Protest and Politics

The Promise of Social Movement Societies

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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The Tea Party. The Occupy Movement. Idle No More. Around the world, social movements have taken to new media and the streets to challenge the status quo. At the same time, most democracies have witnessed a sharp decline in voter turnout. Protest and Politics examines this seemingly contradictory shift in political participation, as well as the blurring of social movement and mainstream politics, through the lens of the social movement society (SMS) thesis.Drawing on the long history of social movements in Canada, in comparison to the US and the transnational sphere, the contributors revisit the SMS thesis to determine whether it still applies, to see what insights can be gleaned from Canadian social movements, and to clarify the relationships between movements and mainstream politics. They argue that the SMS thesis must be recalibrated to reflect changes in political participation, to embrace broader political and historical contexts, and to consider the emergence of social movement societies, plural, over a single polity within and across countries.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt560 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774829168

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Howard Ramos is an associate professor of sociology at Dalhousie University. He researches issues of social justice. He is the co-author, with Karen Stanbridge, of Seeing Politics Differently: A Brief Introduction to Political Sociology and co-author, with Suzanne Staggenborg, of Social Movements (3rd Canadian edition).Kathleen Rodgers is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa. Her current research areas include political sociology, social movements, and digital media. Her most recent project is focused on indigenous responses to large-scale mining projects. She is the author of Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia.

Introduction: The Promise of Social Movement Societies / Howard Ramos and Kathleen RodgersPart 1: Political and Historical Context 1 Reconsidering the Social Movement Society in the New Century / David S. Meyer and Amanda Pullum2 Evangelical Radio: Institution Building and the Religious Right / Tina Fetner, Allyson Stokes, and Carrie B. Sanders3 The Social Movement Society and the Human Rights State / Dominique Clément4 Institutionalization, State Funding, and Advocacy in the Quebec Women's Movement / Dominique MassonPart 2: State Dynamics and Processes 5 How the State Shapes Social Movements: An Examination of the Environmental Movement in Canada / Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Mabel Ho6 Immigrant Collective Mobilization and Socio-economic Integration in Canada / Philippe Couton7 Uncooperative Movements, Militarized Policing, and the Social Movement Society / Lesley WoodPart 3: How People Participate 8 Social Movement Communities in the Movement Society / Suzanne Staggenborg9 No to Protests, Yes to Festivals: How the Creative Class Organizes in the Social Movement Society / Judith Taylor10 Justification and Critique in the Social Movement Society / Jim Conley11 The Concept of Social Movement and Its Relationship to the Social Movement Society: An Empirical Investigation / David B. Tindall and Joanna L. RobinsonPart 4: Knowledge and Culture 12 Alternative Policy Groups and Global Civil Society: Networks and Discourses of Counter-Hegemony / William K. Carroll13 Wilderness Revisited: Canadian Environmental Movements and the Eco-Politics of Special Places / Mark C.J. Stoddart14 Alberta Internalizing Oil Sands Opposition: A Test of the Social Movement Society Thesis / Randolph Haluza-DeLayConclusion: What We Can Say about the Promise of Social Movement Societies / Kathleen Rodgers and Howard RamosReferencesIndex