Cloth: 978-0-226-76335-4 | Paper: 978-0-226-76336-1 | Electronic: 978-0-226-76333-0
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226763330.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
TABLE OF 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
Illustrations follow page 208.
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