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• Halftitle
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction: conceptualizing social movements
• Social movement studies
• Challenging conceptual distinctions
• Main arguments
• Useful features
• 2 From the mad to the sane: collective behaviour and its critics
• Herbert Blumer’s approach to understanding collective behaviour
• The role of social problems
• Social unrest
• The crowd
• Social movements
• Blumer assessed
• Neil Smelser’s approach to understanding collective behaviour
• Structural strains
• Generalized beliefs
• A general model of collective behaviour
• Smelser assessed
• Summary
• Discussion Point
• Further reading
• 3 From the rational to the relational: resource mobilization, organization, and social movement netw
• Resource mobilization theory (RMT)
• Rational action theory (RAT)
• Protest and social movements as ‘rational action’
• The ‘collective action problem’
• Participation in collective action
• External elites and movement entrepreneurs
• Professional SMOs
• The dynamics of social movement organizations (SMOs)
• Public opinion and the media
• SMOs assessed
• Social movements as ‘networks’
• Interpersonal ties
• Analysing social movement networks
• Networks assessed: the relational logic of collective action
• Summary
• Discussion Point
• Further reading
• 4 From political processes to cultural processes: political opportunity, frames, and contentious pol
• Political process theory (PPT)
• A world of political opportunity (and threat)
• The centrality of the nation state
• Political opportunity structure
• PPT assessed
• The world of symbolic meaning: constructionist approaches to social movements
• Frames
• The media and framing
• Narrative and dramaturgy
• Framing and the political process model assessed
• Contentious politics (CP): developments in PPT
• Summary
• Discussion Point
• Further reading
• 5 From old to new social movements: capitalism, culture, and the reinvention of everyday life
• The background to NSM theory: class-based social movements
• Class struggle
• Out with the old
• In with the new
• An analytical approach to social movements
• Jürgen Habermas: NSMs as defensive reactions to the ‘colonization of the lifeworld’
• From capital/labour conflicts to system/lifeworld conflicts
• Habermas assessed
• Alain Touraine: NSMs as a struggle over ‘historicity’
• The struggle over ‘historicity’
• Touraine assessed
• Alberto Melucci: NSMs as the creation of new collective identities
• Collective identity
• Melucci assessed
• Class struggle and cultural struggle
• Summary
• Discussion Point
• Further reading
• 6 From national to global social movements: network movements, alternative globalization, and new me
• Global social movement processes and mechanisms
• Environmental mechanisms – changing external influences on social movements
• relational mechanisms – changing connections among people, groups, and interpersonal networks
• Cognitive mechanisms – changing alterations of individual and collective perceptions
• The alternative globalization movement (AGM)
• Environmental mechanisms: contesting global governance
• AGM environmental mechanisms assessed
• relational mechanisms: a network movement of the information age
• AGM relational mechanisms assessed
• Identity-shift: a struggle against ‘neoliberalism’
• AGM cognitive mechanisms assessed
• Summary
• Discussion Point
• Further reading
• 7 From the pretty to the ugly: terrorism, social movement theory, and covert networks
• What is ‘terrorism’?
• Why social movements adopt terrorist tactics
• Political opportunities and interactions with state authority
• Organizational splits, radical factions, and countermovements
• Resource mobilization theory and political process theory approaches to terrorism assessed
• Globalization and international terrorism
• Globalization approaches assessed
• Covert social movement networks
• Summary
• Discussion Point
• Further reading
• 8 From collective behaviour to misbehaviour: redrawing the boundaries of political and cultural resi
• The concept of misbehaviour
• Misbehaviour in context
• The everyday troublemaker
• Summary
• Discussion Point
• Further reading
• 9 Conclusion: the shifting terrain of social movements studies
• The problem with general theories
• A relational understanding of social movements
• A relational logic of collective action
• A relational understanding of the world around a social movement
• A relational understanding of culture and emotion
• New cases, new contexts: challenges to existing conceptualizations
• Closing thought
• Bibliography
• Index