Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion - Collective Action After the Wto Protests in Seattle

This book explores why new social movement tactics spread to some places and not others.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Seattle cycle: 1998-2002; 3. The Seattle tactics; 4. The organizations most likely to adopt; 5. Regimes on repertoires: nation-states, cities, and networks; 6. Opinion leaders: local anti-globalization coalitions; 7. Talking 'bout a revolution; 8. Talking about smashing; 9. Not like us: debates about identity; 10. The cops and the courts: the effect of repression; 11. After 9/11: the effect of repression; 12. Conclusion.

About the author

Lesley Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto, Canada. She researches how social movements and state responses to those movements are changing in the current globalizing moment. She has published on this question in journals including Mobilization, Qualitative Sociology, the Journal of World Systems Research and Upping the Anti. She has authored or co-authored book chapters on the control and surveillance of protest, summit protests, transnational social movement networks and coalition formation, the World Social Forum, deliberation and nineteenth-century British social movements. She is the co-author of the second and third editions of the late Charles Tilly's book, Social Movements, 1768–2008/2012. She is a regional editor for the international, peer-reviewed, online journal Interface, a journal for and about social movements.

Summary

Why do new social movement tactics spread to some places and not others? Wood argues that inequalities rooted in political history, political economy and local interactions can make social movements more or less able to evaluate and incorporate new tactics.

Product details

• Authors: Lesley J. Wood, Lesley J. (York University Wood, Wood Lesley J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9781107682641
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68264-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentio; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Political activism, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Comparative Politics, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Political activism / Political engagement