Protest and Politics : The Promise of Social Movement Societies /

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Imprint:Vancouver : UBC Press, [2015]
Description:x, 363 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10380469
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Other authors / contributors:Ramos, Howard, 1974- editor.
Rodgers, Kathleen, 1974- editor.
ISBN:9780774829168
0774829168
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [308]-346) and index.
Issued also in electronic formats.
Other form:Protest and politics.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Promise of Social Movement Societies
  • Part 1. Political and Historical Context
  • 1. Reconsidering the Social Movement Society in the New Century
  • 2. Evangelical Radio: Institution Building and the Religious Right
  • 3. The Social Movement Society and the Human Rights State
  • 4. Institutionalization, State Funding, and Advocacy in the Quebec Women's Movement
  • Part 2. State Dynamics and Processes
  • 5. How the State Shapes Social Movements: An Examination of the Environmental Movement in Canada
  • 6. Immigrant Collective Mobilization and Socio-economic Integration in Canada
  • 7. Uncooperative Movements, Militarized Policing, and the Social Movement Society
  • Part 3. How People Participate
  • 8. Social Movement Communities in the Movement Society
  • 9. No to Protests, Yes to Festivals: How the Creative Class Organizes in the Social Movement Society
  • 10. Justification and Critique in the Social Movement Society
  • 11. The Concept of Social Movement and Its Relationship to the Social Movement Society: An Empirical Investigation
  • Part 4. Knowledge and Culture
  • 12. Alternative Policy Groups and Global Civil Society: Networks and Discourses of Counter-Hegemony
  • 13. Wilderness Revisited: Canadian Environmental Movements and the Eco-Politics of Special Places
  • 14. Alberta Internalizing Oil Sands Opposition: A Test of the Social Movement Society Thesis
  • Conclusion: What We Can Say about the Promise of Social Movement Societies
  • References
  • List of Contributors
  • Index