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Contested Citizenship
Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe
Av Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
302 kr
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From international press coverage of the French government's attempt to prevent Muslims from wearing headscarves to terrorist attacks in Madrid and the United States, questions of cultural identity and pluralism are at the center of the world's most urgent events and debates. Presenting an …
Ecopopulism
Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice
Av Andrew Szasz
Häftad, 1994
287 kr
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Moment by moment the evidence mounts that unchecked modern industry is bringing us ever closer to environmental disaster. How can we move away from the brink of extinction, toward a human society the earth can bear? In the thriving popular politics of hazardous waste, Andrew Szasz finds an answer, …
Politics of Social Protest
Comparative Perspectives on States and Social Movements
Av J. Craig Jenkins, Bert Klandermans
Häftad, 1995
660 kr
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The Politics of Social Protest was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Bringing together celebrated scholars from …
Century of Revolution
Social Movements in Iran
Av John Foran
Häftad, 1994
297 kr
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Provides insight into the political currents that led to the Iranian revolution.Before late 1978 Iran did not occupy a large place in the public mind, mass media, or academic pursuits. With the massive upheaval of the next few months, all this changed-and the world is still trying to catch up with …
How Social Movements Matter
Av Marco Giugni
Häftad, 1999
290 kr
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Provides original assessments of the consequences of social movements.We have all witnessed social movements and felt their effects-some subtle, others profound. But to truly understand their impact over time, in different countries, and on various segments of society requires the kind of rare …
Geography and Social Movement
Comparing Antinuclear Activism in the Boston Area
Häftad, 2000
290 kr
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A comparative analysis of the implications of space, place, and scale in political mobilization.A comparative analysis of the implications of space, place, and scale in political mobilization. Context matters, as students of social movements increasingly agree, and yet very little attention has …
Policing Protest
The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies
Av Donatella della Porta Della Porta
Häftad, 1998
316 kr
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The first international examination of how police respond to political protests.The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always potentially controversial. In contemporary democracies, police departments have two different, often conflicting aims: keeping the peace and defending …
Challenging Authority
The Historical Study of Contentious Politics
Häftad, 1998
287 kr
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As long as there have been formal governments, there has been political contention, an interaction between ruler and subjects involving claims and counterclaims, compliance or resistance, cooperation, resignation, condescension, and resentment. Where political studies tend to focus on either those …
Fields of Protest
Women's Movement in India
Av Raka Ray
Häftad, 1999
277 kr
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A comparative analysis of women’s struggle for change in India.The women’s movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of women live, work, and struggle to survive in order to remake their family, home, and social lives. Whether fighting for safe contraception, literacy, water, …
Liberation and Democratization
The South African and Palestinian National Movements
Häftad, 2000
287 kr
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The first comprehensive comparison of two of the century’s most important liberation movements.Arising in the 1910s and emerging as legitimate governing bodies in the 1990s, the South African and the Palestinian national liberation movements have exhibited remarkable parallels over the course of …
Workplace Justice
Organizing Multi-Identity Movements
Av Sharon Kurtz
Häftad, 2002
279 kr
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An unheralded union battle offers new insight into identity politics.In 1991, Columbia University’s one thousand clerical workers launched a successful campaign for justice in their workplace. This diverse union-two-thirds black and Latina, three-fourths women-was committed to creating an inclusive …
Methods of Social Movement
Häftad, 2002
331 kr
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The definitive guide to conducting research in this dynamic field.Citing the critical importance of empirical work to social movement research, the editors of this volume have put together the first systematic overview of the major methods used by social movement theorists. Original chapters cover …
Changing Corporate America from Inside Out
Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights
Inbunden, 2004
823 kr
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Investigates how gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have succeeded in securing equitable benefitsDespite the backlash against lesbian and gay rights occurring in cities and states across the country, a growing number of corporations are actually expanding protections and benefits for their gay and …
Unarmed Insurrections
People Power Movements in Nondemocracies
Av Kurt Schock
Häftad, 2004
302 kr
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Pinpoints reasons for successes and failures of nonviolent protest movementsIn the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of “people power” movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass …
Repression and Mobilization
Häftad, 2005
287 kr
