Author: Deborah B. Gould
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226305309
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226305309
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS
In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets.
author deborah b gould format paperback language english publication year 08 01 2010 subject politics government subject 2 politics general reference title moving politics emotion and act up s fight against aids author gould deborah b publisher univ of chicago pr publication date dec 15 2009 pages 536 binding paperback edition 1 st dimensions 5 90 wx 8 90 hx 1 10 d isbn 0226305309 subject social science sociology general description in the late 1980 s after a decade spent engaged in more routi
But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more-even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author's time as a member of the organization, Moving Politics is the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion.ASurprisingly overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political activism. From anger to hope, pride
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS - Deborah B. Gould
author deborah b gould format paperback language english publication year 08 01 2010 subject politics government subject 2 politics general reference title moving politics emotion and act up s fight against aids author gould deborah b publisher univ of chicago pr publication date dec 15 2009 pages 536 binding paperback edition 1 st dimensions 5 90 wx 8 90 hx 1 10 d isbn 0226305309 subject social science sociology general description in the late 1980 s after a decade spent engaged in more routi
In this first book to analyze the emergence, development, and decline of the direct-action AIDS movement ACT UP, Deborah B. Gould explores a factor that only recently has entered the sights of social movement scholars and is still largely ignored in the social sciences in general: emotion. An inquiry into the affective stimuli and blockages to political activism, Moving Politics provides an in-depth analysis of the emotional dimensions of contentious politics.
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