Leadership and Social Movements

by Edited by Colin Barker, Alan Johnson and Michael Lavalette

• ISBN13: 9780719059018
• ISBN10: 0719059011
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-12-07
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Despite the explosion of social movement research in Europe and the US in the last 20 years, the question of leadership has been relatively neglected. This probing examination of the theory and practice of social movement leadership critically re-examines a series of classic cases. The essays illuminate the complex dynamics and competing forms taken by social movement leadership as well as its impact on movement successes and failures.

Author Biography

Colin Barker is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Alan Johnson is Reader in Sociology and History at the Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences at the Edge Hill College of Higher Education.

Michael Lavalette is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Leadership matters: an introduction	1	(23)
Colin Barker
Alan Johnson
Michael Lavalette
Robert Michels and the `cruel game'	24	(20)
Colin Barker
The `reluctant Bolsheviks': Victor Serge's and Alfred Rosmer's encounter with Leninism	44	(16)
lan Birchall
Leadership, political opportunities and organisational identity in the French anti-racist movement	60	(17)
Robert Gibb
Struggles over leadership in the women's liberation movement	77	(19)
Carol Hanisch
Self-emancipation and leadership: the case of Martin Luther King	96	(20)
Alan Johnson
Defending the `Sefton Two': contested leadership in a trade union dispute	116	(21)
Michael Lavalette
Nigel Flanagan
Juggling multiple futures: personal and collective project-formation among Brazilian youth leaders	137	(23)
Ann Mische
Leaderless cultures: the problem of authority in a radical environmental group	160	(18)
Jonathan Purkis
A model of crowd prototypes and crowd leadership	178	(18)
Steve Reicher
John Drury
Nick Hopkins
Clifford Stott
The cult of personality: reassessing leadership and suffrage movements in Britain and Ireland	196	(17)
Louise Ryan
Lenin and hegemony: the Soviets, the working class and the party in the Revolution of 1905	213	(19)
Alan Shandro
References	232	(23)
Index	255