Social movements : a reader / edited by Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nicola Montagna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1 : Conflict and collective action. The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels -- A contribution to the critique of political economy / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels -- The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte / Karl Marx -- The division of labour in society / Emile Durkheim -- The elementary forms of the religious life / Emile Durkheim -- Conflict (on individuality and social forms) / Georg Simmel -- The crowd / Gustave Le Bon -- pt. 2 : Hegemony and collective behaviour. The city / Max Weber -- Class, status, party / Max Weber -- Notes on Italian history / Antonio Gramsci -- The modern prince / Antonio Gramsci -- Social movements / Herbert Blumer -- The politics of mass society / William Kornhauser -- Theory of collective behaviour / Neil Smelser -- pt. 3 : Resource mobilisation. The logic of collective action / Mancur Olson -- Social conflict and social movements / Anthony Oberschall -- Resource mobilisation and social movements : a partial theory / John McCarthy and Mayer Zald -- Resource mobilisation theory and the study of social movements / Craig Jenkins -- The Critical mass in collective action / Gerard Marwell and Pamela Oliver -- pt. 4 : Social movements and the political process. Power in movement / Sidney Tarrow -- Personal politics / Sara Evans -- The conditions of protest behaviour in American cities / Peter K. Eisinger -- Social movements and direct democracy in Switzerland / Hanspeter Kriesi and Dominique Wisler -- Poor people's movements / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Political process and the development of black insurgency 1930-1970 / Doug McAdam -- Social movements and national politics / Charles Tilly --

pt. 5 : New social movements. New social movements / Jurgen Habermas -- New social movements : challenging the boundaries of institutional politics / Claus Offe -- An introduction to the study of social movements / Alain Touraine -- A strange kind of newness : what's "new" in new social movements? / Alberto Melucci -- Conflict networks and the origin of women's liberation / Carol Mueller -- Theory and protest in Latin America today / Arturo Escobar and Sonia Alvarez -- pt. 6 : New directions. Mobilisation and participation : social-psychological expansions of resource mobilisation theory / Bert Klandermans -- Frame alignment processes, micromobilisation and movement participation / David Snow et al -- The concept of social movement / Mario Diani -- Social movements : a cognitive approach / Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison -- Comparative perspectives on social movements / Doug McAdam, John McCarthy and Mayer Zald -- Putting emotions in their place / Craig Calhoun -- pt. 7 : New global movements. Grassroots globalisation / Arjun Appadurai -- Globalisation and gender : new threats, new strategies / Marjorie Mayo -- Globalizing resistance : the battle of Seattle and the future of social movements / Jackie Smith -- From Santiago to Seattle : transnational advocacy groups restructuring world politics / Sanjeev Khagram, James V. Riker and Kathyn Sikkink -- Transnational protest and global activism / Donatella Della Porta and Sidney Tarrow -- Social movements and global mobilisations / Nicola Montagna -- Dichotomies and contemporary social movements / Vincenzo Ruggiero.

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