Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Opportunities and Identities: Bridge-Building in the Study of Social Movements -- PART II. STATES AND POLICIES -- Introduction to Part II -- 2. State Repression and Democracy Protest in Three Southeast Asian Countries -- 3. Mobilization on the South African Gold Mines -- 4. Multiple Mediations: The State and the Women's Movements in India -- 5. The Contradictions of Gay Ethnicity: Forging Identity in Vermont -- 6. Creating Social Change: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement -- PART III. ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES -- Introduction to Part III -- 7. The "Meso" in Social Movement Research -- 8. Strategizing and the Sense of Context: Reflections on the First Two Weeks of the Liverpool Docks Lockout, September-October 1995 -- 9. Factions and the Continuity of Political Challengers -- 10. More Than One Feminism: Organizational Structure and the Construction of Collective Identity -- 11. The Development of Individual Identity and Consciousness among Movements of the Left and Right -- PART IV. COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES, DISCOURSE, AND CULTURE -- Introduction to Part IV -- 12. Toward a More Dialogic Analysis of Social Movement Culture -- 13. Materialist Feminist Discourse Analysis and Social Movement Research: Mapping the Changing Context for "Community Control" -- 14. From the "Beloved Community" to "Family Values": Religious Language, Symbolic Repertoires, and Democratic Culture -- 15. External Political Change, Collective Identities, and Participation in Social Movement Organizations -- PART V. CONCLUSION -- 16. Meaning and Structure in Social Movements -- References -- 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.

Why do social movements take the forms they do? How do activists' efforts and beliefs interact with the cultural and political contexts in which they work? Why do activists take particular strategic paths, and how do their strategies affect the course and impact of the movement? SocialMovements aims to bridge the gap between political opportunities theorists who look at the circumstances and effects of social movement efforts and collective identity theorists who focus on the reconstruction of meaning and identity through collective action. The volume brings together scholarsfrom a variety of perspectives to consider the intersections of opportunities and identities, structures and cultures, in social movements. Representing a new generation of social movement theory, the contributors build bridges between political opportunities and collective identity paradigms,between analyses of movements' internal dynamics and their external contexts, between approaches that emphasize structure and those that emphasize culture. They cover a wide range of case studies from both the U.S. and Western Europe as well as from less developed countries. Movements includefeminist organizing in the U.S. and India, lesbian/gay movements, revolutionary movements in Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia, labor campaigns in England and South Africa, civil rights movements, community organizing, political party organizing in Canada, student movements of the left andright, and the Religious Right. Many chapters also pay explicit attention to the dynamics of gender, race, and class in social movements. Combining a variety of perspectives on a wide range of topics, the contributors' synthetic approach shifts the field of social movements forward in important newdirections.

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