Prelims

Strategies and Outcomes

ISBN: 978-1-83797-934-9, eISBN: 978-1-83797-933-2

ISSN: 0163-786X

Publication date: 4 July 2024

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(2024), "Prelims", Leitz, L. (Ed.) Strategies and Outcomes (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 48), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xiv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20240000048010

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Strategies and Outcomes

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Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

Series Editor: Lisa Leitz

Recent Volumes:

Volume 32: Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements – Edited by Anna Christine Snyder and Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe
Volume 33: Media, Movements, and Political Change – Edited by Jennifer Earl and Deana A. Rohlinger
Volume 34: Nonviolent Conflict and Civil Resistance – Edited by Sharon Erickson Nepstad and Lester R. Kurtz
Volume 35: Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements – Edited by Nicole Doerr, Alice Mattoni and Simon Teune
Volume 36: Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change – Edited by Patrick G. Coy
Volume 37: Intersectionality and Social Change – Edited by Lynne M. Woehrle
Volume 38: Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change – Edited by Patrick G. Coy
Volume 39: Protest, Social Movements, and Global Democracy Since 2011: New Perspectives – Edited by Thomas Davies, Holly Eva Ryan and Alejandro Peña
Volume 40: Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change – Edited by Landon E. Hancock
Volume 41: Non-State Violent Actors and Social Movement Organizations: Influence, Adaptation, and Change – Edited by Julie M. Mazzei
Volume 42: Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change – Edited by Patrick G. Coy
Volume 43: Bringing Down Divides: Special Issue Commemorating the Work of Gregory Maney (1967–2017) – Edited by Lisa Leitz and Eitan Y. Alimi
Volume 44: Power and Protest: How Marginalized Groups Oppose the State and Other Institutions – Edited by Lisa Leitz
Volume 45: Four Dead in Ohio: The Global Legacy of Youth Activism and State Repression – Edited by Johanna Solomon
Volume 46: Race and Space: Contesting Boundaries and Inequities – Edited by Lisa Leitz
Volume 47: Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change – Edited by Thomas V. Maher and Eric W. Schoon

Editorial Advisory Board

  • Lisa Leitz, PhD

  • Editor-in-Chief

  • Delp-Wilkinson Endowed Chair in Peace Studies, Chapman University

  • Socrates Mbamalu

  • Graduate Editorial Assistant

  • Chapman University

  • Eitan Alimi, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Patrick Coy, PhD

  • Editor Emeritus

  • Professor, School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State University

  • Darren Kew, PhD

  • Chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School and Executive Director of the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development, University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Cécile Mouly, PhD

  • Professor and Coordinator of the Research Group in Peace and Conflict at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) Ecuador

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Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change Volume 48

Strategies and Outcomes

Edited by

Lisa Leitz

Chapman University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Figures and Tables

How Movements (Sometimes) Move: Base-Mission, Traveling Cadre, and Spatial Extension of the Nashville Civil Rights Movement
Fig. 1. Conceptual Representation of Relations Between a Local Social Movement Base and Several Outlying Mission Destinations (Sites A–G). 16
Table 1. Events and Campaigns During the Movement Heyday With Nashville Movement Extended Mission Participation. 20
Table 2. James Lawson's FOR Nonviolent Traveling Workshop Circuit, 1958–1959. 21
Table 3. The Rescue Freedom Ride: Nashville → Birmingham → Montgomery, May 17–21. 26
Impression Management, “Optics” Maintenance, and Dramaturgical Loyalty Within White Supremacist Organizations
Table 1. White Supremacist Discord Servers in My Dataset. 45
Examining the Barriers and Drivers for Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions Across Canada Using a Social Movement Theory Lens
Table 1. Sites Selected for Analyses and Corresponding Selection Criteria. 76
Table 2. Participants by Method, Site, and Participant Type. 76
Fig. 1. Students Protesting Cuts to the Women and Gender Studies Programs. 82
Fig. 2. Student-Run Newspaper Highlighting the Student-Led Divestment Campaign. 83
Fig. 3. Student Union Building Increasing Visibility of Sustainability Issues With Bicycles to Charge Mobile Devices. 84
“The Movement Never Came Here”: Civil Rights Organizational Presence and Southern Racial Inequality
Fig. 1. Inequality Change Models. (a) Geographically-Dependent. (b) General Benefits. 135
Table 1. Changes in Racial Inequality for High School Graduation (HSG) and Management Occupation Employment (MOE), by County. 140
Fig. 2. Racial Inequality Change Histograms, by County Count. (a) High School Graduation. (b) Management Occupation Employment. 141
Table 2. Frequency of “Big Four” Civil Rights Organizations by US State. 142
Fig. 3. Organizational Overlap by County. 142
Table 3. Mean Inequality Change for Counties With Civil Rights Organizations. 143
Table 4. Correlation Matrix. 144
Table 5. Regression Models Explaining High School Graduation Inequality Change. 146
Table 6. Regression Models Explaining Managerial Occupation Employment Inequality Change. 148
What Comes After the March? Tactical Choices and Social Movement Organization Survival
Table 1. Cities by Population Size. 185
Table 2. Mobilization by Political Context. 185
Table 3. Correlations Between Tactics and Group Outcomes. 187
Table 4. QCA Results, Number of Events. 188
Table 5. QCA Results, Group Survival. 189

