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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459232803321

Autore

Tarrow Sidney G.

Titolo

Power in movement : social movements and contentious politics / / Sidney G. Tarrow [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-21522-6

1-139-01238-X

1-283-01598-6

9786613015983

0-511-97352-7

1-139-01165-0

1-139-01191-X

1-139-01112-X

1-139-01085-9

1-139-01138-3

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 328 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Social movements - History

Collective behavior - History

Social change - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note:  Introduction; 1. Contentious politics and social movements; Part I. The birth of the modern social movement;  2. Modular collective action; 3. Print and association; 4. States, capitalism, and contention; Part II. Powers in Movement: 5. Acting contentiously; 6. Networks and organizations; 7. Making meanings; 8. Threats, opportunities, and regimes; Part III. Dynamics of Contention: 9. Mechanisms and processes of contention; 10. Cycles of contention; 11. Struggling to reform; 12. Transnational contention;  Conclusion: the future of social movements.

Sommario/riassunto

Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic



and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes effects on the lives of militants, policy reforms, political institutions and cultural change. The book focuses on the rise and fall of social movements as part of contentious politics in general and as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, the new media of communication and transnational diffusion.