Social Movements and Protest

Höfundur: Gemma Edwards (Útgáfa: 1)
Social Movements and Protest

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This lively textbook integrates theory and methodology into the study of social movements, and includes contemporary case studies to engage students and encourage them to apply theories critically. A wide range of protest cases are explored, from American, European and global arenas, including contemporary examples of political violence and terrorism, alter-globalisation, social networking and global activism.

Key chapter features encourage students to engage critically with the material: method points uncover the methodology behind the theories, helping students to understand the larger study of social movements; debate points highlight classic arguments in social movement studies, encouraging students to critically assess theoretical approaches; and case studies connect theories to cases, allowing students to relate key principles to real-world examples.

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Útgefandi
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781107722460
Print ISBN
9780521196369
Format
Page Fidelity (PDF)
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Gemma Edwards
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2014-01-09
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10
Prent takmörkun
5
Afritunar takmörkun
5

Kaflar

  • Halftitle
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction: conceptualizing social movements
  • Social movement studies
  • Challenging conceptual distinctions
  • Main arguments
  • Useful features
  • 2 From the mad to the sane: collective behaviour and its critics
  • Herbert Blumer’s approach to understanding collective behaviour
  • The role of social problems
  • Social unrest
  • The crowd
  • Social movements
  • Blumer assessed
  • Neil Smelser’s approach to understanding collective behaviour
  • Structural strains
  • Generalized beliefs
  • A general model of collective behaviour
  • Smelser assessed
  • Summary
  • Discussion Point
  • Further reading
  • 3 From the rational to the relational: resource mobilization, organization, and social movement netw
  • Resource mobilization theory (RMT)
  • Rational action theory (RAT)
  • Protest and social movements as ‘rational action’
  • The ‘collective action problem’
  • Participation in collective action
  • External elites and movement entrepreneurs
  • Professional SMOs
  • The dynamics of social movement organizations (SMOs)
  • Public opinion and the media
  • SMOs assessed
  • Social movements as ‘networks’
  • Interpersonal ties
  • Analysing social movement networks
  • Networks assessed: the relational logic of collective action
  • Summary
  • Discussion Point
  • Further reading
  • 4 From political processes to cultural processes: political opportunity, frames, and contentious pol
  • Political process theory (PPT)
  • A world of political opportunity (and threat)
  • The centrality of the nation state
  • Political opportunity structure
  • PPT assessed
  • The world of symbolic meaning: constructionist approaches to social movements
  • Frames
  • The media and framing
  • Narrative and dramaturgy
  • Framing and the political process model assessed
  • Contentious politics (CP): developments in PPT
  • Summary
  • Discussion Point
  • Further reading
  • 5 From old to new social movements: capitalism, culture, and the reinvention of everyday life
  • The background to NSM theory: class-based social movements
  • Class struggle
  • Out with the old
  • In with the new
  • An analytical approach to social movements
  • Jürgen Habermas: NSMs as defensive reactions to the ‘colonization of the lifeworld’
  • From capital/labour conflicts to system/lifeworld conflicts
  • Habermas assessed
  • Alain Touraine: NSMs as a struggle over ‘historicity’
  • The struggle over ‘historicity’
  • Touraine assessed
  • Alberto Melucci: NSMs as the creation of new collective identities
  • Collective identity
  • Melucci assessed
  • Class struggle and cultural struggle
  • Summary
  • Discussion Point
  • Further reading
  • 6 From national to global social movements: network movements, alternative globalization, and new me
  • Global social movement processes and mechanisms
  • Environmental mechanisms – changing external influences on social movements
  • relational mechanisms – changing connections among people, groups, and interpersonal networks
  • Cognitive mechanisms – changing alterations of individual and collective perceptions
  • The alternative globalization movement (AGM)
  • Environmental mechanisms: contesting global governance
  • AGM environmental mechanisms assessed
  • relational mechanisms: a network movement of the information age
  • AGM relational mechanisms assessed
  • Identity-shift: a struggle against ‘neoliberalism’
  • AGM cognitive mechanisms assessed
  • Summary
  • Discussion Point
  • Further reading
  • 7 From the pretty to the ugly: terrorism, social movement theory, and covert networks
  • What is ‘terrorism’?
  • Why social movements adopt terrorist tactics
  • Political opportunities and interactions with state authority
  • Organizational splits, radical factions, and countermovements
  • Resource mobilization theory and political process theory approaches to terrorism assessed
  • Globalization and international terrorism
  • Globalization approaches assessed
  • Covert social movement networks
  • Summary
  • Discussion Point
  • Further reading
  • 8 From collective behaviour to misbehaviour: redrawing the boundaries of political and cultural resi
  • The concept of misbehaviour
  • Misbehaviour in context
  • The everyday troublemaker
  • Summary
  • Discussion Point
  • Further reading
  • 9 Conclusion: the shifting terrain of social movements studies
  • The problem with general theories
  • A relational understanding of social movements
  • A relational logic of collective action
  • A relational understanding of the world around a social movement
  • A relational understanding of culture and emotion
  • New cases, new contexts: challenges to existing conceptualizations
  • Closing thought
  • Bibliography
  • Index