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The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts - May 2009 (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) by Jeff Goodwin (Editor), James M. Jasper (Editor)
The
American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History (Documents in Modern History - Oct
2009)
Civil
Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the
Present
Contemporary
Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality (Woodrow
Wilson Center Press)
Power,
Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social Movements, Networks and
Hierarchies (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)
Social
Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space
Global Movements Book by Kevin McDonald
Social Movements: An Introduction Book by Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani
The Politics of Protest : Social Movements in America Book by David S. Meyer
Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action (Comparative Politics) Book by Mario Diani (Editor), Doug McAdam (Editor)
Power in Movement : Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Book by Sidney Tarrow, Peter Lange, Robert H. Bates, Ellen Comisso, Peter Hall, Joel Migdal, Helen Milner (Series Editors)
Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy and Cultural Construction of Social Activism - Book by Steven M. Buechler
Social Movement Theory and Research Book by Roberta Garner
Contemporary Movements and Ideologies - Book by Roberta Garner
Social Movements and Social Classes : The Future of Collective Action (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) Book by Louis Maheu (Editor)
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Reviews:
The
Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts - May 2009 (Blackwell Readers in
Sociology) by Jeff Goodwin (Editor), James M. Jasper (Editor)
This reader makes organizing an engaging course on social movements easy by offering a
great selection of classics along with some lesser-known works. Goodwin and Jasper chose
and edited judiciously to give students the core arguments from a wide range of books and
articles from the 1970s to Seattle, and the organization is coherent and helpful. - Myra
Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin
This comprehensive collection of contemporary readings makes the field of social movements
readily accessible to the widest possible audience. - Rob Benford, Southern Illinois
University Carbondale
Goodwin and Jasper have insightfully compiled a collection of published work that provide
answers to nine major questions on social movements, while simultaneously illuminating a
number of movements that have been significant vehicles of challenge and change in the
U.S. By informing understanding of central concepts and questions, as well as selected
cases, in the study of social movements, this volume makes for a valuable addition to the
menu of scholarly work targeted for the classroom.’ David Snow, University of
California at Irvine.
A rich compilation of classical readings on social movement theory and studies brought
together and introduced by two well-known scholars. Discussion questions, recommended
readings, short biographies of activists and historical accounts of movements make this
reader an excellent tool in classes on social movements. - Bert Klandermans, VU University
Amsterdam
"Social movements play a crucial role in contemporary society: this rich collection
explains why and how they contribute to social, cultural and political change."
--Donatella della Porta, European University Institute
This second edition will provide an excellent foundation for students seeking a deeper
understanding of activism, protest, and movements.” --Kenneth T. Andrews, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The
American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History (Documents in Modern History - Oct
2009)
This book collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the
Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle
in the courts, and governmental responses to civil rights issues -- public statements,
executive orders, legislation.
The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History is a deliberate attempt to
address the shortcomings of capsule histories of the Movement, histories that neglect to
describe the range of public and private institutions, organizations, and individuals that
contributed to -- and hindered -- its accomplishments. The introductory essays, providing
narrative or analytical background, combined with the range of documents presented, allows
the book to serve as an excellent supplement to textbook treatments of modern U.S.
history, African American history, and/or the Civil Rights Movement.
The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History includes over 100 documents --
personal narratives, court decisions, news reports, letters, legislation -- that provide
the reader with insights into the philosophies, strategies, personalities of the Movement.
Contemporary
Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality (Woodrow
Wilson Center Press)
"The core of this well-conceived book presents an important argument about not only
how women's concerns were marginalized after 1989, but also about how the rhetoric on
globalization, democratization, freedom, and economic growth, as well as women's desire to
act, implicated their activism in Hungary." -- Joanna Regulska, Rutgers University
"The scholarship is superior. I do not think there is any other book which combines
all the different aspects of gender and postcommunism in such a comprehensive way."
-- Nanette Funk, Brooklyn College
As the first and only book in any language on contemporary women's movements in Hungary,
this groundbreaking study focuses on the role of women's activism in a society where women
are not yet adequately represented by established parties and political institutions.
Drawing on eyewitness accounts of meetings and protests, as well as first-person
interviews with leading female activists, Katalin Fábián examines the interactions
between women's groups in Hungary and studies the unique brand of democracy they have
forged in postcommunist Eastern Europe. Through her analysis, she demonstrates how
democratization and globalization -- with their attendant range of challenges and
opportunities -- have led women to redefine public-private divides.
Power,
Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social Movements, Networks and
Hierarchies (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)
Examines the operation of network forms of organization in social resistance movements, in
relation to the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks and the
possibility of social transformation.
Social
Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space
This volume provides an account of how Chinese individuals, increasingly free from the
constraints of the state, have to rely on their own efforts to support their well-being,
and how, in certain circumstances, they must gather together to defend their interests.