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Brings together leading scholars from political science and sociologyRecent events-from the collapse of Leninist regimes in Eastern Europe to the democratization of South Asian and South American states-have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics, …
Routing the Opposition
Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy
Av David S. Meyer, Valerie Jenness m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
290 kr
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On one side are the policy makers, on the other, the movements and organizations that challenge public policy. Where and how the two meet is a critical juncture in the democratic process. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from several different disciplines in the social sciences, …
Unraveling the Garment Industry
Transnational Organizing and Women's Work
Häftad, 2007
277 kr
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Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define the possibilities and abuses of globalization and its feminized labor: the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movements-against GAP clothing in …
Rhyming Hope and History
Activists, Academics, and Social Movement Scholarship
Av David Croteau, William Hoynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
290 kr
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Rhyming Hope and History exposes the frayed relations between activism and social movement scholarship and examines the causes and consequences of this disconnect between theory and practice. Both scholars and activists explore solutions, weighing the promise and perils of engaged theory and the …
Globalization from Below
Transnational Activists and Protest Networks
Av Donatella della Porta Della Porta, Massimillano Andretta m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
302 kr
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When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved to be a critical moment in the global justice movement. Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement, …
Fighting for the Future of Food
Activists Versus Agribusiness in the Struggle Over Biotechnology
Av Rachel Schurman, William A. Munro
Häftad, 2010
277 kr
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When scientists working in the agricultural biotechnology industry first altered the genetic material of one organism by introducing genes from an entirely different organism, the reaction was generally enthusiastic. To many, these genetically modified organisms (GMOs) promised to solve the …
How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism
Av Tina Fetner
Häftad, 2008
277 kr
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An unexpected analysis of the battle between opposing activist movementsWhile gay rights are on the national agenda now, activists have spent decades fighting for their platform, seeing themselves as David against the religious right’s Goliath. At the same time, the religious right has continuously …
Waves of Protest
Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925–2005
Häftad, 2008
311 kr
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One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious action in El Salvador during critical eras in the country's history. Providing a compelling analysis of the massive waves of protests from the early twentieth …
World Says No to War
Demonstrations Against the War on Iraq
Av Stefaan Walgrave, Dieter Rucht
Häftad, 2010
304 kr
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On February 15, 2003, the largest one-day protest in human history took place as millions of people in hundreds of cities marched in the streets, rallying against the imminent invasion of Iraq. This was activism on an unprecedented scale. The World Says No to War strives to understand who spoke …
Between Feminism and Islam
Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco
Av Zakia Salime
Häftad, 2011
277 kr
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There are two major women’s movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari’a as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to amend shari’a law. Between Feminism and Islam shows how the interactions of these movements over the …
Identity Work in Social Movements
Av Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
304 kr
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Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field.This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social …
Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Right-Wing Movements and National Politics
Av Rory McVeigh
Häftad, 2009
277 kr
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Rediscovering the Ku Klux Klan as a national movement in the 1920sIn 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been …
Strategic Alliances
Coalition Building and Social Movements
Av Nella Van Dyke, Holly J. McCammon
Häftad, 2010
304 kr
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Social researchers in the past have paid surprisingly little theoretical or empirical attention to movement alliances. Strategic Alliances provides a pioneering set of in-depth analyses of the circumstances leading to these organizational alliances. Contributors investigate coalition dynamics among …
Strategies for Social Change
Av Gregory M. Maney, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
302 kr
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The theory and practice of social movements come together in strategy-whether, why, and how people can realize their visions of another world by acting together. Strategies for Social Change offers a concise definition of strategy and a framework for differentiating between strategies. Specific …
Out in Africa
LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Häftad, 2012
313 kr
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Visibility matters to activists-to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. Out in Africa is the first to present an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, …
