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Informationen zum Autor Olivier Fillieule is a professor of political sociology at Lausanne University’s Research Centre on Political Action (CRAPUL) and senior researcher at CNRS-CESSP, Paris 1-Sorbonne. Among his recent books is Demonstrations , coauthored with Danielle Tartakowsky. Guya Accornero is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and co-chair of the Research Group on 'Politics and Citizenship' at CIES-IUL. She is the Principal Investigator of the FCT funded Project 'HOPES: HOusing PErspectives and Struggles', and co-chair of the Council of European Studies Research Network Social Movements. Her main area of teaching and research are social movements, digital activism, policing protest, radicalism, gentrification and housing activism, citizenship. She has published articles in four languages in journals including Mobilization , Social Movement Studies , Journal of Contemporary Religion , West European Politics , Estudos Ibero-Americanos , Democratization , Cultures et Conflits , Historein . She is the author of the monograph The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal (2016 Berghahn Books). Klappentext Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements. Zusammenfassung Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Foreword James M. Jasper Introduction: “So Many as the Stars of the Sky in Multitude, and as the Sand which is By the Sea Shore Innumerable”: European Social Movement Research in Perspective Guya Accornero and Olivier Fillieule PART I: EUROPEAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Chapter 1. The European Movements of ’68: Ambivalent theories, Ideological Memories and Exciting Puzzles Erik Neveu Chapter 2. Mobilizing for Democracy: The 1989 Protests in Central Eastern Europe Donatella della Porta Chapter 3. A Long Awaited Homecoming: The Labour Movement in Social Movement Studies Karel Yon Chapter 4. Beyond Party Politics: The Search for a Unified...