About the Contributors

Daniel B. Cornfield is a Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and Editor-in-Chief of Work and Occupations. His multiple journal articles and books address labor, civil rights, immigration, and artist communities, including his Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville (Princeton University Press) and Becoming a Mighty Voice (Russell Sage Foundation).

Catherine Corrigall-Brown is a Professor and Head of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Patterns of Protest (Stanford University Press, 2012) and Keeping the March Alive (New York University Press, 2023) on social movement activism and longevity.

Dennis C. Dickerson is the Reverend James Lawson Chair in History at Vanderbilt University. He has written four books including his latest work, The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is finishing “A Brother in the Spirit of Gandhi”: William Stuart Nelson and the Religious Origins of the Civil Rights Movement.

Alessandro Giuseppe Drago is a PhD candidate at McGill University. He studies far-right political movements in the United States and Canada, with a focus on how and why they come to mobilize and engage in high-risk activism. His other research interests include populism, left-wing movements, and student movements.

Larry W. Isaac is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology and Political Economy at Vanderbilt University and past Editor of the American Sociological Review. Specializing in anti-racist civil rights and labor movements, political economy of inequality, and historical sociology, he is an award-winning author of numerous scholarly articles.

Matthew Kearney is the author of The Social Order of Collective Action: The Wisconsin Uprising of 2011 about the massive protest that inspired the Occupy Movement, and several articles. He hosts Extinction Rebellion Radio. He has taught at Harvard, Emerson, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and now the University of Liverpool.

Lisa Leitz is the Delp-Wilkinson Professor and Department Chair of Peace Studies at Chapman University. Since 2018, she has served as the Series Editor of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. She authored many articles, chapters, and the book Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement (2014).

Matheus Mazzilli Pereira is a Professor of Sociology at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil), where he studies social movements with research emphases on the relations between social movements and culture and social movements and public policies. He received his PhD in Sociology from the same institution, with an interchange period at the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the research group Association, Contestation and Engagement (GPACE/UFRGS).

Socrates Mbamalu is a student of War, Diplomacy and Society at Chapman Univeristy. His work as a journalist has appeared in Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, VICE, and The Continent. He runs Aso Times, a Nigerian newspaper dedicated to telling stories outside mainstream media. His research interests include conflict and foreign policy in Africa.

Jaylene Murray is a Professor in the Department of Recreation and Tourism at Vancouver Island University, with a focus on outdoor recreation, sustainability, and land-based learning. She resides on the unceded territories of the Snuneymuxw First Nation and is extremely grateful for the opportunity to live and learn on their lands.

Marcelo Kunrath Silva is a Professor of Sociology at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil), developing research in the field of Political Sociology, with an emphasis on contentious politics processes. Currently, he conducts research on the relationship between religiosity and activism. He coordinates the research group Association, Contestation and Engagement (GPACE/UFRGS).

Dana M. Williams is a Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico. They are the author of Black Flags and Social Movements: A Sociological Analysis of Movement Anarchism (Manchester University Press), and articles in International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Leisure Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Critical Sociology, and Journal of World-Systems Research.

Tarah Wright is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Education for Sustainability Research Group at Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on education for sustainable development, with current emphasis on measuring pre-school children's bio-affinity, and the role of The Arts in encouraging pro-environmental behavior.