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Fighting racism, battling burnout: causes of activist burnout in US racial justice activists
Ist Teil von
Ethnic and racial studies, 2019-04, Vol.42 (5), p.667-687
Ort / Verlag
London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Social movement scholars have identified activist burnout - when the accumulation of stressors associated with activism become so overwhelming they compromise activists' persistence in their activism - as a threat to movement viability. This phenomenological study on the causes of burnout among racial justice activists in the United States was designed to bolster understandings of burnout and inform strategies for sustaining racial justice movements. Thirty racial justice activists who had experienced burnout were interviewed. They described four primary burnout causes: emotional-dispositional causes, structural causes, backlash causes, and in-movement causes. Implications for activist and movement sustainability are discussed.