Books On Social Movements

Collective Behavior, Social Activism, Social Movements

The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper (Editors)

The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History (Documents in Modern History) by Robert P. Green Jr. and Harold E. Cheatham

Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash

Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Katalin Fábián

Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social Movements, Networks and Hierarchies (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) by Athina Karatzogianni and Andrew Robinson

Social Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space by Gilles Guiheux and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce

Global Movements Book by Kevin McDonald

Social Movements: An Introduction Book by Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani

The Politics of Protest : Social Movements in America Book by David S. Meyer

Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action (Comparative Politics) Book by Mario Diani (Editor), Doug McAdam (Editor)

Power in Movement : Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Book by Sidney Tarrow, Peter Lange, Robert H. Bates, Ellen Comisso, Peter Hall, Joel Migdal, Helen Milner (Series Editors)

Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy and Cultural Construction of Social Activism - Book by Steven M. Buechler

Social Movement Theory and Research Book by Roberta Garner

Contemporary Movements and Ideologies - Book by Roberta Garner

Social Movements and Social Classes : The Future of Collective Action (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) Book by Louis Maheu (Editor)

Reviews:

The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts by Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper (Editors)
This reader makes organizing an engaging course on social movements easy. - Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin
Comprehensive collection of contemporary readings makes the field of social movements readily accessible to the widest possible audience. - Rob Benford, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Insightfully compiled a collection of published work that provide answers to nine major questions on social movements, while simultaneously illuminating a number of movements that have been significant vehicles of challenge and change in the U.S. By informing understanding of central concepts and questions, as well as selected cases, in the study of social movements, this volume makes for a valuable addition to the menu of scholarly work targeted for the classroom.’ David Snow, University of California at Irvine.
A rich compilation of classical readings on social movement theory and studies brought together and introduced by two well-known scholars. Discussion questions, recommended readings, short biographies of activists and historical accounts of movements make this reader an excellent tool in classes on social movements. - Bert Klandermans, VU University Amsterdam
"Social movements play a crucial role in contemporary society: this rich collection explains why and how they contribute to social, cultural and political change." --Donatella della Porta, European University Institute
Excellent foundation for students seeking a deeper understanding of activism, protest, and movements.” --Kenneth T. Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History (Documents in Modern History by Robert P. Green Jr. and Harold E. Cheatham
This book collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and governmental responses to civil rights issues.
The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History is a deliberate attempt to address the shortcomings of capsule histories of the Movement, histories that neglect to describe the range of public and private institutions, organizations, and individuals that impacted its accomplishments. An excellent supplement to textbook treatments of modern U.S. history, African American history, and/or the Civil Rights Movement.
The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History includes over 100 documents -- personal narratives, court decisions, news reports, letters, legislation.

Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Katalin Fábián
"The core of this well-conceived book presents an important argument about not only how women's concerns were marginalized after 1989, but also about how the rhetoric on globalization, democratization, freedom, and economic growth, as well as women's desire to act, implicated their activism in Hungary." -- Joanna Regulska, Rutgers University
As the first and only book in any language on contemporary women's movements in Hungary, this groundbreaking study focuses on the role of women's activism in a society where women are not yet adequately represented by established parties and political institutions. Drawing on eyewitness accounts of meetings and protests, as well as first-person interviews with leading female activists, Katalin Fábián examines the interactions between women's groups in Hungary and studies the unique brand of democracy they have forged in postcommunist Eastern Europe.

Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social Movements, Networks and Hierarchies (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) by Athina Karatzogianni and Andrew Robinson
Examines the operation of network forms of organization in social resistance movements, in relation to the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks and the possibility of social transformation.

Social Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space by Gilles Guiheux and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce
This volume provides an account of how Chinese individuals, increasingly free from the constraints of the state, have to rely on their own efforts to support their well-being, and how, in certain circumstances, they must gather together to defend their interests. Complicating the internal and external factors behind the relationship between the individualization of society and the emergence of collective movements, the contributors suggest that specific protest actions taking place on the mainland and in Hong Kong have enabled both societies to expand their protest space. Ultimately, these developments lead us to reconceptualize citizenship as something practiced rather than given.

Global Movements Book by Kevin McDonald
The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw into question the way we think about culture, power, and action in a globalizing world. This book surveys the field and explores some of the most significant of these movements, including antiglobalization and the new Islamic movements.
These movements require a rethinking of the very idea of social movement, a concept that owes a great deal to the civic and industrial culture that was so critical to Western modernity, but may be less adequate when exploring forms of culture, action, and communication in a globalized world. This book explores key dimensions of these movements, the tensions they confront, and the crises to which they are subject. It will provide an essential text for students on globalization and social movements. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Social Movements: An Introduction Book by Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani
Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in society today. In the latter part of the last century, social movements became a permanent feature of modern democracies. The students' and workers' protests of the 1960s have been followed by movements focusing on women's rights, ethnic identities, peace and environmental issues. This book draws on research and empirical work across the social sciences to address the key questions in this international field.
Social Movements is the ideal introduction for students of social movements within social and political science.

