Moving Politics Emotion and ACT up's Fight Against AIDS

Name: Moving Politics Emotion and ACT up's Fight Against AIDS
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ISBN: 9780226305301

ISBN-10: 0226305309

ISBN-13: 9780226305301

Edition: 2009

Authors: Deborah B. Gould

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In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no moreeven as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author's time as a member of the organization,Moving Politicsis the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Surprisingly overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Why Emotion?



The Affects and Emotions of Mobilization



Pride and Its Sisters in Early AIDS Activism



A Shifting Emotional Habitus and the Emergence of the Direct-Action AIDS Movement



Activism as World-Making



The Pleasures and Intensities of Activism; or, Making a Place for Yourself in the Universe



The Emotion Work of Movements



The Feelings of Decline



Openings and Movement Decline



Solidarity and Its Fracturing



Despairing


Conclusion: Moving Politics


Appendix: Lesbian and Gay Newspapers


Glossary with Notes on Terms


References


Index