{"product_id":"cities-and-social-movements-9781118750667","title":"Cities and Social Movements","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, \u003ci\u003eCities and Social Movements\u003c\/i\u003e examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do  or don't  develop into large and sustained mobilizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTheorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editors' Preface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Sparks of Resistance 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Rethinking Movements from the Bottom Up 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Birth of Immigrant Rights Activism 37\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Making Space for Immigrant Rights Activism in Los Angeles 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Radical Entanglements in Paris 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Placing Protest in Amsterdam 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Urban Landscapes of Control and Contention 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Laissez]Faire State: Re]politicizing Immigrants in Los Angeles 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Uneven Reach of the State: The Partial Pacification of Paris 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Cooptative State: The Pacification of Contentious Immigrant Politics in Amsterdam 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III New Geographies of Immigrant Rights Movements 157\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Los Angeles as a Center of the National Immigrant Rights Movement 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Paris as Head of Splintering Resistances 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Divergent Geographies of Immigrant Rights Contention in the Netherlands 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Conclusion: Sparks into Wildfires 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 262\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528836620631,"sku":"9781118750667","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118750667.jpg?v=1731873214","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cities-and-social-movements-9781118750667","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}