This topical book explores the phenomenon of when and why people protest. Based on social and political psychology, the book takes a comparative approach across and within cultures and examines how human motivation and political and cultural contexts affect protests.
Showcasing state-of-the-art chapters from a new generation of social protest researchers, the book offers an overview of research into contemporary social change over the last decade. It draws on interdisciplinary research from social and political psychology across and within cultures to increase the scope of the phenomenon of social protest. The chapters feature different international examples and discuss diverse manifestations of social protest. Each chapter explicitly connects key insights to the practice and real-life relevance of social protest.
The book offers a unique perspective of the when and why of social protest, and will be essential reading for students and academics in the fields of social psychology, political psychology, politics, and sociology, as well as anyone in behavioural and social sciences interested in social movements, social protest, and social change.
This topical book explores the phenomenon of when and why people protest. Based in social and political psychology, the book takes a comparative approach across cultures and examines how human motivation and political and cultural contexts affects protests.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1:
An Introduction to This Volume: Motivations for Social Protest and the
Contexts in Which They Are Embedded
Martijn van Zomeren
Section I: Motivations across Contexts
Chapter 2:
Engaging in the Struggle for Justice: Morality as an Essential Driving Force
of Social Protest.
Marcos Dono, Mónica Alzate and José Manuel Sabucedo
Chapter 3:
Malleability and Change Motivation Beliefs in Social Protest (versus
Conflict Resolution)
Smadar Cohen-Chen
Chapter 4:
Examining Nostalgias Potential to Increase Solidarity-Based Protest against
Ageism:
The Case of Age Demands Action
Inga Pauls*, Karolina Urbanska*, Martijn van Zomeren*, Keragan Cavolo, Medhi
Marot, Tim Wildschut and Constantine Sedikides
Chapter 5:
Environmental Collective Action in Germany and Beyond: An Opportunity to
Extend Theory and Practice
Karen Hamann, Sophia Dasch, and Anna-Sophie von Agris
Chapter 6:
A Unique Motivational Profile for Activists? Towards a More Comprehensive
Social Identity Model of Collective Action
Ruthie Pliskin, Frederik Wermser, Eran Halperin and Martijn van Zomeren
Section 2: Motivations within Contexts
Chapter 7:
Toward System Change, But in Opposite Directions: The
Reactionary-Progressive Tension in Italy
Valeria De Cristofaro & Valerio Pellegrini
Chapter 8:
Opre, Roma!: Discrimination, Misrecognition and Indifference as Challenges
for Roma Activism and Allyship
Barbara Lįticovį, Judit Ignįcz, and Anna Kende
Chapter 9:
The Power in Numbers (PIN) Hypothesis: How Common Ingroup Identities
Motivate Collective Action Among Groups that Face Violent Existential
Threats
Huseyin Cakal, Faris Nadhmi, Abha Chauhan, Zafer Özkan, John Dixon and
Martijn van Zomeren
Chapter 10:
Why They (Do Not) Protest: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective on
Collective Action in Palestine
Siwar Hasan-Aslih & Sandra Peni
Chapter 11:
Social Protest in Chile: Moralization of Attitudes Through Politicization of
Social Movement Identity
Ana Leal, Belén Įlvarez, and Roberto Gonzįlez
Conclusion
Chapter 12:
Toward an Integrative Social and Political Psychology of Social Protest
Within and Across Cultures
Martijn van Zomeren
Martijn van Zomeren is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He holds a chair in the political and cultural psychology of social relationships. His research interests fall broadly in the domain of human motivation and social behavior, and he is well known for his integrative theoretical and empirical work on core motivations for social protest.
