Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the 'battle of Seattle.' The volume illuminates the reciprocal effects between globalization processes and social movements.
Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people en...
Recent events have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics. With case studies that range from Germany to Guatemala, the authors take up topics as varied as the dynamic interactions between protesters and policing agents, distinctions between "hard" and "soft" repression, the impact of media on our understanding of political contention, the timing and shape of protest and resistance cycles, and how measurements of social and geographic control influence states' responses to insurgencies. Together these essays synthesize what we know about repression and...
Recent events have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics. With case studies that range from Germany to Guatem...
In was the summer of 2001 when political scientists and sociologists gathered at the University of Virginia to present new information and assess the status of study about political mobilization and political repression. The 10 papers presented and printed here focus on interactions between protesters and police; case studies come from Germany, the
In was the summer of 2001 when political scientists and sociologists gathered at the University of Virginia to present new information and assess the ...
Cultural changes have led to a proliferation of new social movements in Europe and the United States. This book helps to redefine the field of social movements, and offer an understanding of them through cross-cultural research, comparison with older movements, and examine the dimensions of identity individual, collective, and melding of the two.
Cultural changes have led to a proliferation of new social movements in Europe and the United States. This book helps to redefine the field of social ...
Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and culture. Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and Islamic fundamentalism are all movements with far-reaching impacts on contemporary society.
What is a Social Movement? traces how the study of movements such as these - of their structures, their ideas, and their repertoires of protest - have grown in recent years to become a major focus in the social sciences. It deftly...
Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, toda...
