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Resources used in the 2009 Iranian Election Protests

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

The 2009 Iranian election protests used moral, cultural, socio-organizational, human, and material resources in order to sustain the movement. Edwards and McCarth explain that there are various resources that social movements benefit from: 1) moral; 2) cultural; 3) socio-organizational; 4) human; and, 5) material.
Moral resources can provide legitimacy, solidarity support, sympathetic support, and celebrity (125).  [...]

Social Movement Mobilization

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

In Resources and Social Movement Mobilization, Bob Edwards and John McCarthy explain the importance of resource mobilization for social movements.  The authors believe that increased access to movements increase the likelihood of social movements to occur.  They see that there is a resource inequality among movements (118) but proclaim that resources must be redistributed by [...]