Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious PoliticsCambridge University Press, 04.02.2011 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. |
Inhalt
| 16 | |
Figures | 21 |
Modular Collective Action | 37 |
Print and Association | 57 |
States Capitalism and Contention | 71 |
Acting Contentiously | 95 |
Networks and Organizations | 119 |
Making Meanings | 140 |
Mechanisms and Processes of Contention | 183 |
Cycles of Contention | 195 |
Struggling to Reform | 215 |
Transnational Contention | 234 |
The Future of Social Movements | 259 |
Sources | 275 |
| 315 | |
Threats Opportunities and Regimes | 157 |
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Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics Sidney G. Tarrow Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2011 |
Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics Sidney G. Tarrow Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2011 |
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1848 revolutions activism activists actors American association authorities Barack Obama barricades broader Cambridge University Press campaign century challengers changes Chap Chapter Charles Tilly Civil Rights movement claims coalitions collective action conflict contentious politics Costain created cultural cycles of contention Democracy Democratic demonstrations developed diffusion disruptive domestic Doug McAdam Dynamics edited elites emerged European forms of action forms of collective forms of contention framing France Freedom Summer French Revolution global Global Justice Movement groups Human Rights identity innovations institutionalization institutions insurgents interaction Jackie Smith Kriesi major McCarthy mechanisms ment Meyer Mobilization movement organizations neo-liberalism networks opponents organizational outcomes Oxford participation Party police political opportunities Porta Princeton produced protest radical reform regime repertoire of contention repression response revolutionary scholars Sidney Tarrow social movements society solidarity strike Tarrow theory threats tion transnational Union United violence women’s workers World York and Cambridge Zald