Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines

Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines

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Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines Edited by Bert Klandermans Department of Social Sciences Amsterdam, The Conny Roggeband Department of Social Sciences Amsterdam, The 13

Editors Bert Klandermans Social Sciences DeBoelelaan 108/c 1081 HV Amsterdam pg.klandermans@fsw.vu.nl Conny Roggeband Social Sciences DeBoelelaan 108/c 1081 HV Amsterdam cm.roggeband@fsw.vu.nl ISSN 1389-6903 ISBN 978-0-387-70959-8 (hard cover) ISBN 978-0-387-76580-8 (soft cover) e-isbn 978-0-387-70960-4 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-70960-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939762 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contributors Ronald Aminzade, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Willem Assies, Van Vollenhoven Institute, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Brian Dill, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Tina Fetner, Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada James M. Jasper, Independent Scholar, New York, NY Bert Klandermans, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Lindsey Lupo, Department of Political Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA David S. Meyer, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA Conny Roggeband, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Ton Salman, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Jackie Smith, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the v

Table of Contents Contributors........................................................... v Chapter 1. Introduction................................................ 1 Conny Roggeband and Bert Klandermans Chapter 2. Structural Approaches in the Sociology of Social Movements....... 13 Jackie Smith and Tina Fetner Chapter 3. Cultural Approaches in the Sociology of Social Movements......... 59 James M. Jasper Chapter 4. Assessing the Politics of Protest: Political Science and the Study of Social Movements............................. 111 David S. Meyer and Lindsey Lupo Chapter 5. Individuals in Movements: A Social Psychology of Contention...... 157 Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Bert Klandermans Chapter 6. Anthropology and the Study of Social Movements................. 205 Ton Salman and Willem Assies Chapter 7. Historians and the Study of Protest............................. 267 Brian Dill and Ronald Aminzade Index.................................................................. 313 vii