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Book SynopsisThe 21st century has brought many changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements. Organizations and scholars alike have developed new techniques for bridging cultural divides and enhancing democracy and respect for human rights. Moreover, technological changes have significantly altered conflict spaces.
Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of these broader social changes. Contributors advance methodological scholarship by developing new tools, discussing new sources of data and their relative value, and addressing controversies and ethical issues that have emerged in the process of collecting or analyzing data.
Acknowledging how more movements are using a wider range of tactics to influence a rapidly changing, deeply interconnected world, Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change appeals to scholars interested in how the study of social movements, peace, and conflict has developed and adapted to keep pace with ongoing socio-political and technological change.
Table of ContentsForeword; Lisa Leitz
Navigating Interests and Cultivating Innovation in the Study of Social Movements, Conflict, and Change; Thomas V. Maher and Eric W. Schoon
Section I. Innovations in Data Collection and Processing
Chapter 1. Beyond Protests: Using Computational Text Analysis to Explore a Greater Variety of Social Movement Activities; Brayden G. King and Laura K. Nelson
Chapter 2. The Use of Digitized Newspaper Archives for World-Historical Research on Social Conflicts: The State-Seeking Nationalist Movements Database; Şahan Savaş Karataşlı
Chapter 3. Satellite Images in Conflict Research: Methodological and Ethical Considerations; Fiona Rose Greenland and Michelle D. Fabiani
Chapter 4. Instant Archives: Social Media and Social Movement Research; Elle Rochford, Baylee Hudgens, and Rachel L. Einwohner
Section II. Epistemology and Reflexivity
Chapter 5. Moments of Interrogation: Doing Feminist Ethnography in the Archives; Jo Reger
Chapter 6. Developing Ethical Standards for Student Participation in Protest Research; Laura J. Heideman
Chapter 7. Insider-Outsider Dynamics and Identity in Qualitative Studies of Social Movements; Kathleen A. Ragon and Daisy Verduzco Reyes
Section III. Novel Analytics
Chapter 8. How to Analyze the Influence of Social Movements with QCA: Combinational Hypotheses, Venn Diagrams, and Movements Making Big News; Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, and Weijun Yuan
Chapter 9. Measuring Event Diffusion Momentum (EDM): Applications in Social Movement Research; Tony Huiquan Zhang and Tianji Cai
Chapter 10. Coalitions Under Threat: Analyzing the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests Using Telegram Social Media Data; Weijun Yuan
