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Social Movements

Staggenborg, Suzanne. Social Movements. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Why this matters here

Suzanne Staggenborg’s Social Movements surveys how movements form coalitions, manage competing interests, and sustain collective action over time. Trust Beyond Similarity uses that coalition literature for how difference creates friction before learning—patience sounding like erasure, urgency like recklessness, feasibility warnings like betrayal. Staggenborg maps movement dynamics; the book asks why the right people and named values still fail when trust cannot hold disagreement.