Moving Politics

Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS

By: Deborah B. Gould

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Paperback | 1 December 2009 | Edition Number 1

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In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more-even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author's time as a member of the organization, Moving Politics is the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion.

Surprisingly overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP's provocative style of protest, which included raucous demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of street theater. Detailing the movement's public triumphs and private setbacks, Moving Politics is the definitive account of ACT UP's origin, development, and decline as well as a searching look at the role of emotion in contentious politics.

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"Moving Politics is not just a rich and rigorous history of ACT UP. It is also that rarest of works: one that simultaneously breaks new empirical ground while challenging our more general conceptual understanding of the subject matter. Quite simply, it will be hard for social movement scholars following Gould to ignore the emotional dimensions and dynamics of struggle." - Doug McAdam, Stanford University"

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Why Emotion?	p. 1
The Affects and Emotions of Mobilization	p. 49
Pride and Its Sisters in Early AIDS Activism	p. 55
A Shifting Emotional Habitus and the Emergence of the Direct-Action AIDS Movement	p. 121
Activism as World-Making	p. 177
The Pleasures and Intensities of Activism; or, Making a Place for Yourself in the Universe	p. 181
The Emotion Work of Movements	p. 213
The Feelings of Decline	p. 267
Openings and Movement Decline	p. 273
Solidarity and Its Fracturing	p. 328
Despairing	p. 395
Conclusion: Moving Politics	p. 439
Appendix: Lesbian and Gay Newspapers	p. 445
Glossary with Notes on Terms	p. 449
References	p. 453
Index	p. 495
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