dc.contributor.advisor | Lo, Clarence Y. H. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Hern, Lindy S. F. | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2012 Spring | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on August 29, 2012). | eng |
dc.description | The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Dissertation advisor: Dr. Clarence Lo | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.description | Vita. | eng |
dc.description | Ph. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2012 | eng |
dc.description | "May 2012" | eng |
dc.description.abstract | In this dissertation, I analyze over twenty years of the United States Single Payer Movement. I began this analysis with the following questions in mind -- What is the Relationship between opportunity and grassroots mobilization? How do activists understand opportunity? What is the role of narrative in this process? I grounded my analysis in a feminist epistemological and methodological stance, which is rooted in the understanding that all knowledge is located and that we can learn much by privileging the voices from marginalized positions. This research involved participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and content analysis. This research has resulted in a significant contribution to social movement theory by further explicating the relationship between opportunity and grassroots opportunity. I argue that social movement actors develop understandings about the opportunities that they face through the practice of narrative. This narrative practice is an integral aspect in the process of pragmatic liberation, or the practice of liberation, through which social movement actors seek to empower themselves and a wider audience of constituents. Even during time periods in which there is less political likelihood that the movement will achieve its goals, movement activists are able to mobilize constituencies by constructing narratives of opportunity outside of the material realm. A more diverse system of narrative practice that is rooted in multiple types of opportunity facilitates greater diversity in movement mobilization. | eng |
dc.description.bibref | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.format.extent | xiii, 348 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.oclc | 872568962 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/14998 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/14998 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject | social movement | eng |
dc.subject | health care reform | eng |
dc.subject | single payer | eng |
dc.subject | pragmatic liberation | eng |
dc.subject | narrative practice | eng |
dc.title | Everybody in and nobody out : opportunities, narrative, and the radical flank in the movement for single-payer health care reform | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Sociology (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | eng |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | eng |