Series Editors:
Bert Klandermans and David S. Meyer
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention
The world has changed dramatically since 1989. In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, an empire has crumbled, and new social movements have emerged to join those that endure from the past. In China and other parts of Asia, as well as in Africa and Latin America, democracy movements replace, reform, or threaten established regimes. In the United States and Western Europe, a wave of more violent racial and ethnic movements has appeared. Meanwhile, social movements of the 1970s and 1980s (the women’s movement, the peace movement, the environmental movement, and the GLBT movement) enter new stages of activism and face contemporary challenges. Participation in all these movements, from international to local levels, is constantly affected by globalization, technology, and rapidly evolving communication networks. Social Movements, Protest, and Contention reflects these changes and continuities in dynamic social movements as well as recent trends toward interdisciplinary study of such movements. Coalescing the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists, and political psychologists, the books in the series represent research of the highest quality that incorporates comparative, longitudinal, and historical approaches.
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Books in this Series
Civil Resistance
A much-needed cross-disciplinary survey of the most recent scholarship on nonviolent resistance
Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe
Brings social movement studies and research on populist parties into productive dialogue
Fighting for Peace
The story of the “military peace movement” that opposed the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
The Future of Social Movement Research
An up-to-date and comprehensive overview of current and future social movement scholarship
Out in Africa
The first insider’s view of contemporary LGBT rights activism in Namibia and South Africa
Between Feminism and Islam
How feminists and Islamists have constituted each other’s agendas in Morocco
Fighting for the Future of Food
How activists changed the trajectory of the new agricultural biotechnologies
Strategic Alliances
The best current thinking on the conditions leading to successful activist coalitions
How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism
An unexpected analysis of the battle between opposing activist movements
Identity Work in Social Movements
Examines how sameness and difference are negotiated within social movements
Organizing Urban America
Examines the strategies of the most successful and racially diverse community organizations
Unraveling the Garment Industry
The consequences—both positive and negative—of consumer boycotts of sweatshop labor.
Changing Corporate America from Inside Out
Investigates how gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have succeeded in securing equitable benefits
Solidarity and Contention
Offers an innovative model for understanding how social movements occur in repressive societies
Methods of Social Movement Research
The definitive guide to conducting research in this dynamic field.
Restructuring World Politics
A comprehensive look at the global movements that are transforming international relations
Self, Identity, and Social Movements
A ground-breaking look at the social psychology of political movements.
Geography and Social Movements
A comparative analysis of the implications of space, place, and scale in political mobilization.
Liberation and Democratization
The first comprehensive comparison of two of the century’s most important liberation movements.
New Social Movements in Western Europe
Explores the ecology, gay rights, peace, and women’s movements in Western Europe.
Social Movements and Culture
Reflecting the recent surge of interest in culture, this volume brings together top researchers in the field of social movements whose work represents the major approaches to movement analysis from a cultural perspective. The contributors address such issues as approaches to culture; how movements are affected by the culture of the larger society in which they act; and the internal cultures of these movements.
Contributors include Michael Billig, Rick Fantasia, Gary Alan Fine, William A. Gamson, Eric Hirsch, Jane Jenson, John Lofland, Alberto Melucci, Ann Swidler, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier.
The Politics of Social Protest
Bringing together celebrated scholars from diverse traditions and backgrounds, this volume focuses on the reciprocal relationships among social movements, states, and political parties. The essays are organized around three key questions: Why do citizens resort to the often risky and demanding strategy of using disruptive protest when other channels of political intervention appear to be available? What is the relationship between social protest movements and systems of political representation? And what is the impact of the structure and development of the state on social movements themselves?
Contributors include Ronald Aminzade, Paul Burstein, Russell J. Dalton, Donatella della Porta, Henry Dietz, Rachel L. Einwohner, Steven E. Finkel, Jerrold D. Green, Jocelyn Hollander, Hanspeter Kriesi, Diarmuid Maguire, Bronislaw Misztal, Edward N. Muller, Michael Nollert, Karl-Dieter Opp, Dieter Rucht, Michael Wallace, and Gadi Wolfsfeld.
A Century of Revolution
Provides insight into the political currents that led to the Iranian revolution.
Ecopopulism
This book reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste, following the issue as it moves from the world of "official" policymaking in Washington, onto the nation's television screens and into popular consciousness, and then into America's neighborhoods, spurring the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. Szasz shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides. In its success, Szasz suggests, this movement may even prove to be the vehicle for reinvigorating progressive politics in the United States.
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