Despite the explosion of social movement research in Europe and the US in the last 20 years, the question of leadership has been relatively neglected. This probing examination of the theory and practice of social movement leadership critically re-examines a series of classic cases. The essays illuminate the complex dynamics and competing forms taken by social movement leadership as well as its impact on movement successes and failures.
Despite the explosion of social movement research in Europe and the US in the last 20 years, the question of leadership has been relatively neglected....
Marxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social-movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of social movements. Exploring struggles on six continents over 150 years, it sets a new agenda both for Marxist theory and for movement research.
Marxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social-movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The ...
Nick, an astronomy graduate student, dies in a laboratory fire in what is later shown to be murder. He had stumbled on alien signal coming from Europa as a series of on-off methane pulses that formed a digital signal. Because of his stormy relationship with his arrogant professor, Nick had not acknowledged that there were previous signals he'd recorded, but the geology professor Candrew Nor is able to get a copy of this early part of the message, although he can't at first decode the pages of arcane numbers. Candrew's search for Nick's murderer is complicated by the international importance...
Nick, an astronomy graduate student, dies in a laboratory fire in what is later shown to be murder. He had stumbled on alien signal coming from Europa...
