Social Scholars Have Identified Activist Burnout--When the Accumulation of Stressors

Social 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 social movement viability. This 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 described four primary burnout causes: emotional-dispositional causes, structural causes, backlash causes, and in-movement causes.
Adapted from Gorski, P.C. (2019). Fighting racism, battling burnout: Causes of activist burnout in US racial justice activists. Ethnic & Racial Studies, 42, 667-687. https://doi-org.mantis.csuchico.edu/10.1080/01419870.2018.1439981
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