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Moving Politics
Deborah B Gould
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Description for Moving Politics
Paperback. Chronicles the rise and fall of ACT UP - the organization founded by lesbians and gay men - highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. This book offers an account of ACT UP's origin, development, and decline as well as a look at the role of emotion in contentious politics. Num Pages: 458 pages, 18 halftones, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; JFFH2; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 814.
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 more - even 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 Politics" is the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Surprisingly overlooked by ... Read more
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 more - even 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 Politics" is the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Surprisingly overlooked by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
458
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226305301
SKU
V9780226305301
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About Deborah B Gould
Deborah B. Gould is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reviews for Moving Politics
"Moving Politics is not just a rich and rigorous history of ACT UP. It is also that rarest of works: one that simultaneously breaks new empirical ground while challenging our more general conceptual understanding of the subject matter. Quite simply, it will be hard for social movement scholars following Gould to ignore the emotional dimensions and dynamics of struggle." - ... Read more