Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change: (27 Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change)

This volume of "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" contains a strong collection of theoretically rich and data-driven papers, which address a series of interrelated questions that are at the forefront of todays social movement scholarship. For example, political opportunity theory has been justly criticized for privileging structure over agency, politics over culture, and for failing to adequately specify how political opportunities differ for social movements in democracies vs. in non-democracies. In this volume, political opportunity theory receives careful, empirically-informed correctives from a number of quarters. In addition, a synthesis is achieved between nonviolent action scholarship and the contentious politics school of research. Equally important, the roles of collective identities, ideologies, identity talk, art, biographies, social networks, police repression, and participation pathways are analyzed within the context of social movements in the United States, Mexico, the Netherlands, India, Brazil, Northern Ireland, and in various non-democracies. This is that too rare collection which when taken together builds bridges between scholarship on social movements and on social conflicts, and in the process makes theoretical advances in each area in much needed yet creative ways. In that way, this volume carries on the distinguished tradition of the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTIONPatrick G. CoyPART I: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN NORTHERN IRELANDFROM CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS AND BACK AGAIN: THE INTERRELATION OF REBELLION AND PROTEST IN NORTHERN IRELAND, 1955-1972 Gregory M. ManeySOCIAL MOVEMENT PARTICIPATION AND THE A"TIMINGA" OF INVOLVEMENT: THE CASE OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Lorenzo BosiPOLICE KNOWLEDGE REVISED: INSIGHTS FROM THE POLICING OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN NORTHERN IRELANDGianluca De FazioPART II: POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND POLITICAL CULTURESRETHINKING NONVIOLENT ACTION AND CONTENTIOUS POLITICS: POLITICAL CULTURES OF NONVIOLENT OPPOSITION IN THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND BRAZIL'S LANDLESS WORKERS MOVEMENTSean Chabot and Stellan VinthagenA LONG, HARD SLOG: POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF DISSENT IN NON-DEMOCRACIESMaryjane Osa and Kurt SchockSTRATEGIC WOMEN, ELITE ADVOCACY AND INSIDER STRATEGIES: THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN WALESPaul ChaneyPART III: IDENTITIES, IDEOLOGIES, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT PARTICIPATIONIDEOLOGY, ORGANIZATION, AND BIOGRAPHY: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY TALK AMONG PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT Stephen ValocchiART AND IDENTITY IN MEXICAN AND CHICANO SOCIAL MOVEMENTSEdward J. McCaughanNEW FRONTIERS FOR IDENTITY POLITICS? THE POTENTIAL AND PITFALLS OF PATIENT AND CIVIC IDENTITY IN THE DUTCH PATIENTS' HEALTH MOVEMENT Jan Willem Duyvendak and Trudi NederlandPATHS TO PARTICIPATION: A PROFILE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS-ERA KU KLUX KLANDavid Cunningham