Power in Movement - Social Movements and Contentious Politics

Informationen zum Autor Sidney Tarrow (Ph.D. Berkeley! 1965) is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His recent books are Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly)! Contentious Europeans (with Doug Imig)! Transnational Protest and Global Activism (co-edited with Donatella della Porta)! The New Transnational Activism and Contentious Politics (with Charles Tilly). He is currently researching war! state-building and human rights. Klappentext Surveys the modern history of the social movement in the West and its diffusion to the global South. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Contentious politics and social movements; Part I. Contentious Politics: 3. Modular collective action; 4. Print and association; 5. States! capitalism! and contention; Part II. Powers in Movement: 6. Acting contentiously; 7. Networks and organizations; 8. Making meanings; 9. Threats! opportunities! and regimes; Part III. Dynamics of Contention: 10. Mechanisms and processes of contention; 11. Cycles of contention; 12. Struggling to reform; 13. Transnational contention; 14. Conclusion: the future of social movements.

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• Authors: Sidney Tarrow, Sidney G. Tarrow, Sidney G. (Cornell University Tarrow
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521155724
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15572-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science