Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

This important collection addresses the critically important dimensions of the relationships that social movements, their activists, and their organizations have with the state and other institutions. It also examines three movements linked by frame and discourse analysis, before concluding with a survey of the biographical trajectory of activism.

About the author

Patrick G. Coy is Professor and Interim Director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kent State University, USA. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Albert Einstein Institution, and the American Sociological Association. His many publications include Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power and Strategy in the Peace Movement, Social Conflicts and Collective Identities, and A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker. He has served as the Series Editor of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change since 2000.

Summary

This important collection addresses the critically important dimensions of the relationships that social movements, their activists, and their organizations have with the state and other institutions. It also examines three movements linked by frame and discourse analysis, before concluding with a survey of the biographical trajectory of activism.

Product details

• Assisted by: Patrick G. Coy (Editor), Patrick G. (Kent State University Coy (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781787568969
• ISBN: 978-1-78756-896-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 538 g
• Series: Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; Research in Social Movements,; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)