This article shows how a social movement organization focused on microcredit loans is able to mobilize a community against its own cultural practice of witch-hunts. Successful mobilization against witch-hunts are possible when two conditions are met: first, when activists are able to tap into microcredit groups' social capacity for collective mobilization (defined by ties of mutual dependence, reciprocity, and friendship); and second, when activists are able to use strategic framing to present a coherent argument about the congruence of microcredit and anti-witch-hunt goals. In this context a master frame (women's development) emerged that effectively forged the seemingly disparate goals of microcredit loans and anti-witch-hunt campaigns into one synthetic movement. In contrast, successful mobilization against witch-hunts was difficult in areas where the activists did not have access to the microcredit networks or were not able to strategically frame the campaign.
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1 June 2012
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July 10 2012
Strategic Framing Work(s): How Microcredit Loans Facilitate Anti-Witch-Hunt Movements
Anuradha Chakravarty;
Anuradha Chakravarty
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Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia
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Soma Chaudhuri
Soma Chaudhuri
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Department of Sociology and School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
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Mobilization: An International Quarterly (2012) 17 (2): 175–194.
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Anuradha Chakravarty, Soma Chaudhuri; Strategic Framing Work(s): How Microcredit Loans Facilitate Anti-Witch-Hunt Movements. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 June 2012; 17 (2): 175–194. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.17.2.f54x1h0622750028
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