| Author | : Charles Tilly |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0190255056 |
"An analysis of the major contentious events over the course of the past ten years"--Provided by publisher.
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics
| Author | : Ronald Aminzade |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2001-09-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521001557 |
The aim of this book is to highlight and begin to give 'voice' to some of the notable 'silences' evident in recent years in the study of contentious politics. The seven co-authors take up seven specific topics in the volume: the relationship between emotions and contention; temporality in the study of contention; the spatial dimensions of contention; leadership in contention; the role of threat in contention; religion and contention; and contention in the context of demographic and life-course processes. The seven spent three years involved in an ongoing project designed to take stock, and attempt a partial synthesis, of various literatures that have grown up around the study of non-routine or contentious politics. As such, it is likely to be viewed as a groundbreaking volume that not only undermines conventional disciplinary understanding of contentious politics, but also lays out a number of provocative new research agendas.
Power in Movement
| Author | : Sidney Tarrow |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1998-05-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521629478 |
Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organisational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasises the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure.
Dynamics of Contention
| Author | : Doug McAdam |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2001-09-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521011877 |
"Over the past two decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The study of contentious politics are left to 'area specialists' and/or historians with a thorough knowledge of the time and place in question. Finally, overlaid on these two divisions are stylized theoretical traditions - structuralist, culturalist, and rationalist - that have developed largely in isolation from one another." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/2001016172.html.
Ordering Power
| Author | : Dan Slater |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-08-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1139489968 |
Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in 'protection pacts': broad elite coalitions unified by shared support for heightened state power and tightened authoritarian controls as bulwarks against especially threatening and challenging types of contentious politics. These coalitions provide the elite collective action underpinning strong states, robust ruling parties, cohesive militaries, and durable authoritarian regimes - all at the same time. Comparative-historical analysis of seven Southeast Asian countries (Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand) reveals that subtly divergent patterns of contentious politics after World War II provide the best explanation for the dramatic divergence in Southeast Asia's contemporary states and regimes.
Strangers at the Gates
| Author | : Sidney Tarrow |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2012-03-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107009383 |
This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France, and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events and cycles of collective action. Sidney Tarrow places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics, in relation to states, political parties, and other actors. From peasants and communists in 1960s Italy, to movements and politics in contemporary western polities, to the global justice movement in the new century, the book argues that contentious actors are neither outside of nor completely within politics, but rather they occupy the uncertain territory between total opposition and integration into policy.
Contentious Politics in the Middle East
| Author | : Fawaz A. Gerges |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 557 |
| Release | : 2016-04-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137530863 |
While the Arab people took center stage in the Arab Spring protests, academic studies have focused more on structural factors to understand the limitations of these popular uprisings. This book analyzes the role and complexities of popular agency in the Arab Spring through the framework of contentious politics and social movement theory.
The Social Movement Society
| Author | : David S. Meyer |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780847685417 |
Scholars consider ways in which the social movement has changed as a politics and how it changes the societies in which it occurs. This volume contains revealing perspectives on the effectiveness of social protest.
The Contentious Politics of Expertise
| Author | : Riccardo Emilio Chesta |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2020-12-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000334910 |
Based on mixed-methods research and ethnographic fieldwork at various sites in Italy, this book examines the relationship between expertise and activism in grassroots environmentalism. Presenting interviews with citizens, activists and experts, it considers activism surrounding infrastructure in urban areas, in connection with water management, transport, tour- ism and waste disposal. Through comparisons between different political environments, the author analyses the ways in which citizens, political activists and technical experts participate in using expertise, shedding light on the effects of this on the structure and composition of social movements, as well as the implications for the mechanisms of participation and the formation of alliances. Bridging the sociology of expertise and contentious politics, this study of the relationship between contentious expertise and democratic accountability shows how conflict transforms, rather than inhibits, expertise production into a ‘contentious politics by other means’. As such, it will appeal to social scientists with interests in social movements, environmental sociology, science and technology studies, and the sociology of knowledge.
