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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961292603321

Autore

Stekelenburg Jacquelien van

Titolo

The future of social movement research : dynamics, mechanisms, and processes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of Minnesota Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8166-8655-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 pages)

Collana

Social movements, protest and contention  The future of social movement research

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Social movements - Research

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Social Change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Future of Social Movement Research -- I. Grievances and Identities: The Demand Side of Participation -- 1. The Dynamics of Demand -- 2. Is the Internet Creating New Reasons to Protest? -- 3. Social Movement Participation in the Global Society: Identity, Networks, and Emotions -- 4. "Protest against Whom?": The Role of Collective Meaning Making in Politicization -- Discussion: Opening the Black Box of Dynamics in Theory and Research on the Demand Side of Protest -- II. Organizations and Networks: The Supply Side of Contention -- 5. The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Questions for Discussion -- 6. Bringing Organizational Studies Back into Social Movement Scholarship -- 7. Organization and Community in Social Movements -- 8. Organizational Fields and Social Movement Dynamics -- 9. Social Movement Structures in Action: Conceptual Propositions and Empirical Illustration -- Discussion: The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Impressions on a Theme -- III. Dynamics of Mobilization -- 10. Changing Mobilization of Individual Activists? -- 11. Mobilizing for Change in a Changing Society -- 12. Ethnicity, Repression, and Fields of Action in Movement Mobilization -- 13. Identity Dilemmas,



Discursive Fields, Identity Work, and Mobilization: Clarifying the Identity-Movement Nexus -- 14. Movements of the Left, Movements of the Right Reconsidered -- Discussion: Mobilization and the Changing and Persistent Dynamics of Political Participation -- IV. The Changing Context of Contention -- 15. The End of the Social Movement as We Know It? Adaptive Challenges in Changed Contexts -- 16. Social Movements and Elections: Toward a Broader Understanding of the Political Context of Contention -- 17. Social Movements, Power, and Democracy: New Challenges, New Challengers, New Theories?.

18. Recent Trends in Public Protest in the United States: The Social Movement Society Thesis Revisited -- 19. The "Contentious French" Revisited -- Discussion: Meaning and Movements in the New Millennium: Gendering Democracy -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Future of Social Movement Research, some of the most influential scholars in the field provide a wide-ranging understanding of how social movements arise and persist, engendering unanswered questions pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The resulting work is interdisciplinary and unusually broad in scope, constituting the most comprehensive overview of the dynamics of social movements available.