Contention In Context

Author : James M. Jasper,Jeff Goodwin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804778930

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Contention in Context by James M. Jasper,Jeff Goodwin Pdf

Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention. With evidence from more than fifty cases, this book explores the role of the state in protest, the frequent overemphasis on political opportunities in recent research, and the extent to which opportunity models ignore the cultural and emotional triggers for collective action. By examining new directions in the study of protest and contention, this book shows that although political opportunities can help explain the emergence of certain kinds of movements, a new strategic language can ultimately tell us far more.

Author : James Jasper,Jeff Goodwin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804776113

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Contention in Context by James Jasper,Jeff Goodwin Pdf

Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention. With evidence from more than fifty cases, this book explores the role of the state in protest, the frequent overemphasis on political opportunities in recent research, and the extent to which opportunity models ignore the cultural and emotional triggers for collective action. By examining new directions in the study of protest and contention, this book shows that although political opportunities can help explain the emergence of certain kinds of movements, a new strategic language can ultimately tell us far more.

Author : Viviane Brachet-Márquez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107063310

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Contention and Inequality in Mexico, 1910–2010 by Viviane Brachet-Márquez Pdf

This book details how contentious politics that took place in three communal villages of Mexico alternately reproduced and reshaped inequality. Narrated and analyzed as instances of the general process of contention, these events took place during three key periods of Mexico's history: the 1910-1920 revolution, the cold war period from the 1950s to the 1970s, and from the 1980s to the present.

Author : Winnie Lem,Pauline Gardiner Barber
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Culture and globalization
ISBN : 1845456866

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Class, Contention, and a World in Motion by Winnie Lem,Pauline Gardiner Barber Pdf

"The authors challenge currently dominant approaches to migration, and offer important ways to move between the individual experience and the structure of the world system."---Alan Smart, University of Calgary --

Author : Christopher Zoccali
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630876708

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Whom God Has Called by Christopher Zoccali Pdf

The relationship between the church and Israel in Pauline interpretation has long been an area of considerable debate. The traditional view has understood Paul to identify the church with Israel, such that the church is the sole inheritor of Israel's sacred history, privileges, and divine promises. Yet recent developments in Pauline scholarship have called this view into question. The so-called New Perspective and its emphasis upon the decidedly Jewish context of Paul's theologizing, along with an increasing sensitivity to the post-Holocaust context of modern interpreters, have brought about readings that understand Paul to maintain a distinction between God's historical people, Israel, and the newly created multiethnic communities of Christ followers, that is, the church. Nevertheless, there are still scholars who, while embracing the New Perspective, have interpreted Paul as holding that the church is indeed identifiable in some way as Israel. This work explores a spectrum of scholarly views on the subject advanced between 1920 (as per the publication of C. H. Dodd's The Meaning of Paul for Today) and the present. Furthermore, it examines the most relevant Pauline texts upon which these views are founded, in dialogue with various readings of these texts that have been offered. Each view on Paul's understanding of the church vis-a-vis Israel is critically assessed in light of the exegetical findings. Using this approach Zoccali demonstrates that a view holding to both a certain distinction between, as well as an equating of, the church and Israel represents the most plausible interpretation of Paul's understanding.

Author : Federico M. Rossi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107525985

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The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation by Federico M. Rossi Pdf

This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social movement that mobilized the poor and unemployed people of Argentina to end neoliberalism and to attain incorporation into a more inclusive and equal society. The piquetero (picketer) movement is the largest movement of unemployed people in the world. This movement has transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade. Rossi argues that the movement has been part of a long-term struggle by the poor for socio-political participation in the polity after having been excluded by authoritarian regimes and neoliberal reforms. He conceptualizes this process as a wave of incorporation, exploring the characteristics of this major redefinition of politics in Latin America.

Author : Doug McAdam,Sidney Tarrow,Charles Tilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521011876

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Dynamics of Contention by Doug McAdam,Sidney Tarrow,Charles Tilly Pdf

"Over the past two decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The study of contentious politics are left to 'area specialists' and/or historians with a thorough knowledge of the time and place in question. Finally, overlaid on these two divisions are stylized theoretical traditions - structuralist, culturalist, and rationalist - that have developed largely in isolation from one another." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/2001016172.html.

