Opportunity, honor, and action in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943
Macrolevel theories of social movement emergence posit that political opportunity "opens the door" for collective action. This article uses the case of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to show that collective action need not always require opportunity. Warsaw Jews' armed resistance was a re...
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| description | Macrolevel theories of social movement emergence posit that political opportunity "opens the door" for collective action. This article uses the case of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to show that collective action need not always require opportunity. Warsaw Jews' armed resistance was a response not to opportunity but to a lack thereof. Equally important was a strong sense of honor among the ghetto fighters: the hopelessness of their situation helped construct a motivational frame that equated resistance with honor and made collective resistance possible. This case therefore illustrates how framing processes can mediate structural conditions to produce collective action in the absence of opportunity. It also points to the need for additional research on protest and resistance in nondemocratic settings. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] |
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