Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this paper, I use evidence from the Global Feminisms Project (GFP) online archive to address three key questions: (1) How are activists created? (2) How do negative stereotypes affect activists? (3) How has the global decline in democracy affected collective action promoting social justice? Social scientists have addressed all of these issues with different kinds of data, often with samples from the United States that include both activists and non‐activists. Instead, my colleagues and I draw on oral history interviews with long‐term women's movement activists drawn from several different countries over the past two and a half decades. We encourage the use of archival materials like these to study other questions of importance to social scientists who seek to understand what stimulates and maintains activism, strategies used by activists, and the ways that changes over time in the social environment affect activists’ strategies.
Source: Journal of Social Issues
DOI: 10.1111/josi.70003
Author: Abigail J. Stewart
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, University of Michigan, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
OpenAlex ID: W4408493864