Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Fourth Edition)
Author: Sidney Tarrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print Length: 382 pages
Genre: Academic / Social Science, Political Science
Topic: Politics & Power, Social Justice, Social Movement, Civil Participation, Organization, Capitalism, Democracy, Revolution, State Formation
Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations.
Covering key episodes up to the attack on the US Capitol in January 2021, leading scholar of politics and government Sidney Tarrow uses a number of recent, historical and comparative case studies to introduce his theory of social movements and political parties. The fourth edition of this classic study emphasizes the symbiotic relations between social movements and parties by focusing attention on the growing role of populism in Europe, Latin America, and the US; analyzes the role of social media as a mobilizing and aggregating force for social movements; highlights the relations between structural changes in the economy and new forms of contention; draws on new material on movements in the Global South and the relations between movements and democracy.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE (1). ORIGINS, THEORIES, AND CONTENTIOUS ACTION
1. Where Did Movements Come From?
2. Capitalism, States, and Social Movements
3. Acting Contentiously
PART TWO (2). THE POWERS IN MOVEMENT
4. Organizations, Networks, and Hybrids
5. How Movements Make Meanings
6. Regimes, Opportunities, and Threats
7. Struggling to Reform
PART THREE (3). DYNAMICS OF CONTENTION
8. Cycles of Contention
9. Movements in Revolutionary Cycles
10. Democracy, Movements, and Undemocracy
11. Transnational Contention
Conclusions
References
Index
Sidney Tarrow is Professor Emeritus in the Government Department at Cornell University Law School, where he specializes in social movements, contentious politics and legal mobilization. Before coming to Cornell he taught at Yale and has been visiting professor at the European University Institute in Florence, the Central European University in Budapest and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Tarrow’s first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967). His next project was a reconstruction of Italian protest cycle of the late 1960’s, Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989). With Cambridge University Press, he published (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly) Dynamics of Contention (2001) and The New Transnational Activism (2006). His latest book with Cambridge is Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics, 3rd. edition, 2011.
Source: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/sid-tarrow/
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