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The strategic interactions between protestors and their targets shape the world around us in profound ways. The editors and contributors to Protesters and Their Targetsall leading scholars in the study of social movementslook at why movements do what they do and why their interactions with other societal actors turn out as they do. They recognize that targets are not stationary but react to the movement and require the movement to react back. This edited collection analyzes how social movements select their targets, movement-target interactions, and the outcomes of those interactions. Case studies examine school closures in Sweden, the U.S. labor movement, Bolivian water and Mexican corn, and other global issues to show the strategic thinking, shifting objectives, and various degrees of success in the actions and nature of these protest movements.Protesters and Their Targets seeks to develop a set of tools for the further development of the field's future work on this underexplored s

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/02/2020
      ISBN13: 9781439919118, 978-1439919118
      ISBN10: 1439919119
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      Book Synopsis
      The strategic interactions between protestors and their targets shape the world around us in profound ways. The editors and contributors to Protesters and Their Targetsall leading scholars in the study of social movementslook at why movements do what they do and why their interactions with other societal actors turn out as they do. They recognize that targets are not stationary but react to the movement and require the movement to react back. This edited collection analyzes how social movements select their targets, movement-target interactions, and the outcomes of those interactions. Case studies examine school closures in Sweden, the U.S. labor movement, Bolivian water and Mexican corn, and other global issues to show the strategic thinking, shifting objectives, and various degrees of success in the actions and nature of these protest movements.Protesters and Their Targets seeks to develop a set of tools for the further development of the field's future work on this underexplored s

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