In this book, Zirakzadeh examines different types of social movements, from the Greens in Germany to the Shining Path in Peru. The book concludes with a juxtaposition of the three major theoretical approaches and historical findings and proposes a fourth theoretical approach emphasizing factional conflict and reconciliation.
Other scholars who define social movements in terms of a group's deliberate
attempt to remake society include Goldberg (1991), Killian (1964), and Morris (
1984). Piven (1976: 300–1), however, contends that the concept of social movement ...
Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational Networks
The two current trends of democratization and deepening economic liberalization have made Latin American countries a ground for massive defensive mobilization campaigns and have created new sites of popular struggle. In this edited volume on Latin American social movements, original chapters are combined with peer-reviewed articles from the well-regarded journal Mobilization. Each section represents a major theme in Latin American social movement research. Original chapters discuss the Madres de Plaza de Mayo movement in Argentina and the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico. Also included in the book's coverage of the region's major movements are los piqueteros and antisweatshop labor organizing. This is the first study to focus closely on the related issues of neoliberal globalization, democratization, and the workings of transnational advocacy networks in Latin America.
This is the first study to focus closely on the related issues of neoliberal globalization, democratization, and the workings of transnational advocacy networks in Latin America.
This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single-nation studies, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyze movements in two countries--Italy and Germany--from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through extensive use of official documents and in-depth interviews, della Porta is able to explain the actors' construction of external political reality, and to build a theory on political violence that synthesizes the various interactions among political actors.
Stephen C. Poulson investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. This work covers the following social movements: the 1890-92 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-09 Constitutional Revolution; two post-World War II movements, the Tudeh (Masses) and the National Front; the 1963 Qom Protest; and the 1978-79 Iranian Revolution. Poulson shows how various Iranian political actors have framed their dissent, drawing on both regional and Western-influenced modes of protest to achieve their ends.
Two Foundations of Social Movement Theory We should do well to remember
that that Christianity, Islam, the Protestant Reformation, and the subsequent
sectarianism began life as the organizing frames for specific social movements.1
This ...
Cause Lawyers and Social Movements seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political activists with whom cause lawyers work and whom they seek to serve. It demonstrates that while all cause lawyering cuts against the grain of conventional understandings of legal practice and professionalism, social movement lawyering poses distinctively thorny problems. The editors and authors of this volume explore the following questions: What do cause lawyers do for, and to, social movements? How, when, and why do social movements turn to and use lawyers and legal strategies? Does their use of lawyers and legal strategies advance or constrain the achievement of their goals? And, how do movements shape the lawyers who serve them and how do lawyers shape the movements?
Social Movement Strategies and the Participatory Potential of Litigation ANNA -
MARIA MARSHALL Cause lawyering research is generating an increasingly
detailed picture of the working conditions of attorneys who pursue political
projects ...
Salah satu kesimpulan penting dari buku ini adalah bahwa gerakan Islam radikal FPI bukanlah termasuk gerakan Islam-radikal fundamentalis yang memiliki komitmen tinggi untuk memperjuangkan Islam dan mencita-citakan berdirinya negara Islam. Akan tetapi, ia merupakan ge-rakan Islam-radikal-politik, yang menjadikan agama hanya sebagai kedok untuk menutupi kepentingan politik dan ekonomi para pemimpinnya.
Watak gerakan ini sangat sesuai dengan karakteristik sosial mereka saat ini,
yaitu menggunakan simbol dan legitimasi agama untuk melakukan tindak
kekerasan. Gerakan seperti inilah yang menghubungkan realitas sosial
kelompok santri ...
Modernisasi yang ia lakukan meliputi bidang angkatan bersenjata , administrasi , bidang industri dan pendidikan , khususnya pendidikan bagi kaum wanita . Pada tahun 1935 , sebuah sekolah untuk pelatihan bagi penerjemah ilmu pengetahuan ...
Current anomalies in UK law mean that some minorities have full protection for
their religious practices in the school ... Ways should be found in which faith
identities can be harnessed to improve educational standards among Muslim
pupils.
