Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 18:16:52 -0600
Message-Id: <199401080016.SAA12008@audumla.students.wisc.edu>
To: psn@csf.colorado.edu
From: pnovotny@students.wisc.edu (Patrick Novotny)
Subject: identity politics

With regard to the identity politics request,

I'm writing my dissertation in political science on environmental justice
activism and am using a lot of material in the social movements literature
on
identity politics and collective identity politics.  Within the whole
social constructionist and symbolic interactionist literature on social
movements, there's quite a bit of material that is beginning to emerge on
collective identity literature.  The following are a few of the more
interesting works that I have run across in my reading of the social
movements literature:


Benford, Robert D. and Scott A. Hunt.  1992.  "Dramaturgy and Social
Movements:  The Social Construction and Communication of Power." 
Sociological Inquiry  62, no. 1 (February),36-55.

Boggs, Carl.  1986.  Social Movements and Political Power:  Emerging Forms
of Radicalism in the West.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Cohen, Jean L. and Andrew Arato.  1992.  Civil Society and Political
Theory.  Cambridge:  MIT Press.

Epstein, Barbara.  1991.  Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: 
Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s.  Berkeley:  University of
California Press.

Evans, Sara.  1979.  Personal Politics:  The Roots of Women's Liberation in
the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left.  New York:  Vintage Books.

Ferree, Myra Marx.  1992.  "The Political Context of Rationality:  Rational
Choice Theory and Resource Mobilization."  In Aldon D. Morris and Carol
McClurg Mueller (eds.) Frontiers in Social Movement Theory.  New Haven: 
Yale University Press.

Friedman, Debra and Doug McAdam.  1992.  "Collective Identity and Activism:
 Networks, Choices and the Life of a Social Movement."  In Aldon D. Morris
and Carol McClurg Mueller (eds.) Frontiers in Social Movement Theory.  New
Haven:  Yale University Press.

Gilroy, Paul.  1987.  'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack':  The
Cultural Politics of Race and Nation.  London:  Hutchinson.
  
Melucci, Alberto.  1988.  "Social Movements and the Democratization of
Everyday Life."  In John Keane (ed.) Civil Society and the State:  New
European Perspectives.  London:  Verso.

Omi, Michael and Howard Winant.  1986.  Racial Formation in the United
States:  From the 1960s  to the 1980s.  New York:  Routledge and Kegan
Paul.

Plotke, David.  1990.  "What's So New About New Social Movements?" 
Socialist Review  20,no. 1 (January/March), 81-102.

Snow, David A., E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Steven K. Worden and Robert D.
Benford.  1986.  "Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization and Movement
Participation."  American Sociological Review  51, no. 4 (August), 464-481.


These are all fairly interesting works that deal in different ways with
cultural politics and collective identity in the formation of social
movements.  I am particularly interested in questions of social movements
and collective identity, so if any of you out there have any ideas where
there might be some work on the subject of collective identity, could you
post it?  It's a interesting literature and I am trying to incorporate it
into my doctoral dissertation as I'm sure many others are likewise trying
to do.  

Cheers,
Pat Novotny
Political Science
UW Madison