Overcoming a collective action frame in the remaking of an antinuclear opposition |
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Authors: | Stephen Adair |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, 03824 Durham, New Hampshire |
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Abstract: | Recent research on social movements considers collective action frames and collective identities to be resources or achievements
of social movement activity because they symbolicly link individuals to a collective cause. This paper maintains that a collective
action frame operates at a sociocultural level and can be redefined by groups external to a movement. Nuclear power proponents
worked to suppress the first cycle of protest against nuclear plants by redefining the movements' collective identity, such
that individuals were unable to recognize movement organizations as representative of their interests. Citizens within the
Ten Mile Radius, a group opposed to the licensing of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, initiated a second cycle of protest
by overcoming the collective action frame imposed on the movement. This case suggests that the articulation and the representation
of dissent is constrained due to the inability of social movement groups to retain control over their own collective identity.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, April
1994. |
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Keywords: | collective action frame collective identity cycles of protest antinuclear movement |
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