Overview
- First book of its kind to provide an extensive empirical analysis of the US antislavery movement by a sociologist since Michael P. Young’s Bearing Witness Against Sin
- Proposes a new theory of protest rhetoric
- Provides a compelling reappraisal of anger as a moral emotion used in collective action
Part of the book series: Cultural Sociology (CULTSOC)
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About this book
This book is an original application of rhetoric and moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural sociology, this work draws upon the social psychology of human emotion and interpersonal communication. Specifically, the book revolves around the topic of anger as a unique moral emotion that can be made to play crucial motivational and generative functions in protest. The chapters develop a new theory of the emotional power of protest rhetoric, including how abolitionist performances of heterodoxic racial and gender status imaginaries contributed to the escalation of the ‘sectional conflict’ over American slavery.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Moral Emotions in Social Movements
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Emotional Inequalities of Protest
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Affect Matters
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Benjamin Lamb-Books received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He is an invited contributor to the second edition of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, and his previous writings have appeared in Social Movement Studies and Thesis Eleven.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery
Book Subtitle: Moral Emotions in Social Movements
Authors: Benjamin Lamb-Books
Series Title: Cultural Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31346-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31345-0Published: 02 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81017-1Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31346-7Published: 03 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 275
Topics: Political Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture