The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes

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Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The Future of Social Movement Research asks: How are the dynamics of contention shaped by globalization? By societies that are becoming increasingly more individualized and diverse? By the spread of new communication technologies such as social media, cell phones, and the Internet? Why do some movements survive while others dissipate? Do local and global networks differ in nature? The authors’ essays explore such questions with reference to changes in three domains of contention: the demand of protest (changes in grievances and identities), the supply of protest (changes in organizations and networks), and how these changes affect the dynamics of mobilization. In doing so, they theorize and make empirically insightful how globalization, individualization, and virtualization create new grievances, new venues for action, new action forms, and new structures of contention. The resulting work—brought together through engaging discussions and debates between the contributors—is interdisciplinary and unusually broad in scope, constituting the most comprehensive overview of the dynamics of social movements available today. Contributors: Marije Boekkooi, VU-U, Amsterdam; Pang Ching Bobby Chen, U of California, Merced; Donatella della Porta, European U Institute; Mario Diani, U of Trento, Italy; Jan Willem Duyvendak, U of Amsterdam; Myra Marx Ferree, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Beth Gharrity Gardner; Ashley Gromis; Swen Hutter, U of Munich; Ruud Koopmans, WZB, Berlin; Hanspeter Kriesi, U of Zurich; Nonna Mayer, National Centre for European Studies; Doug McAdam, Stanford U; John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State U; Debra Minkoff, Barnard College, Columbia U; Alice Motes; Pamela E. Oliver, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Francesca Polletta, U of California, Irvine; Jacomijne Prins, VU-U, Amsterdam; Patrick Rafail, Tulane U; Christopher Rootes, U of Kent, Canterbury; Dieter Rucht, Free U of Berlin; David A. Snow, U of California, Irvine; Sarah A. Soule, Stanford U; Suzanne Staggenborg, U of Pittsburgh; Sidney Tarrow, Cornell U; Verta Taylor, U of California, Santa Barbara; Marjoka van Doorn; Martijn van Zomeren, U of Groningen; Stefaan Walgrave, U of Antwerp; Saskia Welschen. Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Future of Social Movement Research I. Grievances and Identities: The Demand Side of Participation 1. The Dynamics of Demand 2. Is the Internet Creating New Reasons to Protest? 3. Social Movement Participation in the Global Society: Identity, Networks, and Emotions 4. “Protest against Whom?”: The Role of Collective Meaning Making in Politicization Discussion: Opening the Black Box of Dynamics in Theory and Research on the Demand Side of Protest II. Organizations and Networks: The Supply Side of Contention 5. The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Questions for Discussion 6. Bringing Organizational Studies Back into Social Movement Scholarship 7. Organization and Community in Social Movements 8. Organizational Fields and Social Movement Dynamics 9. Social Movement Structures in Action: Conceptual Propositions and Empirical Illustration Discussion: The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Impressions on a Theme III. Dynamics of Mobilization 10. Changing Mobilization of Individual Activists? 11. Mobilizing for Change in a Changing Society 12. Ethnicity, Repression, and Fields of Action in Movement Mobilization 13. Identity Dilemmas, Discursive Fields, Identity Work, and Mobilization: Clarifying the Identity–Movement Nexus 14. Movements of the Left, Movements of the Right Reconsidered Discussion: Mobilization and the Changing and Persistent Dynamics of Political Participation IV. The Changing Context of Contention 15. The End of the Social Movement as We Know It? Adaptive Challenges in Changed Contexts 16. Social Movements and Elections: Toward a Broader Understanding of the Political Context of Contention 17. Social Movements, Power, and Democracy: New Challenges, New Challengers, New Theories? 18. Recent Trends in Public Protest in the United States: The Social Movement Society Thesis Revisited 19. The “Contentious French” Revisited Discussion: Meaning and Movements in the New Millennium: Gendering Democracy Afterword Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z