Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Protest and Politics
The Promise of Social Movement Societies
376 pages
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Promise of Social Movement Societies / Howard Ramos and Kathleen Rodgers
Part 1: Political and Historical Context1 Reconsidering the Social Movement Society in the New Century / David S. Meyer and Amanda Pullum
2 Evangelical Radio: Institution Building and the Religious Right / Tina Fetner, Allyson Stokes, and Carrie B. Sanders
3 The Social Movement Society and the Human Rights State / Dominique Clément
4 Institutionalization, State Funding, and Advocacy in the Quebec Women’s Movement / Dominique Masson
Part 2: State Dynamics and Processes5 How the State Shapes Social Movements: An Examination of the Environmental Movement in Canada / Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Mabel Ho
6 Immigrant Collective Mobilization and Socio-economic Integration in Canada / Philippe Couton
7 Uncooperative Movements, Militarized Policing, and the Social Movement Society / Lesley Wood
Part 3: How People Participate8 Social Movement Communities in the Movement Society / Suzanne Staggenborg
9 No to Protests, Yes to Festivals: How the Creative Class Organizes in the Social Movement Society / Judith Taylor
10 Justification and Critique in the Social Movement Society / Jim Conley
11 The Concept of Social Movement and Its Relationship to the Social Movement Society: An Empirical Investigation / David B. Tindall and Joanna L. Robinson
Part 4: Knowledge and Culture12 Alternative Policy Groups and Global Civil Society: Networks and Discourses of Counter-Hegemony / William K. Carroll
13 Wilderness Revisited: Canadian Environmental Movements and the Eco-Politics of Special Places / Mark C.J. Stoddart
14 Alberta Internalizing Oil Sands Opposition: A Test of the Social Movement S