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Frames of Protest: Social Movements and the Framing Perspective, edited by Hank Johnston and John A. Noakes. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 269 pp. $32.95 paper. ISBN: 0742538079.
This edited collection on the development of frame analysis in social movement research accomplishes two main tasks. First, it offers various examples of empirical research on frame analysis on cases of protest ranging from the U.S. woman suffrage movement at the turn of the last century (Lyndi Hewitt and Holly J. Cammon) to the gay liberation movement of the late 1960s-early1970s (Stephen Valocchi), the Mexican neighborhood (barrios) movement (Jorge Cadena-Roa), the protest in pre-democratization Poland (Padraic Kenney) and the Puerto Rican associations active in New York Lower East Side (Cathy Schneider). Additionally, it analyzes the framing activities of non-movement actors: from the FBI addressing the "Communist threat" in Hollywood to the Belgian newspapers constructing the White March (Stefaan Walgrave and Jan Manssens). Second, and more ambitiously, various contributions to this volume aim at reviewing the vast literature referring to the framing perspectives in social movements, singling out its limits and suggesting further developments. Some of the main foci of the discussion refers to the conceptual ambivalence of the frame concept versus a similar one, in particular that of ideology (discussed in the...