The Power of Morality in Movements : Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy

Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the form of the moral foundations of movement claims, politics and ideologies, the values motivating participation, the new moral principles envisioned and practiced among movement participants, or the overall struggle over society’s moral values that movements engage in.

1. Introduction: movements and morality.- 2. Paradigm lost? Three dimensions of morality and social movements.- 3. Bringing morality back in.- 4. Solidarity mobilizations in the "refugee crisis": Between particularism and universalism.- 5. Values, activism, and changing attitudes: The process of individual-level moral development through movement participation.- 6. For a better living-together: Ongoing meaningful conversations at play.- 7. Justification, values or concerns? Pragmatist theories of morality and civic engagements in local urban greenspaces.- 8. Social movements prefiguring political theory.- 9. The ethics of radical student activism: Social justice, democracy, and engagement across difference.- 10. Moral elites in the Danish temperance movement (1910-1919): Elite struggles over disease and values.- 11. The dark side of laughter. Humor as a tool for constructing a moral order in the memes of Czech far right organization "Angry Mothers".- 12. Emotions, morality, and political participation behaviors in online activism.- 13. The moral dimension of counter movements: the case of antifeminism.- 14. Paradigm revived? The prospect of a multidisciplinary research agenda.