The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

by Snow, David A.; della Porta, Donatella; McAdam, Doug; Klandermans, Bert

• ISBN13: 9781119692201
• ISBN10: 1119692202
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-10-31
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

THE WILEY BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL & POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

The definitive reference work on the subject, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements presents comprehensive coverage of significant social movements, revolutions, and collective events in different historical periods worldwide. With more than 600 alphabetically organized peer-reviewed entries, this authoritative resource explores a vast array of different social protests and collective action initiatives while contextualizing the social worlds in which they emerge and operate.

Throughout this unprecedented five-volume set, entries written and revised by an international team of leading scholars address both historical and contemporary topics ranging from the French, Russian and Chinese Communist revolutions to the global women’s movement and the American civil rights movement against racial segregation and discrimination, to the Arab Spring, spread of global Salafism and Pentecostalism, and the rise of white supremacy as a worldwide movement.

The expanded second edition of the Encyclopedia features more than 200 new entries covering the cultural and political developments of the past decade, such as contemporary environmentalism, the rise of populist, nationalist movements, the Black Lives Matter protests, the January 6 assault on the United States Capitol, the “me too” movement against sexual abuse and harassment, the anti-vaccine movement, independence movements in Hong Kong and Catalonia, and more.

Incorporating diverse theoretical perspectives, concepts, and methodologies, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements is the must-have reference for advanced students and researchers in the fields of social movements, sociology, political science, human geography, anthropology, and social psychology.

Online edition available on Wiley Online Library at www.socialmovementsencyclopedia.com

Author Biography

David A. Snow is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, USA, where he also serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Citizen's Peacebuilding. He has authored and edited several books and more than 100 articles on aspects of social movements and collective action, including A Primer on Social Movements (2010) and The Wiley Blackwell Companion To Social Movements (2e 2019, Wiley Blackwell).

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies. She is the author or editor of 90 books, 150 journal articles, and 150 contributions in edited volumes, including Can Social Movements Save Democracy? (2020) and Social Movements: An Introduction (3e 2020, Wiley Blackwell).

Doug McAdam is Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor and Director of the Program on Urban Studies at Stanford University, USA. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the political process model in social movement analysis. His publications include Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency (1982) and Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America (2014).

Bert Klandermans is Professor of Applied Social Psychology at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has published extensively on the social psychology of protest and social movement participation. His authored and edited works include Social Psychology of Protest, Extreme Right Activists in Europe (2005), Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines (2007), and The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes (2013).

Table of Contents

Volume I

Editors vii

Advisory Editors ix

Contributors xi

Alphabetical List of Entries xxxv

List of Entries by Topic xliii

Timeline lxiii

Introduction lxxi

Social and Political Movements A–Compa 1

Volume II

Social and Political Movements Compe–G 467

Volume III

Social and Political Movements H–N 957

Volume IV

Social and Political Movements O–R 1473

Volume V

Social and Political Movements S–Z 1891

Index 2355