The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes

496 Pages·2013·4.767 MB·English

by  Jacquelien van Stekelenburg (editor), Conny Roggeband (editor), Bert Klandermans (editor)

the future of social movement research
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention
Series Editor Bert Klandermans, VU-University, Amsterdam
Associate Editors Ron R. Aminzade, University of Minnesota
David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine
Verta A. Taylor, University of California, Santa Barbara
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t h e f u t u r e o f s o c i a l
m o v e m e n t r e s e a r c h
Dynamics, Mechanisms,
and Processes
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg,
Conny Roggeband, and
Bert Klandermans, editors
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention
Volume 39
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Future of Social Movement Research xi
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Conny Roggeband
I. Grievances and Identities: The Demand Side of Participation
1. The Dynamics of Demand 3
Bert Klandermans
2. Is the Internet Creating New Reasons to Protest? 17
Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen,
Beth Gharrity Gardner, and Alice Motes
3. Social Movement Participation in the Global Society:
Identity, Networks, and Emotions 37
Verta Taylor
4. “Protest against Whom?”: The Role of Collective
Meaning Making in Politicization 59
Marjoka van Doorn, Jacomijne Prins, and Saskia Welschen
Discussion: Opening the Black Box of Dynamics in Theory
and Research on the Demand Side of Protest 79
Martijn van Zomeren
II. Organizations and Networks: The Supply Side of Contention
5. The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization:
Questions for Discussion 95
Conny Roggeband and Jan Willem Duyvendak
6. Bringing Organizational Studies Back into
Social Movement Scholarship 107
Sarah A. Soule
7. Organization and Community in Social Movements 125
Suzanne Staggenborg
8. Organizational Fields and Social Movement Dynamics 145
Mario Diani
9. Social Movement Structures in Action: Conceptual
Propositions and Empirical Illustration 169
Dieter Rucht
Discussion: The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization:
Impressions on a Theme 191
Debra Minkoff
III. Dynamics of Mobilization
10. Changing Mobilization of Individual Activists? 205
Stefaan Walgrave
11. Mobilizing for Change in a Changing Society 217
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Marije Boekkooi
12. Ethnicity, Repression, and Fields of Action
in Movement Mobilization 235
Pamela E. Oliver
13. Identity Dilemmas, Discursive Fields, Identity
Work, and Mobilization: Clarifying the
Identity–Movement Nexus 263
David A. Snow
14. Movements of the Left, Movements
of the Right Reconsidered 281
Swen Hutter and Hanspeter Kriesi
Discussion: Mobilization and the Changing and
Persistent Dynamics of Political Participation 299
Christopher Rootes
IV. The Changing Context of Contention
15. The End of the Social Movement as We Know It?
Adaptive Challenges in Changed Contexts 315
Ruud Koopmans
16. Social Movements and Elections: Toward a Broader
Understanding of the Political Context of Contention 325
Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow
17. Social Movements, Power, and Democracy:
New Challenges, New Challengers, New Theories? 347
Donatella della Porta
18. Recent Trends in Public Protest in the United States:
The Social Movement Society Thesis Revisited 369
John D. McCarthy, Patrick Rafail, and Ashley Gromis
19. The “Contentious French” Revisited 397
Nonna Mayer
Discussion: Meaning and Movements in the
New Millennium: Gendering Democracy 419
Myra Marx Ferree
Afterword 429
Bert Klandermans
Contributors 439
Index 443
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Acknowledgments
The editors are grateful to the colleagues who served as reviewers of the chap-
ters: Kenneth Andrews, Ed Amenta, Rob Benford, John Campbell, Xenia
Chryssochoou, Frank den Hond, John Drury, Jennifer Earl, Bob Edwards,
Doug Imig, Olivier Fillieule, Dana Fisher, Bill Gamson, Marco Giugni, Jim
Jasper, Craig Jenkins, Christian Lahusen, Holly McCammon, David Meyer,
Dan Myers, Belinda Robnett, Jackie Smith, Nella Van Dyke, Jeroen van Laer,
Joris Verhulst, Edward Walker, Nancy Whittier, and Mayer Zald.
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