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The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) by Jacquelien van Stekelenburg (editor), Conny Roggeband (editor), Bert Klandermans (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) about?

Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The Future of Social Movement Research asks: How are the dynamics of contention shaped by globalization? By societies that are becoming increasingly more individualized and diverse? By the spread of new communication technologies such as social media, cell phones, and the Internet? Why do some movements survive while others dissipate? Do local and global networks differ in nature? The authors’ essays explore such questions with reference to changes in three domains of contention: the demand of protest (changes in grievances and identities), the supply of protest (changes in organizations and networks), and how these changes affect the dynamics of mobilization. In doing so, they theorize and make empirically insightful how globalization, indi

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg (editor), Conny Roggeband (editor), Bert Klandermans (editor)
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780816686544
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Sociology, Social_sciences

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