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Jeff Goodwin is Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001).
James M. Jasper is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written many books, including The Animal Rights Crusade(1992) and The Art of Moral Protest (1997), and Getting Your Way (2006).
Together they have edited two previous editions of The Social Movements Reader (2003, 2009) Passionate Politics (2001) and Contention in Context (2012).
List of Key Concepts and Chronologies viii
List of Activist Biographies ix
Part I Introduction 1
1 Editors’ Introduction 3 Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper
Part II When and Why Do Social Movements Occur? 9
2 The Women’s Movement 13 Jo Freeman
3 The Gay Liberation Movement 24 John D’Emilio
4 Occupy Wall Street 30 Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce, and Penny Lewis
5 The Egyptian Revolution 45 Manuel Castells
Part III Who Joins or Supports Movements? 53
6 The Free-Rider Problem 59 Mancur Olson
7 Recruits to Civil Rights Activism 65 Doug McAdam
8 Who Are the Radical Islamists? 76 Charles Kurzman
9 Women’s Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army 83 Jocelyn S. Viterna
Part IV Who Remains in Movements, Who Drops Out, and Why? 101
10 Generating Commitment among Students 105 Eric L. Hirsch
11 Sustaining Commitment among Radical Feminists 114 Nancy Whittier
12 True Believers and Charismatic Cults 126 Janja Lalich
13 Are Frames Enough? 136 Charlotte Ryan and William A. Gamson
14 The Emotional Benefits of Insurgency in El Salvador 143 Elisabeth Jean Wood
15 Classic Protest Songs: A List 153
Part V How Are Movements Organized? 155
16 Social Movement Organizations 159 John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald
17 Transnational Environmental Activism 175 Paul Wapner
18 The Transnational Network for Democratic Globalization 184 Jackie Smith
19 Meeting Arenas 196 Christoph Haug
Part VI What Do Movements Do? 213
20 Tactical Innovation in the Civil Rights Movement 219 Aldon D. Morris
21 Armed Struggle in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement 224 Gay Seidman
22 Suicide Bombing 239 Robert J. Brym
23 Everyday Life, Routine Politics, and Protest 246 Javier Auyero
24 The Emotion Work of Movements 254 Deborah B. Gould
25 Tactical Repertoires: Same-Sex Weddings 266 Verta Taylor, Katrina Kimport, Nella Van Dyke, and Ellen Ann Andersen
Part VII How Do Movements Interact with Other Players? 283
26 Farmworkers’ Movements in Changing Political Contexts 287 J. Craig Jenkins and Charles Perrow
27 Movements in the Media 302 Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, Sheera Joy Olasky, and James E. Stobaugh
28 What Shapes the West’s Human Rights Focus? 317 James Ron, Howard Ramos, and Kathleen Rodgers
29 The Quest for International Allies 325 Clifford Bob
30 Global Corporations, Global Unions 335 Stephen Lerner
Part VIII Why Do Movements Decline? 343
31 The Decline of the Women’s Movement 347 Barbara Epstein
32 The Dilemmas of Identity Politics 354 Joshua Gamson
33 The Repression/Protest Paradox in Central America 363 Charles D. Brockett
34 Counterinsurgency 370 Ian Roxborough
Part IX What Changes Do Movements Bring About? 379
35 Defining Movement “Success” 383 William A. Gamson
36 How Social Movements Matter 386 David S. Meyer
37 Environmental Justice 391 David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle
38 Understanding Revolutions: The Arab Uprisings 398 Jack A. Goldstone
39 Why Nonviolence Sometimes Fails: China in 1989 405 Sharon Erickson Nepstad
References for Part Introductions and Key Concepts 416
Index 419
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