Complicating the internal and external factors behind the relationship between the
individualization of society and the emergence of collective movements, the contributors
suggest that specific protest actions taking place on the mainland and in Hong Kong have
enabled both societies to expand their protest space. Ultimately, these developments lead
us to reconceptualize citizenship as something practiced rather than given.
Gilles Guiheux is professor of sociology in the Department of Oriental Languages and
Civilizations at the University of Paris Diderot. Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce is associate
professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong.
Global
Movements Book by Kevin McDonald
The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw
into question the way we think about culture, power, and action in a globalizing world.
This book surveys the field and explores some of the most significant of these movements,
including antiglobalization and the new Islamic movements.
These movements require a rethinking of the very idea of social movement, a concept that
owes a great deal to the civic and industrial culture that was so critical to Western
modernity, but may be less adequate when exploring forms of culture, action, and
communication in a globalized world. This book explores key dimensions of these movements,
the tensions they confront, and the crises to which they are subject. It will provide an
essential text for students on globalization and social movements. --This text refers to
the Hardcover edition.
Kevin McDonald is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne. He is the
author of Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity, Action and Youth Experience (1999) and
Pressing Questions: Explorations in Sociology.
Social
Movements: An Introduction Book by Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani
Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective
action in society today. In the latter part of the last century, social movements became a
permanent feature of modern democracies. The students' and workers' protests of the 1960s
have been followed by movements focusing on women's rights, ethnic identities, peace and
environmental issues. This book draws on research and empirical work across the social
sciences to address the key questions in this international field.
In this new edition, the authors have updated all chapters with the most recent
literature, and expanded on topics such as individual motivations, new media, public
policies, and governance. The book has also been redesigned to a more user-friendly
format. More than ever, Social Movements is the ideal introduction for students of social
movements within social and political science.
Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social
Sciences at the European University Institute. She is the author of Corrupt Exchanges:
Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption (1999), and Transnational
Protest and Global Activism (2004).
Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at the University
of Trento. He is the co-editor of Beyond Tocqueville: The Social Capital Debate in
Comparative Perspective (with Bob Edwards and Michael Foley, 2001) and Social Movements
and Networks (with Doug McAdam, 2003)
The
Politics of Protest : Social Movements in America Book by David S. Meyer
Protest is everywhere in American politics. Over the past decade, activists have staged
dramatic demonstrations on such diverse issues as the war in Iraq, globalization,
standardized testing, and abortion rights. Indeed, protest and social movements have
become essential features of
contemporary American life. The Politics of Protest offers both a historical overview and
an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in
American politics. The book suggests that protest movements, clearly an integral part of
our nation's history from the Boston
Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement, are hardly confined to the distant past. It argues
that protest movements in America reflect and influence mainstream politics. In order to
understand our political system-and our social and political world-we need to pay
attention to protest.
The Politics of Protest opens with a short history of social movements in the United
States, beginning with the development of the American Republic, outlining how the
American constitutional design invites protest movements to offer continual challenges. It
then discusses the social impulse to protest, considers the strategies and tactics of
social movements, looks at the institutional response to protest, and finally examines the
policy ramifications. Each chapter includes a brief narrative of a key movement that
illustrates the topic covered in that chapter. Drawing students in and clearly
demonstrating how and why the subject is of importance to them, the book addresses such
topics as Dorothy Day's Catholic Workers' protest against nuclear fallout drills in the
1950s, the Greensboro civil rights sit-in in 1960, and the so-called "Battle in
Seattle" anti-globalization rally.
Providing a concise, yet lively analysis of social movements in America, The Politics of
Protest is ideal for political science or sociology courses that consider social movements
and political protest.
Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action (Comparative Politics) Book by Mario Diani (Editor), Doug McAdam (Editor) - For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. They illustrate how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations; how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources both within movement milieus and between movement organizations and the political system; how network concepts and techniques may improve our grasp of the relationship between movements and elites, of the configuration of alliance and conflict structures, of the clustering of episodes of contention in protest cycles.Social Movements and Networks casts new light on our understanding of social movements and cognate social and political processes.
Power
in Movement : Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative
Politics) Book by Sidney Tarrow, Peter Lange, Robert H. Bates, Ellen
Comisso, Peter Hall, Joel Migdal, Helen Milner (Series Editors)
"This is unquestionably a seminal work, one that lies fundamentally in the literature
on social movements....an exceptionally rich synthesis and weaving together of research
and literature on social movements..." Studies in Comparative International
Development
"The brilliance of this book is the author's ability to transcend conventional
schools of social movement analysis....It is difficult to see movements in the same light
after reading this book." American Political Science Review
Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one
that is no less real. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward
a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an
interpretation of the power of movement that emphasizes its effects on personal lives,
policy reforms and political culture. While
covering cultural, organizational and personal sources of movements' power, the book
emphasizes the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the
outcome of changes in political opportunity structure. This second edition has an entirely
new chapter, major additions to the bibliography, new illustrative materials in many of
the chapters and a new conclusion.
