How social movements (sometimes) matter
- ISBN: 9780745696850
- Editorial: Polity Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2021
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 266
- Idiomas: Inglés
This incisive book explains how groups of ordinary individuals can affect the world, what makes it possible when it works, and why it sometimes doesn't go to plan. Digging into previous scholarship on social movements, David S. Meyer looks at the origins of social movements, how they contrast with revolutionary campaigns, and assesses the periodic influence of activists on politics, policy, culture, and the way people live their lives. He concludes by stressing the narratives about political change that activists construct and the power that lies in these stories.
1.Why movements emerge and how they work
2.Protest, revolution, and regime change
3.Protest and policy
4.Protest, organizations, and institutionalization
5.Protest movements, culture, and participants
6.Claiming credit
