Forging Radical Alliances across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium

Altemose, J Rick

ISBN 10: 0742510581 / ISBN 13: 9780742510586

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

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This anthology challenges dominant approaches of explaining social movements and coalition building, and aims to understand and explain how radical coalitions work in order to enable the development of visions and plans for change that advance and sustain political activity. Editor(s): Bystydzienski, Jill M.; Schacht, Steven P. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JF; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426. . 2001. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forging Radical Alliances across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742510581
• ISBN 13: 9780742510586
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

As we enter the twenty-first century, scholars, activists and others concerned with social change increasingly realize that in order to transform society effective coalitions among different groups working for social justice need to be created and maintained. However, most of the research and writing about coalitions provide rather limited approaches to the study and understanding of radical alliances; i.e.: coalitions whose goals are to fundamentally change interpersonal relations and social structure in order to achieve equality and true social justice. This anthology challenges dominant approaches of explaining social movements and coalition building. Based on numerous case studies of alliances created between disparate peoples and among a variety of groups, the authors show that both resource mobilization theories and identity politics frameworks for the most part are inadequate for conceptualizing how alliances have been and can be created across boundaries of gender, race/ethnicity, class, nationality, ideology, sexual orientation, and age. The theoretical approach we propose suggests that coalitions are fluid sites of collective behavior where the blending of multiple identities with political activism interact with structural conditions to influence the development of commitments, strategies and specific actions. This analogy makes a contribution to a body of knowledge that aims to understand and explain how radical coalitions work in order to enable the development of visions and plans for change that advance and sustain political and social activity.

About the Author

SOFIA QUINTERO wrote "Explicit Content" and "Picture Me Rollin'" under the pen name Black Artemis and lives in New York City.