Protest and Politics : The Promise of Social Movement Societies /
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| Imprint: | Vancouver : UBC Press, [2015] |
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| 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 |
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
