Social movements convert existing cultural frames into local meanings enabling organized violence
Evidence
Similarly, in this century, states lacking democratic traditions, such as former colonies and former Soviet states, are the nexus of attempts to ethnically cleanse and eradicate civic and ethnic rivals (Brubaker & Laitin, 1998; Giugni, 1998). This suggests some link between individually based democratic values and reduced risk of in tergroup violence and between group-based values and worldviews focused on ethnicity and increased risk of such violence. What is the connection between individual-democratic and group-ethnic worldviews and the risk of organized bloodshed? In the current chapter, we propose that at least part of the answer lies in the ways social movements capitalize on existing cul tural frames to create local meanings conducive to organized violence against out-groups. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1005
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: how movements weaponize pre-existing cultural frames to manufacture local permission for bloodshed — a frame-selection-installation mechanism piece.
- XREF: Bridges the inclusion/exclusion subgroup mechanism to the envious-outgroup scapegoating target: both run on frames marking who is inside and who is a threat. — connects to: Brazilian punk evolved from violent resistance to organized left-wing politics across two decades — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 128; Social movement frames are leadership-produced worldviews that give activists ideological context. — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 33; Social movements meet individual uniqueness and belonging needs but can become organized violence. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1099
Broader Connections
- Social movements meet individual uniqueness and belonging needs but can become organized violence.
#expands(0.85) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1099