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James M. Jasper
Researcher at City University of New York
Publications - 99
Citations - 12040
James M. Jasper is an academic researcher from City University of New York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social movement & Politics. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 93 publications receiving 11036 citations. Previous affiliations of James M. Jasper include The Graduate Center, CUNY & New York University.
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Collective identity and social movements
TL;DR: Collective identity has been treated as an alternative to structurally given interests in accounting for the claims on behalf of which people mobilize, an alternative alternative to selective incentives in understanding why people participate, a alternative to instrumental rationality in explaining what tactical choices activists make, and a complementary alternative to institutional reforms in assessing movements' impacts.
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Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements
TL;DR: Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta reverse this trend, reincorporating emotions such as anger, indignation, fear, disgust, joy, and love into research on politics and social protest as mentioned in this paper.
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The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements
TL;DR: Protest has become an everyday part of modern societies, one of the few recognized outlets for voicing and discussing basic moral commitments as mentioned in this paper, and it has become a central source for providing us with ethical visions and creative ideas.
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The Emotions of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions In and Around Social Movements
TL;DR: The recent explosion of cultural work on social movements has been highly cognitive in its orientation, as though researchers were still reluctant to admit that strong emotions accompany protest as discussed by the authors. But such emotions do not render protestors irrational; emotions accompany all social action, providing both motivation and goals.
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Emotions and Social Movements: Twenty Years of Theory and Research
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of emotional processes aimed at showing that not all emotions work the same way, and encouraging research into how different emotions interact with one another, is presented.