ISBN:
9780762313181
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (331 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
DDC:
303.484
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Careful readers of this volume are likely to conclude that it is an uncommonly strong collection of theoretically rich and data-driven papers which address a series of interrelated questions that are at the forefront of today's social movement scholarship. For example, political opportunity theory has been justly criticized for privileging structure over agency, politics over culture, and for failing to adequately specify how political opportunities differ for social movements in democracies vs. in non-democracies. In this volume, political opportunity theory receives careful, empirically-info
Description / Table of Contents:
Front cover; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland; Chapter 1. From Civil War to Civil Rights and Back Again: The Interrelation of Rebellion and Protest in Northern Ireland, 1955-1972; Chapter 2. Social Movement Participation and the ''Timing'' of Involvement: The Case of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement; Chapter 3. Police Knowledge Revised: Insights from the Policing of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Political Opportunities and Political CulturesChapter 4. Rethinking Nonviolent Action and Contentious Politics: Political Cultures of Nonviolent Opposition in the Indian Independence Movement and Brazil's Landless Workers Movement; Chapter 5. A Long, Hard Slog: Political Opportunities, Social Networks and the Mobilization of Dissent in Non-Democracies; Chapter 6. Strategic Women, Elite Advocacy and Insider Strategies: The Women's Movement and Constitutional Reform in Wales; Part III: Identities, Ideologies, and Social Movement Participation
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7. Ideology, Organization, and Biography: The Cultural Construction of Identity Talk Among Progressive Activists in Hartford, ConnecticutChapter 8. Art and Identity in Mexican and Chicano Social Movements; Chapter 9. New Frontiers for Identity Politics? The Potential and Pitfalls of Patient and Civic Identity in the Dutch Patients' Health Movement; Chapter 10. Paths to Participation: A Profile of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan; About the Authors;
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