Channeling: identity-based social movements and public law.

University of Pennsylvania Law Review;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......dynamics. (1) Social movements have been one...more about social movement theories. Three...effects on social movements; law does not...in which the social movement operates. The social movements literature...learn from social movement ...

Transnational social movements and sovereignties in transition: charting...

Anthropologica;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Keywords: Social movements, transnationalism...Study of Social Movements [W]hat is...dialogue with social movements, ceding to...or even social movements than they...contemporary social movements--a field...popularity of new social movements ...

Taiwan's state and social movements under the DPP government,...

Journal of East Asian Studies;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......strategy. Some social movement issues gain political...countervailing factors, social movements have made only...power. KEYWORDS: social movement, democratization...The rise of social movements has been an integral...government and social movements would ...

Public argument action research and the learning curve of new social...

Argumentation and Advocacy;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......rhetorical study of social movements--the difficulty...theoretical work in social movement studies as scholar...characteristic of social movements as a class...rhetorical genre of social movement rhetoric (see...challenge to those social movement ...

Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State.(Book Review)

Social Forces;  June 1, 2004 ;     594 words ...Social Movements: Identity, Culture...collective action and social movements and to encourage...approaches to the study of social movements. To achieve these...enlisted the efforts of social movement scholars who focus...collective action and social ...

Passing through the door: social movement literature and legal...

University of Pennsylvania Law Review;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the study of social movements has become a...and Continental social movement literature is...another. The social movement literature, although...literature on social movements. Apparently...contact with the social movements literature. They...define the ...

Notes on Mexican art, social movements, and Anzaldua's "conocimiento".

Social Justice;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......bodily awareness--with social, political action...Mexico s contemporary social movements. Yet their role as...most scholars of social movements. Perhaps, in part...largely unrecognized by social movement scholars and activists...science literature on social ...

Geography and Social Movements: Comparing Anti-Nuclear Activism in the...

Social Forces;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......sensitive accounts of social movements. After convincingly...Martin) that most social movement scholarship is...process, and new social movement theories, infuses...geographic model of social movements. The model draws...generation of social movement ...

Redressing past human rights violations: global dimensions of contemporary...

Social Forces;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......contemporary social movements and applies the...empirical case of social movement for former comfort...engendering many new social movements that pressure...relations and social movement research have...approaches in social movement studies, political...to ...

From Structure to Dynamics: A Paradigm Shift in Social Movements Research?

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Paradigm Shift in Social Movements Research? DOUG...leading scholars of social movements and "contentious...important, book on social movements (and related phenomena...Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the...scholarship on social ...

"Attac": a global social movement?(anti-globalization movement)

Social Justice;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...THE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IS EXPERIENCING A SIGNIFICANT...of the sociology of social movements. The cross-national...of its proximity to social movements, sociology has always...one or more of such social movements (Urry, 2000: 18). According...imposing it, and that ...

social movements

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...social movements Collective attempts to bring about...organized. Concentrated attention to social movements is relatively recent in the social...convergence of forces for social change. Social movements can be narrow in scope, targeting...

Methods of Social Movement Research.(Book Review)

Social Forces;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Methods of Social Movement Research is...approaches used by social movement researchers...are used in social movement studies: survey...theories in social movement research...research on social movements and political...mobilization of social ...

Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American...

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Tables...sets of meanings and stakes. For all social movements, then, collective identities and strategies...so that "the cultural politics of social movements often attempt to challenge or ...

Time to stop romanticising social movements.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  January 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......within South African social movements. The dramatic and rancorous...Anti-Eviction Campaign, and the Social Movement Indaba (SMI) secretariat...larger problems afflicting social movements. Contrary to the impression some social movements try to give, nothing...relations ...