Staying a deviant performer: Observations on identity-management in a radical environmental activist group
(2025) SOCK10 20251Sociology
- Abstract
- In the face of a potential oncoming environmental collapse,
in a time of increasing climate anxiety and activist
disillusionment towards previous environmental efforts, I
look at how a radical environmental activist group becomes
and stays radical. By combining deviant and dramaturgical
perspectives on social movements with Goffman’s classic
work "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life", I seek to answer
how deviance comes to affect the performance of a radical
environmental activist group. I work abductively through
in-person and digital observations gathering empirical data
for analysis while evaluating my findings and theory. With
this data I present a contemporary radical environmental
activist group and analyze its ways... (More) - In the face of a potential oncoming environmental collapse,
in a time of increasing climate anxiety and activist
disillusionment towards previous environmental efforts, I
look at how a radical environmental activist group becomes
and stays radical. By combining deviant and dramaturgical
perspectives on social movements with Goffman’s classic
work "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life", I seek to answer
how deviance comes to affect the performance of a radical
environmental activist group. I work abductively through
in-person and digital observations gathering empirical data
for analysis while evaluating my findings and theory. With
this data I present a contemporary radical environmental
activist group and analyze its ways of managing deviance
through performance, presented via Excerpt Commentary
Units. I find that deviance is used to facilitate certain
mobilizing collective action frames, narratives, and
performances. However, deviance must be carefully
managed to stop it from affecting the group’s identity and
performance negatively. Further to this, deviance may come
to define the group member’s identity, body, and self-
conception if they seek to stay radical and deviant in the
group. (Less)
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- author
- Widerberg, Martin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOCK10 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Deviance, Performance, Dramaturgical, Social Movement, Frame Analysis
- language
- English
- id
- 9196472
- date added to LUP
- 2025-06-17 08:59:26
- date last changed
- 2025-06-17 08:59:26
@misc{9196472, abstract = {{In the face of a potential oncoming environmental collapse, in a time of increasing climate anxiety and activist disillusionment towards previous environmental efforts, I look at how a radical environmental activist group becomes and stays radical. By combining deviant and dramaturgical perspectives on social movements with Goffman’s classic work "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life", I seek to answer how deviance comes to affect the performance of a radical environmental activist group. I work abductively through in-person and digital observations gathering empirical data for analysis while evaluating my findings and theory. With this data I present a contemporary radical environmental activist group and analyze its ways of managing deviance through performance, presented via Excerpt Commentary Units. I find that deviance is used to facilitate certain mobilizing collective action frames, narratives, and performances. However, deviance must be carefully managed to stop it from affecting the group’s identity and performance negatively. Further to this, deviance may come to define the group member’s identity, body, and self- conception if they seek to stay radical and deviant in the group.}}, author = {{Widerberg, Martin}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Staying a deviant performer: Observations on identity-management in a radical environmental activist group}}, year = {{2025}}, }