5487-5 (ebook) $21.99.
Prostitution is historically one of the most violent arenas for women, with exceedingly high rates of physical and sexual abuse reported by prostituted women. In this essay, I examine the debate over how best to provide safety and freedom for women involved in prostitution occurring between advocates for full decriminalization and advocates for the...
Social science research on violent and nonviolent conflict seeks to elaborate distinctions in ethical, strategic, and tactical thinking; identify the mechanisms that can bring success in each form of conflict; understand how these conflicts play out in distinct sociopolitical contexts; and elucidate the cultural and political economies of their tra...
Liberian women gained international acclaim for their courage and persistence in bringing warring factions into a peace agreement in 2003, after a 14-year-long civil war that devastated the country, with over 250,000 killed, millions displaced, and a population left traumatized and in political and economic ruin. This study explores the challenges...
In this article, I review two films challenging the technological solutions and assumptions of ‘bright green’ environmentalism, Planet of the Humans and Bright Green Lies. I explain the ways these films showcase a ‘deep green’ challenge to what is charged as magical thinking in proposals for renewable energy transition. I summarize how filmmakers e...
In the growing field of nonviolent social movement studies, questions of power are often lay_ered in inquiries into drivers of mobilization and dynamics of success, from the individual to the societal level. The different ways marginalized groups utilize power are not adequately theorized, however. Here I address paradigmatic approaches to understa...
Studies of nonviolence have taught us much about what makes nonviolence successful, emphasizing the importance of local circumstance and strategy. Little attention has been given to the effect of ties with international organizations on nonviolence: that is, how the embeddedness of local actors in global networks shapes nonviolent mobilization. In...
This chapter explores the historical relationship between and dynamics among feminists and nonviolent activists in the United States, surveying three waves of feminist nonviolent mobilization and interrogating the contributions to and erasure of feminist thinking from popular nonviolence histories. The US feminist and nonviolence movements were bor...
The physiological risks of organ transplantation are well documented, but more poorly understood are the sociological ways in which organ recipients redefine themselves in reaction to physiological risks and social changes accompanying transplantation. This article analyses transplantation as a procedure that is not only physiologically risky but a...
Scholars have shown various ways in which new types of transnational interdependence influence conflicts and resistance. Conventional conceptualization often depicts movements as emerging from the ‘bottom-up’ efforts of distinctive, individual collectives to challenge the ‘top-down’ hegemony of bureaucratic states, multinational corporations, and s...
In this survey of studies of women's nonviolent mobilization, I scrutinize “more powerful forces,” the mobilizing forces of marginalized social actors that add to and make possible the development of broad-based people power. The study of people power has yet to extensively consider the contribution of marginalized social actors. Specifically, I as...
Global–local studies elucidate how local actors engage in often unexpected ways with global models, remedying somewhat the binary assumption that homologous global change acts in conflict with local-level agency. Here, I extend the domestication framework by exploring the global–local interaction among transnational and local activists as a ‘weavin...
Counterframing scholars typically identify counterframes that interpretively distinguish arguments among opponents. This approach assumes that counterframing strategy centers on directly countering the claims of protesters. In my in-depth examination of the ongoing debate between protesters and officials of the former School of the Americas, I iden...
Where international nonviolence organizations have increasingly become key players in both the development and evaluation of effective nonviolent movements, little scholarly attention has been given to their role in transnational mobilization. In this chapter, I present new data on a growing population of nonviolent protest INGOs, a transnational n...
In this article we examine the process by which a group of marginal health-care professionals portray the legitimacy of their skills and services to potential clients. While extensive attention has been devoted to this construal of legitimacy through such affinitive alignments, much less attention has been given to elucidating the factors shaping h...
Purpose - This chapter briefly outlines the history of childbirth in the United States and describes the influence of the natural birth movement and consumer demand in shaping the contemporary advertising of mainstream maternity services. Design/methodology/approach - Qualitative content analysis of 59 hospital websites was undertaken in order to u...
