Understanding allies’ participation in social change: A multiple perspectives approach

Kutlaca, Maja; Radke, Helena R.M.; Iyer, Aarti; Becker, Julia C.

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2720

Understanding allies’ participation in social change: A multiple perspectives approach

Kutlaca, Maja; Radke, Helena R.M.; Iyer, Aarti; Becker, Julia C.

Authors

Dr Maja Kutlaca maja.kutlaca@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor

Helena R.M. Radke

Aarti Iyer

Julia C. Becker

Abstract

The introduction to the EJSP special issue brings together recent literature on allyship. We present and discuss different definitions of allyship and highlight a multiple perspectives approach to understanding the predictors and consequences of allyship. This approach suggests that engagement in allyship can be driven by egalitarian and non‐egalitarian motivations and that the behaviours identified as allyship can have different meanings, causes and consequences depending on whether researchers take into account the allies’ perspective or the disadvantaged groups’ perspective. We use this approach as an organizing principle to identify themes that emerge in the papers included in this special issue. We start with four papers that consider the perspective of the advantaged group, followed by two papers that consider the perspective of the disadvantaged group. Finally, we introduce two theoretical papers that examine the relations between disadvantaged groups and allies, and we set out directions for future research.

Citation

Kutlaca, M., Radke, H. R., Iyer, A., & Becker, J. C. (2020). Understanding allies’ participation in social change: A multiple perspectives approach. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(6), 1248-1258. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2720

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Nov 27, 2020
Publication Date	2020-10
Deposit Date	Feb 5, 2021
Publicly Available Date	Nov 27, 2021
Journal	European Journal of Social Psychology
Print ISSN	0046-2772
Electronic ISSN	1099-0992
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	50
Issue	6
Pages	1248-1258
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2720

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kutlaca, Maja, Radke, Helena R. M., Iyer, Aarti & Becker, Julia C. (2020). Understanding allies’ participation in social change: A multiple perspectives approach. European Journal of Social Psychology 50(6): 1248-1258., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2720. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.