Transforming Politics : Power and Resistance

by Paul Bagguley; Jeff Hearn

• ISBN13: 9780312222314
• ISBN10: 0312222319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Palgrave

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Notes on the Contributors	x
Transforming Politics: Power and Resistance	1	(10)
Paul Bagguley
Jeff Hearn
PART I EMPOWERMENT, IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE
Empowerment and Resistance: `Collective Effervescence' and other Accounts	11	(21)
Colin Barker
The Inter-Group Dynamics of Empowerment: a Social Identity Model	32	(14)
Clifford Stott
John Drury
Power, Politics and Everyday Life: the Local Rationalities of Social Movement Milieux	46	(21)
Laurence Cox
Resisting Colonisation: the Politics of Anti-Roads Protesting	67	(20)
Wallace McNeish
PART II RESISTANCE AND CHANGE IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Social Movements in a Multi-Ethnic Inner City: Explaining their Rise and Fall over 25 Years	87	(19)
Max Farrar
`Very British Rebels': Politics and Discourse within Contemporary Ulster Unionism	106	(20)
James White McAuley
Resisting the Green: Political Culture and Environmental Activism	126	(35)
Beth Simpson
Brian Elliott
PART III TRANSFORMING THE STATE AND STATE RESISTANCE
Re-Conceptualising Feminist Agency in the State: a Study of the Implementation of Women's Equal Opportunity Policy in British Loca Government	161	(22)
Cinnamon Bennett
Social Movements and Equal Opportunities Work	183	(23)
Elizabeth Lawrence
Nicholas Turner
Modernity, Anti-Racism and Ethnic Managerialism	206	(23)
Ian Law
PART IV POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND SOCIAL THEORY
Reading the Community: a Critique of Some Postmodern Narratives of Citizenship and Community	229	(16)
Valerie Hey
Will Hutton: Closet Durkheimian?	245	(15)
Ruth Levitas
In Defence of Outing	260	(17)
Paul Reynolds
Radical Sociology: What's Left?	277	(17)
John Holmwood
Index	294