TY - CHAP
T1 - Bringing Morality Back in
T2 - Three Interviews
AU - Alexander, Jeffrey
AU - Eliasoph, Nina
AU - McAdam, Doug
AU - Sevelsted, Anders
AU - Toubøl, Jonas
N1 - Published online: 08 November 2022.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This chapter presents three interviews with three influential voices in the field of social movement and civil society studies, namely, those of Doug McAdam, Jeffrey Alexander, and Nina Eliasoph. They all share their perspectives on social movements’ role in society’s moral development, the role of morality internally in social movements, and the role of morality for social science as a practice. In addition, they each discuss the moral foundations and implications of three global contentious struggles: Doug McAdam discusses the background and implications of the 2021 riot at Capitol Hill as related to a global right-wing backlash protest cycle. Jeffrey Alexander discusses the cultural and moral significance of the #MeeToo movement and how it demonstrates the potentials of a global civil sphere. Finally, Nina Eliasoph discusses how the climate crisis presents itself as unimaginable in the sense that it will change everyone’s way of life so profoundly that we cannot imagine what the future may be like and suggests that prefigurative communities is one way activists can approach such a political issue.
AB - This chapter presents three interviews with three influential voices in the field of social movement and civil society studies, namely, those of Doug McAdam, Jeffrey Alexander, and Nina Eliasoph. They all share their perspectives on social movements’ role in society’s moral development, the role of morality internally in social movements, and the role of morality for social science as a practice. In addition, they each discuss the moral foundations and implications of three global contentious struggles: Doug McAdam discusses the background and implications of the 2021 riot at Capitol Hill as related to a global right-wing backlash protest cycle. Jeffrey Alexander discusses the cultural and moral significance of the #MeeToo movement and how it demonstrates the potentials of a global civil sphere. Finally, Nina Eliasoph discusses how the climate crisis presents itself as unimaginable in the sense that it will change everyone’s way of life so profoundly that we cannot imagine what the future may be like and suggests that prefigurative communities is one way activists can approach such a political issue.
KW - Movements in society
KW - Morality in movements
KW - Morality in social science
KW - Right-wing backlash
KW - 2021 US Capitol attack
KW - #MeToo
KW - The climate justice movement
KW - Movements in society
KW - Morality in movements
KW - Morality in social science
KW - Right-wing backlash
KW - 2021 US Capitol attack
KW - #MeToo
KW - The climate justice movement
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-98798-5_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-98798-5_3
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783030987978
SN - 9783030988005
T3 - Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
SP - 39
EP - 59
BT - The Power of Morality in Movements
A2 - Sevelsted, Anders
A2 - Toubøl, Jonas
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -