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Green Activism in Post-Socialist Europe and the former Soviet Union

The first section of the volume provides the theoretical foundation for the proceeding sections. The theoretical essays are must-reads for any scholar or student interested in the analytic underpinnings of strategic decision-making and movements. From ‘Thinking about Strategy’ by David Meyer and Suzanne Staggenborg to Francesca Polletta’s essay ‘Three Mechanisms by Which Culture Shapes Movement Strategy: Repertoires, Institutional Norms, and Metonymy’ within which the three aforementioned mechanisms illuminate how culture shapes movement strategy to James Jasper’s ‘Choice Points, Emotional Batteries, and Other Ways to Find Strategic Agency at the Microlevel’, the three essays provide highly useful tools in developing a theoretical backdrop that supports the frame of the more empirically grounded essays found there as well as for future scholarship. The choice of the volume’s editors to highlight ‘Activist Engagement and Movement-Relevant Research’ as the second section of the collection demonstrates the commitment to generating social movement analysis grounded in activist–scholar collaboration. The third and fourth sections of the volume focus on the beginnings or formations of strategy to the consequences of strategic decision-making for movements. The organization of each section provides an elegant presentation of strategic decision-making at different moments of movement existence drawn from a myriad of individual case studies: from the Climate Action Network (Aunio) to Midwestern-based human rights engagement (Smith) to identity as strategic for victims of childhood sexual abuse (Whittier) to civil rights mobilization in Northern Ireland (Maney) to social movements as corporate organizations (Robnett and Alabi) to Indian and Brazilian land struggles (Schock), Christian right mobilization in Canada and the USA (Fetner and Sanders), and Swedish and British Plowshares movements (Nepstad and Vinthagen). In its entirety the volume brings together rigorous scholarship and movement voices to provide scholars and activists of movements a currently unmatched resource for theoretical discussion and case studies on movement strategy.