Author : Jonathan Zimmerman,Emily Robertson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226456348

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The Case for Contention by Jonathan Zimmerman,Emily Robertson Pdf

From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such topics are so inflammatory outside school walls that they are so commonly avoided within them. And this, they argue, is a tremendous disservice to our students. Armed with a detailed history of the development of American educational policy and norms and a clear philosophical analysis of the value of contention in public discourse, they show that one of the best things American schools should do is face controversial topics dead on, right in their classrooms. Zimmerman and Robertson highlight an aspect of American politics that we know all too well: We are terrible at having informed, reasonable debates. We opt instead to hurl insults and accusations at one another or, worse, sit in silence and privately ridicule the other side. Wouldn’t an educational system that focuses on how to have such debates in civil and mutually respectful ways improve our public culture and help us overcome the political impasses that plague us today? To realize such a system, the authors argue that we need to not only better prepare our educators for the teaching of hot-button issues, but also provide them the professional autonomy and legal protection to do so. And we need to know exactly what constitutes a controversy, which is itself a controversial issue. The existence of climate change, for instance, should not be subject to discussion in schools: scientists overwhelmingly agree that it exists. How we prioritize it against other needs, such as economic growth, however—that is worth a debate. With clarity and common-sense wisdom, Zimmerman and Robertson show that our squeamishness over controversy in the classroom has left our students woefully underserved as future citizens. But they also show that we can fix it: if we all just agree to disagree, in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

Author : Thomas Janoski,Robert R. Alford,Alexander M. Hicks,Mildred A. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139443577

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The Handbook of Political Sociology by Thomas Janoski,Robert R. Alford,Alexander M. Hicks,Mildred A. Schwartz Pdf

This Handbook provides a complete survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures from civil society.

Author : Mark R. Beissinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 052100148X

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Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State by Mark R. Beissinger Pdf

This 2002 study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state.

Author : Jun Liu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190887261

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Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age by Jun Liu Pdf

With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contemporary China.

Author : Donatella della Porta,Mario Diani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191667824

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The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements by Donatella della Porta,Mario Diani Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. This volume brings together the most distinguished social and political scientists working in this field, each writing thought-provoking essays in their area of expertise, and facilitates conversations between classic social movement agenda and lines of research. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements discusses core theoretical perspectives, recent contributions from the field, and how patterns of macro social change may affect social movements, as well as suggesting what contributions social movement studies can give to other research areas in various disciplines.

Author : Gabriella Airenti,Marco Cruciani,Alessio Plebe
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889451425

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Context in Communication: A Cognitive View by Gabriella Airenti,Marco Cruciani,Alessio Plebe Pdf

Context is what contributes to interpret a communicative act beyond the spoken words. It provides information essential to clarify the intentions of a speaker, and thus to identify the actual meaning of an utterance. A large amount of research in Pragmatics has shown how wide-ranging and multifaceted this concept can be. Context spans from the preceding words in a conversation to the general knowledge that the interlocutors supposedly share, from the perceived environment to features and traits that the participants in a dialogue attribute to each other. This last category is also very broad, since it includes mental and emotional states, together with culturally constructed knowledge, such as the reciprocal identification of social roles and positions. The assumption of a cognitive point of view brings to the foreground a number of new questions regarding how information about the context is organized in the mind and how this kind of knowledge is used in specific communicative situations. A related, very important question concerns the role played in this process by theory of mind abilities (ToM), both in typical and atypical populations. In this Research Topic, we bring together articles that address different aspects of context analysis from theoretical and empirical perspectives, integrating knowledge and methods derived from Philosophy of language, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Clinical Psychology.

Author : Eitan Y. Alimi,Avraham Sela,Mario Sznajder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190605797

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Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition by Eitan Y. Alimi,Avraham Sela,Mario Sznajder Pdf

Although episodes of resistance and contention in authoritarian and authoritarian-like regimes constitute the majority of mass political movements worldwide, the theories and models of popular contention have been developed on liberal-democratic assumptions. Prompted by the recent revolutionary waves in the Middle East and North Africa, Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition offers a deeper understanding of the complex and indeterminate linkages between popular protest, regime type, and transitions in democratic and authoritarian regimes alike. Through a diverse array of case studies from countries around the world, this volume places the Arab Spring uprisings in comparative perspective, demonstrating the similarities and parallels between contentious events in democratic and authoritarian-like regimes. Leading scholars in the fields of political science, sociologoy, and international studies discuss topics such as the set of initial conditions involved in the protest, prospects of contention, and forms of protest, as well as the role of historical legacies, regime responses, the military, social polarization, and external factors in the divergent outcomes of protest. By situating the study of contention in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in comparative perspective, Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition generates powerful insights into the impetus, dynamics, and consequences of contention in all contexts.

Author : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : MINN:31951D00823539X

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Pdf