Managing Organizational Emotions: Framing Feelings of Illegitimacy in the Radical Women's Prison Movement |
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Authors: | Jodie M Lawston |
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Institution: | DePaul University , USA |
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Abstract: | Abstract This article examines how activists manage the potentially deleterious emotions that arise in social movement organizations. Using data from a case study of an organization in the contemporary radical women's prison movement in California, I explore how feelings of illegitimacy are managed and sublimated by activists, during the course of organizational life, to sustain participation in the movement. Drawing on framing theory, I find that organizational frames serve as mechanisms that manage and focus activists' feelings, delimit movement strategies, and inspire and legitimate collective action. |
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