Resisting Reagan : The U.S. Central America Peace Movement.

By: Smith, ChristianMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (494 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780226763330Subject(s): Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979- | Central America -- Relations -- United States | Peace movements -- Central America -- History | Peace movements -- United States -- History | Religion and politics -- United States -- History | United States -- Relations -- Central AmericaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Resisting Reagan : The U.S. Central America Peace MovementDDC classification: 303.48/2730728 LOC classification: F1436Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part One: Setting the Context -- 1. The Sources of Central American Unrest -- 2. United States Intervention -- 3. Low-Intensity Warfare -- Part Two: The Movement Emerges -- 4. Launching the Peace Movement -- 5. Grasping the Big Picture -- 6. The Social Structure of Moral Outrage -- 7. The Individual Activists -- Part Three: Maintaining the Struggle -- 8. Negotiating Strategies and Collective Identity -- 9. Fighting Battles of Public Discourse -- 10. Facing Harassment and Repression -- 11. Problems for Protesters Closer to Home -- 12. The Movement's Demise -- Part Four: Assessing the Movement -- 13. What Did the Movement Achieve? -- 14. Lessons for Social-Movement Theory -- Appendix: The Distribution and Activities of Central America Peace Movement Organizations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations follow page 208.
Summary: A comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Focusing on the movement's three most important national campaigns-Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, and the Pledge of Resistance-this book demonstrates the centrality of morality as a political motivator, highlights the importance of political opportunities in movement outcomes, and examines the social structuring of insurgent consciousness. Based on extensive surveys, interviews, and research, Resisting Reagan makes significant contributions to our understanding of the formation of individual activist identities, of national movement dynamics, and of religious resources for political activism.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part One: Setting the Context -- 1. The Sources of Central American Unrest -- 2. United States Intervention -- 3. Low-Intensity Warfare -- Part Two: The Movement Emerges -- 4. Launching the Peace Movement -- 5. Grasping the Big Picture -- 6. The Social Structure of Moral Outrage -- 7. The Individual Activists -- Part Three: Maintaining the Struggle -- 8. Negotiating Strategies and Collective Identity -- 9. Fighting Battles of Public Discourse -- 10. Facing Harassment and Repression -- 11. Problems for Protesters Closer to Home -- 12. The Movement's Demise -- Part Four: Assessing the Movement -- 13. What Did the Movement Achieve? -- 14. Lessons for Social-Movement Theory -- Appendix: The Distribution and Activities of Central America Peace Movement Organizations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations follow page 208.

A comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Focusing on the movement's three most important national campaigns-Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, and the Pledge of Resistance-this book demonstrates the centrality of morality as a political motivator, highlights the importance of political opportunities in movement outcomes, and examines the social structuring of insurgent consciousness. Based on extensive surveys, interviews, and research, Resisting Reagan makes significant contributions to our understanding of the formation of individual activist identities, of national movement dynamics, and of religious resources for political activism.

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