MRAP Public Resources
For general queries and announcements regarding MRAP, please visit our blog. Listed below are publications and website links of interest.
MRAP:
Bridging the Academic / Activist Divide
Description: A simulation workshop presented at the ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements at Hofstra in 2007.
William A. Gamson:
Description: A simulation game intended as a tool for the global justice movement to use in training activists and for critical pedagogy in teaching undergraduate courses on globalization issues.
William A. Gamson and Charlotte Ryan:
Thinking about Elephants: Toward a Dialogue with George Lakoff
Description: An article by William A. Gamson and Charlotte Ryan in The Public Eye Magazine.
Michelle Gawerc:
Peace-building: Theoretical and Concrete Perspectives
Description: This paper presents a comprehensive review of the conflict resolution and peace-building literature focused on the issues involved in assessing the impact of peacemaking and peace-building through people-to-people contact.
Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia:
Star Wars Galaxies and the Division of Labor
Description: An exploration of the socialization process and organic solidarity between clan members in the popular massively multiplayer online game Star Wars Galaxies (.pdf document format).
Charlotte Ryan and William A. Gamson:
The Art of Reframing Political Debates
Description: An article by Charlotte Ryan and William A. Gamson in Contexts.
Charlotte Ryan, Mike Anastario, and Alfredo DaCunha:
Description: An article by Charlotte Ryan, Mike Anastario, and Alfredo DaCunha in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Charlotte Ryan and Samuel Alexander:
“Reframing” the Presentation of Environemental Law and Policy
Description: An article by Charlotte Ryan and Samuel Alexander in Environmental Affairs.
Charlotte Ryan, Michael Anastario, and Karen Jeffreys:
Start Small, Build Big: Negotioating Opportunities In Media Markets
Description: An article by Charlotte Ryan, Michael Anastario, and Karen Jeffreys in Mobilization.
Books:
- Eitan Alimi, Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada
- David Croteau, William Hoynes, and Charlotte Ryan, Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social Movement Scholarship
- Myra Marx Feree, William Anthony Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht, Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States
- William A. Gamson, Talking Politics
- Charlotte Ryan, Prime Time Activism: Media Strategies for Grassroots Organizing
- Betsy Leondar-Wright, Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle Class Activists
Working Papers:
- Charlotte Ryan, Participatory Communication for Social Change
