Social Movement Studies in Europe

Olivier Fillieule is a professor of political sociology at Lausanne University’s Research Centre on Political Action (CRAPUL) and senior researcher at CNRS-CESSP, Paris 1-Sorbonne. Among his recent books is Demonstrations, coauthored with Danielle Tartakowsky.

• List of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsForewordJames M. JasperIntroduction: “So Many as the Stars of the Sky in Multitude, and as the Sand which is By the Sea Shore Innumerable”: European Social Movement Research in PerspectiveGuya Accornero and Olivier FillieulePART I: EUROPEAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVEChapter 1. The European Movements of ’68: Ambivalent theories, Ideological Memories and Exciting Puzzles       Erik NeveuChapter 2. Mobilizing for Democracy: The 1989 Protests in Central  Eastern EuropeDonatella della PortaChapter 3. A Long Awaited Homecoming: The Labour Movement in Social Movement StudiesKarel YonChapter 4. Beyond Party Politics: The Search for a Unified Approach. Research on Radical Right-wing Movements in EuropeManuela Caiani and Rossella BorriChapter 5. Fields of Contentious Politics: Migration and Ethnic RelationsManlio CinalliChapter 6. Quiescent or Invisible?: Precarious and Unemployed Movements in EuropeMarco Giugni and Jasmine LorenziniChapter 7. From Antiglobalisation to Global Justice Movement: The Waterloo’s European BattleIsabelle SommierChapter 8. Theoretical Perspectives on European Environmental Movements: Transnational and Techological Challenges in the Twenty-first CenturyMaria KousisChapter 9. From Grassroots to Institutions: Women’s Movements Studies in Europe    Laure Bereni and Anne RevillardChapter 10. Social Movements Facing the CrisisHéloïse NezPART II: NATIONAL CASESChapter 11. Social Movements Studies in Britain: ‘No Longer The Poor Relation?’Brian Doherty, Graeme Hayes and Christopher RootesChapter 12. Precarious Research in a Movement Society: Social Movement Studies in GermanySebastian HaunssChapter 13. Politics and People: Understanding Dutch Research on Social MovementsJan Willem Duyvendak, Conny Roggeband and Jacquelien van StekelenburgChapter 14. From Splendid Isolation To Joining the Concert of Nations: Social Movement Studies in FranceOlivier FillieuleChapter 15. Internationalization with Limited Domestic Recognition: Research on Social Movements in ItalyLorenzo Bosi and Lorenzo MoscaChapter 16. The Land of Opportunities?: Social Movement Studies in SwitzerlandPhilip BalsigerChapter 17. Studying Movements in a Movement-become-state: Research and Practice in Postcolonial Ireland    Laurence CoxChapter 18. Successful Social Movement Outcomes without Social Movements?: Research on Swedish Social Movements and Swedish Social Movement ResearchAbby PetersonChapter 19. Is Spain Still Different?: Social Movements Research in a Belated Western European DemocracyEduardo Romanos and Susana AguilarChapter 20. Revolutionary or Mild-mannered?: Social Movements and Social Movements Studies in PortugalGuya AccorneroChapter 21. From the Centre to the Periphery and Back to the Centre: Social Movements Affecting Social Movement Theory in the Case of GreeceKostis Kornetis and Hara KoukiChapter 22. A Militant Rather than Scientific Research Object: Social Movements Studies in TurkeyAyşen UysalChapter 23. From Democratization to Internationalization: Studying Social Movements in Hungary    Aron BuzoganyChapter 24. Social Movements in Pre- and Post-December 1989 in RomaniaLaura NistorChapter 25. Social Mobilization and the Strong State from the Soviets to Putin: Social Movements in the Soviet Union and Russia    Alfred Evans and Laura HenryConclusions: Social Movement Studies in Europe: Achievements, Gaps, and ChallengesDieter RuchtIndex

“Fillieule and Accornero have edited a timely volume for breaking down national silos in social movement research… As a sociology of sociology, the major thrust of the work is that context is of paramount importance: many factors contributed to why social movement theory has largely been more robust in the US than in Europe. Nevertheless, the material here prepares scholars around the globe for detailed, comparative studies of movements… Highly recommended.” · Choice“[This] volume [is] thoroughly recommended to everyone interested in the presence and history of social movements. An enormous amount of excellent scholarship is assembled here and no one will put this book down without having gained many fresh and productive insights into the development of social movements and their researchers.” · H-Net“The volume demonstrates that we sorely need contributions by anthropologists and others committed to empirical but theoretically robust research.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“This volume is a significant enterprise that gathers 40 academics together, scholars internationally well-known in the field of social movement studies and new promising researchers…This book can be read by specialists and non-specialists, students, practitioners in the third sector, and any citizen at large who is interested in and concerned about the subject.” · Análise Social“…anyone interested in the history and presence of social movements will greatly benefit from the volume…An enormous amount of excellent scholarship is assembled here and no one will put this book down without having gained many fresh and productive insights into the development of social movements and their researchers.” · H-Soz-Kult“This volume fulfills an ambitious objective of covering the ‘state of the art,’ introducing readers to the range of theoretical frameworks and empirical approaches that scholars have deployed in studying European social movements. Taken as a whole, this is a valuable contribution to the domain of social movement studies.” · Lilian Mathieu, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon