Chapter 7 Individuals and Structures
1 Introduction
The people who make social movements are connected in various ways with larger economic, political, cultural, and religious structures, in which they are embedded and which they seek to change. Various institutions enable and constrain activism, and people must negotiate relations with them as well as with the other people within them. They do so through individual and collective practices that connect different scales and mediate structural changes. In this chapter, I look at the different scales and types of institutions, structures, and communities in which social movement activists are entangled.
I frame these different structures in terms of concentric circles, beginning with the smallest, ...
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