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Book SynopsisProtest and Politics examines the blurring of contentious politics and mainstream politics to argue that, in an era of social movement societies, our understanding of the boundaries between politics and protest needs to be reconfigured.
Trade ReviewThis high-quality collection … makes an important empirical contribution, especially because of the many chapters that deal with aspects of activism that are not often canvassed in Canadian scholarship.
-- Miriam Smith * BC Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Promise of Social Movement Societies / Howard Ramos and Kathleen Rodgers
Part 1: Political and Historical Context 1 Reconsidering the Social Movement Society in the New Century / David S. Meyer and Amanda Pullum
2 Evangelical Radio: Institution Building and the Religious Right / Tina Fetner, Allyson Stokes, and Carrie B. Sanders
3 The Social Movement Society and the Human Rights State / Dominique Clément
4 Institutionalization, State Funding, and Advocacy in the Quebec Women’s Movement / Dominique Masson
Part 2: State Dynamics and Processes 5 How the State Shapes Social Movements: An Examination of the Environmental Movement in Canada / Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Mabel Ho
6 Immigrant Collective Mobilization and Socio-economic Integration in Canada / Philippe Couton
7 Uncooperative Movements, Militarized Policing, and the Social Movement Society / Lesley Wood
Part 3: How People Participate 8 Social Movement Communities in the Movement Society / Suzanne Staggenborg
9 No to Protests, Yes to Festivals: How the Creative Class Organizes in the Social Movement Society / Judith Taylor
10 Justification and Critique in the Social Movement Society / Jim Conley
11 The Concept of Social Movement and Its Relationship to the Social Movement Society: An Empirical Investigation / David B. Tindall and Joanna L. Robinson
Part 4: Knowledge and Culture 12 Alternative Policy Groups and Global Civil Society: Networks and Discourses of Counter-Hegemony / William K. Carroll
13 Wilderness Revisited: Canadian Environmental Movements and the Eco-Politics of Special Places / Mark C.J. Stoddart
14 Alberta Internalizing Oil Sands Opposition: A Test of the Social Movement Society Thesis / Randolph Haluza-DeLay
Conclusion: What We Can Say about the Promise of Social Movement Societies / Kathleen Rodgers and Howard Ramos
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