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Book Synopsis Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.
Trade Review “Fillieule and Accornero have edited a timely volume for breaking down national silos in social movement research… As a sociology of sociology, the major thrust of the work is that context is of paramount importance: many factors contributed to why social movement theory has largely been more robust in the US than in Europe. Nevertheless, the material here prepares scholars around the globe for detailed, comparative studies of movements… Highly recommended.” · Choice
“[This] volume [is] thoroughly recommended to everyone interested in the presence and history of social movements. An enormous amount of excellent scholarship is assembled here and no one will put this book down without having gained many fresh and productive insights into the development of social movements and their researchers.” · H-Net
“The volume demonstrates that we sorely need contributions by anthropologists and others committed to empirical but theoretically robust research.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
“This volume is a significant enterprise that gathers 40 academics together, scholars internationally well-known in the field of social movement studies and new promising researchers…This book can be read by specialists and non-specialists, students, practitioners in the third sector, and any citizen at large who is interested in and concerned about the subject.” · Análise Social
“…anyone interested in the history and presence of social movements will greatly benefit from the volume…An enormous amount of excellent scholarship is assembled here and no one will put this book down without having gained many fresh and productive insights into the development of social movements and their researchers.” · H-Soz-Kult
“This volume fulfills an ambitious objective of covering the ‘state of the art,’ introducing readers to the range of theoretical frameworks and empirical approaches that scholars have deployed in studying European social movements. Taken as a whole, this is a valuable contribution to the domain of social movement studies.” · Lilian Mathieu, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
James M. Jasper
Introduction: “So Many as the Stars of the Sky in Multitude, and as the Sand which is By the Sea Shore Innumerable”: European Social Movement Research in Perspective
Guya Accornero and Olivier Fillieule
PART I: EUROPEAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 1. The European Movements of ’68: Ambivalent theories, Ideological Memories and Exciting Puzzles
Erik Neveu
Chapter 2. Mobilizing for Democracy: The 1989 Protests in Central Eastern Europe
Donatella della Porta
Chapter 3. A Long Awaited Homecoming: The Labour Movement in Social Movement Studies
Karel Yon
Chapter 4. Beyond Party Politics: The Search for a Unified Approach. Research on Radical Right-wing Movements in Europe
Manuela Caiani and Rossella Borri
Chapter 5. Fields of Contentious Politics: Migration and Ethnic Relations
Manlio Cinalli
Chapter 6. Quiescent or Invisible?: Precarious and Unemployed Movements in Europe
Marco Giugni and Jasmine Lorenzini
Chapter 7. From Antiglobalisation to Global Justice Movement: The Waterloo’s European Battle
Isabelle Sommier
Chapter 8. Theoretical Perspectives on European Environmental Movements: Transnational and Techological Challenges in the Twenty-first Century
Maria Kousis
Chapter 9. From Grassroots to Institutions: Women’s Movements Studies in Europe
Laure Bereni and Anne Revillard
Chapter 10. Social Movements Facing the Crisis
Héloïse Nez
PART II: NATIONAL CASES
Chapter 11. Social Movements Studies in Britain: ‘No Longer The Poor Relation?’
Brian Doherty, Graeme Hayes and Christopher Rootes
Chapter 12. Precarious Research in a Movement Society: Social Movement Studies in Germany
Sebastian Haunss
Chapter 13. Politics and People: Understanding Dutch Research on Social Movements
Jan Willem Duyvendak, Conny Roggeband and Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
Chapter 14. From Splendid Isolation To Joining the Concert of Nations: Social Movement Studies in France
Olivier Fillieule
Chapter 15. Internationalization with Limited Domestic Recognition: Research on Social Movements in Italy
Lorenzo Bosi and Lorenzo Mosca
Chapter 16. The Land of Opportunities?: Social Movement Studies in Switzerland
Philip Balsiger
Chapter 17. Studying Movements in a Movement-become-state: Research and Practice in Postcolonial Ireland
Laurence Cox
Chapter 18. Successful Social Movement Outcomes without Social Movements?: Research on Swedish Social Movements and Swedish Social Movement Research
Abby Peterson
Chapter 19. Is Spain Still Different?: Social Movements Research in a Belated Western European Democracy
Eduardo Romanos and Susana Aguilar
Chapter 20. Revolutionary or Mild-mannered?: Social Movements and Social Movements Studies in Portugal
Guya Accornero
Chapter 21. From the Centre to the Periphery and Back to the Centre: Social Movements Affecting Social Movement Theory in the Case of Greece
Kostis Kornetis and Hara Kouki
Chapter 22. A Militant Rather than Scientific Research Object: Social Movements Studies in Turkey
Ayşen Uysal
Chapter 23. From Democratization to Internationalization: Studying Social Movements in Hungary
Aron Buzogany
Chapter 24. Social Movements in Pre- and Post-December 1989 in Romania
Laura Nistor
Chapter 25. Social Mobilization and the Strong State from the Soviets to Putin: Social Movements in the Soviet Union and Russia
Alfred Evans and Laura Henry
Conclusions: Social Movement Studies in Europe: Achievements, Gaps, and Challenges
Dieter Rucht
Index