Social
Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy and Cultural Construction of
Social Activism - Book by Steven M. Buechler
Sociology and social movements are twin siblings of modernity that view the world as a
social construction to be understood and transformed respectively. Based on this premise,
Buechler argues for the centrality of social movements to the shape of the modern world as
well as the discipline of sociology. Building on a critical overview of current social
movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analyzing social movements in
advanced capitalism. This model provides a historically specific analysis that located
movements in global, national, regional, and local structures. The heart of the book draws
on diverse theoretical traditions within sociology (world system theory, critical theory,
neo-Marxism, class/race/gender theories, theories of everyday life) to specify the
structural constraints and opportunities that comprise the environment in which movements
mobilize and contest for power. Movement dynamics are explored in terms of their
dialectical relationship with these multiple levels of structure. The book also addresses
the recent shift and false dichotomies between political and cultural dimensions of social
movements.
This thoughtful introduction to the sociological study of social movements is an excelent
supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses on
collective action and social movements.
Social
Movement Theory and Research Book by Roberta Garner
Reviews and explores social movement theory from the end of World War II to the mid-1990s,
focusing primarily on the United States, with some attention to European scholarship as
well.
Contemporary
Movements and Ideologies - Book by Roberta Garner
Contemporary Movements and Ideologies introduces the reader to major global social
movements. It outlines the basic concepts and theories for the analysis of social
movements and provides summaries of the ideas, goals, organization, strategies and social
bases of eight major types of movements, i.e., civil rights and human rights, movements of
religious faith and women's movements. The book provides a strong historical foundation in
which to understand each type of movement. In addition, it examines movements as a
response to the modern world and looks at how they are changing to adapt to the
"post-modern" era world of globalized markets and cultural diversity.
Social
Movements and Social Classes : The Future of Collective Action (SAGE Studies
in International Sociology) Book by Louis Maheu (Editor)
Racism, class, urban politics, citizenship, middle-class radicalism, and education-all are
integral factors when examining the phenomena of social movements. In Social Movements and
Social Classes, an esteemed international cast of contributors focuses on these and other
inherent issues in social movements and social class from the perspective of collective
action. The contributors examine how integrative and expansive collection action is in the
constitution of modern societies, review and discuss the various analytical approaches
used to explain the foundations for collective action, and analyze the ways that social
struggles penetrate political life--with further reflections on culture and democracy. An
original contribution to the understanding of social movements, social classes, and
collective action, this book is essential reading for scholars and students in sociology,
political science, urban studies, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.
Civil
Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the
Present
Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial
discrimination and foreign military occupation - is a highly significant but inadequately
understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989,
it has helped to shape the world we live in.
Civil Resistance and Power Politics covers most of the leading cases, including the
example of Gandhi, the US civil rights struggle in the 1960s, the Islamic revolution in
Iran in 1979, the 'people power' revolt in the Philippines in the 1980s, the campaigns
against apartheid in South Africa, the various movements contributing to the collapse of
the Soviet Bloc in 1989-91, and, in this century, the 'color revolutions' in Serbia,
Georgia, and Ukraine. The chapters, written by leading experts, are richly descriptive and
analytically rigorous.
This book addresses the complex interrelationship between civil resistance and other
dimensions of power. It explores the question of whether civil resistance should be seen
as potentially replacing violence completely, or as a phenomenon that operates in
conjunction with, and modification of, power politics. It looks at cases where campaigns
were repressed, including China in 1989 and Burma in 2007. It notes that in several
instances, including Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Georgia, civil resistance movements were
followed by the outbreak of armed conflict. This book also includes an extraordinary
report on Russian archives showing how the Soviet leadership responded to civil
resistance, and a comprehensive bibliographical essay.
Illustrated throughout, this uniquely wide-ranging and path-breaking study is written in
an accessible style and is aimed at the general reader as well as specialists in Modern
History, Politics, Sociology, and International Relations.
Professor Sir Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and
International Relations at Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College,
Oxford University. His main academic interests are in the fields of international
security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war).
He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes
and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations.
Professor Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford,
Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at
the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of eight books of political
writing or 'history of the present' which have charted the transformation of Europe over
the last quarter-century. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and
he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and
the Americas. Throughout the nineteen eighties, he reported and analysed the emancipation
of Central Europe from communism in contributions to the New York Review of Books, the
Independent, the Times, and the Spectator.