Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines: (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)

This book aims to revisit the interdisciplinary roots of social movement studies. Each discipline raises its own questions and approaches the subject from a different angle or perspective. The chapters of this handbook are written by internationally renowned scholars representing the various disciplines involved. They each review the approach their sector has developed and discuss their disciplines’ contributions and insights to the knowledge of social movements. Furthermore, each chapter addresses the "unanswered questions" and discusses the overlaps with other fields as well as reviewing the interdisciplinary advances so far.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction; Conny Roggeband and Bert Klandermans.- Chapter 2. Sociological Understandings of Social Movements: A North American Perspective; Deana Rohlinger and Haley Gentile.- Chapter 3. Protest and Social Movements in Political Science; Kateřina Vráblíková.- Chapter 4. Anthropology and the Study of Social Movements; Ton Salman and Willem Assies.- Chapter 5. Individuals in Movements: A Social Psychology of Contention; Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Bert Klandermans.- Chapter 6. Historians and the Study of Protest; Brian Dill and Ron Aminzade.- Chapter 7. Communication Sciences and the study of social movements; Jonathan Cable.- Chapter 8. Social movements and organization(s); Frank de Bakker, Frank den Hond and Mikko Laamanen.- Chapter 9. Social Movements in Law: An Interdisciplinary Analysis; Scott L. Cummings.

About the Author :
Conny Roggeband is Assistant Professor at the Political Science department of the University of Amsterdam, where she also serves as a board member of the Amsterdam Research Centre of Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS). She is affiliated to the political science department at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador. She has written on the politicisation of gender mainstreaming and equality policies, social movements and transnational feminist networking based on research conducted in Europe and Latin America. She is co-author (with Andrea Krizsán) of The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence: Feminists Engaging the State in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge 2017). She edited Gender and Norm Dynamics in Regional Governance (Palgrave 2014, co-edited with Anna van der Vleuten and Anouka van Eerdewijk), The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes (Un. of Minnesota Press 2013, co-edited with Jacquelien Van Stekelenburg and Bert Klandermans) and Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines (2007, coedited with Bert Klandermans). Bert Klandermans is Professor in Applied Social Psychology at the VU-University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on the social psychology of protest and social movement participation. He is the author of the now classic Social Psychology of Protest (Blackwell 1997). He is the editor and co-author (with Suzanne Staggenborg) of Methods of Social Movement Research ( University of Minnesota Press, 2002). With Conny Roggeband he edited the Handbook of Social Movements across Disciplines (Springer, 2007). He is the editor of of Sociopedia.isa a online database of review articles published by Sage in collaboration with the International Sociological Association. He is co-editor of Blackwell/Wiley's Encyclopedia of Social Movements and of The Future of Social Movement Research. Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes (Un. of Minnesota Press 2013). In 2009 he received a royal decoration for his efforts to link science and society; in 2013 he received the Harold Lasswell Award of the International Society of Political Psychology for his lifelong contribution to political psychology. In 2014 he received the John D. McCarthy Award from Notre Dame University for his contribution to the study of social movements and collective action. He holds a prestigious Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).