Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-335) and index.
Contents:
Contentious minds in action -- Synchronized minds -- Mind, action, and interactions -- Common good and politics -- Comparing commitment communities -- Swiss understandings of common good and politics -- Studying activists' minds -- Outline of chapters -- A cognitive-relational process -- The qualitative experience of the world -- The activist's mind -- Setting intentionality -- The social mind -- Conversational interactions -- Sustaining commitment -- A cognitive-relational process -- Synchronized minds -- The activists -- Specific minds? -- Variations in commitment communities -- Different communities, specific minds -- Common good and intentionality --Activists for the rights of migrants -- 'Social justice for all' and intentionality -- Common views on common good? -- Green activists' intentionality -- Christian aid volunteers and common good -- "Social care for all" and intentionality -- Unionists and common good -- "Social justice for a specific group" and unionists' intentionality -- Common good and diverse intentionalities -- Politics and intentionality -- Defenders of migrants' rights -- Intentionality and "intervention for accountability" -- Green activists' perception of politics -- Green activists' perception of politics and intentionality -- Christian aid volunteers and politics -- "Substitution for state containment" and intentionality -- Unionists and politics -- "Intervention for more worker's protection" and intentionality -- Different perceptions, different intentionalities -- Networks as "islands of meanings" -- Embeddedness and conversational interactions -- Mediated interactions -- Multiple spheres of interactions -- Cross-pressured interactions -- Relational minds -- Culture in mind -- Meaningful conversations and mindful interactions -- Bringing the mind back in -- Toward an integrated perspective of social networks -- Integrating culture in social movements studies -- Democracies in mi
Summary:
"Why does the mind matter for collective action? In Contentious Minds, Florence Passy and Gian-Andrea Monsch explain how cognitive and relational processes allow activists to participate in and sustain their commitment to activism. Based on a wide array of survey and interview data with activists engaged in protest, volunteering and unions, they highlight how a commitment community develop shared values, identities, and meanings through interaction. The interplay of talk and ties enables stories and meanings to be constructed and exchanged, conveys worldviews and intentions that are modified through ongoing conversations, and reinforces and maintains commitment over time. Passy and Monsch's ambitious work brings the mind and culture back into the study of social movements and highlights the crucial role social networks play in constructing the communities and shared values that sustain commitment."-- Provided by publisher.
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