Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change /edited by Patrick G. Coy. - First edition. - Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Research in social movements, conflicts and change ; volume 42 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Front Cover; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; About the Contributors; Introduction; Section I. Social Movements and Their Institutional Relations; Allies in Action: Institutional Actors and Grassroots Environmental Activism in China; Introduction; Institutional Allies in Social Movements; Data and Methods; The Case of the Xiamen Anti-PX Movement; Institutional Actors in China's Environmental Governance; Institutional Actors in the Xiamen Anti-PX Movement; SEPA's Limited Presence; Local EPB's Defection; ENGOs' Inaction Social Elites' Constrained InfluenceSummary; Comparison: When Institutional Allies Were Absent; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; A Tale of Two Bike Lanes: Consensus Movements and Infrastructure Delivery; Introduction; Infrastructure Delivery and Consensus Movements; Crowdfunding as a Consensus Movement Tactic; Method; Case Narrative; The 1st Street Protected Bike Lane; The 2nd Street Protected Bike Lane; Discussion; The State; The Social Movement Organization; The Social Movement; Implications; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References When Do Political Parties Move to the Streets? Party Protest in ChileParty Competition in Chile: Centripetal and Stable; Describing Party Protest; Explaining Party Protest; Visibility of the Protest Event; Presence of Formal Organizations; Governmental Ideology; Aggregate Protest and Public Goods; Data and Methods; Dataset; Dependent Variable; Independent Variables; Results; Is Endogeneity a Problem?; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Building Solidarity across Asymmetrical Risks: Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists; Introduction; Theory; Methodology and Group Studied Asymmetrical Risks in the Context of the Israeli OccupationImpact of the Asymmetrical Risks; Trust and Recognition of Asymmetrical Risks for Solidarity; Making Clear Their Commitment to Their Shared Goals; Willingness to Defend and Support One Another; Respecting Boundaries of the Other; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Section II. Frames and Discourses in Conflicts and Social Movements; Frame Resonance, Tactical Innovation, and Poor People in the Tunisian Uprising; Introduction; Resources and Mobilization; The Tunisian Uprising; Background Poverty and Poor People in TunisiaResource Problem in the Literature on the Uprising; Methods of Inquiry; Frame Resonance; Prioritizing Socio-economic Demands; Motivational Campaign; Evoking Collective Memory; White Lies; Bouazizi as University Graduate; Incitement Slogans; Locating Protests in Poor Neighborhoods in Coastal Regions; The Role of Poor Tunisians in the Protests; The Poor as Sustainer of Protests; SRMs and the Debilitation of POB; The Poor as Main Carrier of Protests; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix 1: Distribution of Interviewees

This important collection addresses the critically important dimensions of the relationships that social movements, their activists, and their organizations have with the state and other institutions. It also examines three movements linked by frame and discourse analysis, before concluding with a survey of the biographical trajectory of activism.



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Social movements.
Social conflict.
Social psychology.


Electronic Books.

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