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Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States
This book examines the fluctuating place of sexuality in LGBTQ mobilization in the US. It contends that, while politically successful, the US LGBTQ movement has a record of neglecting a key aspect of LGBTQ militancy-sexuality-and analyses grassroots efforts at re-politicizing sexuality and re-sexualizing LGBTQ politics.
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The consequences of social movements
\"Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political elites and markets, and on political parties and processes of social movement institutionalization. The volume makes a significant contribution to research on social movement outcomes in three ways: theoretically, by showing the importance of hitherto undervalued topics in the study of social movements outcomes; methodologically, by expanding the scientific boundaries of this research field through an interdisciplinary approach and new methods of analysis; and empirically, by providing new evidence about social movement outcomes from Europe and the United States\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States
As LGBTQ movements in Western Europe, North America, and other regions of the world are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve? The United States is in many ways a paradigmatic model for LGBTQ movements in other countries. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States focuses on the transformations of the US LGBTQ movement since the 1980s, highlighting the relationship between its institutionalization and the disappearance of sexuality from its most visible claims, so that its growing visibility and legitimation since the 1990s have paradoxically led to a decrease in grassroots militancy. The book examines the issue from the bottom up, identifying the links between the varying importance of sexuality as a movement theme and actors' mobilization, and enhances the import of subjectivity in militancy. It draws attention to cultural, sometimes infrapolitical, forms of militancy that perpetuate the role of sexuality in LGBTQ militancy.
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Leading from the periphery and network collective action
\"Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often, but when they do happen, they tend to be the least expected. Based on the paradigm of 'leading from the periphery', this groundbreaking analysis offers an explanation for such spontaneity and apparent lack of leadership in contentious collective action. Contrary to existing theories, the author argues that network effects in collective action originating from marginal leaders can benefit from a total lack of communication. Such network effects persist in isolated islands of contention instead of overarching action cascades, and are shown to escalate in globally dispersed, but locally concentrated networks of contention. This is a trait that can empower marginal leaders and set forth social dynamics distinct from those originating in the limelight. Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action provides evidence from two Middle Eastern uprisings, as well as behavioral experiments of collective risk-taking in social networks\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Blackwell companion to social movements
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars on an array of topics in the field of social movement studies.
Contains original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars
Covers a wide array of topics in the field of social movement studies
Features a valuable introduction by the editors which maps the field, and helps situate the study of social movements within other disciplines
Includes coverage of historical, political, and cultural contexts; leadership; organizational dynamics; social networks and participation; consequences and outcomes; and case studies of major social movements
Offers the most comprehensive discussion of social movements available
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Narcissism and its discontents
\"Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations. By building on insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory it puts forward a theorisation of narcissistic sociability which redeems Narcissus from his position as the subject of negative critique. Following a close engagement with Sigmund Freud's 1914 paper 'On Narcissism: An Introduction', two further critical moments are considered: first, the mobilisation of narcissism in Anglo-American cultural discourse of the 1970s to 1990s where the term functioned as a descriptor for cultural malaise; and second, the discursive shift from narcissism to melancholia associated with more contemporary critical theory. This book pays particular attention to the paradoxical relation between the narcissist and the social world, identifying in Narcissus a figure whose turning away extends a call to others, and who finds in the vulnerabilities of the self the makings of the social scene\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Social Movements: The Key Concepts
Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas:
the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century
the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s
the rise of contemporary ‘network’ movements.
Key American, European and global social movements are addressed, with each entry related to contemporary developments and emergent tendencies within the field. Including helpful references for further study, this concise and up-to-date guide is of relevance for those studying a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, cultural studies and human geography.
Introduction. Key Concepts A-Z. Bibliography
Graeme Chesters is Senior Research Fellow in Peace Studies at Bradford University, UK. His books for Routledge include Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos (2006) with Ian Welsh.
Ian Welsh is Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. His books for Routledge include Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear Moment (2000).
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La société contre l'état : mouvements sociaux et stratégie de la rue au Maroc
L'analyse des mouvements sociaux permet d'examiner le processus du changement social et la nature de la relation qui lie l'Etat au citoyen. Après l'explosion des différentes émeutes au Maroc (1981, 1984 et 1990), la conquête pacifique de l'espace public urbain devient subitement un enjeu politique de taille. Depuis, la politique ne se déroule plus seulement dans les sphères conventionnelles. Elle se fait également dans la rue. Face à l'augmentation des mouvements sociaux protestataires, le pouvoir politique hésite, tolère, autorise, dialogue, mais interdit également avec violence des marches et des sit-in non autorisés. En 2005, les actions collectives des différents mouvements sociaux dans l'espace public (sit-in, manifestation, marche, etc.) se sont traduites en 700 protestations, soit une moyenne de deux sit-in par jour. Ce chiffre passe de 5.000 actions en 2008 à 6.438 en 2009 pour atteindre 8.600 en 2010 et plus de 18.000 actuellement, soit 50 protestations collectives par jour. Sous le gouvernement mené par le PJD, le nombre de protestations a été multiplié par 26 par rapport à l'année 2005. -- Publisher description.
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Making English Morals
Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity organisation, cruelty prevention, 'social purity' advocates, and more, all promoted their causes through mobilisation of citizen volunteer support. This 2004 book sets out to explore the world of these volunteer networks, their foci of concern, their patterns of recruitment, their methods of operation and the responses they aroused. In its exploration of this culture of self-consciously altruistic associational effort, the book provides a systematic survey of moral reform movements as a distinct tradition of citizen action over this period, as well as casting light on the formation of a middle-class culture torn, in this stage of economic and political nation-building, between acceptance of a market-organised society and unease about the cultural consequences of doing so. This is a revelatory book that is both compelling and accessible.
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