Power in Movement

Sidney Tarrow is the Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University and Adjunct Professor at the Cornell Law School. Some of his recent publications include Strangers at the Gates (2012), The Language of Contention (2013), War, States, and Contention (2015), and Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development (2021).

'Our wisest guide to social movements has done it again: produced the best book on the topic, now completely updated to encompass the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter and so much more. Tarrow shows us how social movements have expanded their repertoires in the 21st century, the opportunities (and threats) posed by social media, and how social protests have interlinked with political parties, pushed countries to revolution, and sought to usher in democracy. Tarrow shows us not only how much the world has changed in the last decade, but how and why.' Jack A. Goldstone, Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University

• Part I. Origins, Theories and Contentious Action: 1. Where did movements come from?; 2. States, Capital, and Contention; 3. Acting contentiously; Part II. The Powers in Movement: 4. Organizations, coalitions, and hybrids; 5. Making meanings; 6. Regimes, opportunities, and threat; 7. Struggling to reform; Part III. Dynamics of Contention: 8. Cycles of contenton; 9. Movements in revolutionary cycles; 10. Movements, democracy, and undemocracy; 11. Transnational contention; Part IV. Conclusions: The future of contentious politics.