Social Movement Studies in Europe

Social Movement Studies in Europe
Title Social Movement Studies in Europe PDF eBook
Author Olivier Fillieule
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 526
Release 2016-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 1785330985

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Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.

Social Movement Campaigns on EU Policy

Social Movement Campaigns on EU Policy
Title Social Movement Campaigns on EU Policy PDF eBook
Author Louisa Parks
Publisher Springer
Pages 348
Release 2015-07-27
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1137411066

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This book assesses how much influence social movements have on EU policy and the means through which influence is secured. Using wide-ranging case studies of campaigns from GMOs to water rights and Internet freedom, it elucidates the important differences between technical and political campaigns.

European Social Movements and Muslim Activism

European Social Movements and Muslim Activism
Title European Social Movements and Muslim Activism PDF eBook
Author Timothy Peace
Publisher Springer
Pages 196
Release 2015-07-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137464003

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How do progressive social movements deal with religious pluralism? In this book, Timothy Peace uses the example of the alter-globalisation movement to explain why social movement leaders in Britain and France reacted so differently to the emergence of Muslim activism.

Social Movements and Europeanization

Social Movements and Europeanization
Title Social Movements and Europeanization PDF eBook
Author Donatella della Porta
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 240
Release 2011-06-23
Genre History
ISBN 0191619698

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Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or do they disrupt the process of EU integration? This book includes surveys of activists at international protest events targeting the European Union (for a total of about 5000 interviews); a discourse analysis of documents and transcripts of debates on European politics and policies conducted during the four European social forums held between 2002 and 2006 and involving hundreds of social movement organizations and tens of thousands of activists from all European countries; about 320 interviews with representatives of civil society organizations in six EU countries (France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy) and one non-member state (Switzerland), and a systematic claims analysis of the daily press in selected years between 1990 and 2003. The empirical research shows the different paths of Europeanization taken by social movements and civil society organizations.

The Transnational Condition

The Transnational Condition
Title The Transnational Condition PDF eBook
Author Simon Teune
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 254
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 9781845457280

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During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational protest is obviously more salient in a world of international corporations and global political interaction, compounded by electronic communication and cheap travel. The transnational condition permeates all aspects of protest organization and dynamics - from individual biographies to activist networks to cycles of contention. The contributors offer insight into this multifaceted condition by combining rich empirical evidence with reflections on the problems of transnational research.

Social Movements and Sexual Citizenship in Southern Europe

Social Movements and Sexual Citizenship in Southern Europe
Title Social Movements and Sexual Citizenship in Southern Europe PDF eBook
Author A. Santos
Publisher Springer
Pages 240
Release 2012-11-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137296402

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This book explores the relationship between social movements, sexual citizenship and change in Southern Europe. Providing a comparative analysis about LGBT issues in Italy, Spain and Portugal, it discusses how activism can generate legal, political and cultural impact in post-dictatorial, Catholic and EU-focused countries.

Beyond NGO-ization

Beyond NGO-ization
Title Beyond NGO-ization PDF eBook
Author Professor Kerstin Jacobsson
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 436
Release 2013-06-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1409472833

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The celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall provoked a debate on the outcomes of the transition process in the post-communist countries, including a debate on the functioning of civil society. This provided a good opportunity for researchers to collect new data and revise the discourse on collective action and the dynamics of civil society in these countries. Jacobsson and Saxonberg's collection of essays looks at social movements, and their forms of mobilization and organization, as well as action repertoires in relation to the social context, and their success or failure. The book meets an important need in the discourse on post-communist social movements by going beyond the usual discourse about the weak and non-participatory civil society in the post-communist context. This book gives a nuanced and updated view of social movements in post-communist Europe, by looking at the cases of relatively successful mobilization, by examining groups that have often been neglected in the discourse on social movements and civil society (including animal-rights groups, racist movements and non-feminist family organizations), and by giving a deeper analysis of the different strategies that civil society organizations and groups can use. Rather than expecting social movements in post-communist Europe to follow the same patterns and operate in the same fashion as in Western Europe, this volume shows that a wider view of contentious action is needed in order to understand the variety of strategies employed by collective actors operating in this context.