Rebel Friendships

“Outsider” Networks and Social Movements

Benjamin Shepard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

235 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-47931-0 (ISBN)

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Rebel Friendships considers the interplay between individuals and their friendships with social movements. The intersections between individual and community, the ways we experiment with social change, explore, create, and reduce the harms of modern living are the work of social movements. Yet, the process is rarely simple. Through auto-ethnographic reflections of experiences with the Beats, ACT-UP, Occupy Wall Street, anti-consumer, queer rights, and non-polluting transportation movements Shepard explores the way friendship infuses social movements with the social capital necessary to move bodies of ideas forward. Such innovation is rarely seen in more institutionalized social arrangements. Rebel Friendships offers a new take on the ties between friends who are connected through affinity and efforts aimed at social change.

Benjamin Shepard is Associate Professor at New York City College of Technology at the City University of New York, USA.

1.Towards a City of Friends: Affinity, Autonomy, and Social Movements 2.Fred Mayer: A Tragicomedy of Sorts 3.Reviving the Tribe: Friendship and Social Relations in the Work and Play of Eric Rofes 4.Not Quite Queer 5.Sylvia Rivera, Her Myth and Mentors: On Support, Friendship, and Social Movements 6.From Drag to Occupy: Street Protest, Gay Marriage, and Resistance to a Neoconservative City 7.DIY Urbanism and Friendship Networks: The Case Study of Time's Up! 1987-2012 8.Connection and Separation: OWS and Friendships! 9.Revolutionary Games and Repressive Tolerance 10. Friendship, Fighting, and Need for Support 11. Surviving Plagues and Recalling Heroes 12. Activist Rituals and an Homage to the Disappeared: Notes toward a Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.9.2015
Zusatzinfo	X, 235 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-137-47931-0 / 1137479310
ISBN-13	978-1-137-47931-0 / 9781137479310
Zustand	Neuware