Frames of Protest Social Movements and the Framing Perspective

by Johnston, Hank; Noakes, John A.; Benford, Robert D.; Cadena-Roa, Jorge; Hewitt, Lyndi; Johnston, Hank; Kenney, Padraic; Massens, Jan; McCammon, Holly J.; Oliver, Pamela E.; Schneider, Cathy; Snow, David A.; Valocchi, Stephen; Walgrave, Stefaan; Westby, Da

• ISBN13: 9780742538078
• ISBN10: 0742538079
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Frames of Protest is the only book available that brings together empirical research and theoretical essays by sociologists, political scientists, and media specialists that focus on social movement frames and framing practices. The major themes of the framing perspective are treated: evidence for the determining influence of collective action frames, their role in protest cycles, framing practices by the state and media, their relationship to political structures, frames versus ideologies as mobilizing factors, and methods of framing research. The collection offers a state-of-the-art view of this important perspective.

Table of Contents

1 Frames of Protest: A Road Map to a Perspective	1	(32)
John A. Noakes and Hank Johnston
Part I. Framing and Mobilization Processes
2 Explaining Suffrage Mobilization: Balance, Neutralization, and Range in Collective Action Frames	33	(20)
Lyndi Hewitt and Holly J. McCammon
3 Collective Action Frames in the Gay Liberation Movement, 1969-1973	53	(16)
Stephen Valocchi
4 Strategic Framing, Emotions, and Superbarrio-Mexico City's Masked Crusader	69	(20)
Jorge Cadena-Roa
Part II. Non-Movement Framing: The State and Media
5 Official Frames in Social Movement Theory: The FBI, HUAC, and the Communist Threat in Hollywood	89	(24)
John A. Noakes
6 Mobilizing the White March: Media Frames as Alternatives to Movement Organizations	113	(30)
Stefaan Walgrave and Jan Manssens
Part III. Framing and Political Opportunities
7 Framing, Political Opportunities, and Eastern European Mobilization	143	(20)
Padraic Kenney
8 Political Opportunities and Framing Puerto Rican Identity in New York City	163	(22)
Cathy Schneider
Part IV. Refining the Perspective
9 What a Good Idea! Ideologies and Frames in Social Movement Research	185	(20)
Pamela E. Oliver and Hank Johnston
10 Clarifying the Relationship between Framing and Ideology	205	(8)
David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford
11 Breaking the Frame	213	(4)
Hank Johnston and Pamela E. Oliver
12 Strategic Imperative, Ideology, and Frames	217	(20)
David L. Westby
13 Comparative Frame Analysis	237	(24)
Hank Johnston
Index	261	(6)
About the Contributors	267