... animal advocacy, compared to past decades. The great importance assumed by personal action frames and repertoires of contention emerged as characterizing elements. Activism is always more individual and less related to collective organizations: the central role of veganism and of the internet as protest...

...Nikolaos Karfakis; George Kokkinidis Furthermore, Rose’s (1999) and Dean’s (1995) governmentality-based works on “responsibilization” and the government of unemployment provide us with useful conceptual tools for examining individualization and guilt as they address the widespread trend...

...Joo Ean Tan; Gideon Sjoberg Among the master social processes occurring in the modern world have been increased individualization, on the one hand, and the growth of largescale organizations, on the other. Unlike most scholars, who emphasize either one or the other, we focus attention upon certain...