The Politics of Protest : Social Movements in America Book by David S. Meyer
Protest is everywhere in American politics. Over the past decade, activists have staged dramatic demonstrations on such diverse issues as the war in Iraq, globalization, standardized testing, and abortion rights. Indeed, protest and social movements have become essential features of
contemporary American life. The Politics of Protest offers both a historical overview and an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in American politics. The book suggests that protest movements, clearly an integral part of our nation's history from the Boston
Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement, are hardly confined to the distant past. It argues that protest movements in America reflect and influence mainstream politics. In order to understand our political system-and our social and political world-we need to pay attention to protest.
The Politics of Protest opens with a short history of social movements in the United States, beginning with the development of the American Republic, outlining how the American constitutional design invites protest movements to offer continual challenges. It then discusses the social impulse to protest, considers the strategies and tactics of social movements, looks at the institutional response to protest, and finally examines the policy ramifications. Drawing students in and clearly demonstrating how and why the subject is of importance to them, the book addresses such topics as Dorothy Day's Catholic Workers' protest against nuclear fallout drills in the 1950s, the Greensboro civil rights sit-in in 1960, and the so-called "Battle in Seattle" anti-globalization rally.
Providing a concise, yet lively analysis of social movements in America, The Politics of Protest is ideal for political science or sociology courses that consider social movements and political protest.

Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action (Comparative Politics) Book by Mario Diani (Editor), Doug McAdam (Editor) - For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. Social Movements and Networks casts new light on our understanding of social movements and cognate social and political processes.

Power in Movement : Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Book by Sidney Tarrow, Peter Lange, Robert H. Bates, Ellen Comisso, Peter Hall, Joel Migdal, Helen Milner (Series Editors)
"This is unquestionably a seminal work, one that lies fundamentally in the literature on social movements....an exceptionally rich synthesis and weaving together of research and literature on social movements..." Studies in Comparative International Development
"The brilliance of this book is the author's ability to transcend conventional schools of social movement analysis....It is difficult to see movements in the same light after reading this book." American Political Science Review
Social movements have an elusive power. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasizes its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organizational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasizes the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure.

Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy and Cultural Construction of Social Activism - Book by Steven M. Buechler
Sociology and social movements are twin siblings of modernity that view the world as a social construction to be understood and transformed respectively. Based on this premise, Buechler argues for the centrality of social movements to the shape of the modern world as well as the discipline of sociology. Building on a critical overview of current social movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analyzing social movements in advanced capitalism. This model provides a historically specific analysis that located movements in global, national, regional, and local structures. Movement dynamics are explored in terms of their dialectical relationship with these multiple levels of structure. The book also addresses the recent shift and false dichotomies between political and cultural dimensions of social movements.
This thoughtful introduction to the sociological study of social movements is an excelent supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses on collective action and social movements.

Social Movement Theory and Research Book by Roberta Garner
Reviews and explores social movement theory from the end of World War II to the mid-1990s, focusing primarily on the United States, with some attention to European scholarship as well.

Contemporary Movements and Ideologies - Book by Roberta Garner
Contemporary Movements and Ideologies introduces the reader to major global social movements. It outlines the basic concepts and theories for the analysis of social movements and provides summaries of the ideas, goals, organization, strategies and social bases of eight major types of movements, i.e., civil rights and human rights, movements of religious faith and women's movements. The book provides a strong historical foundation in which to understand each type of movement. In addition, it examines movements as a response to the modern world and looks at how they are changing to adapt to the "post-modern" era world of globalized markets and cultural diversity.

Social Movements and Social Classes : The Future of Collective Action (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) Book by Louis Maheu (Editor)
Racism, class, urban politics, citizenship, middle-class radicalism, and education-all are integral factors when examining the phenomena of social movements. In Social Movements and Social Classes, an esteemed international cast of contributors focuses on these and other inherent issues in social movements and social class from the perspective of collective action. An original contribution to the understanding of social movements, social classes, and collective action, this book is essential reading for scholars and students in sociology, political science, urban studies, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.

Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash
Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation - is a highly significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics.
Civil Resistance and Power Politics covers most of the leading cases, including the example of Gandhi, the US civil rights struggle in the 1960s, the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the 'people power' revolt in the Philippines in the 1980s, the campaigns against apartheid in South Africa, the various movements contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989-91, and, in this century, the 'color revolutions' in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. The chapters, written by leading experts, are richly descriptive and analytically rigorous.
This book addresses the complex interrelationship between civil resistance and other dimensions of power. It explores the question of whether civil resistance should be seen as potentially replacing violence completely, or as a phenomenon that operates in conjunction with, and modification of, power politics. It looks at cases where campaigns were repressed, including China in 1989 and Burma in 2007. It notes that in several instances, including Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Georgia, civil resistance movements were followed by the outbreak of armed conflict.

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