Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements (Handbooks of Research Methods and Applications series)

This cutting-edge and authoritative Handbook covers a broad spectrum of social movement research methodologies, offering expert analysis and detailed accounts of the ways in which research can effectively be carried out on social movements and popular protests. Addressing practice-oriented questions, this Handbook engages with both theoretical and political dimensions, unpacking the multidimensional nature of social movement research for new and established scholars alike and for movement-based as well as academic researchers across many disciplines.Divided into three thematic sections, this stimulating Handbook dives deep into discussions relating to the methodological challenges raised by researching social movements, the technical questions of how such research is conducted, and then to more practical considerations about the uses and applications of movement research. Expert contributors and established researchers utilise real-world examples to explore the methodological challenges from a range of perspectives including classical, engaged, feminist, Black, Indigenous and global Southern viewpoints. The Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements will not only appeal to experienced researchers, but also to activists who have started to think about researching their own movements and to politically engaged students. It speaks to new and established scholars in relevant disciplines such as sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, development studies, gender studies, and race and ethnic studies, and particularly those looking to better appreciate the different research methods for understanding social movements. Front Matter Copyright Contents Figures Contributors 1. How can we research social movements? An introduction PART I APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 2. Researching global movements: practices, dialogues and ethics 3. Feminist methodologies in social movement studies: gender, positionality and research in practice 4. Research from, with and for Indigenous social movements 5. Social movements as learning communities, researchers and knowledge producers 6. A Marxist approach to researching social movements 7. Researching social movements in authoritarian states: preparing and conducting fieldwork in Iran and Turkey 8. Cross-sectoral dialogues with social movements in Southeast Asia: translating values, affects, and practices in a polymorphic region 9. Methodological pluralism in social movement studies: why and how PART II DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH 10. Learning within freedom movements: using critical oral history methodology 11. Doing digital ethnography: a comparison of two social movement studies 12. Media and communication activism: doing ethnography with ultra-right and progressive social movements 13. Visual research with Mayan social movements in Guatemala: a critical approach 14. Back and forth: militant ethnography in the ‘crowded fields’ 15. Making sense of the Narmada movements through Adivasi narratives 16. The art of talks and conversations in Indigenous research: decolonising interview methods 17. Researching social movement participation in the Global South: what to do after discovering and recording plural and ambiguous narratives in the field? 18. Using surveys to study demonstrators 19. Analysing protest events: a quantitative and systematic approach 20. How do grievances become manifestos? Developing frame analysis in social movement research 21. Researching identity and culture in place-based struggles 22. Researching ideologies and social movements: why and how? 23. ‘Repertoires of contention’: examining concept, method, context and practice 24. Searching for mechanisms of social movement success: research on political and cultural underpinnings of protestors’ impact 25. Historical approaches to researching social movements PART III APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH 26. A story of three activists: the value of activist action research in social movement learning 27. Community-based research: approaches, principles and challenges 28. Participatory research as activism: Orlando Fals Borda and the Latin American tradition of engaged research 29. Participatory action research in social movements 30. Using research in movement strategy 31. Research methods for studying collective action outcomes 32. Civil resistance research: how can we make our work more useful to activists and organizers? Index